Trent Alexander-Arnold: “Rhys Williams Doing A World-Class Job”

Well, Trent certainly knows a thing or two about being thrown
into the deep end.

The sizable hole in defence created by Virgil van Dijk’s injury
has suddenly grown into a ginormous one. And yet, not everyone is
in full-blown panic mode. Take Trent Alexander-Arnold for example.
While he’s obviously gutted about losing Fabinho for a few weeks,
Trent sees the silver lining in all of it. Speaking to Liverpool FC’s :

“Obviously he’s covering in at centre-half and he’s been playing
unbelievable in the last few games. Obviously that happens and it’s
disappointing – hopefully it’s not too long because we’ll miss him.
That position is probably a little bare at the minute to say the
least but we’ve got an amazing squad, you’ve seen Rhys Williams
stepping in and doing a world-class job. At such a young age with
such little experience, unbelievable from him. He never really put
a foot wrong. Well done to him and I think he’s got a bright future
ahead.”

“I think he’s an amazing player, he’s shown that over the last
few weeks. He wasn’t with us much last season but he came in this
season and showed how good a player he is. The manager obviously
trusts him a lot and he’s been playing a few minutes. To be thrown
in at the deep end on the biggest of stages is tough to do, tough
to perform, but he never really put a foot wrong. So I think he’ll
definitely be in the manager’s thoughts hopefully come the weekend
and further on.”

And of course, Trent knows what he’s talking about – he too was
given a baptism of fire, making his first league start in a 1-1
draw against Manchester
United at Old Trafford, after a handful of EFL Cup and Premier
League substitute appearances. After spending last season on loan
at Kidderminster Harriers in the Conference, Rhys Williams has
suddenly been thrust into an important squad role in pretty bizarre
circumstances. He’s held up well so far. West Ham, Atalanta, and
Manchester City await.

The legal profession has once again scooped the top prize for
the most arrogant profession for the 78^th year running,
beating even policemen and witches, According to
postamate reports^[1]

In the annual awards for the most arrogant professionals,
lawyers and their kind took all the possible awards, beating the
politicians who came a distant second. To put things into
perspective, the legal professionals were found to be six times
more arrogant than policemen and 42 times more arrogant than the
matatu (transport) industry in Kenya.

While the results were expected, it is a situation that
continues to baffle many normal people who just love minding their
own business. “How can people be so arrogant when they neither
understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics nor understand the Germ
theory of diseases?” Wondered one small scale farmer who is not
into politics and institutionalized gossip. “Doesn’t it even bother
them that someone wearing a horse wig on the head should not speak
too loudly when our grandmothers with their hand knit caps are
around?”

Unmoved by Covid-19

Not even the fact that majority of them still use Windows
XP^[2] could
help tame their arrogance.

Even with Covid-19 which led to closure of courts rendering many
lawyers irrelevant, many continued to maintain their arrogant tone
and looking down on other lesser professionals, in spite of the
fact that lawyers could barely put food in their mouth.

“They continued to speak fluent arrogance even when the law
societies were frantically trying to scramble for coins to help
them pay their rent. In Kenya, poor relatives in the village were
also sustaining them by sending them maize and beans, but the
lawyers in their impeccable suits continued to boast of their
mastery of the queen’s language on social media.”

Experts opine that this is a problem that is likely to last for
many years as it seems to be rooted in their DNA.

It is not limited to practising professionals only. Even law
students continue to regard themselves as better than all other
comrades, with reports that some of them consider themselves more
important to the learning institutions than Music Professors.

The same award awaits them next year.