Joey Saputo, the heir to a cheese-making company, has done it again.
The owner of the local MLS team has simultaneously criticized both the ban on turbans in organized soccer in Quebec and the Canadian federation's suspension of Quebec's soccer federation.
Talk about taking a stand while on the fence.
This is not his first misguided public stand.
Last year he canned handsome Colombian Miguel Montana from his Impact team for getting frustrated with a metro booth attendant and then tweeting about it, calling Montreal a racist city because a ticket taker taunted him for being unable to ask for a ticket in French. "If you live in Montreal, you need to speak French," the ticket taker told him.
Saputo, not only failed to ease the tensions, he inflamed them by not only dumping the player, he showboated about the issue with a ..this-is-unacceptable type of press release.
Now dumping your employee for getting frustrated with a metro ticket taker is like firing a guy for farting on the elevator. Everybody does it from time to time (Actually I don't - Chimples) and it only suggests that Saputo might never have taken a metro in his life as nobody who has ever encountered a Montreal metro ticket taker would leap to their defence, especially over one of their own employees.
In a third example of judgment I would deem questionable, Saputo was repeatedly pro-active against a pest from Bulgaria who defamed him on the internet a few times. Rather than simply ignore the guy, Saputo went to court many times against the fellow who was clearly a crackpot and now the guy is living off the taxpayer for two years in jail.
So all of this suggests to me that the cheesemaker might not have the best judgment on all of the lower loop of Redpath Crescent.
I will admit that I've got a bit of a grudge because Saputo bankrolled a soccer team just at the moment when the Expos needed a hero to save our long love affair with nos amours.
Giving us a pro soccer team when the whole city is crying out to save the Expos is is replacing our annual international tennis tournament with a ping pong tournament.
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| Photoshop re-enactment of the Montana affair |
Talk about taking a stand while on the fence.
This is not his first misguided public stand.
Last year he canned handsome Colombian Miguel Montana from his Impact team for getting frustrated with a metro booth attendant and then tweeting about it, calling Montreal a racist city because a ticket taker taunted him for being unable to ask for a ticket in French. "If you live in Montreal, you need to speak French," the ticket taker told him.
Saputo, not only failed to ease the tensions, he inflamed them by not only dumping the player, he showboated about the issue with a ..this-is-unacceptable type of press release.
Now dumping your employee for getting frustrated with a metro ticket taker is like firing a guy for farting on the elevator. Everybody does it from time to time (Actually I don't - Chimples) and it only suggests that Saputo might never have taken a metro in his life as nobody who has ever encountered a Montreal metro ticket taker would leap to their defence, especially over one of their own employees.
In a third example of judgment I would deem questionable, Saputo was repeatedly pro-active against a pest from Bulgaria who defamed him on the internet a few times. Rather than simply ignore the guy, Saputo went to court many times against the fellow who was clearly a crackpot and now the guy is living off the taxpayer for two years in jail.
So all of this suggests to me that the cheesemaker might not have the best judgment on all of the lower loop of Redpath Crescent.
I will admit that I've got a bit of a grudge because Saputo bankrolled a soccer team just at the moment when the Expos needed a hero to save our long love affair with nos amours.
Giving us a pro soccer team when the whole city is crying out to save the Expos is is replacing our annual international tennis tournament with a ping pong tournament.