CONTROVERSY
TRAILS AUCTION OF FERGUSON’S CHEWING GUM
The social media
were awash on Tuesday with the purported sale of Sir Alex Ferguson’s last ever
piece of gum chewed as Manchester United manager on an online auction and
shopping website, eBay. Reports say a
West Broom fan had dug up the chewed gum at the hawthorn – the club’s football
stadium, after the Manchester United’s 5-5 draw with West Broom.
The listing of the
chewing gum for auction according to blog. faxsoccer.com
on eBay states, “Used chewing gum: RARE. Recovered from The Hawthorns. Clear
Perspex/wooden case
“Unofficial
merchandise, rumored to belong to Sir Alex. After 1,500 games of intense
chewing as manager of Manchester United, here lies fegie’s last piece of
chewing gum. All proceeds go to the MU Foundation charity.”
However, blogs and
foreign news website reported that the gum had sold overnight on Monday for
$640,000. But there was no information about the auction which was widely
reported to last for 10 days on ebay when our correspondent searched through
the site on Tuesday. There was also no piece of information about the acution
on eBay’s completed listings’ section.
A search on
Manchester United foundation website, www.mufoundation.org, did not also yield any information about the auction
as at the time of filing this report.
An image that
blog.foxsoccer.com claimed to have captured on eBay shows that within minutes
of putting up the auction, a total of 98 bids had been put up for the gum,
while €150,600 wasw the highest bid. The shot also shows that
the bid would end on May 30.
Meanwhile, the
controversy surrounding the development did not stop football fans from around
the world from commenting on the reported auction. For instance, a cross
section of people on various blogs, online forum and other new media platforms
say Arsenal Football Club of London should have bided for the gum.
According to them,
bidding may bring to their way a streak of luck needed for them to end the
title draught which has hit the club for about eight years.
A Chelsea football
club fan, Ramon Navarro, commenting of Fox Soccer Facebook fanpage,
facebook.com / foxsoccer, says, “Wow! Arsenal fan should buy this. Then they
can finally taste winning. Some
Nigerian, who commented on the development argue that they would make brisk
business if any of the local clubsides in Nigeria parade coaches in the country
in the class of ferguson who also chew gum.
A member of the
online forum, nairaland.com,nosyke, says he wishes that gums chewed by super
Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi, could be worth thousands of dollars like
Ferguson’s.
He says, “how are we
sure it is Sir Alex Ferguson’s gum? Have they run a DNA test on it?
“But mehn, this na
serious business o, if it happens to be true, the guy don hammer.
“But white people
sabi mumu sha, chewing gum wey your fellow human being chop troway, na him u
wan sell/buy. E be like say I go start to dey mark Oga Stephen Keshi closely in
case him drop him gum too.”
Replying to Nosyke’s
comment, another member of the forum, with the name, TruezGod, say Keshi’s
chewed gum will turn out to be a bad business for him.
“Nobody will buy
Keshi’s chew gum from you. Na bad business,” he states.
Another member of
nairaland.com, with the name justice42003, explains that such funny adventure
whereby someone rushes to pick up a chewed gum that has been disposed of could
only happen in the developed world.
He says, “This thing
we call rubbish can only happen in Oyinbo land. It goes a long way to show us
how they have solved most of their problems. That’s why they are creating all
sort of crazy stuffs unlike in Nigeria. That shows the level of rest of mind
wey common oyinbo man get.
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