Paul Sheehan adores Francesca Cumani – and he wants to tell the world
Paul Sheehan has, it strikes Dr Mumbo, taken something of a shine to Francesca Cumani.
The Sydney Morning Herald’s writer dedicates his column today – “Why Seven needs this beauty with the beasts” – to an extraordinary essay counting the ways in which Cumani, Seven’s racing pundit, is lovely.
And there certainly are a lot of ways.
Dr Mumbo assumes the column was inspired by Sheehan spending a pleasant afternoon in front of his television watching Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup. As Sheehan tells readers in his intro:
Dr Mumbo that was an hilarious commentary. Thank you so much for providing me with a great belly laugh this morning.
It’s ‘write a column as your 16 y.o. self’ day at the SMH. Just hoping he wrote it with his pants on.
This was a truly weird piece, even for Paul Sheehan.
One wonders if it might have been written after a long Melbourne Cup lunch.
Yeah, have to say it was a WTF? moment for me too….How the hell did that even make it through to the Keeper?
The weirdest thing was that his crush made the front page of the SMH!
Golden analysis!
By Dr Mumbo, not the other idiot, I mean
Dear old Paul Sheehan, if only Fairfax had bundled him out the door with all the redundancies – earns a packet and only has to hand in two op-ep pieces each week, including mad unfocussed ramblings like this one!
Paul Sheehan loves being in love – mainly with his own opinions or those of Alan Jones, it must be said. A couple of months ago he was all hot to trot about the alluring virtues of the trolly dollies on some Middle Eastern airline with which he had scored a junket to somewhere or other. By comparison, Qantas’s poor old nanas just didn’t make it out the starting gate when it came to pouring free G and Ts up the pointy end of the plane. Now it’s some Brit racing tipster who’s got him chomping at the bit. What is it with men of a certain age and younger women? Being a man of a certain age myself I could offer some suggestions, but this is a family publication – well, sort of.
It is not uncommon that people’s obsessions might be less restrained as they approach senility.