I could walk up to his bedroom and I made bold to say, I was never part of the
fawners who told him what he needed to hear.
In the same way that Julius Caesar, in his Shakespearean incarnation, surrounded himself with sycophants and came to grief one day at the forum, Ferguson now takes questions only from the
fawners and flatterers of United's in-house media.
in Los Angeles had plenty of blockers running interference: his old sports buddies, Hollywood
fawners, sportswriters who think their job is to cover talent, not morality, an easy going judge and Hertz who kept using Simpson to shill.
Balotelli will be remembered for letting off fireworks in his house, collecting pointless red cards, suspensions and parking tickets, writing off sports cars, throwing a dart at a youth player, missing trophy parades because he couldn't be bothered, making his manager look like a drunken uncle in a fight and starring in a series of urban myths fuelled by celebrity
fawners like Noel Gallagher, which painted him as some anarchic anti-hero.
To have a Buhari who wears a Messianic and saintly band on his lapel congratulate the awardee of that sleazy mis-election, sent his Secretary to Government to join the political
fawners on pilgrimage to Omisore and reportedly called Omisore himself, is an underscore of the fact that his is not any different from the PDP government he replaced.
So they look for the most pliable of their coterie of hangers-on and
fawners to succeed them.
In the cells were a collection of mediocre thugs, misshapen
fawners and cringing child-molesters.