C’est toujours le joueur le plus mauvais

C’est toujours le joueur le plus mauvais qui a la balle // It is always the worst player who has the ball

Today’s prompt is “player”, joueur.

The supposed Murphy’s law in the caption once again stubbornly refuses to be found in its original form. I guess somebody simply extended classic Peter Principle that “each individual rises to his own level of incompetence, and then remains there” to ball games.

Obviously, the cat is not the worst player, he just refuses to follow the stupid rules imposed on him. He is quite happy playing his own game.

In quarantine news, the consideration of Canaries’ own de-quaranteening schedule was postponed by the central government. From what I can read, they, firstly, refuse to swap their own proposals, however badly thought through, to someone else’s (which is also less than perfect). Secondly, they seem to be generally reluctant to relinquish the grip they currently have on everything.