Respect is earned: From Seagal's disaster to Chelsea's apathy to PSL's governance crisis

HAVE you ever watched Attack Force? Consider yourself lucky if you haven't.

- MORGAN BOLTON

It's a mid-2000s Steven Seagal movie that shows almost no respect for the medium. Seagal plays the commander of some elite US unit, murdered by — who knows what...

Genetically modified soldiers? Perhaps. Aliens? Possibly. Vampires? By the end, it seems that way.

In any event, Seagal looks uninterested — checked out — when he's on camera, which isn’t for very long. About halfway through the incoherent mess, Seagal buggers off, having clearly decided he had better things to do with his life. From then on, body doubles, voice-overs, dubbed sections and stand-ins draped in shadow take over his role.

It’s so bad, it’s comical.

Watching the first half of Chelsea's performance on Wednesday night in the UEFA Europa Conference League final at the local pub against Real Betis dredged up similar feelings of confusion. It was somewhat clear — the starting XI confirming it — that the Blues had almost no respect for the match.