The times they are a changing

 

the women's institute

Hola. Hope you are well.

Having not posted a comment for over a week it is noticeable how quickly things change in football. It wasn’t that long ago that David Beckham was making headlines for wearing a scarf /spearheading the campaign against the Glazers, depending on which paper you read. The next minute he’s rupturing his achilles and is flying off to Finland. Who knew Finland was the hot bed of achilles surgery?

It wasn’t too long ago that Phil Brown was defending two of his players Barmby and Bullard, for fighting on a bridge. Why on a bridge, I’m not sure, but to make things worse the fight was watched by some members of the WI (that’s Women’s Institute, not the West Indies). It begs the question, shouldn’t these women from the WI, been at home making jam or or posing for naked calendars? Now Phil Brown is on ‘gardening leave’ having been released by Hull. Is it just football people that get put on ‘gardening leave’, have you ever been put on ‘gardening leave’, let me know.

At this stage of the post I would like to do a Tiger Woods, I don’t mean the cocktail waitresses, I mean a public apology. I would like to apologise to any Reading fans reading this (I doubt there are any). My apology goes back to the FA cup match between Reading and Aston Villa. I missed the first half of the match, I think I’d gone for a  jog, when I came back and Reading were 2-0 up. I then sat down and watched the whole of the second half and the game ended 4-2 to Villa. After the match the ‘experts’ in the TV studio claimed Villa’s fight back was due to a rollicking at half-time by Martin O’neill. It wasn’t, it had nothing to do with Martin O’neill, it was all down to me and for that I apologise.

It’s never nice to see anyone lose their job, especially in these precarious times, but should any of the 85 people laid off at Portsmouth, wish to seek new employment, they should try this place.

It’s been a good week for Steven Gerrard and I don’t mean beating Portsmouth, but the fact he got away with a 2 fingered salute towards the ref in the Wigan game and then got away with smashing Michael Brown in the head. To be fair the latter incident was against Michael Brown, who can only be described in a footballing term as a ‘dirty c-unit’, so he probably deserved it.  They should both think themselves lucky, they wouldn’t like to face Gerrard when he’s ‘defending himself’ .

And Finally… Let’s move onto the big issue. On the last post I mentioned I was going to miss ‘Glee’ to watch the Wigan vs Liverpool game ( I shouldn’t have bothered) and I wasn’t sure when I was going to watch the repeat, well you can rest easy. I caught the repeat on Ch4  on Sunday 5:35. The only problem is I missed this Monday’s Glee to watch Lpool vs Portsmouth and I’m out at a radio recording when it’s repeated this Sun. I could watch it on 4OD but our computer is playing up and I can’t watch it in the library just in case I bump into someone I know. These are the dilemmas of a modern football fan.

Til next time, stay safe!