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“Gambling”, really really Old Timer would never tire of reminding me, “is the surest way of getting nothing from something. “The safest way to double your money boy” Granddad would go on, “is to fold it over once and put it back into your pocket.” Even the merest glimpse of the families’ Littlewood Pools coupon would send him into a “Work of the Devil, Sodom and Gomorra” induced tirade the gist of which would be to make it clear that we were all doomed to an after life of Hell Fire, Damnation, people doing unmentionable things with red hot pokers and in my case, as a special concession to the under elevens, daily beatings dished out by a fierce looking woman with a glass eye and a wooden tail. (Yes I know, but at the time it was pretty scary I can tell you.) |
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“Blimey O’Reilly” I think as I take an unexpected detour up a shiny new VW Passat’s bonnet before being deposited in an inelegant heap in front of an oncoming United Counties 53 bus bound for the wicked flesh pot that is Leighton Buzzard. Thank goodness for bus stops I think as the bus shudders to a halt a few feet from my chin. Suddenly the merits of 4-4-2 as opposed to 4-5-1 seem to lose some of their importance and the pain of losing to the likes of Barnet takes a distinct second place to the one shooting up my left leg. “I didn’t see that one coming” I muse using my very best “KD. Gone for a Burton post match interview” speak. Perhaps I really am too old for this cycling lark. Have you ever wondered what the opposite of a blindingly obvious statement (in this case VW driver’s “ Sorry I didn’t see you at all”) would be? |
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YOU KNOW YOUR TROUBLE. YOU TAKE IT ALL TOO SERIOUSLY. Is it just me or has any one else noticed just how closely world events have mirrored the current fortunes of Aldershot Town FC over the last couple of weeks. It all started with the visit of Chinese Prime Minister Mr. Wen Jia-bao whose speech at Cambridge University was interrupted by a flying trainer hurled by an angry protester shouting, “This is a scandal”. However as was the case at George Dubya’s final Iraq press conference the footwear in question missed the intended target by a considerable margin leading some cynics to suggest that in the current financial climate a European Shoe –throwing School using the World’s Corporate banking sector for targets would do wonders for world affairs and be a nice little money earner at the same time. |
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