Making Do With England
New Signing Junior
By Dave Thomas
September 14 2011
With no Burnley game for 2 weeks there wasn’t much football to look forward to. There was England v Bulgaria of course but the mere sight of Capello brings me out in hives. Actually I did watch – half heartedly. A 3 – 0 win away should have had us all dancing on the roof but it didn’t. For some reason watching England is like watching paint dry. And the game against Wales was even worse. Still at least the cricketers keep walloping the abject Indians.
There was I suppose the Johnson Watching Paint Dry Trophy. That was on Sky but Bradford v Sheffield Wednesday wasn’t quite the same as Man U 8 Arsenal 2. The shock waves from that result lasted for days. Watching Arsene Wenger being laid bare to his soul was a sad spectacle. Suddenly the emperor had no clothes. And then he went on a spending spree at breathtaking speed in the last 48 hours of the transfer window. But, it was all rather desperate, a bit like delaying the shopping at Harrods and making do with a late night Netto. The closing of the transfer window was one of those things that Sky do so well with reporters everywhere that they could turn to for “breaking news.” I watched it hoping for Burnley news. The guy at Stoke did a fantastic job considering he was surrounded by baying morons. They must bus them in for the occasion. Other clubs must have supporters of this ilk but there’s none as good as the Stoke numpties on nights like this. Peter Crouch comes across as a good intelligent guy. Does he know what he’s playing in front of at Stoke? Sky has the happy knack of catching Harry Redknapp at the gates of the Spurs training ground. With Harry it’s a wind the window down and chat routine and he always obliges and you wonder if they feed him on budgie seed. I could listen to him all day. You half expect him to have a boot load of gear for sale on his way darn the market, or three unwanted players on the back seat he’s delivering somewhere.
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