A brief football blog this evening and so fans of cricket, croquet or criticising blogs based on football can look away now…
You see, my team Norwich City have just secured their status as a Premier League club for another year, having only been in League 1 two years ago. I say my team because I have, of course, made a huge difference to the team’s achievements and it is almost certain that without my pessimistic comments on Twitter and regular trawling of the fans’ forum that we would have got nowhere near reaching the heights we have managed to climb in these past couple of seasons. Norwich have much to thank me for and I look forward to continuing to help them next season whilst claiming any win as something we’ve achieved and any loss (they do, occasionally, happen) as their fault.
Forget David v Goliath, Jonah v The Whale, or Moses v The rest of the Israelites, Norwich v The Premier League looked like being one mismatch too far this year and yet somehow, somewhere, someday (that one’s for the musicals fans out there…) we have triumphed against all odds, beaten back the tide of inevitable failure and completely and utterly spanked any other clichés people would care to throw at us.
And so next year we go into Season number 4 in this tale of unexpected revival, hoping for so much but realistically expecting very little other than a last minute defeat against Man Utd once more. One thing’s for sure: whatever happens it is bound to be predictably unpredictable. And, if that doesn’t float your boat or ice your cream-cake (that’s a new one I’m trying out) then I guess you can always bask in the glories of future blog entries about far more cultural affairs, such as ‘things you can do with broken umbrellas’ or ‘Poems about pigeons: the unwritten verse’.
N.B. Future blogs about umbrellas and/or poems about pigeons may or may not exist.
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