Leeds United

Hi,

I like a bit of a giggle at Leeds expense and although this is a month or two old (at least) now, it made me laugh. Not convincing though as Leeds score 5.

Leeds United manager flies to Baghdad to watch a young Iraqi play football and is suitably impressed and arranges for him to come over to
England.

Two weeks later Leeds are 4-0 down to Barnsley with only 20 minutes left. The manager gives the young Iraqi striker the nod and on he goes. The lad is a sensation – scores 5 goals in 20 minutes and wins the game for Leeds! The fans are delighted, the players and coaches are delighted and the media love the new star.

When the player comes off the pitch he phones his mum to tell her about his first day in English football. “Hello mum, guess what?” he says in an Iraqi accent. “I played for 20 minutes today, we were 4-0 down but I scored 5 and we won. Everybody loves> >me, the fans, the media, they all love me.”

” Wonderful,” says his mum, “Let me tell you about my day…..
Your father got shot in the street and robbed, your sister and I were
ambushed, gang raped and beaten and your brother has joined a gang of
looters, and all while you were having such great time.”The young lad is very upset, “What can I say mum, but I’m so sorry.”

“Sorry?!!! Sorry?!!!” says his mum, “It’s your bloody fault we moved to Leeds in the first place!”

Public Transport & that Bloody Car again.

Hi,

I had to get the bus to work this morning. I hate buses. They’re crap and uncomfortable. I had to get to Huddersfield bus station at half 7ish to get to Bradford for half 8. It got in a little early as it goes which impressed me but with the amount of bus lanes into Bradford I suppose it’s no surprise. Traffic only moves in Bradford when there isn’t a bus lane on the road, otherwise it’s all snarled up and you can’t get anywhere.

The reason I had to get a bus is that about half a mile from my house last night, my cars started making knocking sounds while going round corners. It’s not good and as I think the wheel bearing was going anyway and I sort of hope it’s related to that as it’s only 1 thing to fix. However, I doubt it is. At least my boss is letting me go early to go and get it sorted. I’ll probably go after I’ve written this in fact.

If it’s too expensive to fix I’m probably gonna scrap this thing. I’m not paying much more than £200 if it needs it. I reckon there’s a 50% chance of that so it’s 50-50 whether I’ll be a full-time public transport user.

Please let it be cheap!!!

Wish me luck.

Scott

Work, football and all that usual stuff

Hi,

I’m bored today. All my work keeps on coming in bursts rather than trickling in like it usually does. No emails in over an hour then 7 in 5 minutes. What’s that all about?

Milan v Liverpool tonight. All the best to Liverpool as they try and stave off the rampant feelings of revenge that Milan will feel tonight after the 2005 final. I predict a win for Milan by 2 goals. Not sure if I think 2-0 or 3-1 though. As an Englishman I’d like to see Liverpool do it, as a United fan, I bloody wouldn’t so one way or the other I’ll be disappointed! I just hope it’s a better game than the torrid FA Cup final.

Got to go to Tesco’s tonight. I hope it’s not busy. Why do some people always take their whole extended family food shopping? I’ve never understood that. 3 or 4 generations together buying 16 pints of milk. They must have some fridge, I tell you.

Right, time for my weekly darts update then that’ll do. Hope you’re well, whoever’s reading this.

Darts Update:

I lost my game 3-0 and the team lost 5-0 not a good night at all! I hit my first 180 of the season though so it’s not all bad. I also beat one of my team-mates twice before he got bored and sat down again after the match which gave my other team-mates a good laugh!

Summary:
Position: 3
My Result: 3-0 loss
Team Result: 5-0 loss
Season 180 Count: 1 (knowing me, it’ll probably stay that way!!)

Neighbours: We shall miss you

Hi all,

Have a look at this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6669769.stm

This means that our beloved programme, particularly amongst the university attenders amongst you, will now have adverts in.

I readily admit that Neighbours is probably up there in the top 10 worst television programmes on the BBC at the moment along with the unfunny Catherine Tate show and the terrible, no-characters-at-all, but massively watchable, Eggheads. However, I like the programme.

£300,000,000 is a lot of money over 8 years (the equivalent of 288,100ish of us paying for the programme over that time, if my maths is correct) but now we’ve got to put up with adverts instead.

RIP Neighbours. Come next spring, no-one will be watching it (possibly)

S.