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With a reduced slate of action and few transfers of note this week in the men?s or women?s game (unless you count Mainz signing forward and renowned Gwen Stefani fan Benedict Hollerbach), and still no word on Arne Slot?s new residency in Ibiza, Football Daily was fast running out of content for Tuesday?s missive. So thank goodness for the open letter from York City owner Julie-Anne Uggla addressed to the National League and the Football League, regarding the ?structurally unjust? promotion system in the fifth tier of English football, which sees just the regular season winners (this season: Barnet) and one playoff winner go up from six teams, who finished second to seventh. Hurray!
Re: yesterday?s Football Daily. At least Inter didn?t experience what the Italian team did when they returned home from England in 1966 after a dreadful World Cup. They had tomatoes thrown at them when they landed at the airport in Italy? ? John Jones.
In the past four years, I have gone from procrastinating at work, in exactly the same job, by endlessly writing to The Fiver to endlessly writing to Football Daily, whereas Vitinha has gone from his only goal at on loan at Wolves (one that wasn?t even taken up by Wolves) to this. But, being a high achiever is vastly overrated, probably ?? ? Noble Francis.
While searching for a receipt for a large donut order, I stumbled across an old tea-timely newsletter titled: ?Performing donuts in the centre circle in a car with square wheels.? I was struck by this particular quote: ?So Leicester City?s dream of joining Midlands rivals Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa in the pantheon of unlikely European champions is over. A terrible shame but on the flip side they don?t look like becoming irrelevant second-tier mediocrities any time soon, so it?s swings and roundabouts.? While some things do change, it?s reassuring to know that your curse of the commentator will always come true eventually? ? Ian James.
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