Zoroastrianism Is More Believable Than What Happened On Saturday

I can't possibly go into detail about Saturday's game; never have I seen us outplay a team so convincingly and lose a game in a massive 4 minutes. All I know is that after we scored the game was calling out for Mullins to bolster the midfield, and we sat back and let Everton come at us instead of retaining possession and closing the game out. We played well for about 75 minutes, and that's all I can really bring myself to say.

Here's some funny animal photos that my Mum sent me...

Craig Bellamy is obviously unhappy at the service that he has been getting. Oftentimes he feels stranded up front, opting to come back to midfield to help with the tackling, and the tracking, and all the un-fun things that strikers don't normally tend to.


Young Freddy Sears has done well, contesting with bigger and more experienced opposition. The boy needs a couple of goals under his belt and I think he'll start to gain enough confidence to push on and cement a starting place for himself.



Here's Lucas Neill burying a few happy meals and pork pies for later. This never used to be necessary, but with Dean Ashton having so much spare time on his hands lately, Neill has had to turn to extreme precautions to secure his staple diet.


Ilunga has been a dominant force down the left, here he is on Saturday knocking the piss out of Louis Boa Morte in order to stop Louis from attempting to play football - best choice he's ever made.


Greeny and Upson are ecstatic that they are still in the England squad even though they haven't managed to keep a clean sheet since the game versus the Academy's under 5's team way back in December.


Witness the Everton offence slowly moving in on the hapless Lucas Neill and Julian Faubert. Largely unseen for 80 minutes because they had been napping, but now fully awake and ready to pounce.


Here's Matthew Etherington in his natural environment in no-mans-land. As you can see Etherington is fully enjoying his new found freedom by bounding endlessly in a baron wasteland of space. Free of responsibility or commitments Etherington is enjoying what John Locke may have called man's state of nature. Locke would have also agreed that Ethers is again deserving of this weeks WHEFT Award.

Obama-nation

This post falls into the "wider world in general" bit in the description of this blog...

Congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama, who yesterday sealed his future in the White House with a monumental victory over the honourable Senator John McCain. Congratulations must also go to Mr. McCain, who not only ran a tough race, but also bowed out gracefully and with a message of the importance of a future of bilateralism in Congress. Both men would have been deserving of the role of President, but I suppose there could be only one winner on the day.

Thank God this is all over though, and now we can get down to business and get back to our lives. I'm so happy that I will be able to turn the telly on and not be barraged with political ads, and news snippets of the two men saying the same thing over and over again. For the last couple of months I have become increasingly frustrated at the so called "news" channels; their impartiality is disgusting, treating opinion as fact and largely feeding people information that they want them to believe. It's sad to think how easily we can become brainwashed, and with the large majority of the population never uttering the question "why?" we all seem to just take what they say as fact. The amount of people that I have come across recently that regurgitate what the major news channels tell them is true was unbelievable to me - and sure these channels are convenient, and sure they are accessible, but if we are unprepared to look at all sources of information or do some of our own research to get the facts then we are just as much to blame for a government/organisation/business' actions as they are. This is dangerous territory, and we all must stand up and take some responsibility. If a population refuses to wane to the agenda of a government/organisation/business, then that group will have to comply to the will of the masses. It is our own decisions and our collective action that forge the path forward, and we shouldn't take for granted how significant a small action like going elsewhere for information is.

Happy Guy Fawkes day all.

What's A Clean Sheet?

I missed this game due to work, but judging by the highlights (here) we played quite well with the youngsters impressing. We're still as likely to keep a clean sheet as a fifteen year old boy with a Playboy and a night light however. Anyway, since I didn't see the game I'll keep shtum.


Our poll on the right for favourite player of the last thirty years has timed out, and the results are as follows...

#1 - Paulo
#2 - Dicksy
#3 - Sir Trev, Phil Parkes
#4 - Everyone else

Paulo topped our poll with 13 votes, with Dicks in second with 6 votes. Sir Trev and Big Phil share the third place spoils with 2 votes, and everyone else registered one vote a piece. I believe these results clearly show that come Tuesday Paolo Di Canio will be named the next President of the United States of America, with Dicks possibly taking a position in his cabinet as Secretary of Defence.

Thank you all for participating, and please vote in the new poll; the fate of the free world is in your hands.