Superb Bhappy blog about tomorrow

IRB · May 3, 2013

Don’t cause trouble. Don’t take risks. Don’t stick your
head above the parapet. Quite apart from anything else, it’s safer. Ask the Common Man, he’ll tell you. Mid-table, that’s what you want. ”The sort of trouble that’s expected”. A decent cup run. The occasional result against one of the more fancied sides, the odd bloodied nose. Everyone likes that…. we like it, “football” likes it, whatever that is. The plucky underdog. This? This is different. This is the possibility of automatic promotion from a team made up of loans, mercenaries, someone else’s players. Conspicuous, and condemned. ”Yes, ‘Franco’s put a great team together, love the way they play, but…. and I know they’ve not broken any rules, fair play to them, they found a loophole and exploited it. But it’s not really in the spirit of the rules is it? I mean, what happens when all the loans go back?”. That’s hardly going to get any better if we do go up, if more journalists desperate for a story but with neither the time nor the attention span to evaluate the situation take notice. Who needs it? Not as if it’s in our hands anyway. Hull may be on a stinking run, a right stinking run. Three games against the current bottom three, no goals, one point. One win in four at home, and that courtesy of a deflected free kick and a goalkeeping howler. And yes, of course, they’re playing Cardiff… league leaders, best defence in the division and so forth. And, yes, there are one or two on the Cardiff books with links to Watford… 731 appearances in yellow, 159 goals, 3 Watford Player of the Season awards between them, yes, yes, what of it? Hull will go up if they win, it’s theirs to f*** up ultimately, no getting away from that. And they’ll know it. They’ll know. The knowledge of how completely they’ll have screwed this up if they go into the play-offs has to be a motivator. Nor can our game be taken for granted, far from it. Sure, Leeds might not have won away in the League since December 1st and only once since September but they’re a tough side and a big club, don’t be fooled. They’ll have a big support with them and despite being mid-table, won’t be on the beach at all. Nor should we read too much into the suspensions being served by El-Hadji Diouf and Rodolph Austin. A club like Leeds will inevitably have players of equal calibre ready to step in. An irrelevance. And OK, we may have a bit of side. Fernando, looking, playing, sounding more like his manager every day. Troy, a leader, unplayable. Anya, Pudil, all energy,tricks and power. Almen Abdi, the professor, most assists in the division. Chalobah, the conductor, the metronome. Jonathan Hogg, breaking it up, keeping it moving, keeping it honest. Marco Cassetti… seen this **** before, composed an opera about it, give me a man to mark. Ekstrand, solid and elegant and one day he’s going to break the net. Lloyd. Just… Lloyd. And Manuel… experience, reliability, a voice. A captain. Yes, OK, we’re decent. So we should be, we’re going for second. No reason to take anything for granted. Laughably, people have been quoting this vaguely superstitious, coincidental claptrap. The thing about us having been promoted every seven years since the inception of the Premier League in 1992. The thing about every promotion we’ve enjoyed to the top flight concluding against a team in white. What a load of cobblers. As if any of this has any bearing on Saturday’s game. It isn’t difficult to keep alive, friends. Just don’t cause any trouble. Don’t stick your head above the parapet. Don’t go expecting anything, it’s not in our hands, there’s less emotional risk in just letting it wash over you. Ha. Come Saturday, be proud. Be yellow. Be loud. Bring it on.
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miserableoldgit · May 3, 2013

Brilliant and thoughtful as ever!

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