One of the storylines of this season's MUFC demise as soap opera is the seeming incompatibility of having Rooney and RVP playing up front together. There's been less passing between them than <insert d list celebrity of your choice>'s appearance on Mastermind. It can only be a coincidence that with RVP consigned once more to the injury list that Rooney took to the field against West Ham on Saturday with a smile on his face and apparently a renewed interest in the game. After a bit of argy bargy with a defender Rooney latches onto a half volley from around the half way line and smacks it over the keeper and scores. It was described best on Reddit with "If that happened in Fifa I'd rage quit for a week".
Half way through Match of the Day Gary Lineker turned to the camera and said "and now over to Etihad arena to see Manchester City entertain Fulham". The camera zoomed out to reveal that Lineker had a black hankerchief on his head and was crossing himself. I'm not one for undue cruelty but your boys were lucky to come away wih a zero on their side of the scoreline. A more accurate result would have been MANC 8 FULH -4. Dark times at the Cottage. For the neutral football fan what's most disappointing is the behaviour of your latest manager, Felix Magath. On his appointment we were promised eccentrism bordering on psychopathy with tales of players enduring training sessions that were closer in spirit to Abu Ghraib than St George's park. In reality Magath has presented himself as benign grandfather-like figure in natty FFC themed glasses.
Earlier this week Turkey shot down a Syrian military jet on the assertion that it has strayed into their airspace. So far there's been no reprisals probably because Turkey has a fully resourced military and isn't a disparate set of rebels with limited armament representing a beleaguered civilian population being starved into extinction.
Your mid week declaration via social media that you'd been assigned a two week flotilla caused some degree of angst and uncertainty in our holiday planning committee. I issued a set of cards to each member with a number of holiday themed criteria on them. The cards had to be laid out in a prioritised order. Despite "seeing you" scoring highly the practical realities of achieving this, together with boat availability and the general unhelpfulness of the sales team back in the UK may result in a different holiday being pursued.
I conspired, somewhat against my will, to spend three days this week in a training course on Quality. At the beginning when we had to introduce ourselves and state why we were there I announced to the room that I was a keen fan of abstract concepts and hope to attend a course next week on "Freedom". My boss began to rub his temples. It was going to be a long week. For everyone.
It's asserted that pets are spreading TB to their owners. Badgers are no doubt waiting for the link to be established between them and pets, probably that they're entering homes through cat flaps and coughing over everything they can reach before skulking back into the countryside. If you think that's tenuous then I'd assert it's no more of a stretch than the link between them and cattle unless cows have started living in burrows and have gone nocturnal whilst my eye's been off the ball.
All in all. a bit of a meh week. You've missed nothing.....
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