Cannon Fodder

Every week my girlfriend and I put together our shopping list. It’s largely the same week on week, with things that we have noticed we have been short on or ran out of during the last week. Nothing too specific goes on there. It’s just a generic list of generic items. No brands, no labels, just milk, bread, etc.   Then, when she gets home from the shop, it’s like the list never existed. Sure, she might have the bread, she might have the milk, but the bread will be some weird, seeded thing. The milk will be completely different to what we are used to. This might be because what I was expecting had ran out. Could be that she has completely different ideas on how to approach the shop to me.  More often than not , there may even be some kind of treat for me and our two boys. They love trying to guess what it will be. Never get it right though. But who cares? Everyone loves a treat. Unless it’s fruit. I cannot emphasize enough that fruit   is not  a treat * . Anyway, I di...

6 th  place. Played 21. 36 points. 2 points off fourth with a game in hand. If you had offered that to me at the start of the season, let alone after the first three games, I would have bitten your hand off and taken it with glee. Let’s not forget after all that this is a season that no one expected us to challenge for top four, so to be well in with a shout past the halfway point is a position that should not be sniffed at. Yet following the disappointing 0-0 draw yesterday against Burnley, my Twitter feed was full of doom and gloom. Comments that the season was over, we’re never getting top four, there’s no progress and the manager needs to be sacked. Now, I will absolutely agree that drawing 0-0 at home to bottom club Burnley is disappointing. Regardless of absentees (Partey and Xhaka missing from the middle in particular) you would expect the team that was out there to have had enough to dispose of a team that only has 1 win all season. It was a line up after all that included ...