Success at last.

Good day at the football on saturday. My team (Reading) continue to win week after week and moreover win easily!. This is quite an unusual experience for me. Having spent approximately 20 years watching them achieve nothing, we are all having to get used to success. It is great but there is a price to pay. Next season, ticket prices will be so high that I simply won't be able to get a season ticket anymore and now we get sucked into the sort of premier league corporate world. I'm not really sure if this success is politically correct for me.

I don't want to give the impression of being too much of a 'blokey' bloke but I do like football which does make me a bit 'blokey'. Actually I also like beer, pubs and fags so maybe I am a bit more 'blokey' than I like to think. Also I do tend to get over excited at the football and sometimes even embarrass myself. My language is appalling especially when it concerns referees and linesmen at whom I hurl abuse regularly and compulsively. Obviously this is all related to my inherent dislike of authority figures. I can't shout abuse at policemen or politicians (at least not without getting arrested) so the football is great beacuase it is perfectly acceptable to berate referees. In fact I love the football so much that when Reading finally got the points to guarantee promotion I actually thought I was going to cry and had to work hard to hold it all in. I must get out more.

In the meantime, I heard Patricia Hewitt being interviewed on the radio. She assured us there were no plans to close any hospitals only plans to reassign services to GPs and other community bodies. Eh?