Keane-o goes crackerdog
Aug. 29th, 2007 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mistletoe12 signings!?! In response to last night's demise in the Carling cup to Luton, the team we beat to secure our championship, Roy has signed on Ian Harte, Danny Higginbottom and Kenwyne Jones. Worth the entrance fee for the names alone. He did say if anybody didn't measure up they wouldn't play. Well he's put the money where his mouth is and signed a whole new team. I wonder who he'll play against his old boss and Manchester United on Saturday? I hope I can see it on Setanta.
It's been dramatic in football this week. On Sunday I was watching the Sevilla game when one of their players collapsed on the pitch. He died on Tuesday and was buried today. 22 years old and victim of an undiagnosed genetic heart defect. His girlfriend is expecting his son next month. Tragic.
Then last night, Clive Clarke, who is on loan at Leicester City from us, collapsed at half time in the dressing room. His heart stopped twice and he was rushed to the cardiac unit in Nottingham where they were playing. He is now recovering and the match was abandoned. My dad said when he was playing a lad collapsed and died on the pitch. It makes you think.
It's been dramatic in football this week. On Sunday I was watching the Sevilla game when one of their players collapsed on the pitch. He died on Tuesday and was buried today. 22 years old and victim of an undiagnosed genetic heart defect. His girlfriend is expecting his son next month. Tragic.
Then last night, Clive Clarke, who is on loan at Leicester City from us, collapsed at half time in the dressing room. His heart stopped twice and he was rushed to the cardiac unit in Nottingham where they were playing. He is now recovering and the match was abandoned. My dad said when he was playing a lad collapsed and died on the pitch. It makes you think.
Today was Reeth show which went ahead despite the movement restrictions on sheep and cattle cancelling those events (Foot and Mouth outbreak in the south of the country). Plenty of horses to see and the Young Farmers obstacle race. But the centre piece of the show was the Fell Race. 38 men and women ran up and down the fell overlooking the showground. A fell is a very steep and rough hill forming part of the moors. The winner completed the course in less than 15 minutes, a new record, fighting off a challenger in the last 100 yards. and won £100. Check this out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fell_running
The Horticultural tent had various local people's entries in prize flower, vegetable and baking competitions. We were in there ages. Hog roast with stuffing and apple sandwich for lunch and lager in the sunshine. Lovely day. Got home to find the Quiz had arrived and I got 150 right again! I've moved up to the heady heights of League B *feels dizzy*
Yesterday the gasman came... and left without me seeing or hearing him. I made a loud and aggressive phone call to the company before I spotted the card stuck in the letterbox, but I still feel aggrieved because I waited in for 11 and1/2 hours.
