Welcome back dear friends, here we go with another nine months of heartache, nail biting and soul searching to look forward to. Glancing through the league registration site, as you do at this time of year, in search of possible opportunities to pinch a couple, I notice that my old mucker Gustavo De Paulo da Nobrega e Silva has signed for Tow Law. Another transatlantic plane fare wasted. I jest of course. It was their Bert I really knew well. Still, damn fine name for a footballer, or a President come to that, gives the league a little touch of class. Unless it turns out he has two left feet and is allergic to the cold...
Back to more important matters, how are we shaping up? Not bad, not bad I reckon. Lost a couple of stalwarts as you always do, but most of them have stayed, and the management have added a few as well. So, if we can start as we finished we might be able to surprise one or two. Which we will have to do given our first few fixtures, tough indeed. The friendlies seem to have gone fairly well, bar the odd hiccup and sending off, and against our old mates from the Jolly Potter, who would have thought it? Well, everybody actually...
And what of the wider sporting world? Murray gets beat at Wimbledon, the England cricketers flatter to deceive, and then come good again, and even Durham are faltering badly after a good start. But the racing and the golf have been good, so that’s alright then. About six weeks for summer sport, doesn’t seem quite fair does it? But I’m looking forward to it, so bring it on....