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"I
am not a number, I'm a free man," bellowed the
Prisoner. Greedy sod, he should have been grateful,
because Coventry City striker Paul Williams is remembered
in the tomes of football folly by just a solitary letter.
Yes, one blessed letter.
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CELTIC
FANS IN MATHEMATICAL MIRE...
THURSDAY 17th APRIL 2008 |
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I
had to look on in some disbelief at all
of the Celtic fans jumping around on invisible
pogo-sticks last night as JVO Hesselink
grabbed an injury-time winner against
Rangers.
Elation is one thing,
a victory over Auld Firm rivals another,
but references to the league title being
'back on' is akin to the kind of psychological
wobbliness that results out of spending
too long with the mother-in-law.
Temporarily, my bowels stirred,
and with a whiff of excitement I glanced
at the SPL table, thinking that maybe
I'd missed a succession of Rangers defeats,
or some sort of mass points deduction
last copyrighted by Leeds United, but
sure enough they are still a point clear,
having played two games less. So what's
all the fuss about?
Celtic shouldn't be jumping around like
kangaroos, they should be assembling a
hall of mirrors from second-hand antiques
stories in Dennistoun and taking good
long looks at them (err, and through them,
too).
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There's
another Celtic v Rangers clash to come,
but even offering that one to the Hoops,
the Gers would still need to drop points
in two of their remaining four games against
the fearful might of Hibs, Motherwell, Dundee
United and Aberdeen, with their Glasgow
foes winning all of their closing fixtures.
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It ain't
gonna happen, but you've got to love good
old-fashioned blind football optimism.
Good to see a punch-up at the end of the
game too. I can only imagine how many
people did as I did and wound through
the five minutes of drab highlights on
the Beeb website just to get to the handbags.
Now that's entertainment!
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