Well, I can't get leathered, not when I'm with the kids but I don't mind that so much. I never did see much point in swilling down gallons of booze knowing I'd have a screaming head and a bonfire in my belly later. That said I do take your point about the rest, however it's still a comparatively expensive way of spending my free time. I do love the club and right now I'm not
quite at the point where I feel the only way to show it is to withhold my money so I'll be renewing my season ticket and in a way it's actually
less expensive for me this time because for the last few years I was a lone dad with two kids. I now have Wendy and she does enjoy football so she might well come to some of the games next season. Sadly she's a Liverpool fan but I am working on converting her to the true faith and maybe if we play some good football next term that will help.
Of course Dougie is likely to still be the manager so I don't know if I should hold out too much hope for that. After all, tapes of his 4-5-1 "strategy" were allegedly used as a cure for insomnia in extreme cases where all known drugs had failed and Lancet reputedly wanted to publish the results of the study that said it had been so effective the hospitals concerned were now unable to wake the patients up again.
It's just a shame Wendy didn't come to the dingles match, that might well have helped with her conversion AND helped to convince her that it's a wise use of the money we'll spend.
In the meantime Interflora are now on twenty four hour alert, ready to deliver my latest bribe I mean gift at a moment's notice while the local wine shop is currently ensuring they have sufficient stocks of her favourite Chardonnay at all times so she need never take a nice hot bath without a nice cold glass in her hand.