"We're top of the league!
We're top of the league!
We are Hull City!
We're top of the league!
The new English football season kicked off today. In The Championship, newly-promoted Hull City beat Preston North End by four goals to one at Deepdale, Preston. What a great start to the season! Only forty five more games to go.
Down in West London I know that ADDY will now be in seventh heaven with a couple of bottles of "Babycham", celebrating The Tigers' victorious start to the season. Jenny in Nova Scotia will be dressed in her Hull City replica kit, bouncing with glee upon her sofa with a can of "Hippie Dippie Pale Ale" in her mitt. There will be similar scenes in Todmorden, West Yorkshire where Thelma's daughter will be astonished that her mother has become a football fanatic. And also in Spain, Senora Carol (aka Coppa's Girl) will be treating herself to a two litre carafe of Sangria. Meantime in Ludwigsburg, Germany Meike and The Mysterious Sister will be singing Hull City's theme song in the palace grounds: "Take my hand, take my whole life too/ For I can't help falling in love with you!"
In an Irish cottage, above the raging sea, tears of joy will be cascading down Dave Northsider's cheeks while JayCee in Ramsey on The Isle of Man will be ironing Lord Peregrine's sagging Y-fronts with gay abandon as she hums the same old Elvis song embraced by the sisters from Baden-Württemberg. Over in Lloyd, Florida and Florence, South Carolina two shy American visitors to this humble Yorkshire blog will be going wild with unbridled delight like broncos at a rodeo. Yee-hah!
By the way, looking at the top of the Championship table shown at the head of this blogpost I declare that I have been to every town on the list. I have also been to all of those football grounds apart from Luton Town's stadium at Kenilworth Road. Am I boasting? I guess so. I know that West Bromwich isn't Monte Carlo and Barnsley isn't Asuncion but these towns are exotic places in their own right... "unusual...different".
Now if you will excuse me. It is 8pm and time for some Saturday night grocery shopping at "Lidl". Bye-bye!
Hull City's manager Grant McCann celebrates today's victory
Enjoy the moment - I hope it lasts so long as you can stand the high blood pressure it might bring as the season progresses
ReplyDeleteAll I am hoping for is that we stay in The Championship this season...but you never know.
DeleteI'm just stopping by to say hello. Sports mean next to nothing to me. Now, what did you by at Lidl, and what did you cook for tea? THAT'S what interests me!
ReplyDeleteFor the first time in a long time, I didn't cook. I drove over to The Ranmoor Friery to buy cod, chips and mushy peas. At Lidl I bought a pork fillet, some Turkish beer, Californian red wine, bananas, red onions, butter, Scottish new potatoes and a copy of "My Love of Sport" by Jennifer Barlow.
DeleteI've heard the term 'mushy peas' before. I never thought to look it up. This time I did. It sounds like what we call split pea soup here. I love split pea soup.
Delete*Holds up empty bowl with pitiful look on her face*
Mushy peas do indeed taste like split pea soup but thicker and greener. You can hold up that bowl as long as you like Olivia you ain't getting none o' my mushy peas gal!
DeleteLOL - good poke back at the non-sports fans, Mr. P :)
ReplyDeleteIs this the same sport whose season JUST FREAKING FINISHED???
Yup! That's the one Jenny! No rest for the wicked!
DeleteThank you for the warning that the football season is starting.
ReplyDeleteSo glad I no longer watch TV.
PS Hope your team stay on top.
Shall I send you a Hull City bobble hat? Black and amber will suit you.
DeleteWell, congratulations. I am not in Ludwigsburg this weekend, so my sister and I singing in the palace grounds will have to wait until some time next week.
ReplyDeleteMy Ludwigsburg agent has been fooled.
DeleteWell YP, Congratulations - that's a very good start to the season, but will they continue with the winning streak?
ReplyDeleteShopping at Lidl must have been something of an anti-climax, so I hope you didn't start singing Hull's theme song as you pushed your trolley along the aisles?
"GRANT McCANN'S BARMY ARMY!"
DeleteOnly in my dreams will the winning streak continue. This is going to be a hard season Carol. Strap your seatbelt on.
Congratulations on your first victory of the season YP. I watched them on Quest last night.
ReplyDeleteGet your missus to knit you a black and amber scarf.
DeleteHaha. Cheers, YP and I wish more successes for Hull. I'm afraid Prosecco will have to do. I haven't seen Babycham for years. Must get the butler to find out why.
ReplyDeleteIt's the "genuine champagne perry" you know!
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