The voice of an angel

Simon Cowell is a bastard. This rendition of the theme from Titanic was brilliant. Had the contestant not been so young back in 1997, I am sure she would have done a better job than that horse-faced Celine Dion! I would certanly buy her music.

Bring Guylene back!

Winged monster

I’ve just had to kill a massive moth that was flying around the flat. At least I think it was a moth... going by the size of the beast, it may have been a type of bat.

Selling ice to Eskimos

I have spent the afternoon defrosting my freezer. It had got to the stage where the door wouldn’t close because it was so full of ice, so I thought I should clean it – after all I haven’t done so since I moved in 18 months ago.

I was amazed that the small box on top of the fridge could produce so much ice. I know the ice caps are melting in the Arctic - well I have plenty of the stuff sitting in my kitchen sink if the Eskimos want to buy any.

Bath City 2-2 Wimbledon

I don’t understand tennis terminology, but as both teams drew, don’t they call that ‘juice’?

A spot of tennis

This afternoon I will be watching Bath City play Wimbledon. No, the players haven’t given up on football and turned to tennis; although Manchester United’s Paul Scholes last night quit the game to start a career in volleyball.

Wimbledon are a famous football club who were formed in the olden days (152 BC to be exact), working their way up from non-league to the Premiership. Many well-known players represented them over the years including Dennis Wise (the player, not my pet hamster) and Hollywood superstars Vinnie Jones and Samuel L Jackson.

A few years ago, they ran into a spot of financial trouble when someone forgot to pay the gas bill. The club was sold to a man with a lot of money and not many brains. This man thought it would be a laugh to move the football club from their London-based home all the way to Milton Keynes. To add to the joke, he renamed the club to MK Dons.

The Wimbledon fans thought this joke was as funny as the BBC TV series My Family, and decided to set up their own football club in non-league. This newly formed team, known as AFC Wimbledon, have done rather well lately; so much so they have found their way into Bath City’s highly prestige league – the Conference South.

The supporters are well known for their massive fanbase and are often bring in excess of 2,000 away fans – exactly 2,000 more than Team Bath brought to Twerton last week.

It should be a cracking game! In their league days, Wimbledon were famous for conceding some amazing goals. Take a look at this beauty from Leeds United’s Tony Yeboah.

Apparently David Beckham scored a good goal against them, but I don’t remember it (it can’t have been that famous) have a look on Youtube :o)

Euromillions

As there is a £70millon jackpot this week, I thought I would buy a ticket.

I know I won’t win and my money will probably go to a Frenchman, so I may as well have thrown £1.50 down the drain.

Back to blogging

It has been ages since I last blogged. I have no excuses really, so have to put it down to pure laziness and lack of motivation. This is made even worse by the fact than I am on annual leave this week and next, so should have loads of time on my hands and things to blog about.

On Monday I went to Worcester to watch Bath City play. I had been looking forward to this game for ages, but things didn’t go exactly to plan. Claire had an accident and broke her wrist. I won’t go into too much detail, but a ball was mis-kicked and hit her in the arm. The player responsible... Bath City’s all-time top goal scorer! I know that doesn’t say a lot for the quality we have at the club!

This meant we spent most of Tuesday in the RUH. I didn’t really expect to be back at the very place I work, while I was on annual leave. The good news is that Claire is feeling a lot better and is on the mend. I think she will be leaving the goalkeeping to the professionals from now on.

Leeds United stunned me on Tuesday night. After they embarrassingly failed to beat the farmers from Yeovil on Saturday, the Mighty Whites destroyed Crystal Palace on Tuesday night, winning 4-0. I stayed up until gone midnight to watch the 10 seconds of highlights on TV – when your team falls out of the Premiership, it’s a rare treat to see them on telly.

I was very pleased, but not as much as this man. Not only does he seem the jolliest Leeds fan ever, but quiet possibly the happiest man on the planet.

Rubbish

That reminds me. I have to put the rubbish out for the binmen tomorrow...

It's all kicking off #2

Due to last Saturday’s catastrophic start to Bath City’s season, followed by me being too ill to travel on Tuesday, I felt this weekend was the real start of the football season.

The season opener against Bishop’s Stortford was superb – a 2-0 win for the City :o)

It’s a pity the age old rule that whenever Bath City win, Leeds United don’t, seems to remain. My team from the north lost 2-0 at home. Shame.

Going down a Storm

Notice any downtime or strange-goings-on on my blog the last day? I’ve changed site hosts (Storm Internet). Hopefully all the files, folders, etc have migrated across to the new server; but if you do notice anything wrong, please let me know.

Staying at home isn't all bad

No football

For the first time in almost 18 months, I am missing a Bath City match – something I am gutted about.

I was intending to travel to Maidenhead this evening, but had to cancel due to picking up a virus. Typical – I’m fit and healthy all summer (when there is no football), but as soon as footy starts again, I get ill twice in a matter of weeks.

It’s not all bad. I’ll be missing Bath City, but Leeds are on Sky tonight, so I’ll have to be an armchair fan for a one off occasion.

The worst possible start

It's all kicking off

After a long crap summer, football is finally back this afternoon. Friendlies may be fun, but you can’t beat the real, competitive action.

Leeds have already played their first game of the season, beating Scunthorpe 2-1. Due to the early kick off, they lead the League One table (for a few hours at least). Hopefully it’ll be the first of many times this season that I can sing “We are top of the league, I said we are top of the league!”

As soon as I have finished writing this blog, I will be leaving the warmth of my flat for the rain outside – walking down to Twerton Park to watch Bath City in their first game of the season. Naturally, I am hoping for The Romans to follow on in the success of The Mighty Whites; although it is rare that both my teams, Bath City and Leeds United, win in the same afternoon.

Predictions for the season:
Leeds United – League One Champions
Bath City – To finish in the play offs. Whether they win them or not, I wouldn’t want to guess.
Manchester United – going down with Hull City :o)

X-Files Movie: I Want To Believe

Disappointing

Basically, a very average extended episode that could easily have been from the TV series. In fact, had they cut out all the stupid sub-plots, the main story would easily have fitted into a 45 minute slot.

I know the writers wanted to make a movie not based upon the whole mythology; but there were so many great ‘non-alien episodes’ in the series, that surely the film could have been written along those lines. Eugene Victor Tooms on the big screen would have been excellent - and very, very scary!

Anyway - what’s the point Mulder and Scully bothering? According to the TV series, we’re going to be invaded and killed by aliens in 2012.