Despite the Sunday Mirror exclusively revealing that Rhodri Giggs has joined FC United (next week - Chamberlain declares 'peace in our time') it has been a quiet seven days in the print media for semi-pro football.
When the main topic of discussion on the letters page of the Non-League Paper is whether P.A. announcers read the team line-ups out too quickly, you begin to wonder if you made a mistake in starting a weekly column like this one. Even Melford Knight's appearance in the Q&A section the publication regularly carries has been discussed elsewhere on the internet so I'd just be going over old ground (which would make a change from going over old jokes which is usually the norm on here).
Locally, there's once again no mention in the Reporter of the Lilywhites having played and the area's big game of the week, Droylsden's hammering of Celtic, is squashed down the side of one page. But then again, it must be hard fitting in news and reports from six teams when you've given two thirds of the space available for football to just two clubs (Curzon and Stalybridge getting reports on first and reserve team fixtures as well as news items). Apropos of nothing they are also the two sides that have had a heavy involvement with the local council over the last two years... I'm not insinuating anything or starting a conspiracy theory, just pointing out a purely meaningless coincidence.
Thankfully everyone gets a roughly equal share of the pie in the Advertiser but there's no mention of the story that dominates the backpage of their rivals - Celtic's abandonment of the Nuneaton game due to power problems. Secretary Martyn Torr is quoted, 'When the power was switched off we experienced blue flashes arching across connectors in the floodlight pylons.' I can't imagine why everyone at the club is upset though, recreating Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory sounds like the most exciting thing that's ever happened at Bower Fold. In fact it would go some way to explaining Chris Camden...
Till next week. Possibly.
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Oooh that's "Buffalo" you're talking about there Stephen - a front man in the finest tradition of frontmen - electrodes or not - he'd "do a job" for us no doubt - we'll just have to see how "Spycatcher" does for now.
Phil Wilson and "Buffalo" - I still have all the stuff at home from the original "Six tame Sides" when Pihil Wilson was the "Messiah" at Celtic and "Buffalo" was just "Buffalo" - turn up, play up front, score goals etc etc
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