You learn something every day

New kit out. In a bid to prove that our £40 is being well spent (kits have been £40 for a long time haven’t they? Does that mean they’re inflation busters, and very good value?), we learn the following:

Made from Nike Sphere Dry fabric it keeps you dry by drawing sweat away from the skin. The Dri-Fit mesh side panels allow for optimum ventilation and also helps moves moisture away from the body. A new heat pressed Lextra crest badge finalises the most technically advanced replica jersey available from Nike.

What is Lextra, I hear you ask, and why are they telling us this?

So now we know. Lextra have “the dimension of life” (as opposed to…?), are “beyond flat” (convex?), “invite touch” (opponents feeling our players’ badges in admiration?) and add drama (oh no).

Thumb twiddling

Well, what is there to say? Most of the players are back in training, Harry Kewell’s signed for someone else, we’ve a new Chief Executive*, and we don’t appear to have sold any of last year’s massive squad.

Rumours are scarce, with the national press seemingly scouring message boards and their own back issues for ideas. Dave Kitson? Bobby Zamora? Not under Roy, surely? No, they, and we, know nothing. The Swedish right-back seems plausible, mainly because Rosenberg said we’d made an offer, but what else do we have?

Ho hum. They say that things only get going once everyone’s back at the club, so I suppose we shouldn’t expect much. But the season seems so close…

This is the first time in ages that we’ve really had nothing to talk about.

*about whom we know little, really, just as we knew little, really about David McNally, despite all the negativity towards him from some fans.