Did you ever read Agatha Christie? I did: Dad had all the books and as I grew up I think I must’ve read most of them. Poirot always appealed more than Miss Marple, for some reason.
One of her books was called “And then there were none”, which, as best I recall, was set on an island, and ten guests meet at a house and one by one they’re all murdered, until there are only two left and both think the murderer is each other, and so on and so on. Good stuff. You can’t beat a bit of detective fiction.
Anyway, all of this is a long way of saying that Eddie Johnson’s gone out on loan.
Which leaves:
Schwarzer, Stockdale, Zuberbuhler, Niemi
Stoor, Paintsil (how shall we spell it?), Kallio, Hughes, Konchesky, Hangeland, Baird, Leijer, Volz
Andranik, Andreasen, Dempsey, Murphy, Gera, Davies, Bullard, Smertin
Seol, Nevland, an injured Kamara, Zamora, Andy Johnson, and club servant Collins John
If you subtract Niemi (seems marginalised), Volz (shopped around), Smertin (peripheral) and John (unfulfilled genius) then you don’t have too much, do you? And while we have better players, it’s not a side that’s going to frighten anyone. Crystal Palace went down with Andy Johnson, so he’s no guarantee of anything. Our goalkeeper is properly good, our defence is improving, and our midfield is nifty, but it’s quite easy to have a half empty glass isn’t it?
Which is exactly what I have. Dinner’s on, and I must deal with it.
We’ll be outside the ground with boxes of books tomorrow. Should see myself, Hade, Jamie, Chopper, Toby and Matthew round and about, so say hello. We’ll be in the Crabtree beforehand, also selling books.
COYW, etc.
