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Is that today I can keep these beautiful little angels safe, but in the future, in some way or another, I won’t be able to keep them safe (ranging anything from bullying, the internet, illness to climate change, threat of or actual war etc)
Its truly phenomenal how they turn your world upside down, and in those anxious feelings you have about the future, it really reflects what it really means to be a father/parent.
Anyway, not really sure why I’m really posting this on here. I think sometimes this feeling just unexpectedly creeps up on me in a really big way, as it has done this morning.
Is news outlets using sensationalist headlines and words to describe incidents/events.
I.e. the evacuation of Birmingham airport.. with one news outlet using the word “chaos” as people are being evacuated from the terminals.
Here is a definition of chaos
a state of utter confusion or disorder 1. a state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order.
However, in the videos I’ve seen, people are complying with orders to evacuate and despite the natural sense of nervousness, they are responding in a calmly and orderly fashion to leave the terminals etc.
I do think we are often short changed by modern day news reporting and no wonder modern day society lives in a heightened state of hyper vigilance. Makes me wonder where it’s all going if we don’t all eat ourselves beforehand.
And you lived in Scotland or northern England, you would be pretty cheesed off if you had to take your child all the way down to Kings Cross to board the Hogwarts Express just for them to travel all the way up north again to the Scottish Highlands where Hogwarts is.
Surely its not beyond the realms of magic to add a few more stops en route to Scotland , is it?
It does beg the question~ how the heck are the club going to find a solution to find somewhere for everyone in block A and B when the time comes to knock down the cobbold stand?
Also, the away fans will have to be put somewhere too!
I struck up a friendship with a lad from south London who was a big Crystal Palace fan. In fact, he was an original member of the ‘Holmesdale Fanatics’, and him and his band of merry Palace men are undoubtedly the original driving force behind the so called ‘ultras’ scene going on at football clubs up and down the country in more recent times.
Anyway, I digress.
I got very friendly with this lad, and we ended up living together for 2 out of the 3 years whilst at university. He was quite a quiet but cool lad, who had a penchant for very left wing politics, dubstep and the ole Bob Marley.
Whilst living together at uni together, the fortunes of our respective football teams were quite closely entwined. We both supported respectable and proud but mid table championship football teams, and we often mused together (usually over a wacky backy fag at 2pm in the afternoon) about the fortunes of our football clubs. We felt very much in synch with one another. Ultimately, we were bonded by the deprivation our clubs frequently bestowed upon us, and as clubs, we felt that they were not doing themselves justice.
Fast forward 11 years, I caught up with him again recently.
In that time, we have not been premier league.
In that time, they have been premier league for 11 years.
He hates it. He hates everything about it. Doesn’t get joy from it, hates the way the club is run and is frustrated they haven’t kicked on in the same way that Brighton have. He is giving up his season ticket up next season… yes.. giving his season ticket up based on 11 years in the prem.
I found myself scratching my head, as if I had a crystal ball back in 2013 and described to him a situation whereby palace would spend 11 years uninterrupted in the prem, he would have laughed and asked me what I had been smoking.
So the moral of the story,… and as I have been typing, I’ve actually forgotten the original moral of the story cause I have a few beers and smoked a lovely fat Cuban cigar, is that that the Huddersfield game and day could be the best it ever gets, whatever happens next season or in 5 or 11 years, so enjoy it, savour it, and up the Town xxxxx
Do you think if we got to Wembley in the play offs, they would order ticket priority based on the away points scheme, or is that likely to be scrapped as it is not technically a traditional away game as such (with season ticket holders given the first priority access?)
And tell them there is definitely a demand for a blue tractor emoji. There is a tractor emoji but it is yellow and therefore looks wrong and naff when used by channels/people on the socials.
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