ipswich town and halloween 31 October 2009
My role as Lucky Charm for the home football team continued today when I went to a game at the legendary Portman Road and, if i do say so myself, gave Roy Keane (ex Irish International and now manager of Ipswich Town FC) his first win in charge. It was Himself’s idea – as much vaguely random as it was an experiment to see if I could carry my Superpowers with me. We did the corporate end of things which was lovely and the stadium is a very buzzy one so that was all a total success too. Also there is a big connection with the late Sir Bobby Robson who was one of the Greats and a great gentleman of football and it can still bring a tear to my eye that he has left us. All of my Villa mates feel that it is incumbent upon me to go to every Aston Villa home game for the rest of the season as I was lucky for us last time out (and we have been drawing league games since, which is not good enough to leave us in ANY sort of contention. Mind you the recent Cup match was a winning thriller) and I have also brought wins for Manchester City and Ipswich when I have attended in person (as I usually do if I go to a game..erm…yeah). It could be a busy old Rest-of-Season for P Mc…
I am delighted to have missed most of Halloween. I hate fireworks, don’t much like dressing up in costumes unless it’s for work, and town (London, this weekend) is packed and uncomfortable. Am sitting in my Soho hovel looking out on the street and glad to be incarcerated. Must go to bed now as I’ll be awake at 4.30 am on the dot and have decided to give into this persistent nuisance on the morrow, get up and write. Yup, if you can’t beat ‘em and all that…oh, perhaps I’ll write in a Halloween ‘scene’ in the buke then – not the WORST idea I have come up with in the last while…
