Bad Karma Car

[Sultan of Cannock- SRFC]

Recently i had a minor contretemps with my car (no, nothing to do with cyclists and i haven't been in Tooting since 1984, honest, guv) ;)which has involved my car being taken away for a few days for bumper/fender repairs and its temporary replacement with a "courtesy car."

The one they were supposed to lend me was pranged on it's return by the previous client, so i ended up with a "replacement" replacement, a horrid plasticky heap-of-parrot-droppings Skoda Fabia.

Apart from an impossible (un)lockable petrol cap that sent me close to full-on Basil Fawlty mode and a stereo that sounds like the guy sitting next to you has his walkman on too loud the arrival of this...this.. THING to the Sultan's driveway has heralded probably the worst run of footy results in such a short space of time i can remember.

The lights have been going out all over Europe as Sultan teams have crashed to a series of heavy defeats, Man City 6-0 at Chelsea, Stafford Rangers 5-1 last night ( the broken leg suffered by top scorer Marco Adaggio, who has been a revelation this season on sat puts the tin-hat on it) being notable examples. A desparate search of European leagues gleaned me one solitary win by Atletico Madrid.

To add insult to injury most of my 'hate' teams (ragscum, hednescum, celtscum, inverness C**T, registered thumping wins.
For pete's sake, even sodding Longford Town (Eire) managed to win on sunday!

Luckily football doesn't affect my life to the extent that i'm comtemplating throwing a rope over the nearest tree branch yet, and to be fair the Skoda has not (yet) proved as evil as the Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car (which had several owners, all of whom came to sticky/ untimely ends), but i'm looking forward to City's Carling Cup match at (hated) Bolton tonight with trepidation and the sooner this thing goes away and terrorizes a Man Ure fan the better!

[coops]

sultan said:

To add insult to injury most of my 'hate' teams (ragscum, hednescum, celtscum, inverness C**T, registered thumping wins.
For pete's sake, even sodding Longford Town (Eire) managed to win on sunday!

Aha! We may have some common ground here my Stuffed4-0 Rangers supporting friend.
I wonder if your hatred of the franchise club who play on a rubbish dump is for the same reasons as my own?

[Sultan of Cannock- SRFC]

Possibly, my Tiny-Tammy Tinpot Team mate! (more tongue-tripping aliteration with a pleasingly patronising sound )

Why what were your reasons for disliking I-C**T, the only Scottish team i hold in lower esteem that celtscum?

Franchise club which, like my buddies from up the road here, plays on a rubbish dump is a good start. I've had some affinity with various Highland League teams, notably Ross County, Elgin City and the splendidly named Inverness Clachnacuddin.

I didn't like this idea of a manaufactured club like this I-C**T setting a precedent. It paved the way for the scandalous larceny a few years later when Airdrie United, having failed to gain entry to the Scottish League when Elgin and Gretna joined, were actually able to "hijack" Clydebank's place a division higher than the 'legitimate' newcomers. B'stards!

As a committed "Staggie" my opposition to I-C**T will remain implaccable.

[coops]

Yep, mostly the same reasons as me then.
When I was working up near Inverness in the early 80's I was a regular at both Clachnacuddin and Thistle, I was staying in a guest house that backed onto Kingsmills Park, therefore developing a healthy hatred of Caley, I was most displeased when the merger all but destroyed Thistle, it was only an afterthought to add 'Thistle' to the name of the club.

Incidentally, on a trip up to Wick Academy last year I thought I recognised their tin stand, and an official confirmed that it is indeed the old stand from Kingsmills, Wick also have the floodlights!

[ambersalamander]

Back to the original topic, Coops, do you think Sultan's car could be the Anti-Socks?

[coops]

Could be, time will tell.

[Col ISIHAC.]

Ooh! The socks.

There's really only one way to determine this.

Said socks should become acquainted with the accelerator and brake pedal of said Skoda.

We will then determine just which has the greater power footy-wise.

Bring it on!