Winning start doesn’t Glaze over home truths

BEFORE I begin, may I just thank those who have occasionally sent in amusing and/or borderline-indecent proposals prompted by my photo byline? I should explain that it was taken 20 years ago and is there purely for page-symmetry’s sake; the 40-year-old grump now addressing you looks nothing like that.
Winning start doesn’t Glaze over home truths

How could I, when there’s a monthly gossip column for a demanding fanzine audience to fill?

Ah yes, that reminds me: David Gill, and his boast last week about “none of the Glazer scare stories coming true”. Since the scare stories consisted of predicting a) a hefty rise in ticket prices, b) no increase in the transfer budget and c) the ground being at risk, I think we can point out that a) and b) have indeed come true, with c) waiting in the wings, I confidently predict.

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