How deep our owners will dig now the question
They’re trying to break our hearts anew with a sliver of hope it won’t be 18-19 in a few weeks’ time, but our guard is up. As king of the paranoiacs I love a conspiracy theory. Ever since 1989 and Michael Thomas it has been my contention that the powers that be tamper with the fixture list for maximum drama and, maximum profit.
The United-Chelsea game seems to come later every year. Why don’t they just hold it at Wembley in June and have done with it? I’ll stop short of saying the games themselves are rigged, but United’s goals drying up, a Chelsea anchored by Torres still steaming through, their ludicrous goals against Spurs and Arsenal finding a spine from somewhere? Hmmmm. Not that it’s any of our business obviously, though our top statisticians are conducting their own experiments. The slyest amongst us erase Kenny’s first few games and multiply upwards to a 38-game haul.
