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Friday 9th November 2007

The long drive home last night took its toll on me today. I was too tired to come up with anything useful. I still have a couple of days to pull this together, but I was hoping to get the weekend off. Dream on, last minute boy. You am a twart.
I had one idea that was of no use for TWTTIN or for anything at all really. But I was thinking about the Jehovah's Witnesses and how they annoy me thinking they have the right to come to my house and tell me what I should be believing. I wondered what it would be like if I set up a similar organisation, which went door to door, earnestly telling people why, like me, they should support York City Football Club. It's no more ridiculous than telling people that they should believe the same thing about religion as you. In fact it's less ridiculous because York City definitely exist - for the moment anyway, if their season continues as badly as it started then they might disappear entirely pretty soon.
I think if I did this that many people might be annoyed to have their day interrupted, others might be angry because they believe that a different football team is best, yet others might not even be interested in football, having decided it was all clearly mental and rubbish. But I would still try and convince them that not only was football not a waste of everyone's time, but also that they should definitely support York City, using various York City fanzines, written by York City fans, to prove that York City are the greatest. And if anyone brought out a Chelsea fanzine or tried to use scientific facts based on statistics to prove that Chelsea were definitely better than York City I would denounce them as herectics. Only York City fanzines tell the truth and everything else is the work of the devil. In fact several York City fanzines are critical of the non-league team, currently 19th out of 24 in the Blue Square Premier League (they are in the Premier League though at least, proving they are the best), but I will ignore these fanzines too and hide them in pots in caves so noone will find them.
I think if I actually did this then I would be seen as mentally ill and probably arrested for needlessly annoying people and wasting their time. Yet because the Jehovah's Witnesses believe in God that apparently makes their intrusion OK. Even though they believe that they shouldn't have blood transfusions, even if this means a mother dies in childbirth leaving her newborn infant minus one parent. That's what God wants.
But yeah, it's the York City bloke who is insane.
Admittedly he is insane, even if he doesn't go from door to door bigging up a clearly rubbish team, just for supporting them.
But I don't care. York City are Magic!

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