Dear God, you wouldn't have wanted to be in the trenches with Captain Upson would you? Here we are, a matter of weeks away from the great kick off to a new season, after the most disastrous season in the club's Prem history in terms of wins and points, and the best Upson can come up with is, "The manager has bought some good players and HOPEFULLY we'll improve on last season"! Hopefully Matty? Hopefully? Well let's bloody hope so because otherwise we are nailed on to go down. Blackpool apart, the teams coming up are better than the teams that went down!
It's July, 1916 and we're in the trenches on the Somme. Men are standing beneath the ladders awaiting the order to go over the top. Captain Upson is about to blow the whistle but decides to give a little pep talk first. He clears his throat and begins:
"OK chaps, listen up. Yesterday, good men just the same as yourselves went over the top. They were cut to ribbons. Nobody came back alive. If you listen, you can still hear the screams of the injured out there in no man's land. The Boche know we are coming. Their machine guns are armed and primed. Now, on the sound of the whistle we go and HOPEFULLY we will do better than yesterday!"
For God sake appoint a new captain quick! Appoint Captain Parker! Er....maybe not!
3 comments:
Hahahaha ...Upson probably was behind the disaster in Gallipoli ..
Seriously though, I don't think we can give Upson the armband..Parker probably deserves it more, because he's a bigger morale boost because of last year's "heroics"...we could give it to Carlton Cole ...imagine giving it to Faubert...
Wow, this is frustrating...can't figure out a player we could give the armband too...
I'd give it to Derr Hammer or Noble.
I read the 'piece' on the 'OS' too. The guy was being upbeat and optimistic without getting carried away by a few good results against a spectrum of opposition in pre-season friendlies. We still don't know who may, or may not come in and who may, or may not leave at this point. If indeed anyone! It's all speculation after all.
I'm not defending Upson here by any means! The guy's not the best of players, but then he's not the worst either! I Agree that he's not the best Captain out there, but then who is? Does Parker really have those qualities, if indeed he stays? Who do you guys think should be captain? and Why?
I'm still not sure about G&S but so far, apart from the 'classless' verbal gaffs, they've not done too bad (if you just stick to the facts and forget the tabloid bullshit).
My choice would be Hitzlsperger
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