Meeting with Roberto

Very kind of you to say so. I love the writing. As bizarre as it may sound given the amount of posting I do on this forum, the ‘spare time’ is the issue.

However, as is patently obvious from some of the activity on here, any old fool can post the odd one-liner or paragraph or two. Proper writing takes a bit more time and effort, as I’m sure you will clearly appreciate, given your past.

I think most were trying to work out what “galvanise” meant.

Very clever ploy by the club to put a sombrero in front of Roberto’ place so that the JCLs among us knew which one was him.

Well written, i’ll have to make the wife read it, she’s of the dark side pursuation. All last season we had fights over Roberto, her view was (at the start o fthe season) that we needed rid. In fact we had more rows about RM this year than all other subjects put to together.
We also did very few away games becuase she didn’t want to waste money and time on them. At the end of the Stoke game (watching from home) she said, all happy, “we should do more away games next season!”
I wonder whether she’ll remember that statement.

On the comment re the West Ham game, the folllowing day I had a salesman in, he was from Warrington and a man u fan but he had had £10 tickets for the game (part of a community effort with school boy teams) so he a 40 dads and 60 lads went. He couldn’t stop talking about the game and said if we stayed up he was goingto get a season ticket for him and his lad. Maybe it was talk, but it can only be positive stuff.

Translation. ” I have aspirations to be a professional writer and you and I are in the know as part of the inner circle of Cockneylatic who have occasional access to officialdom at the club and as a result will never bite the hand that feeds us unlike the great unwashed on here who don’t know any better. Now please bend over”.

Seriously the article was an enjoyable read but I didn’t even see any constructive criticism about what has been mainly a dark depressing and frustrating season. There was no ” do you not think with the squad we had we could’ve done better? ” “How do you think we can increase attendances?” “Some of our signings have been a disaster”.

The season did end on a very happy note, but as a very occasional poster and according to our serious writers having only a limited vocabulary the word ‘sycophants’ did spring to mind.

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Very kind of you to say so. I love the writing. As bizarre as it may sound given the amount of posting I do on this forum, the ‘spare time’ is the issue.

However, as is patently obvious from some of the activity on here, any old fool can post the odd one-liner or paragraph or two. Proper writing takes a bit more time and effort, as I’m sure you will clearly appreciate, given your past.[/quote]

Thanks for the retort. I did skim the article and did not digest it as much as I should’ve. It was well written and elegant in style but came across as a review of an expensive restaurant where you’d had a free meal or was best mates with the owner rather than an interview with a football clubs officials. Roberto did a good job keeping us up and I concede his toenail knows more about the game than I do but all is not rosy at the club, and you and the other writers came across as though you were grateful to be there.

For the record I am reasonably well read and enjoy books including yours. I did not need to google the polite word I used for ‘arse lickers’, which I know is a bit harsh but which I meant more of a joke than with malice or intent to offend greatly.

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At my age mate, I even think twice before Sky Plussing a 12-part series, let alone considering a career change. I can’t speak for SwindonLatic but I can assure you the only useful access I have to club officialdom is that I used to lose the odd 5-a-side football match with Stuart Hayton, but even he avoids me now. But thanks for guessing and getting it completely wrong.

I obviously didn’t quote the whole 80 minutes verbatim, and picked out what I believed to be of most interest (mainly the questions I asked :lol: ). That said, with reference to the crowds bit didn’t you read the “Where are yer…?” section?

Nice word that, sycophants. Did you think it up all by yourself, or did you pluck out of the final section of my article? I guess you must have done the former because, by now, I’m beginning to think you haven’t read the article very carefully at all.[/quote]