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The often dubious, politically incorrect and mainly humorous musings of Ms Jane Turley, (Ex) Housewife Extraordinaire.

Day Three of the Positive Thinking Challenge – On Football

Wow, I’m on my third post in three days.

Okay before I go any further, I just need to inform you that I had a really, really bad bout of insomnia last night. I’ve only have had 90 mins of sleep so I’m like the walking dead and I may crash out at any moment. If you hear about a woman found sleeping in Tesco’s meat aisle on the six o’clock news – that’ll be me.

Yep, so if this post is full of typos and gibberish and is even more incoherent than the norm you’ll just have to forgive me and put it down to sleep deprivation. I’m going to deliberately follow that laborious method that drunks use when there try to convince everyone they’re not drunk (talking and walking really slowly to try and prove they’re still capable) by methodically studying each word before I press “publish”. However, since this doesn’t usually work as a normal method for me – please accept that this post might be a complete balls-up anyway.

So five positive thoughts for today that keep me with a smile on my face:

1. Do you remember Rod Hull and Emu? Emu famously attacked Michael Parkinson in an interview back in the 1970s

Well my positive thought is:

I’d love to see Emu take on Suarez. Now that would be quality entertainment.

2. My second positive thought:

You know Gary Linekar, ex-England striker and now sports presenter?

Well I’d love to see him streak across Wembley stadium. But more importantly – I’d like to hear Alan Hanson commentate on it.

3. My third positive thought is mainly for the ladies (cos be fair – even you boys would like to hear Alan Hanson commentate on Gary streaking.)

Ladies –  I think it would be brilliant if there was a power-cut in the last ten minutes of play in the cup final. How fantastic would that be? That sort of thought really makes my day.

4. Fourth positive thought:

Wouldn’t it be fun if football managers were wired into their players’ boots so that every time the ball got kicked they had to dance like Michael Jackson or Wayne Sleep? It would be even better if viewers got to chose the moves – maybe moonwalking for a goal, crutch-grabbing for a penalty and a pirouette for a rebound off the posts. You know – I don’t think these sports bodies have thought hard enough about the entertainment factor for us consumers. They could do so much better.

5.  My fifth and final positive thought for the day:

It really cheers me up to think that one day “football” might be renamed “toeball”.

Hey – they changed Marathon bars to Snickers so nothing’s impossible.

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