Wednesday, 28 May 2025

It's all over

The football season has finished. Ingloriously.

Ipswich Town got relegated, the team which finished 17th in the Premier League won a trophy, Arsenal finished 2nd in the league, got to the semi finals of the Champions League and won nothing, there is no more football until the 8th of August. Awful.

Except. It's not all awful.

Arsenal Women won their Champions League final against hot favourites Barcelona:


Whitstable Town, home town of my younger son, won the FA Vase:


Charlton Athletic, home town of my co-grandparent Trevor, who doesn't like football but panders to my interests by pretending to support them, won the League One playoff final (no trophy) and got promoted to the Championship, where they (on the way up) will meet the afore-mentioned Ipswich Town (on the way down) and Trevor will no doubt refuse to take me to their match at The Valley.

Then there's the Women's European Championships, where England (the holders) are one of the favourites. In Switzerland from 2nd July. No-one has yet volunteered to take me.

So summer perhaps won't be universally awful. The sun has just come out.
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  1. Anonymous29 May 2025 at 09:51

    I nearly didn’t read this as I knew it would be about football. But - I conquered my aversion and read it to Trevor. Who chortled happily. He declined to comment because ‘you know I can’t type on those things’ (a phone) and ‘can I do it on my laptop?’ But he can’t because he hasn’t got a Google account and ‘I don’t know how to use those things’. So there you have it. Mind you, I think if those two teams do get together in Charlton he just might be persuadable and I shall stay indoors with a good book and cook dinner as a good wife should.

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