West Ham musings by Pete May, author of Massive, Goodbye to Boleyn, Hammers in the Heart and Irons in the Soul.
Saturday, March 31
Showdown Saturday
Our marketing department is working overtime on alliteration with its "Showdown Saturday" description of today's match against Reading. Only it's a bit like that episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? where they see the headline "England F…" and spend all day working out possible headlines such as England fiasco, England fail, England five, etc. I keep thinking of alternative billings such as Shambolic Saturday, Shameful Saturday, Slowdown Saturday and Shoddy Saturday although in my more optimistic moments it's Super Saturday, Successful Saturday and Soaraway Saturday. And as for the word Showdown, I keep thinking of Big Sam in a Stetson drawing a gun at the OK Ken's Cafe…
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