Archive for January 26th, 2009

Soapbox: magic – not

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Soapbox

Pete Sixsmith is down in the dumps. Instead of being comfortably placed in the league and awaiting an easy passage into the quarter finals (home to Coventry), we look shaky going into the next two Premier games, unlikely to overcome Blackburn in the cup and facing the loss of a defender Pete describes as “an excellent player with a good touch and a lovely feel for the ball”. But hey, we’ll keep Kenwyne, beat Fulham and the Mags, buy well before the window closes and steam forward towards the FA Cup semis. Won’t we?

Selwyn Frogget, a comedy character of the 1970s played by Bill Maynard, had a catchphrase: “Magic our Maurice.” And he stuck his two thumbs up to signify that something was good.

ITV and Setanta have used the phrase Magic to describe the FA Cup as many times as Selwyn did – and like that not much lamented sitcom, they are failing to pull in the viewers.

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