It’s The Time… Of The Season
Right, friends, here’s how it works. The premiership football season ends tomorrow.
If Everton finish (no, come back - there’s a prize!) - if Everton (English football team that means the world to me) finish in the top seven of the premiership table then we get to play in the Eufa Cup, which is a pan-European tournament in which BIG teams play. I mean Barcelona, AC Milan, Manchester United, Real Madrid (that’s as in Royal, not real as in Real Ghostbusters or the Real IRA).
But it’s no help that we’re playing second-in-the-league Chelsea this weekend. They’ve played us up in Liverpool at Goodison Park and now we have to play them there tomorrow.
It’s all looking a bit Elvis Costello.
Come on, I use that joke once a season. There’s six months free Bronze Club membership to anyone who can explain that in the comments below.
Existing This Is This Bronze Club members will be upgraded to Silver, which includes use of the pool, arcade and petting zoo during off-peak hours. Silver Club members with six or more These Are Points will be allowed to apply for Silver “Extra!” membership, pending status. This does not affect anything and has no cash value. There is no redemption.
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May 11th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Don’t you need to lose, and Reading to win, with an 11 goal swing in Readings favour in order for you to miss out?
Personally, I just hope Spurs stay in the top seven, then Villa will the get the UK place in the UEFA fair play draw for one of two places in next years UEFA Cup. Which as everyone knows, is the bestest way ever to get into Europe.
May 11th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Something like that. I’m an Evertonian. I never count my blessings.
I sit next to a Spurs fan, too, so yeah - what you said.
May 11th, 2007 at 11:42 am
“I Don’t Want To Go To Chelsea!
yawn
We All Love It Up The ….
(sorry)
x
May 11th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Peach! Bronze membership for you.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Hang on. My records say you were bronze. That puts you in the Silver Club. Wow - no one has been promoted so quickly. You’ll be Eagle Platinum by this time next year.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Up the what?
May 11th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
er, I’m a GOONER (ONLY BY DEFAULT, i.e. I happened a few years ago to live in Highbury and it was a case of if you can’t beat them (and I mean the fans in the pubs, not the team you understand, oh no, they were unbeatable and “did the double” one of the years I was there (get me and my footballing boy speak) (and no, don’t reply saying “must have been bloody years ago ha ha)) join them, so we did. I had a little Guinness t-shirt saying “Gunners Half Pint” … and tony adams bought me a drink once too… get me eh? (yawn I’m really not into footie much anymore I’m sorry to disappoint you…)
thanks for the promotion - I am chuffed XXX
May 11th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
bizarrely enough that Costello song was just on in my office
and ps - a bloke here says he thought Everton were fairly safe????
May 11th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Course it was. Ed?
Also - We are fairly safe, but I don’t believe anything when it comes to Everton. Wishful thinking doesn’t pay for Evertonians, however sweet the odds.
May 11th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
ha, who’s Ed? No, it really really was. And so was Frankenstein by Edgar Winter Group - I am a geek…
May 11th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
No, I don’t doubt it came on for a second. I just get a lot of coincidences, that’s all.
May 11th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
More exact change, Cliff.
See, Peach, it’s like this: If you were to drop Cliff off a cliff, he’d not only land on his feet but he’d be uninjured and probably whistling , having enjoyed the ride that the large eagle gave him on his back , having landed on said eagle as he swooped down for a look at the ground, and having been in just the right place at teh exact rihgt time to save Cliff from a horrible fate.
THis sort of thing has happened to Cliff many many times over the course of his life. It manifests itself in tiny weays, too- we call it ‘The Exact Change Effect’ because once when CLiff was at a convenience store trying to buy something ( no doubt the parking space right in front of the door was vacated just the second before ), he reached into his pocket and came up just the exact change he needed.
IT;s aCoincidence EFfect, really. Hsi dad;’s got it too. THey meet people they haven’t seen for 30 years - on the other side of the world, or on a boat in teh middle of nowhere. They think of a song and it begins to play within earshot. IT’s magic. It’s Exact Change.
May 11th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
I, on teh other hand, am afflicted with ‘Typo Fever’.
May 12th, 2007 at 9:02 am
I know it sounds crazy, but Ed’s right. Here’s the exact change post and here are some more coincidences. Or search for “coincidence” in the box in the nav bar on the right and knock yourself out. Maybe everyone gets them, but I don’t let them pass me by.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:25 am
ok, that really is weird, because that song did come on and I work in music so fooking shed loads of stuff gets played all the time every day, but it’s usually new unheard of stuff, but weirder than that yesterday was the fact that I couldn’t use my bank card as I hadn’t got the PIN through yet so had to use cash, and I thought I had about £9-£11 in my pocket and everytime I delved in there (for lunch, cigs etc) I came up with the exact change for everything… and spent way over £20…
Obviously you rubbed off on me over the ether, so to speak..
… off to read your linked posts on it…
May 12th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Uh huh - and having exact change happened on the day when Ed said “exact change” (Coincidence 1), which is a standard reply of his for the concidences (Coincidence 2), the latest of which was brought up by you - not me - after I mentioned a song in this post which came on in your office (Coincidence 3), which all happened the week you started commenting on this website which has a penchant for such things (Coincidence 4).
Hello.
May 13th, 2007 at 3:44 am
heh heh, I love it ! And tonight I worked at my local, and was noticing the change people gave me, trying to find another, but a guy who DID come up with the right, the exact change, which I tried to ignore thinking I was making it happen cause I was looking for it, actually said ” look at that , I accidentally came up with exactly the right amount of cash”… it was £7.80.. I said “Cliff?”
May 13th, 2007 at 3:47 am
I have a headache.