Unrelated Natterings

I’ve finally paid off the last remaining forty quid to Going Places, meaning the holiday to Malta now seems all the more real. I couldn’t get excited about it until it was all paid for, as I had visions of something, somewhere, going wrong!

But as it is, all I need to pay now is the holiday insurance. I also need some sun lotion, and a book on Malta. I feel that if i go there without a guide, i’ll get lost. Now that the holiday is paid, I can put all my efforts into paying off the HDTV i got on credit too. And then after that, maybe I should stop buying things on the never never! lol

I’ve been watching Euro 2008 these past weeks, and all it has done is confirm the belief that we would’ve been utterly humiliated at this tournament. Several former players (notably Jamie Redknapp) seem convinced that Rooney and Gerrard would’ve helped lighten up the tournament, much like the Dutch and the Spanish have done, and Fabio Capello would’ve led us onto glory.

Slight problem with that logic Jamie, because had we got to the Euro’s, we’d have still had Mr McLaren in charge. Plus, why is it always such a belief that this ‘golden generation’ of international players are so good? We’ve been consistently average for a long while, convincing ourselves at every major tournament that we can win this as we’re ‘far better than any of the other teams’. 

That’s something I won’t miss either, stupid soundbites from players who tell us they can win us the trophy. As we’ve known for a long time, while we fill the Premier League full of foreign imports, we’ll never win us a trophy. Simple as.

I’ve also had time to listen to the new Coldplay album. All the old Coldplay habits remain, big string laden choruses, really bad lyrics (example – “You thought you might’ve been a ghost, you didn’t get to heaven but you made it close”) and some pretentious meaning behind the album title/cover. There are some good songs on there, but quite a few rubbish ones too. Still, it’s worth buying. The latest single, Viva La Vida, is probably the best song on there.