"Getting Shirty" - must be part 30 by now?

 

This follicle-free photograph shows that we have come some distance from the days the club couldn't attract a main sponsor if their lives depended on it.  Personally I'd have liked this guy and Brian Martin to fight it out in the centre circle for the right to put their logo on my chest next season.  Two companies wanted the gig.  A bloody dust-up seems the fairest way to settle matters, but perhaps this is why I don't get to make these sort of decisions.

From all accounts Logistics People are putting forward a sum of money sufficient for BM Pallets to bow out for next season.  That's good for the club.  Good for Logistics People.  Good for all of us baldies.

Not so good for Brian Martin and BM Pallets.  Having been main club sponsors for the past five years Brian has been a great main sponsor - long-time club supporter and owner of a local company.  I really hope that losing the main sponsorship position doesn't mean the end of BM Pallets association with the club.  That would be a real shame.

Surely there can be a place for them on the away kit?  Or on the back of the home shirt?  Or on lots of boards around Latimer Park.  We really hope so as we've grown used to a bit of longevity of personnel on the pitch and behind the scenes.

You can take the boy out of Corby.....

 

Given the worrying uncertainty in the world presently it is wonderfully reassuring to still see Connor in the middle of any on-field Poppies melee!

Bale Strikes Again

 On the day, seven years ago, Gareth Bale signed for Real Madrid for the basic living wage of One Billion Pounds an hour, both us and Hinckley United stood on the precipice of extinction.  Obviously, we were reprieved to fight another day, but Hinckley United were no more.  Between us and Hinckley we owed the money Bale would have earned for a training session.

With terrible, yet predicitable timing, just as Gareth Bale decided to finally get his arse off the substitute bench at the Bernabeu, take a pay cut at Spurs down to £99,999,999 per hour, it's the turn of Macclesfield Town to be wound up.

As far as we're aware Bale isn't directly responsible for every small club that is finished over sums of money he will easily find down the back of his settee with a little rummaging.  But he is certainly the poster boy for much that is wrong with modern football where the sport as a whole prefers to bolster an individual's bank balance ahead of securing the integrity of grassroots football for thousands of people who have no say or power.

This yawn just earned Bale more than you and I will earn this month....