DAVID DAVIES' PROGRAMME NOTES
From the Peterborough matchday programme published on 20 February 2004
A
warm welcome to the Directors, fans, players and management of Peterborough
United for this Friday night, Sky Special, Division Two encounter at Loftus
Road.
I note from one particular website a cry of sadness that accompanied the
omission of my notes from the last Programme well at least two of you anyway.
Unfortunately, I was beaten by the deadline. However, I am back this week,
bigger and better than ever!
Since the last set of notes there have been a couple of interesting
developments amongst our playing staff. Stories of everyday footballing folk -
stories best told as an analogy to fairytales of old.
In a fairly dull Kingdom there were two players who were perfectly happy,
because they had firm contracts and they were preferred creditors. They had
thought that none of the wolves at the door could touch them. However, due to
a shortage of beans, the two players were dispatched to far flung kingdoms to
ply their trade for other clubs.
One of those clubs did not have two brass farthings to rub together, or even a
purse to hold them in, and rumours started about a deal after conversations
with Agents and a leading member of staff from the club, who then passed the
story on to another journalist, who in turn leaked to the local media.
The fans of the players' club were outraged at the thought of their prized
assets going to other clubs in the middle of an important run of games, and so
began a frenzy of phone calls to a local radio station by fans in a high state
of anxiety.
he leading scribe of the local press contacted both players who were
understandably thrilled at the thought of going to a big club. But the
management of the happy players were beginning to ask questions like:
"Will anybody offer us real money for these players?"
And so both players set forth to various parts of the country at a rapid rate
of knots, particularly with the transfer deadline getting closer. However, as
one reached the outskirts of the small castle he received a telephone call to
say that the other had successfully completed a deal and was therefore not
required to be sold, and asked to turn around and travel back to the dull
Kingdom.
This the player did with joy in his heart and a skip in his step. However,
while the other player was being welcomed into his new club, he had doubts in
his mind that they would indeed be able to pay the transfer fee required.
And so as the happy player returns to the dull Kingdom, with the minute hand
approaching five o'clock, it was then and only then that the truth of the
matter became known. The other deal had fallen apart due to technicalities,
and there was no time left to turn the now tired player around to send him
back from whence he'd come. And so the rather dull Kingdom was now left with
no players being sold - and no income.
If this seems a familiar tale and if any of you were thinking that it was a
story involving Clarke Carlisle, please be reassured that none of this tale
involves a QPR player. However, the reason I tell it in the way that it
occurred is that the weekend leading up to the closure of the transfer window
saw FRANTIC movement in its last weekend.
I do realise that many of you thought that Clarke was being sold to Leeds
during that weekend, and for the most part the club spent most of the weekend
in total ignorance with all the rumour and counter rumour. But in this wacky
world that we work in - anything is possible.
However, calmness has returned to our happy little club, and everybody is
focused on the job at hand - securing promotion at the end of the season. So I
wish everybody a pleasant evening as we hope for the continuance of our good
home form.
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