h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oh yes.

So, to add to my small contributions to collaborative entries on Everton FC and MArc Vivien Foe, and my solo entries on the traveling Wilburys, meat Loaf and the Duckworth/Lewis Method, i bring you:



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Central Park, Cowdenbeath

My favourite football ground- a place I have been known to pay over thirty quid in train fare to get to.

Now there's dedication. Or to look at it another way, you're the kind of bloke I worry about turning into if I don't keep myself in hand

Blimey your train fares are cheap up North

Well, there's mno need to be like that.

Although, on a family holiday in perthshire this christmas, me and my dad did take the 27th of December away from my mum and sister in order to get the train to Cowden and watch the boys beat Peterhead. Despite getting on the wrong train in Inverkeithing, ending up in Kirkcaldy, having to get a taxi driven by an East Fife fan, and getting through the gates at 2.59pm...

GD- Railcard discount of 33%

Nice

I've been widely ridiculed for adopting two extra teams in a mere three-and-a-half months in Leeds: Bradford (Park Avenue) and Scarborough. I've got a bit of a soft spot for Guiseley, too.

Well that's still cheap.

And why the hell should you get a discount, you take up more room than most :

My teams, from most to least support I have for them:

1. Everton (family thing...)
2. Cowdenbeath ("Read how crap they were in the Daily telegraph" thing)
3. Sunderland (university thing)
4. Morecambe ("it's near my parent's second house in Lancaster that I occassionally stay at" thing)
5. Zimbru Chisinau (Tony hawks thing)
6. Worcester City (Home town thing- I was born there)
7. Warrignton Town (home town thing- I've lived there since the age of 3)
8. Lancaster city (see Morecambe)
9. Doncaster rovers (Adriano Rigoglioso thing)
10. Scunthorpe (Peter beagrie thing)

and fromt here it goes to football teams from places I've been to, but not been to the football grounds:

11. Paris SG
12. new England Revolution
13. Sparta Prague
14. club Brugge
15. Salzburg
16. Viking Stavanger
17. Ajax Amsterdam

And that's about it...

Desky- look at it this way- I get a discount because I am less comfortable than most- I tewll you, if all the southern gits have nabbed the tables by the time the train gets to Newcastle, squeezing into those seats with the little fold-down tables isn't easy.

Well, I'd be chuffed that you put the Iron in at No. 10 if you hadn't put Doncaster f**ing Rovers in at 9. Git.

If I ever compile my Top Ten remind me to insert Everton at number 10, just below Liverpool.

B

hey, look, Scunthorpe were ninth right until Doncaster bought my third favourite ball-greedy crap lower-league footballer, Adriano "Shelly" Rigoglioso from Moerecambe.(the two ahead of him- Graeme "broony" Brown Craig Winter of Cowdenbeath)

If Scunthorpe bought a crap footballer with a funny name (I believe Number Six has a list of them), would you promote them back to 9th.

And does Cleveland Taylor, on loan from Bolton, count?

B

No, he has to be a crap player witha silly name, that i like.

Acceptable:
Ryan-Zico Black
Barrington Belgrave

Barrington Belgrave always sounds like a Windies cricketer to me.

B

Exactly! Which is why if he signed for Scunthorpe, his presence in the same team as Beagrie would move Scunthorpe up the table

(it's just struck me how sad ranking my top 17 favouirite football clubs in order of preference is...)

By the way, have you read http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/scunthorpe_utd/3451397.stm

B

Isn't he about 74?

Just over half that. I think Scunthorpe are trying to hold the record for the most number of players over 40 in the modern era.

We had Tony Ford until he was 41 (mind you, he played for Rochdale after that), and our coach Paul Wilson was officially the oldest player to make his league debut (at the age of 44) during an injury crisis a few seasons back.

B

It's like me on champ manager.

Anyway, I must be off- I want to get some food on my way home to watch six feet under.

You really ought to get an internet conncection at home, you know. It's so much more comfortable.

B