Flipside

Ever had that feeling, on finding a really really good book - the kind you can't put down, the kind you get lost in? When you're maybe ten pages from the end...that feeling. Know what I mean? You're caught on the very edge of needing to read the next word, the next page, but wanting to linger over each word, each page in order to make it last, because you see the end approaching. Today is a day like that, in English football. Today is the very last day in the fixtures, so while I'm anxious as always to know the scores etc., I am equally wanting to stretch it out, make it last a little bit longer. With no Euro and no World Cup this summer, I'm facing a long long draught of a football-free summer. Thank goodness for gardening!
Every team is playing today at the same time. What an exciting weekend to be in England! It's a nightmare though, in terms of remote control management. I'm juggling three channels as well as following other games online; it's like Wonderland for people with ADD. Hoorah!
TBTE is quite safe, having already been given the trophy last weekend. For nearly everyone else though, today really matters. Not just how they play, but they will feel the effect of how everyone else plays as well. Down at the bottom of the table, five teams are clawing at the cliff of relegation. I'm rooting for Newcastle today. They've been struggling for a few years, going through managers like Paris Hilton goes through BFF's -- but they are traditinally a good, solid team, and you expect them to be part of the Premiership landscape. Now they find themselves in danger of being sent down to the next level. It's shocking, really, and I'm really really hoping they do well today, and Sunderland does poorly (against Chelsea...gulp)
Goals are starting to roll in...must sign off now and give full attention to what's going on over the pond.
Cheerio!