The cash-harvesting pre-season tours of Asia are over, all the Welsh, Irish and Northern Irish clubs are out of Europe and The Sun’s back page has stopped covering minor sporting events like the Ashes and Tour de France. Yes the new football season is upon us, but it’s not quite business as usual for everyone.
For Manchester United fans, going into a new Premier League season without Alex Ferguson is like waking up as an old man and calling out your wife’s name only to remember she died a few weeks ago, possibly from being too Scottish.
Unlike most widowers though, instead of replacing Ferguson with a sexy young foreign hotty, who dumps you a couple of years later after blowing all your money on expensive crap and leaving you in debt, United have gone like-for-like – hitching up with another dowdy Scotch battle-axe who’s in it for the long haul.
One man who’s happy with his new bride is Robin van Persie. Asked if rival clubs would sense weakness in the wake of Ferguson’s retirement, Van Persie said: “He (Moyes) works very well. It’s only based on a few sessions but I loved them. Last year we won the league and that was great but this time we want to win the league and more.”
Still, watching United this year is going to be like watching one of those later Taggart episodes after the Sir Alex-faced lead actor topped himself.
And while United have taken the e-harmony route to finding love again (typing in their preferred matches to come up with a clone of their last great love), Chelsea have gone back to the ex they loved all along, with Jose Mourinho breezing back into Stamford Bridge as though he never swaggered away.
“‘I am where I want to be so now it’s up to me to work hard to show my club that I deserve to be here for a long time,” he said. “We have a contract of four years, in the first stage I hope we can look to the last day of his contract and if in the end the club is happy and wants me to stay I will be more than happy to do that.”
We give it two years tops.
Tanks For The Memories Migliaccio
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