The Old Pretenders Football Club World Tour for 2008 has been confirmed.
The bit of the world in question on this auspicious occasion is Swindon.
Well? Swindon is a bit of the world. Perhaps not a bit that many people would envisage visiting but a genuine bit none the less.
One interesting aside to this years tour is that Captain Basil (my Shift Manager at work) of ‘let’s shoot a squaddie at Deepcut’ fame – well he was plastered all over The Mail On Sunday and described as a ’sadistic bully’ – is accompanying us.
I have inadvertantly developed a friendship with old Basil. Mainly ’cause, as the union rep, he possibly felt ‘keeping in with me’ was a good idea.
Oddly in some ways he’s turned out to be quite a decent chap.
Well he hasn’t shot anybody lately which must be a plus I suppose.
Past tours have resulted in the following…..
A ‘diplomatic incident’ in Blankenburg, Belgium.
Headlines in the Whitby Gazette suggesting we were a football team.
The Director of Whitby Town F.C. stating that we were ‘glorious pissheads’.
Mooning outside a Methodist Church in Rochdale in front of the police.
Gatecrashing a Hen Party in Chester.
Causing a major road accident with the aid of a pink cowboy hat and a red inflatable guitar.
Leaving an elderly couple under the misapprehension that their garden was a tourist attraction as our coach went back and forth in search of the ground we were playing on.
Inspecting the dick of one tourist – Ralgex – for evidence of sexual activity on the bar of our hotel.
Causing the divorce of an OP by secreting condoms in his luggage which were discovered by his wife.
Destroying a hotel door lock with soggy tissue paper resulting in the OP residents of said room having to climb out of the window.
The list is, frankly, endless.
Few people outside of the UK will have heard of Swindon. It was once famous for the manufacture of steam train engines.
It will shortly be infamous.
I wonder whether we’ll win any games this year?
