The stark truth: the Oakland Raiders cannot compete in the NFL. What's the point of any sort of football if your favourite team can't compete? You can't get relegated in the NFL, which is a shame because that's exactly what should happen to the Raiders for being so chronically poor over the last few seasons.
It's predictable, hilarious...and it hurts like hell. It diminishes my enjoyment of the season. The only upside I can think of is that when you look at some of the poor teams that within a half decade turned themselves around (the Cowboys, Bills and...through gritted teeth...the Bucs) and did really well then the law of averages indicates that at some point the Raiders will return to prominence. Until then, I won't be holding my breath.
It would be nice if all the teams I support did well, but you can't have everything. And the one that's always frustrated just as much as the Raiders do on is doing very nicely thank you even though this is the wrong Scott Murray.
Nottingham Forest lost 1-3 at home to Latent Orient, Scunny Rovers lost by the same score to Blackpoo and now Bristol City are second in Division 3, four points behind Forest and a point ahead of Scunthorpe - after having beaten Millwall by a goal after sixteen seconds by The Incredible Levitating Murray.
If you think I'm going to have a pop at Millwall FC here, then you've come to the wrong place. They looked a poor team on Saturday but we should have done better than 1-0. Still, the old truism applies: we played badly and won. Next time we meet them it's the last away game of the season, unless we get them in the Cup.
Madame Zaza predicts: it could be an important game for both teams, but we'll have no talk of...well...you know what. The 'P' word.
Of course Millwall have still got some undesirable elements attached to them, but so do we and so does every other club up and down the country, including our old rivals The Gas and Swindle, who covered themselves in glory on Saturday with an exchange of furniture and some alleged racial abuse of the Sikh referee. I can't believe I even wasted that many words on either of them.
Division 1 got much tighter yesterday as Chelsea pulled one out of the bag against Everton and WHam beat Manyoo. Just to prove I'm not biased, here's a gratuitous picture of Bobby Moore who was one of my very first sporting heroes when I was a little kid all those years ago.
Proper.
If you think I'm going to have a pop at Millwall FC here, then you've come to the wrong place. They looked a poor team on Saturday but we should have done better than 1-0. Still, the old truism applies: we played badly and won. Next time we meet them it's the last away game of the season, unless we get them in the Cup.
Madame Zaza predicts: it could be an important game for both teams, but we'll have no talk of...well...you know what. The 'P' word.
Of course Millwall have still got some undesirable elements attached to them, but so do we and so does every other club up and down the country, including our old rivals The Gas and Swindle, who covered themselves in glory on Saturday with an exchange of furniture and some alleged racial abuse of the Sikh referee. I can't believe I even wasted that many words on either of them.
Division 1 got much tighter yesterday as Chelsea pulled one out of the bag against Everton and WHam beat Manyoo. Just to prove I'm not biased, here's a gratuitous picture of Bobby Moore who was one of my very first sporting heroes when I was a little kid all those years ago.
Proper.
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