Here come da weekend.And my thoughts remain where they have been all week.With Birmingham City f.c. The various websites such as, have been full of angst,backbiting,bitterness and bile.We are going through a rocky patch.Some hate the manager and some are learning to hate him.All very sad as he was a boyhood hero of many of us.Possibly our best ever player.And it's going to end in tears.Ours probably.Defeat away at Barnsley tomorrow and it will get very interesting.Our anthem is "keep right on to the end of the road",made famous by Harry Lauder and Margaret Thatcher,never has an anthem been more apt.Things must be bad;even the Guardian has published an article about us
Still the news is not all bad.This article in the onion cracked me up .Some accuse me of being a cultural snob,a charge I emphatically deny.Mind you ,you have to admit the guy has a point.Its raining and appears to be blowing a gale in New Jersey,I know because I go here:.Not necessarily good news I know but I like the rain.Then we have a heroic dog ,a href="http://www.dogsinthenews.com/issues/0110/articles/011004a.htm"