Please read our Please read ourI often find myself washing dishes in the kitchen alone, well apart from the Whippet, my trusty companion who never lets me down. What also keeps me ‘company’ in those moments of solitude is BBC Radio 5 Live on the radio.That said, I do remember being extremely hacked off about the breakfast presenter, Rick Edwards, the morning after Kieran Trippier had slipped, allowing Chelsea’s Mykhailo Mudryk to equalise in last season’s League Cup quarter-final.
Whatever we might think about Trippier’s ability to hold down a first-team place right now, our captain at the time deserved better. I thought the BBC was meant to be impartial after all and I was so incensed, I wrote about it in The Mag (read Recently, I was doing the dishes and listening in on the radio, when something completely took the biscuit, to the point where I really couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
When they were talking about recycling on BBC Radio 5 Live, they didn’t mean putting an empty bottle of Jack Daniels in the dark blue bin. What they actually meant, was that the team in possession had turned away from its opponent and had passed the ball across the field, with the intention of creating an attack in a different part of the pitch.This is defined as ‘a defensive strategy where a team moves back and forms a compact shape near their goal’.