Cobwebs and Dust

Photo Credit: Daniel Marbaix.

I hear snores, loud guttural sounds rent the air, palpable enough to block a brother's ears. A riotous noise of nothingness.
Snores from the throats of brothers who excitedly rose to open a "tear-rubber"(brand new) blog and fell right back into sleep.
I know, I know, there is a good reason for this. Let the excuses pour. I have a couple myself, when everyone is done.
Well, I have been woken by our snores. Yesterday I slept; today and tomorrow no more!

For want of something to say I will consider a matter that can have me clicking at these keyboards for bit: Football.

The EPL to be precise has been a drama of suspense and unexpected events. Who would have thought that at this time of the season we would have Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspurs slugging it out with an elite portion of party for the title?

I am purposely leaving out recent happenings that had me picking my jaws from off the carpet like: Manchester United getting pummeled in the champions' league by European tenderfoots with a name that sounds like a password. Shout out to FC Midtylland. The football on display that day was abysmal at best. Yes, I said at best. The only highlight to look back on from that game was the kurukere and shoki moves from Nigeria's Paul Onuachu and Rilwan Hassan in the Midtylland dressing room after that game. See clips here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_19qxDftIE&feature=youtu.be


I will also skip the Man United revelation that is the 18 years old Marcus Rashford. 4 goals in 2 matches is not mere play. I will leave out Van Gaal forgetting he was not beside his bed in the game against Arsenal. I will numb out Yaya Toure acting like he still misses his birthday cake from last year after winning the Capital One Cup. Lets forget Chelsea, Jose, Eva and the conspiracy theory for another day (or season). We cannot explore every turn an angle that birthed today.

Back to the matter: It is apparent that the contributors to this blog, as well as the tens of brothers that lock fangs, claws and horns every weekend do not support the teams that seem to be running away with the league this year.

It is easy to see Tottenham piping her neighbors to first or second place, as is the case for Leicester City.  United and Arsenal have not earned my faith that they will be in  the top four, improbable as it may sound to some. Manchester City already got the Capital One Cup for bragging rights and it seems that is the best thing they can lay their hands on this season.. save for Pep Guardiola.

Speaking of Pep, there is a wave of change going on at the helms of the management at these English clubs: Pep to Manchester City (I was gonna just type "City" before but that moniker will have to change with Leicester vibrantly on the horizon), Mourinho to Manchester United, Klopp already settling well at Liverpool and emmm Conte to Chelsea? Only Wenger in the top tier retains his job and he may sooner lose it if he continues with this implode-while-cruising thingy he has going on at the club since the "Invincibles".

Oh by the way, shout out to Pochettino for getting his lads playing like a beast and shout out to Graham Taylor for getting Watford in magical form. I should really not mention names as there are some that merit the list that I will leave out cos my fingers are now faster than my mind.

Oh by the way, shout out to Vardy, Payet, Mahrez, Willian, Mane, Ozil, Coutinho, Wijnaldum, Ighalo, Barkley, Lukaku, Alli, Martial, etc for all the moments of brilliance and Fantasy Football League Points. (Poor Wilson).

Argh, one of the names I left out of the manager's list is Gus Hinddink. The man, although interim, has clearly changed the fortunes of Chelsea. Taking them from 16th to 8th (this week). But if we comparatively analyse this, apropos to last season and the season before, it only says that this EPL has only become weaker. Yes, going weaker by the week. Since when did a few draws and a few wins shoot you up that far? First CFC (Chelsea) were battling to save themselves from relegation and a few weeks after that they are edging so close to Europe?

Well some giants have arrived the scene in the form of managers, some huge investments have also arrived in TV rights. I can only hope that an immigration of top quality players will follow shortly and then we can justly take Europe by storm.

I have raced through this piece, I am too busy, in a hurry and lazy to read it over to ensure there are no typos, bad sentence structures or "ibon" (grammatical erors). So here, some nails. There's a stack of wood at the backyard. Crucify me!


I have unlocked the gates and opened the door
Aired the rooms and dusted furniture
I have cleared the cobwebs and mopped the floor
The journal shall no longer bore!

MYK

(Disclaimer: The photo above is the property of Mr. Daniel Marbaix. I only claim the words herein for myself)