The inability of the Mighty Saints to see off Weymouth in the FA Trophy meant an unexpected but welcome interruption to the TLF football famine. Unfortunately, the replay clashed with a post-work commitment and the TLF plan was to arrive in time for the second half. But Thameslink Trains had other ideas and so it was that TLF made it for the final 23 minutes.
23. Now there’s a number to conjure with. Not any old prime number but the lowest one that consists of consecutive digits. John Forbes Nash, the Nobel prize-winning economist was obsessed with the number, because he believed that the number 23 has a unique role in human relationships, for personal health and the life order. He was also a Weymouth fan.
It is also the holy number for the Followers of Discordianism, a self-declared religion based on the premise that discord and chaos are the building blocks of life, or in more recent weeks the Saints’ defence.
More importantly Princess Leia is rescued from detention block AA23 in Star Wars.
And don’t get me started on the KLF and 23…
And of course, I sat in seat 2, in the 3rd carriage of the train to get to the game.
Sadly TLF’s 23 minutes didn’t really touch the heights of this list; not for mathematical facts or slightly mad conspiracy theories. But 23 will remain in the TLF memory forever associated with luck – I missed the first half deluge, with despair – I witnessed some not very good football and saw Weymouth score their second and with fortune – third place in November Saints Snowball thank you very much.
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