Aristotle told us that Nature abhors a vacuum.
Actually that’s a typo. What he meant was TLF abhors a football vacuum. But what he wasn’t sure about is whether TLF created the football vacuum in the first place by committing to other stuff OR if the football vacuum existed and TLF filled it with the other stuff.
Of course if you follow his reasoning and that of Plato, you could say the void never existed in the first place, because it is nothing, and nothing cannot rightly be said to exist. In which case how did TLF get so busy?
Putting philosophy aside for a moment, there are generally good reasons for a lack of TLF footballing action and in recent weekends the reasons have been the very traditional annual Green Room Committee weekend, followed by the need for some domestic harmony on the Mr TLF front.
This year’s GRC jaunt took place in Herefordshire and employed the same tactics that have served the team well for many years – no need for Christmas tree formations or the deploying of a false nine somewhere in the kitchen. A slight adjustment this year as we made room for a park run, but other than that all the usual hallmarks of a GRC premier performance.
Green Room Sunday dinner: Cooking doesn’t get much tougher than this
With Mr TLF it was a case of revisiting our summer drink of choice the Moscow Mule; on the pretext that we needed to test drive my recyclable straws (courtesy of my GRC secret santa), before hiding the radio before there was any time to hear news of West Ham v Manchester. Not that TLF is a pessimist but as Plato noted, “A good decision is based on knowledge and not on the number of goals conceded.”
Cocktails but only in the interests of testing sustainable straws. Honest
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