While I am keen to avoid a rambling rut it does seem that after only a week we may have another entry for the TLF ‘book of luck, superstition and plain old nonsense.’
Temperatures meant that Satday was definitely a hat and gloves day for any self-respecting TLF who wanted to visit Clarence Park and avoid frostbite. Exaggerate? Moi? Perish (BOOMBOOM!) the thought.
It won’t surprise you to hear that TLF has a collection of winter warmers and to keep all and sundry happy it is crucial to operate a bit of squad rotation from time to time. Emergency Cropredy purple hat (ECPH), hadn’t had a look in all season and it was about time that it was promoted from the reserves to the starting TLF bonce. In fact, it was its footballing debut, ECPH previously having only seen service in typical Cropredy Festival weather last summer, when TLF had foolishly forgotten, after 20 years of attending the festival that a bobble hat can sometimes be essential evening attire during August in England.
Now anyone who knows me knows that I am a TLF who places a great emphasis on the importance of co-ordination and accessorising, and so it was inevitable that I would be matching my hat with a similar shade of purple in the glove department. Plus the purple gloves are the warmest if I’m honest.
The Mighty Saints were facing TLF’s favourite geographic conundrum Maidenheadstone. Who play in yellow. Except when they are away and then they play in.
Yep.
Purple.
Remarkably this footballing fashion faux pas by TLF proved to be the backdrop to a successful afternoon. Not only was the terrace innuendo of top quality (you had to be there to understand the true importance of a fleecy rim) but after a lacklustre first half and via a slightly bizarre deflection St Albans City won a game, lifting the Mighty Saints to the giddy heights of two spaces out of the relegation zone.
And thus the lucky-hat-and-glove-the-same-colour-as-the-opposition rule was born.
Sadly, the rule was not followed by TLF the next day as she sat down to watch Lesta away at Burnley without a scrap of claret and blue in sight. The inevitable defeat followed.
On Wednesday of this week, it is that most difficult of domestic fixtures as TLF’s Foxes host Mr TLF’s Hammers, whose change kit these days is white (West Ham not Mr TLF). Not a colour that graces the TLF winter warmers drawer.
To the shops!
Woolly Fox
The TLF look for January