Hello all, Well, seeing as Dean brought up the subject of football earlier (and South Yorkshire football at that!), I just thought I'd add to it and share my upcoming fears and anxieties with you... On Monday I spent the most nerve-wracking 3 hours of my life - worse than any exam/interview/assesment I've ever done. I went to watch my team, Doncaster Rovers, in the Conference play-off semi final at Chester. It finished 2-2, went to extra time and then a penalty shoot out. It was f*cking horrible... I just felt sick with nerves all game, and I can honestly say I didn't enjoy any of it until right at the end (when we won!). And now, I have to go through it all again on Saturday when I go to Stoke to watch the play-off final! This time we play Dagenham & Redbridge and I know that once again my nerves are going to be utterly shredded. On the grand scheme of things, I suppose it's all a bit trivial; you know, it's only a game and all that... but it just doesn't feel like that when you're there and desperately wanting your team to win. Anyway, it made me think... there's a real masochistic streak to football fans. Despite the way I felt on Monday, I know that nothing could keep me away from Saturday's game... even though I know I'm going to feel the same gut-wrenching anxiety for at least two hours. The prize at stake is a place in the Football League, and everybody who supports the club just wants it so badly after the way we originally lost our place 5 years ago (I won't go into it now, other than to say that we were utterly shafted). So anyway, fellow Sinisterines... if you could spare some precious time on Saturday afternoon to send positive thoughts in the general direction of Stoke, you will have my most heartfelt eternal gratitude. Please direct all telepathic projections of goodwill to the Doncaster boys in red & white hoops, and I'll love you all for ever and ever amen. Huge thanks in advance... Matthew. __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+