I have very little time, at the moment, to indulge in any new pastimes. \u00a0Recently, however, I declared an intention to begin rooting for a team in the English Premiereship – I’ve felt I’m missing something in not following the beautiful game more closely – and I felt the best route towards a greater knowledge of it would be some good old fashioned partisanship.<\/p>\n
Via Twitter, I sent out a call for suggestions – which club should I make my own? \u00a0In short order, Godd Till of \u00a0Cox Bloc\/Zambonic Youth fame had convinced me that I was a spiritual match for Manchester City<\/a>. \u00a0Blue and white colours, tragically underachieving, its most hated rival a much more decorated club clad in red, the parallels to Leafdom were fairly obvious. \u00a0But what sealed the deal for me was the song – Blue Moon<\/a>. When I saw that video, I knew I’d found a football home. \u00a0Though there are many other songs celebrating the Citizens<\/a>, Blue Moon being sung from the stands spoke to me.<\/p>\n As usual, real life got in the way and I kind of shelved the project for a few days. \u00a0At lunch today, though, I got thinking about it again – after a little prompting yesterday from Godd Till – and decided that I needed to stop dicking around and just make a choice.<\/p>\n So I made the decision, right around two o’clock today: City ’til I die for me.<\/p>\n Well, it turned out that today was a good day to start rooting for City; \u00a0the Blues were paired off against United in a Carling Cup (yeah, I don’t know what that is really either) semi-final match this afternoon. \u00a0I was unable to watch the match, but I did follow along via Twitter as City rallied from an early deficit to chase the visitors by a margin of 2-1 in the first leg of a two-match test that by the sounds of it is a total goals deal. \u00a0Some fellow named Tevez apparently played ridiculously well and notched both goals in the win; \u00a0evidently this is somewhat poignant as Tevez was formerly employed by his adversaries, leaving the United lot behind in rather acrimonious fashion as I understand it.<\/p>\n I did a little more research this evening into the antecedents of my new team. \u00a0Good news! \u00a0It turns out the owners of the club are filthy rich, which ought to come in handy. \u00a0As I understand it, there’s rather a lot of money involved in the EPL and I am greatly relieved that my new club seems to have the means to field a competitive squad.<\/p>\n Now all I have to do is figure out how the hell I”m going to watch the matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have very little time, at the moment, to indulge in any new pastimes. Recently, however, I declared an intention to begin rooting for a team in the English Premiereship – I’ve felt I’m missing something in not following the beautiful game more closely – and I felt the best route towards a greater knowledge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[930],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}