My team Newcastle United is now hovering on the brink of relegation from the Premiership. The bottom three teams are dumped down into a lower division, in this case the Championship (?), while the top three teams  in the Championship are promoted into the Premiership. This carries on through the four main divisions of professional football and cause a lot of anguish or elation depending in which direction your team is going.

The large television money goes mostly to the Premiership teams and a drop from the Premiership is estimated to cost about  40 million pounds ( 60-65 million USD) in lost revenue. We have one more game to play this season and if we lose it as is likely, we are going down.

My friend O.D. Malone, speaking in the local patois said, ” Ah divvent kna wat aal dee if we gan doon.” Freely translated into English this means ” Swipe me, squire, I have no idea what on earth will be my decision about renewing my season ticket should we be so unfortunate as to be relegated.”

“Well Odie,” says I, ” you will do what the rest of us hopeless fans do, keep renewing your ticket and keep supporting this bunch of no-hopers like we have for the last fifty years without them winning anything. It’s what we do.”

“Yer knaa, yer reet” (Do you know, you are correct) says he. Then he brightened,” We’ll still have the pies, tho. Won’t we?”

Related posts:

1. Football Chronicles. Part 3, Cockney Mafia oot.
2. Football (Soccer) Chronicles. Part 1, It’s the pies, innit?
3. Football Chronicles. Part 2. Ah got me Owen top.