Last year my team 'Equinoxxx All Stars' was obliterated by a team called 'Sex God United'. For months I was subject to ribbing from the manager (turbo_chef) and I vowed that this year would be when I gained revenge.
I had a great start and by the last quarter of 2007 I was way ahead of him. He started clawing his way back earlier this year and we have been exchanging places on the league table for weeks.
Until midweek.
Christiano Ronaldo has been his key player and - as he scores double points as the team captain - he made nearly one hundred points for him in the last two series of games.
I am now fifty points adrift and I admit that it's not looking too good for me now.
Each season you are given a wild card to make unlimited substitutions in the case of injury. You can only use this card once in a season and I had been saving it. During one of my conversations with Nigel earlier this year, I vowed I wouldn't use the wild card to show how confident I was that my team would be successful this season.
I even made the same promise last night.
But I was lying!
I had no other option but to change my entire team. He had a lot of the same players as myself and I needed a chance to at least fight back and lose with a respectable point difference. I realised that I had no chance getting back into the race if we were getting points from the same players. His signing of Christiano Ronaldo was the only factor in the difference between his team and mine. So, to make this signing as effective as one -egged man in an ass kicking contest, I had to do it too.
I signed Ronaldo.
I should have done it a week ago but I didn't expect the Portuguese player to have made so many points in his last game.
It may be too late for me and I am reminding myself of how Kevin Keegan threw away a big lead in the 1995/6 Premier League season. I'll tell you what, though - I'd luv it, luv it if I beat him.
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