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The Defamation of David Moyes

So I've been reading much of the obvious and deserved raging after our atrocious start to the season, a season which saw almost all but the borderline suicidal fan look forward to great things.

To me it felt a little like that Summer post-school/college/uni ? that brief stint before having to get into work where, although if you look at things completely objectively, you wouldn't allow yourself to get carried away, you allow yourself to be ever so slightly swept up in fantasy.

It didn't matter about Engerland, we all expected it anyway, but for us, this year it was going to be different. We'd struggled for a few years with some reasonable and relative highlights, but now was our time to shine... Nobody except us was going to expect it, but we were destined for great things and there was a slight spring in the step.

And then it's the first day of work and slap, you're instantly knocked by your pencil-dicked manager who's never going to set the world on fire, but wants to make damn sure you forget you have any chance of doing so yourself either. A bit of a bully, but one that's doing it for your own good, a bit of a Blackburn.

So you get home and your mum's made you a nice tea, but she doesn't have to ask how your day went because it's written in your shoulders while your Dad looks at you with a slightly knowing look, but feels it's too early to offer out any pearls of wisdom. You're exhausted and just go to bed early.

The next day, you're sure you can make an impact, but it's another unexciting and fruitless day and the cracks are already showing in what was going to be a glittering career. On your way home you plug yourself into your iPhone/iPod/Discman/Walkman/Stylus/accordion and listen to probably your favourite album of the Summer, The Defamation of Strickland Banks by Plan B.

1. "Love Goes Down"
2. "Writing's on the Wall"
3. "Stay Too Long"
4. "She Said"
5. "Welcome to Hell"
6. "Hard Times"
7. "The Recluse"
8. "Traded in My Cigarettes"
9. "Prayin'"
10. "Darkest Place"
11. "Free"
12. "I Know a Song."
13. "What You Gonna Do"

I'd say we're currently on about track 5, and if we get through track 6 there's little doubt who will become The Recluse.

Anyway, for those of you who've not heard the album, it's brilliant and if you care to read the wiki page, you might see Bill shares some striking similarities with David Frost who the original concept of this album came from (not that I'm suggesting Bill's actually a crackhead).

So... until we get to track 11, perhaps it's worthwhile revisiting Plan B's first album, "Who Needs Actions When You Got Words".

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