The beautiful game

Right , this blog post is a bit of a departure from the normal as I'm going to moan and possibly rant a little bit but there's something I just don't understand

If you are doing a job , say working in sales , and you don't meet the target for sales or even cost your company money then it is a fair assumption that you will be given the required number of warnings and then you will be sacked , given nothing more than a reasonable reference (most employers still do this even if you are a bit rubbish) and a pint down the pub on your last day 

However if you are a football manager then these rules don't apply 
You are given a contract , same as a normal job and then you try to manage your team into winning games , progressing through the various cups and hopefully moving up the league you are in , okay so far right ? 

But if you lose games , lose the confidence of your players , crash out of the cup to a non league side (which will lose the club revenue) and generally give the impression that you don't really care about the job , the club or the fans then you should expect to be sacked the same as anyone else in any other profession 

But no , football doesn't work like that 
If a manager is sacked he gets a lovely little bonus , the rest of his contract brought out which can amount to quite a hefty sum
Some clubs have a clause whereby if the manager gets a new job within the time he's been paid off for then some money has to be repaid to the club , but not all and this just doesn't seem fair 

He is getting rewarded well for doing a bad job , he's not going to resign as that would mean kissing goodbye to the money , even if everyone thinks and hopes that he will 

I can't say that I understand this and I think it's unfair but hey what can I do about it , except maybe a naked pitch invasion to protest but thankfully I'm never going to do that!! Xxxx

Need anything from the Post Office ?

I may have mentioned on here before that sleep and I have an uneasy relationship , don't get me wrong , I LOVE sleep with all my heart but it sometimes doesn't love me back 

When I do eventually fight the insomnia and get to sleep I tend to sleep very deeply and as such I dream , I dream a lot !! 

Now I know we've all had that conversation with someone where they are telling you about that 'crazy mad dream' that they had last night , the conversation that lasts for ages and to be honest is anything but crazy mad , but bear with me 

The one thing I don't ever understand is the random people that appear in my dreams 
I can have people pop up that I haven't seen since my school days , some 30ish years ago , people that I didn't particularly like back then and certainly wouldn't have counted as fiends 
Then I can have people from my twitter feed , like the other night 

My dream was basically going into this room with all of my family and it was staged like a perfect Christmas , beautiful tree , professionally wrapped gifts , just the most beautiful decor ever ....and a pile of books which one of my Twitter friends was selling 
Now I have never met this man and I don't think he hangs about in 'Christmas rooms' flogging books so it was a bit odd 
I introduced myself , we had a cup of coffee and I admired his decor ......and then I woke up , see , nothing amazing but my point is why did this person appear in the dream , I don't think I had tweeted him recently so he wasn't in my mind, very bizarre 


Last nights dream was me preparing to give birth whilst in the consulting room of Noel Fitzpatrick (The Supervet) , with a person a knew from school with me .
Now I don't particularly like children so the thought of giving birth in a vets practice might mean I would prefer cats or dogs (definitely) but the next minute I was queuing up in the Post Office with no sign of kittens , puppies or babies and then I woke up !! 
Some might say it's my body clock telling me to have children but I have taken the batteries out of that clock and put it in the bin so nope , definitely not !! And the person from school wasn't someone I was ever friends with so that was random and I don't need to buy anything from the Post Office thank you very much 

I may add also that none of my dreams are of an adult nature so if you find yourself in one of them , it's okay , we didn't do anything ....except buy/sell books or go shopping !! Xxxxx

Go With The Cake

Wow , I can't believe it has been nearly 11 months since I have written anything on here 

I started out thinking that I would blog about random things that I liked , but I blogged quite a bit to start with and basically have run out of things I like !! 

I've had several ideas in the last few days but they have mainly occurred last thing at night , just before sleep and the one rule I have is that anything that seems a great idea just before sleep probably won't be when you wake !! 

That goes for a lot of things in life , never send that last text at night , yes you know the one , when you are feeling sleepy , romantic , maybe a bit nostalgic and the 'ex text' seems like a great idea - DON'T DO IT ! 

Never post that FB post or tweet (reasons as above!!) 

And NEVER eat the last cake in the cupboard ............... okay  
maybe go with the cake , cakes are okay 😉 Xxxx