Reg Timberlake...... The voice of footballing reason in a young hoodlum's world
	'Melancholia Attacks' REG TIMBERLAKE

FA Cup - what a load of cobblers - it doesn't mean a thing to me. All those pompous overpaid players moaning about a backlog of fixtures, and then grizzling about the size of their bonuses. I couldn't believe that the Wycombe players were on a £150 bonus, the chairman must be sick in the head...........that's over a thousand pounds that could have gone into the local community and helped out young kiddies who live out on the streets in cardboard boxes!

When I was a player I used to give all my wages to my old dad. He was crippled with arthritis, but still lifted 100 tons of coal a day, so that my brother Frank and I could have a slice of bread on the table at night. After supper he used to chuck us into a broom cupboard and pop off down to the 'Old Cock Inn' to do business. He said it was 'character building' and he was right - I swear it made me the man I am today. 

Someone told me that the manager got sent off at that terrible 'cup' game........what on earth does he think he's playing at? He's called Sanchez isn't he? Yes, a foreigner I suspect, who doesn't even speak the lingo bar a few swear words. And as for that other lout who got sent off for taking off his shirt, well he should be banned for life. Football is played by men for men, and anyone who wants to show other men their bodies has got to be very suspect. Why doesn't he go and get on the catwalk with all those Frenchies, or go and get a job as manager of The Nags Head, no sorry the P-P-P-Pride................LISTEN SUNSHINE - DON'T GET ME STARTED.

So still everyone's crowing on about the Sweet FA Cup, what a load of codswallop. The only cup that matters anymore is the Berks and Bucks Cup - proper men with proper normal jobs and proper families, playing for pride and ultimately the love of pigskin. Yes - I could well believe it when I read that Wycombe had pulled out of it - and that is the sole reason why I hate the club I once loved. You go down to that 'ground' Adams Park and nowadays it's all men in suits with big egos and very small brains. All they think about is money, fast cars, loose women and all that evil stuff. When I see those Loakes Park gates in the car park it makes me weep. Those gates stand for everything that was good about Wycombe: Men in long shorts, well behaved fans with rattles, the sloping pitch, the sick and needy looking on from the hospital - let's face it Loakes Park was heaven on earth, the Lourdes of England. But now those gates look on in dismay at a modern stadia, a monstrosity on a beautiful landscape, a sick note on the face of the Chiltern Hills. There are enough burgers and hot dogs in the ground to feed Sierra Leone for a year and by the smell of all the people coming out of the ground, there must be a brewery on site!

Wycombe - You can take your huge bonuses, your fancy Italian cars, your players lounge, your Champagne twat of the match.......it's all a bloody farce! And if the FA Cup is getting the people of Wycombe excited, then someone please pull the trigger on me for I'm losing the will to live. 

Yours In Sport

Reg

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