Happy Thoroughly English Monday
At every possible opportunity to read this morning -- sipping my first cup of coffee, walking on the treadmill, taking a bath (?!), getting dressed, eating breakfast -- I have been enjoying a Premier League preview guide published by today's Guardian newspaper that I printed off the computer.
It avoids traditional preview methods and instead compares each club to types of candy, details the plot of a pretend film about each club and lists which member of the team's WAGS -- wives and girlfriends -- would be most likely to grab tabloid headlines.
In other words, the preview is thoroughly English, in an irreverent, ironic way.
I plan to celebrate this thorough Englishness in song, by listening to the Happy Mondays and their blighty-centric take on dance pop. "24 Hour Party People," "Mad Cyril," and "Bob's Yer Uncle" all present and accounted for.
It avoids traditional preview methods and instead compares each club to types of candy, details the plot of a pretend film about each club and lists which member of the team's WAGS -- wives and girlfriends -- would be most likely to grab tabloid headlines.
In other words, the preview is thoroughly English, in an irreverent, ironic way.
I plan to celebrate this thorough Englishness in song, by listening to the Happy Mondays and their blighty-centric take on dance pop. "24 Hour Party People," "Mad Cyril," and "Bob's Yer Uncle" all present and accounted for.
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