So we're nearly there. The beginning of the football season. And to stop anyone from outside Europe getting football confused with lesser sports, we are talking about football. Proper football. The one you play by kicking the ball around with your foot. Not the one where you dress like you're about to get mown down by an articulated lorry and stop every eight seconds for a rest, and certainly not the one where you wear unfeasibly tight shorts, feel all your friends up and have a choice of goals depending how lucky you feel. Football.Four and a half hours after writing this, the Coca Cola League One (possibly the finest league in the world....ahem) season will be kicking of again. Which means that the finest team in the world (aside from a minor accounting error or two) will be in action. With a 12:00 kick off against Scunthorpe it all begins again. And for one I will be happy to be in Thailand. Now don't get me wrong, I love my team and will be cheering them on whenever possible, although for some reason League One is not shown in Thailand, but it makes me want to cry. When I came to Thailand Leeds were a Premiership side who were just struggling a bit after some rather suspect gambling with the company's accounts had failed to pay off. And now we're in the 3rd league in the country. And to add insult to injury we were kept there artificially last season after being punished for the same crime twice. But now it changes. Leeds for promotion. Mark my words!
There is also another important league starting the following weekend. That's right, the premiership fantasy football league. Mikky's Boys are in there and will be making a bid for glory, even though making substitutes and transfers will be impossible due to living on a boat through most of the season. And I suspect this will be a far messier affair than the one at Elland Road last season.
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