It’s been, well let’s just say “a while”, seems that things this year got chaotic and as with everything in life part of the blame must be mine, along with other aspects in life.

Last time I wrote here was many years ago… or at least that’s how it feels, unfortunately commitments in my personal life and university life have stopped me doing as much as I would have liked on www.SpikedEffect.com and this blog.

I’m sceptical about how many people will still be reading this blog, but just in the odd chance that I have a solitary fan out there that has been waiting so long for an update, this entry is for you.

I’m currently sat on a train to London Euston as I draft out this blog entry (which may actually end up being finished on the return journey to Manchester), and it seems the perfect time to let you know about what’s going on in my life apart from it being totally chaotic. So with baited breath I start my ramble…

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You know there are always times when in your head there’ll be an ocean of questions, and I guess today is one of those days for me, they are a mixed variety of questions, some more fundamental than others, but nonetheless they are there.

So how do I deal with them? I guess I could just ignore them, I guess I could tackle them head on, but I think its best to meet it half way between those two. You see if you ignore them completely, they wont be gone they will linger and keep digging at you until you can’t take it anymore, yet if you try and tackle them all at once they may overwhelm you, so its best to go for the middle, and tackle the questions at the forefront of your mind.

“I don’t think it’s fair to point the finger at Sir Alex, the responsibility lies with the team as the whole, Sir Alex can only do so much, but its down to the players to show the grit and determination on the pitch to carry on through adversity.”

So the first of the group of questions are not vitally important to my life, but nonetheless they are there, being a (Manchester) United supporter, serious questions are beginning to be asked by the media and football’s highest standing voices, but who do you exactly blame?

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It’s funny, recently I’ve noticed how particularly in the western world people have become so accustomed to getting things their way that they are ready to scream bloody murder if it doesn’t happen.

For example being a Manchester United fan… Yeah I know, I know, no one is perfect hehe but joking aside, you would have needed to have lived in a deep dark hole, or to be not that interested in football (or soccer for those out there that call it that) to not know that over the last decade it has been Manchester United that dominated the premiership… But now things have taken turn, and the premiership is becoming a better all round league, and with Chelsea’s new (what seems) unlimited bank balance the powers seem to be changing…

“yet like spoilt kids, the united fans have started booing the side, lack of loyalty comes to mind…”

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