Monday 8th August

Oh dear, Villa are in trouble. Alas Martin O'Neill has left - actually resigned, which is a thing Premiership managers virtually never do. There are clearly deep and dark reasons behind it, which we don't know, and it's very frustrating. Clear contenders are the fact no money has been released to buy in any big players, which leaves us understrength and now he's gone, you've got to put money on no one arriving until the January transfer window. There's no immediate appointment, so this has clearly come out of the blue. Oh God, here we go again. That's all I keep thinking, is this the 70s come all over again?
And that raises more interesting thoughts. Exactly how much of the 70s are we seeing re-played here? We've got a depression. People are being thrown out of work, and we have a caring sharing Conservative government to ease us through these troubling times - personally I'm begining to see a lot in the concept of revolution. There was a very interesting article in the Grauniad yesterday about the North South divide, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/08/north-south-divide-soon-become-chasm which really says it all. Anyday now I expect brown and grey to become the most popular colours, Cameron will start clutching a handbag (frankly I'm surprised he doesn't already carry one, not to mention how fetching he would look in a two peice navy blue skirt suit), and well.. not much more you can say about this really, except how bloody depressing it all is.