We are Premier League, we are Premier League!
People use that expression "it's a funny old world". Of course it is a cliche but being a cliche doesn't make it wrong. My football team, the only team in my world, Middlesbrough FC have today won promotion back to the disgustingly filthy world of Premier League. The Premier League pretty much stands for everything in life I abhor and find repulsive. It is over-hyped and awash with money paid for by Rupert Murdoch's Sky. Many of the players are egotistical and at a time when many football supporters are struggling financially the overwhelming majority of players are vastly overpaid. Cheating is an accepted part of the game but the managers of the teams castigate the referee for not spotting when opposing players cheat week after week. I could go on. When I first started blogging (10 years ago) Boro were an established Premier League team. No worries about relegation. We were winning cups (1 anyway) and we competed in the E...