Max's Blog
Kick-off concerns
Max also attempts to grow a moustache for Movember
Last updated: 03rd November 2009
Max: A TV first?
"Rest assured, I will look ridiculous until December."
Max Rushden
Quotes of the week
I've never seen a telly presenter with a massive scab on his or her face before but I can't have been the first one in the history of TV to turn up for work with some sort of facial injury/defect - well, I guess I did turn up with a black eye a month ago.
The odds would have it that at some time in history Peter Sissons arrived to read the news with a big spot on the end of his nose or something like that, but I genuinely can't think of one. So it was nice to break new ground on the show on Saturday. A TV first, unless you know otherwise.
There was some discussion on Friday that maybe one of the big bosses might eventually decide that I'm not allowed to play football if I'm going to keep turning up looking like I've had a brawl with a night club bouncer.
Apparently some presenters are banned from putting themselves at risk - someone told me that Phillip Schofield isn't allowed to "dance on ice" during filming (mind you, ice skating is a ridiculous pass-time so there's no issue there). But if someone said I couldn't play football, I might have to storm into the bosses office and have my first ever diva fit.
Movember
Anyway, it's still there, and currently shows no signs of abating - so you might get another chance to see it this weekend. And even if it isn't there my top lip is going to be vaguely covered for the whole of November, after an old mate of mine rang me up and asked me to grow a moustache for that Movember thing that's been going for a few years now.
There's a big push this year after John Hartson's battle with cancer and as a way of raising money and awareness it can only be a good thing. As far as I know, half the office have decided to follow suit and see what, if any, hair growth they can get in that area.
The other half are apparently too vain, or scared.
I grew a beard while I was in South America over the summer, so I shouldn't disgrace myself. My only fear now is that the scab will disappear, and I'll have a moustache everywhere but there, almost the reverse of what I've got now. We shall see. Rest assured, I will look ridiculous until December.
During my game on Saturday (where a few of their subs enjoyed calling me scabby) our side were guilty of surrendering a three goal lead in ten second half minutes, by basically completely switching off.
Though we eventually composed ourselves and won 5-3, I couldn't help thinking that our mini capitulation was one (albeit of many) reasons why we play clogger park football, and why professional footballers get paid to play.
Sorry Spurs
So it was refreshing to see Spurs concede that goal straight from their own centre. Obviously, as a sympathetic Spurs fan (as I've mentioned before via my Dad) it was a disappointment but sometimes it's just good to see pros be as inept as the rest of us.
For pretty much every team I've played for, our own centre is one of the most vulnerable moments of the match. We don't train, so we're yet to come up with an elaborate, or simple, or indeed any way of doing it.
Like all park sides, we're reluctant to just punt it in the corner - (we think) we're better than that, and when we do, invariably the wing back isn't watching. There's very rarely, (i.e. never) a spread bet option on the first throw, so we don't stand to make a Le Tissier style packet by booting it out.
So normally, I'll slightly under-hit the pass to the centre midfielder, all our teammates will have run away from him meaning he has to beat a man, he'll lose it, our centre backs won't be watching and we'll be lucky to get away with just conceding a corner.
And that's what it was like at the Emirates. One piece of mis-control, everyone else sleeping, and Arsenal scored a goal. I would have loved to see the inner workings of Harry Redknapp's brain over that 11 seconds. Against a side as good as Arsenal, you just can't do that. All that preparation was worth nothing.
I imagine that's like my producer putting together a perfectly honed show, only for his presenter to rock up with a scab on his face that makes him look like Hitler!
Have a good week...
Office Blog
Window shopping
Tubes' 30th, Transfer Deadline Day and a tough tackling NFL player... it's all in this week's office blog! Read On
Tubes' Diary
Baggies SingStar!
Tubes discovers Shane Long's musical side, is in awe of Kevin Phillips and is happy to see Fabio Capello go. Read On
Prying Eyes This Way >>
Comments
Mark Stringer (Liverpool fan) says...
Good luck with the Mo Max... I too am sporting ma mo fo show during Movember, as are nine of the lads in my office... And a couple of the girls too.... Hehehehe... Check out the moustachio Nutz on Movember for progress and we will be following you with interest too...
Posted 12:24 13th November 2009
Add Comment*