I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that it's deliberate. To take 85 minutes to have a shot on target to a team as bad as York when playing with three strikers has got to be deliberate. To use an allegory that some of us will be familiar with:- You buy a new car and try to sell the old one - 10 years old, bit of rust, but used daily and still goes ok. You advertise it in the Cumbersome News, maybe even Exchange and Clart and a couple of people come and have a look. But no takers. The wife's twining because it's an eyesore on the drive. You don't want to scrap it - it's worth more than that - but that's looking like the only option. So you get a mate to 'steal' it and torch it and claim on the insurance. It does happen. You've got a football club which nobody wants to buy. The fans are abusive towards your family and you have been faced with an ultimatum from your wife - me or Carlisle United. You can't afford to lose millions on it so you can't give it away. So you run it down. Sign clueless dickheads who, of course, will lose matches. The fans will revolt and possibly boycott games - certainly many of them will stop going. The team will get relegated (bet MK hates Jimmy Glass!) and go bust through lack of support. There'll be some kind of Insurance policy about that kind of thing to claim against. You get your money and the abusive "fans" are paid back in kind - they get the club they deserve. Nothing. Far fetched? Got a better explanation for tonights performance? The best bit was the half-time penalty shoot-out for Children in Need (CUFC Youth Team!). Derek Lacey and Andrew Newton for Radio Cumbria versus Anthony Ferguson and Norman Richardson (Hospital Radio) for News and Star. Two penalties each - one with right foot and one with left. Barry Clark in goal. One each. Sign 'em on!!! Rob Scott-Buccleuch
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