Football withdrawal symptoms

Emptiness in my heart, a chill in my soul and vacant days in my life....what can this be but the withdrawal of having absolutely no football to watch for the next 51/2 weeks until the start of the EPL season 2006-07! Urgh!!! Think I'm going to go crazy...might even start watching S-League football! which is the local equivalent of the EPL but almost a million light years away....think our top footballer couldn't even get a place on an English League 2 team!

OK, OK, in my profile, I also said that I am a Churchill fan, so maybe I should talk about him for a bit while waiting for the start of the football season again....

Actually, I don't really know that much about Churchill, but I do admire what little I do know about him. He seemed to be a flawed genius-leader (never to be mistaken as a "servant leader"!) who was able to rally and inspire his countrymen during war-time, but could never seem to get the country working together in peace-time. Some of the most famous lines in the English language were spoken by him, immortal lines such as "we will fight on the beaches etc etc we will never surrender!" (hey, I'm a fan, not a fanatic, ok? I don't memorise lines anymore since I left school a few years ago ahem! :-P). The thing I admire most about him is that he was a patriot to the core and was very passionate about defending the English nation from the potential invasion he always saw as just lurking off the English coast. While in peace-time his speeches were perceived as war-mongering, in war-time, they were re-interpreted as prophetic and prescient. Ain't that always the case?