Taxi for Pompey

Its been quite quiet in my head lately, mostly just random bits of songs over and over but I thought I would write some more stuff down for all you lovely people.

I have 3 topics to talk about today, Pompey, Taxis and the Rugby.

So up first Portsmouth Football Club. I am really starting to think that the team have been reading my blog. As since I wrote about how fucked we were and the possibilities of League 1 action next season, they went unbeaten in February. So, well done guys. 1 draw and then 4 wins and 4 clean sheets on the bounce! That is an amazing run of results in one month and I really hope the league notice this and reward Steve Cotterill with the manager of the month award. I'm extremely happy with how things are going on the pitch at the moment and hope that they continue.
 Sky Sports News showed a special report on PFC the other night. It was an interesting watch although didn't overly show anything that us fans didn't know about. But anyway, hopefully the future is looking brighter. People are now talking about making the playoffs, my view is 'I don't want to get the playoffs'. My reasons for this are that we are still not financially backed by an owner who wants to run the club. And if we get back into the prem now, it is quite possible that stupid wages and transfer fees will be banded around and we could slip straight back into the awful situation we've been in not so long ago. Also I am enjoying travelling to different and smaller stadiums, paying reasonable prices for tickets and I'd like the team to be stable with long term players tied down before we try to make it in the big time again.
Still, I will leave Pompey alone now and hopefully will not need to write about them until the end of the season...fingers crossed.

Taxis. A great mode of transport when you need it and cant be bothered with buses/trains/walking etc. Prices of taxis have risen since i was a wee lad but that's understandable as the cost of living continues to increase. I admire taxi drivers for how they make their earnings, I certainly wouldn't want to drive drunk people around at 3am on a Saturday morning (especially from the people I saw last night!). And it annoyed me when people were moaning when we had the snow and ice and taxis were adding £1-£1.50 on top of the fare. If you don't want to pay the extra, Walk! They are doing a service in severe weather conditions that I sure as hell wouldn't drive in. During last Jan/Feb when we had the first snow I got a taxi from my friends house and the operator told me it would likely be around half an hour. That was fine by me as it was warm in my friends house and I wasn't in a rush. We decided to play some Fifa and by the time we had turned the Xbox on, there was a knock at the door and my taxi was there. So half hour was more like 3 minutes! Awesome. I gave the guy a £3 tip as I wanted to get rid of the change and was very grateful of his speedy service. So please don't moan at drivers when they are doing you a favour, unless they're a cunt. Then by all means give 'em hell.
But that story leads me onto my major gripe with taxi services. When you phone up and the operator says 'oh yeah, bout 5-10 mins' don't believe them! It winds me up when they do it because then you don't know whether to wait outside, by the window or if you've got time to cook a 3 course meal! Either have a system in place that allows you to know exactly how long its going to take or just say, I don't know.

But I cant be angry anymore as this morning has made me incredibly happy, and fortunately leads me into my third topic, the game of egg-chasing.
Firstly congratulations to England who have kept their Grand Slam 6 Nations dream alive by beating the current champions France yesterday. The final score was 17-9 and it was a fair reflection of the game. England played a sloppy penalty ridden first half but whatever Martin Johnson said at half time worked a treat. Almost from the restart we scored a try and held a solid defence for the rest of the game. Both teams could have had 2 tries in the second half but some extremely good officiating meant they were ruled out.
Secondly, it has always been a dream of mine to visit the home of English rugby, Twickenham stadium.
                         
This dream will become a reality on St Georges day this year when myself and Mikey T will go and watch London Wasps take on Bath in the Aviva Premiership. And if this wasn't enough, with tickets costing £20. I will be returning to Twickenham for my second visit just over a month later to watch the Aviva Premiership Final!! I was expecting this to cost a lot more however there were tickets available for £40 and this allows me to sit in the lower tier! I'm so happy that this chance has arisen and will be incredibly excited when the day rolls round.

That's all I wanted to say today. Many thanks for reading and I shall be back soon with more thoughts for your reading pleasure.