Losers & Winners

We got back yesterday just in time to witness a sad second half for United against Portsmouth. I can't honestly say my heart was broken though - especially in the light of Chelsea's result - and in some ways it's good to see the big four giving way to lesser lights. Barnsley for the cup, say I!

In the meantime some perhaps even more important results were coming down from the north and causing a modicum of delight in our household. It looks like a case of shaking the tree (apologies to Messers Gabriel & N'Dour), and it's a tree that has needed a good shake for quite some time. One of the great things about democracy is its ability to inform so-called leaders that they have no fundamental right to power. They lead by sufferance and there's always someone who can replace them. Or so it, possibly naively, seems to me.