15th March, 2014In Barry’s first home game, Shyton United faced the formidable Newcastle United. Newcastle were a proper club, run the proper way, with the chairman riding roughshod over everybody and everyone. They were much like a company back in Victorian Britain whose employees were treated with the contempt they deserved and were frisked daily in case they had stolen a few crumbs. In fact, comparisons had been made that Newcastle United were the North Korea of the Premier League and that its chairman was the Kim Jong-un – not just due to his physical similarities but because he was a complete arse. Still, with the way Maury Git’a was running Shyton United, that unwanted label might soon pass to him.
Master tactician Barry Bloomer readied his troops with a stirring speech about his mi
