I really don't get this "coming 3rd in a 2 horse race" stuff. You finished 8th, which is why you're visiting Burton tomorrow and have no need of a passport this season. At least you get to see Nigel Clough again, I guess.
"coming 3rd in a 2 horse race does things to a man." Feel like we're forgetting something here. Oh yeah that's right. You sure it's not the drugs?
In your defence, the sentence "I fully expect a demolition of Burnley next week. 4-1" is not so much a sequence of words as a collection of letters randomly typed on a million keyboards by Mouser monkeys.