Dear Sri Tan,
Thank you for your Christmas Card and the Christmas instructions
You may possibly have misunderstood me when I told you I was from
the Orient.Luckily my local chinese restaurant was able to translate
for me.Your tactic of using the blue kit is working a treat although I
do sincerely apologise for the blip at Watford .We will prove yet that
blue is a very unlucky colour.As per your instructions I have managed
to weed out most of the talent in the team,there may be a couple of
fringe players left but I can assure you that they will never make
the matchday squad.Our game yesterday went rather well although
I was forced to reprimand young Adeyemi at half time,as you may
know I am a former P.E.teacher and I gave him 100 lines of
I must not score a goal´.Charlton used some very underhand tactics
getting a man deliberately sent off, as you know many of our players
suffer from agoraphobia and all that wide open space at what is a pretty
big ground unsettled them Thankfully we got to half time and I was
able to use my tactical genius. We packed the goalmouth in the second
half and this reassured some of the more nervous players.We decided
to tease Marshie by unsighting him at every opportunity and retreated
as best we could. It was a nervous end to the game but thankfully they
scored just before full time.Looking forward to Sundays game Watford
lost at home yesterday and we all know what they did to Fulham three
days later so I am hoping to follow your instructions to the letter.
Seasons greetings to you and your family Not much to look forward to in
the new year but hopefully we can meet at Wembley in 2016 for the
League One playoff final
Your very obedient servant Russel Slade
The last verse from Roy Orbison' In Dreams says it all..........