Perchance to Dream...

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ToffeeDan

in memoriam - 1961-2023
Moyesie's pre-match speech..... here exclusively revealed...

To be (a big team) or not to be (a big team) that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous Gobsh1te fortune,
Or to take arms against that sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the ref's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare cheque book? who would Hibbert bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!
The fair Mikel! Pip, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

So - if we could pull it off over the next 3 league games and the Cup tie we'd be breathing down the RS's necks (and the rest of 'em)... who knows? :D
 

Fardel a bundle or pack—Johnson, 1755; the baggage of a company of men collectively; also called fardellage, 1489; fardlet, a small bundle, 1413.

or...
FARDEL/ˈfɑːdəl/
A bundle or burden.
For many people, it will instantly bring to mind Hamlet’s famous To be or not to be soliloquy: “Who would fardels bear, / To grunt and sweat under a weary life, / But that the dread of something after death ...”. The Oxford English Dictionary’s editors more than a century ago must have thought that was too familiar to need citing and instead included another Shakespeare quotation, from A Winter’s Tale: “There lyes such Secrets in this Farthell and Box, which none must know but the King.”
A fardel was a bundle, a pack, a parcel or similar item. It came into English around 1300 from the Old French fardel, a diminutive of farde, a burden, which is still in use in the same sense in modern French, though in the form fardeau. It is said by some authorities, for example Le Petit Robert, that that derives from the Arabic fardah, half a camel load. Carrying that would be enough to make anybody grunt and sweat.
A fardel could also be a quarter of something; it’s from the Old English word that’s also the origin of fourth and of the name of the obsolete British coin, the farthing, one-quarter of an old penny. One use was as a measure of land — William Noy wrote in The Compleat Lawyer in 1651, “Two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land”, a nook being an old land measure of 20 acres in Northern England and Scotland.
 
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I gather that today is St Wulfstan's day. So how's this for a fresh twist on The Bard:

This day is called the feast of Wulfstan
He that plays for us this day and comes safe home
Will stand a tiptoe when this day is named
And rouse him at the name of Wulfstan.
He that plays this day and shall see old age
Will yearly on the vigil, stand in The Winslow
And say "Tomorrow is St Wulfstan"
Then will he strip his shin pads, show his scars and say
These stud marks I had on Wulfstans day."
Old players forget yet all shall be forgot
But he'll remember, with advantages
What goals he scored that day
Then shall their names - familiar in his mouth as household words -
"Moysie the manager, Mikel, Peanuts, Howard and Osman,
Jags and Lescott shall be in their cups freshly remembered.
This story shall the good man teach his son
And the day of Wulfstan shall ne'er go by
From this day 'til the ending of the world
But that they in it shall be remembered.
The Blues, The Happy Blues
The band of brothers.
For he today that stands with me in that accursed place
Shall be my brother, be he even a Manc.
And koppites now in Norway shall think
Themselves relieved they were not here
And hold their manhoods cheap whilst toffees speak
Who played for us upon St Wulfstans day.


Bring it on. Just bring it on.
 

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