Season start delayed by 24 hours
The start of the 2010-11 season was sensationally delayed when UEFA called off the Santa Coloma v. Birkirkara European Champions League match as the pitch was not ready. The game was cancelled on Health & Safety grounds. The Estadi Comunal is the only suitable ground in Andorra for such an important match. There is now a race against time to get the pitch ready for the big Europa League clash on Thursday between UE Santa Coloma and Mogren. The Birkirkara players, officials and fans returned to Malta waiting to hear how UEFA will handle the matter. It is hoped that goal line technology will be installed for the game.
I am gutted or guttered by this. I am not sure which because a lad with very a vocabulary of about 10 words and poor speech in our local WH Smith's said to another lad "Gutted" or "Guttered" in reply to his friend saying "Ha ha, we've now got Yaya Toure". He went on to explain how his team would urinate the league this season. Lady Knobhead pulled one of her faces where the ears pop out and the mouth forms an O.
Anyway, as I was saying I am guttered or gutted, whichever it may be, to learn that the premier European competition did not get off when the starting pistol was fired, so to speak. Our Mr Rooney has explained to us that this is the real competition to win and that the World Cup is secondary. I had previously been led to believe that the World Cup epitomised the heights of football unless football is played without us knowing that in other galaxies football is played in which case the Inter Galactic Cup (not to be confused with the Inter City Fairs Cup) would be the premium competition.
After the badly spoken words, Lady Knobhead indeed looked gutted or guttered when she found that the South African cook book she had ordered still had not arrived. It will mean that she cannot get into the true spirit of the World Cup for another week when it will likely be too late. (FootballCynic writes: FootballCynic thinks that you and the good Lady Knobhead are gutted (not guttered). FootballCynic is sure Mr Rooney was also gutted that the big competition did not start as planned, although, unlikely though it is, he may not have realised. On the other hand, FootballCynic wonders whether Mr Gerrard is following the form of teams in the Europa League. It seems unlikely.)
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Dear Lord Knobhead,
I think it is important that you understand the difference between GUTTED and GUTTERED. Last night, I was asked out by a guy who I thought was really cool. I drank far too much. In fact, I was guttered. We then had a drunken argument as can occur and he said he didnt want to see me again. I now feel gutted.
Yours respectfully
Danielle
(FootballCynic writes: Urbandictionary tells the world that gutted means disappointed whereas guttered means intoxicated or disappointed. So, it would seem Danielle that you were guttered and guttered or gutted)
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Many apologies for my belated reply, young Danielle of Yorkshire. You have certainly clarified things for Lady Knobhead and myself. If you're having trouble with lads from Yorkshire, you should come to our barn dances in Knebworth where there are some nice young fellows, some of which have plenty of land. (FootballCynic: Young fellows with plenty of land. Do they get guttered though?)
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