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English celebrations marred by painfully placed trumpet.
As England fans celebrated their team’s victory against Denmark in Niigata on Saturday, one England fan was painfully regretting taking a wrong turn.

The fan, leader of England’s mariachi cum oompah whatever-the-fuck-it-is brass band, had earlier entertained the watching millions during the game with spirited renditions of the theme from "The Great Escape" followed by the theme from "The Great Escape" again and then again, until the watching millions prayed for death or deafness.

After the game, the Oh so lovable face of English fandom parped their way into downtown Niigata ending up at a local bar. Unfortunately the bar was hosting the AGM of the local Caledonian Society.

Wincing in pain, band-leader face-slappingly cheerful Cockney Cor LuvvaDuck recalled later that "We’d just started into the first few bars of God Save The Queen when the trumpet was pulled from my hands and inserted into my anus."

The duty surgeon at the local A&E confessed that removing the errant Boosey and Hawkes product was a tricky business -"How the Scots responsible had managed to push it up parpy end first I’ll never know, altho’ I understand a mallet was involved."

Elsewhere on Planet Fitba the Tartan Army are convening an emergency meeting to discuss the totally unacceptable behaviour of English fans in Japan. A spokescanofsuper explained : "The followers of the Forces of Darkness are being too nice therefore undercutting our normal position of moral superiority."

It is thought that the Tartan Army may have to review their normal enthusiastic friendliness when Scotland travels abroad to get ritually gubbed. The spokesetc explained, again, "I don’t know what we’ll do now. One of the student laddies at the meeting suggested we should all dress up as French existentialists, puff Gauloises, and project an air of studied insouciance but I’ve no idea what that word means…"

Inside: That match report in full : "On balance it probably would’ve been a better game had Denmark bothered to fuckin’ turn up…."
June 2002

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