It’s back. Grown men, many gone grey, dressing up in bright colours and short pants to run around like eight year olds. It’s great. With the league restructuring, not this one – this one, I am on a tentatively nameless yellow team, that sort of yellow yellow with a bit of orange yellow. Numbers of the shorts and matching socks, too. It’s like being in a bunch dressed up Action Man footballers, some with guts but without that nasty cheek scar Action Man had. I had a Man U Action Man. Odd as I’ve magic marker Keane on the back of the jersey now and stick it with pins. Or maybe not. I have seen how he gets people back.
The glee of running and sweating overcame my disgust at confirming that the song “This Is The Day” by The The is now selling pants in a Dockers ad. I had to play it and mourn. It is such a good tune. Here it is [.wma, 4.8 MB]. Note the instrumentation. You think it is synthesizers which, being 1983, is a pretty good guess – but its actually an accordion and fiddles.