Cindy Of A Thousand Lives
It had to be didn't it? Like Shaggy and Scooby Doo pulling the mask from the friendly janitor, it emerged today (in the Daily Mail no less) that one of the keenest supporters of the harebrained idea of ending drawn Football League games with a penalty shootout was none other than Len Beeks, Wycombe's brown-coated figurehead. The howls of derision that greeted this news have led to a media crackdown from the club, with talk of misrepresentation and "the last decent thing the Daily Mail did was back Moseley in the 30s".
But the Meat Clinic cannot blame Robber Beeks, even if it does turn out he gave the penalty a huge thumbs-up. He is simply confused and nostalgic, and considering he sits through most games at Wycombe who can blame him for wanting some more excitement?
For starters, all Wycombe home games now finish as draws, most of them as turgid as a sandwich from a service station. Add to this the utter lack of atmosphere at the Adams Park in association with Magners Arena and you can see why Leonard was so keen to inject some excitement into the gnnnnnghg MATCHDAY EXPERIENCE in Sands.
He is wrong of course. Penalty shootouts should be used rarely like auto-asphyxiation and Night Nurse.
What Beeks should have realised is that years of dreary family-based policies and the banning of supporters for celebrating goals has made a game at Wycombe about as high-octane as a butcher's bicycle. Perhaps if he and his exalted friends on the Football League board stopped courting American corporations for just one second they would realise this and try to reverse years of damage to the game. Fat chance my dear, fat chance.
But the Meat Clinic cannot blame Robber Beeks, even if it does turn out he gave the penalty a huge thumbs-up. He is simply confused and nostalgic, and considering he sits through most games at Wycombe who can blame him for wanting some more excitement?
For starters, all Wycombe home games now finish as draws, most of them as turgid as a sandwich from a service station. Add to this the utter lack of atmosphere at the Adams Park in association with Magners Arena and you can see why Leonard was so keen to inject some excitement into the gnnnnnghg MATCHDAY EXPERIENCE in Sands.
He is wrong of course. Penalty shootouts should be used rarely like auto-asphyxiation and Night Nurse.
What Beeks should have realised is that years of dreary family-based policies and the banning of supporters for celebrating goals has made a game at Wycombe about as high-octane as a butcher's bicycle. Perhaps if he and his exalted friends on the Football League board stopped courting American corporations for just one second they would realise this and try to reverse years of damage to the game. Fat chance my dear, fat chance.
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