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Charlton Athletic and the media, Madrid daily life and the quiz team.
Wednesday, December 01, 2004 Another Great Win I could wish that my earlier parallels with the performances of the quiz team and of Charlton were holding good, but they clearly are not. Once again, we were at full strength, and although Luis's team was not, Luis himself being absent, I venture, with the greatest possible respect, to wonder if it would have made any difference. (I should at this point stress that Luis's team signifies merely the team that Luis belongs to, and does not imply captaincy or ownership thereof; the other members of the team stumbled across the blog this week and wondered why I don't mention them too - so, Gitte and David, Hello!) With the final round to go, we had already won, being more than 20 points in the lead, and we ended up with an extremely gratifying total of 133. Maybe Charlton can emulate us at Crystal Palace at the weekend by being so many goals up that whatever happens in the last 11 or so minutes cannot make any difference... posted by Jonathan Blake @ 21:11 0 comments 0 Comments: Post a Comment << Home Reference Links Frankie Valley All Quiet in the East Stand (Inspector Sands) Addicks Championship Diary (Wyn Grant) New York Addick Livescore Charlton Athletic FC Latest Posts An Unexpected Win They'll Be the Champions Too Much to Hope For Back to Back Providence takes the evening off Frabjous Day Curbs In Sneezing in Morse Still Stranded Stranded on an Icelandic beach - Archives - May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 March 2008 April 2008 free hit counter About Me Name: Jonathan Blake Location: Argüelles, Madrid West, Spain "Jonathan Blake" came into being when I was supplementing my teaching salary by editing a small tourist magazine which was distributed free every month to visitors at a five-star hotel in the centre of Madrid. The production and layout were all done by non-English speakers, and that meant that all the writing had to be done by me. My own name appeared as editor and also over what I regarded as the best piece of the month. "Jonathan Blake" (the first name and surname of two acquaintances from university) was the name I made up (I thought then, and still do, that it has a nice ring to it) for second-best pieces and general features. It's nice to be able to resurrect Jonathan after all this time to help me out with the writing.... View my complete profile
I could wish that my earlier parallels with the performances of the quiz team and of Charlton were holding good, but they clearly are not. Once again, we were at full strength, and although Luis's team was not, Luis himself being absent, I venture, with the greatest possible respect, to wonder if it would have made any difference. (I should at this point stress that Luis's team signifies merely the team that Luis belongs to, and does not imply captaincy or ownership thereof; the other members of the team stumbled across the blog this week and wondered why I don't mention them too - so, Gitte and David, Hello!) With the final round to go, we had already won, being more than 20 points in the lead, and we ended up with an extremely gratifying total of 133. Maybe Charlton can emulate us at Crystal Palace at the weekend by being so many goals up that whatever happens in the last 11 or so minutes cannot make any difference...
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"Jonathan Blake" came into being when I was supplementing my teaching salary by editing a small tourist magazine which was distributed free every month to visitors at a five-star hotel in the centre of Madrid. The production and layout were all done by non-English speakers, and that meant that all the writing had to be done by me. My own name appeared as editor and also over what I regarded as the best piece of the month. "Jonathan Blake" (the first name and surname of two acquaintances from university) was the name I made up (I thought then, and still do, that it has a nice ring to it) for second-best pieces and general features. It's nice to be able to resurrect Jonathan after all this time to help me out with the writing....
View my complete profile