my national media career progress update

Another little bonus bloggerel for today.

A couple of days ago the Inter Milan manager, Rafael Benitez, had a go at the current manager of Liverpool in a press conference. In the middle of his rant he said that “some people cannot see a priest in a mountain of sugar.” I was listening to BBC Radio 5 Live and the reporter who was in the press conference was saying that nobody understood what he was going on about.

I had a rare moment of lucidity and texted the Radio station to explain that because priests wear black they would be very obvious on a mountain of sugar. My comment was read out as the explanation (someone else pointed out that it is a Spanish saying). My national media career has started!

Actually, if that is a national media career, it started in 2005 when Didcot Town won the FA Vase. I was travelling back from the match with a group of friends from Didcot and texted BBC Radio 5 Live to congratulate Didcot on their win since it was not being mentioned at all. That got read out too.

At this rate by the time I have retired I will have had 7 texts read out on national radio! Watch this space (in five years’ time).

It’s good for my humility!!