Thu 6th August

Uncle Ray is appearing at a meet the manager night so the lads decide to attend.  Ray seems a decent, honest chap with definite ideas on how to play, train and behave.  He appears to have total faith in what he is trying to do and the way he wishes to lead the Club.  He answered most the questions thoroughly and to the best of his ability but on a few occasions skirted around the answer, perhaps he should have been a politician.

Footballers are generally not the most intelligent apparently, “I give them one job to do and expect them to do it. We won’t be asking square pegs to fit into round holes.”

Ray also categorically states that Jeff Peron hasn’t signed for Fulham and when pushed by one fan he got pretty shirty, informing the poor chap that he wasn’t a liar, that he didn’t like the inference that he was a liar and silenced the room like a headmaster walking into an out of control chemistry class and shooting the teacher between the eyes.

After that everyone else was too scared to ask anything anymore taxing than whether Ray preferred Rice Crispies or Weetabix for brekkie. For what it’s worth I’d hazard a guess that he’s a Kellogg’s cornflake man myself and is repulsed by the thought of highly tuned athletes tucking into sugar puffs, coco pops or pop tarts.

He also reveals that he has signed Neil Davies on a short term contract.