We need to make a sacrifice to the footballing gods but I worry that Le Boss has missed the point

Do you remember that time when you were a kid and you had a big essay to hand in and you hadn’t got around to doing it and you were cursing yourself for spending the weekend playing Kick Off 2 on your Commodore Amiga instead of just sitting down and getting it done and you went to bed in a right old state thinking about how much trouble you were going to get into and then you woke up the next morning like a dead man walking and looked out the window and realised there’d been a freak gale that had brought the whole country to a standstill and all schools were closed and you found yourself presented with the most unlikely last minute lifeline?
Yeah, well that’s how I feel this morning.
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