City not Signing...

In the last few days IC Wales has completely run out of Cardiff City transfer stories. So much so they have resorted to reporting who Cardiff are not signing. So far this has included ex-City captain Graham Kavanagh and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. You can see how the various reporters are working. Sitting in their office someone notices Hasselbaink is available. "Reckon City will sign him?" the hack says to his colleague. "Maybe, let's phone Ridsdale". So they Phone the club, get a denial, and there is there story. In the case of the Kavanagh non-story they phone Kav's agent too, who tells them that he hasn't had a game for a few months and might be interested if a team like Cardiff came in. Bang. An exclusive: "City Rule Out Bid For Kav". Pretty weak.

I am hoping that this is all happening in alphabetical order, and am looking forward to the shock headline: "Bluebirds Deny Interest in Zidane". And suddenly we will have re-signed Leo Fortune-West while the press have their back turned. Mind you, that might be an improvement on Thompson. Or Byrne.

I hope we do sign someone new, but I am getting the sinking feeling that as players and agents are approached by Mr Ridsdale they have a tendency to react like any other normal person - to run away as fast as they can keeping their hands tightly on their wallets.

Conversation overheard

"So I said to her, if you're going to get a vibrator don't get one bigger than, mine. 'Cause I don't want to feel inadequate. And she said, alright then, I'll just use the battery"

Hello Belgium

One fascinating thing about running your own website is that you can keep track of all your visitors. Every now and then when I have the off free moment, I find it interesting to do this: to check which sites are referring most visitors, to check whether links on other sites are being used etc. Sometimes some interesting but useless things crop up. For example, when I used to work at IVAC we realised that the CIA were a regular visitor to our website. I suppose they were really interested in the voluntary secdtor in Islington. Or they were so stupid they confused IVAC with IRAQ. They rhyme if you say it the American way. Obviously.

Which brings me to the fascinating fact that I seem to get a lot of visits from all over the world from people typing "toosh" into their search engines. I have absolutely no idea why they would do such a thing. My guess is they are looking for someting racy - but when they get to the toosh website are severely disappointed to discover nothing more exciting than this blog. Recent visitors have been from Italy, Japan, India, Holland and Belgium. Most fascinating is the thought of someone in Belgium typing "Gary Socrates London" into their search engine. Clearly a Cardiff City fan. There couldn't be any other explanation, could there?

Some people are strange.

Anyway, I found the above picture whilst looking for an image of Tintin, and given everything so far mentioned, I thought it worth putting here. Great isn't it?

Adding a comment a lot later on, more people come to this website because of the Tintin picture than anything else. How did that happen? I blame Google