BBC - Swindon Town ARE Top of League 1

Who Really Killed JFK?

Do UFO's Exist?

Conspiracy theories abound, from the existence of UFO's, to how many people were involved in the assassination of JFK, to did Man actually land on the moon? The debate on these topics can help while away the long, cold hours of a boring night shift or help the slightly inebriated nurse that final pint before last orders down the pub. However, there has been one aspect of the football news that has had me wondering why the BBC is loathe to give credit where credit is due. Is there a conspiracy among the the BBC personnel to play down the great season Swindon Town are having in League 1?

Swindon Town - Top of the League!

Swindon Town's latest run of good results has seen them overtake their West Country rivals Bristol City to top the League 1 table. Although level on points, Swindon Town are above Bristol City on merit by the virtue of a better goal difference. The "Goal Difference Rule" was introduced into English football for the 1976 - 1977 season and is the difference between the goals scored and goals conceded for a team. The League 1 Table above shows that, as of 24th January 2015, although both teams had 54 points, Swindon Town's goal difference stood at +27, whilst that of Bristol City was +26. Therefore, by virtue of having a better goal difference by +1, Swindon Town are worthy table-toppers. Why, then, does the BBC insist that there are joint leaders of League 1?

The football League Show

Football Focus

During "The Football League Show" aired on Saturday 17th January 2015, Manish Bhasin stated, wrongly, that Swindon Town and Bristol City were "joint top". Then , today, on BBC's Football Focus, Kevin Kilbane made a similar mistake in his statement saying that the two clubs were joint leaders. Perhaps the BBC needs to send its employees on a GCSE Mathematics course so that they can add and subtract? Then, Swindon Town Football Club will get the recognition and praise that it deserves...hopefully!

Damp Squib!

"Transfer Deadline Day" is akin to Christmas Day for football fans. The anticipation of what present you're going to get allied to the fact that Father Christmas is as generous as the size of your parents' wallet ensures that the rich kids get their bikes and Scalextrics whilst the poor ones don't even get the Action Man that was on their list; instead they are given the crappy plastic doll from Hong Kong whose clothes don't fit, cannot hold a rifle and that falls apart before kick off on Boxing Day! So, watching the BBC coverage of "Transfer Deadline Day" via the web, it was disappointing to see that the Beeb was pandering to the dreams of the rich kids (Premier League) in speculating what Santa was going to bring them as a late Christmas present at the end of January. As a fan of a proper football club, i.e., someone who supports the team of the town of their birth rather than pretend to have some affiliation with a team in a city they've never been to and whose dialect they wouldn't understand, I had one eye on the webpage of the Swindon Advertiser to see what business Paolo Di Canio was conducting after the horrendous decision by both the off-going and oncoming boards to sell Matt Ritchie to AFC Bournemouth for a mere fraction of his worth. 

Matt Ritchie

I went to bed feeling that, although David Beckham would be kicking himself for choosing an obscure French team in which to play out the last few months of his footballing career rather than take pride in putting on the sacred shirt of STFC each Saturday, at least the three players that had been lined up would do a decent job for Swindon in the run-in towards the end of the season. As I snuggled into the duvet, I felt assured that all the various parties had to do was sign on the dotted line and the poor kid's Christmas morning wouldn't be the damp squib that it usually is each year. Imagine my horror to find that, when I woke up, not only had Santa not left the toys, but the owner had repossessed them before my parents had left the toyshop -"You don't look like you can afford them, so you can't have them!"

I dare say that Bradley Wright-Phillips, Marlon Pack and Danny Green will be Swindon Town players come the start of the "Loan Transfer Window" in a week's time, but, as a fan of Swindon Town, it has been deflating and I'm left to feel like the poor kid at Christmas, playing with the Hong Kong soldier doll whilst the rich kids cycle around the estate on their new bikes.

Syndicate

Should I, shan't I? It's eating away at me so I think I should. What you ask? Tell you about my need for a legal expert.

I'm extremely peeved at what I can clearly see is alleged plagiarism (alleged for legal purposes) of my work. In April, I posted a request for a "Copyright Infringement Solicitor" to look into a case I felt I had against a prominent British television company; the BBC. I sent them a manuscript for a drama serial entitled "Syndicate". It was the story of a group of workers and what happens to them after their lottery syndicate won a large sum of money. There were many similarities to the recently broadcast serial "The Syndicate" which was penned after the BBC had received my manuscript. Three solicitors I communicated with about the matter thought I had a good case, but were unwilling to proceed on a 'no win, no fee' basis, so hence my plea in April. Ah, well.

BBC is the Way to Go

Publishers don't want to know. Literary agents don't want to know. Which way can a new author turn to get their work out there? Well, with the demise of Rain Publishing, I've decided to send Cromarty Biggs Powder Monkey to the BBC in script form as a television serial. They may like it, they may not, but nothing ventured nothing gained. I did put it out via Lulu.com, but pulled it, because it didn't have a picture for the cover. I need to save up and perhaps self-publish properly as my own publishing company.

I'm not downhearted, because I know people have enjoyed reading it; someone's even selling a copy on amazon.co.uk for nearly £30, so someone has recognised that it may be collectable!? As mentioned above, perhaps the route to take now is through another branch of the media and gain recognition for the book that way.