2009

To review 2009 would take a long time, bore you to death, and cause severe friction at Hargreaves towers with Mrs H (guests arriving in ten minutes!). I will however give you a quick snapshot of mine, ours and their year. My 2009 has given me incredible highs, incredible sadness, an irksome amount of stress, and a few portions of frustration. On the whole though, what a year! I am so thankful to have achieved what I had hoped to do when signing for T.U.F.C and to have been given the BBC award was the icing on the cake (thanks again panel- Mum, Dad, Wife and children!!!).
Our year at the club has obviously been amazing and I hope it has for our very loyal fans also.
A snapshot of their year now, and it has been 'emotional'. By 'their' I mean the football world, in fact the Premiership which pretty much is the 'world' at the moment. Reading in the paper today - on the same page and in the same league - I see that on the one hand Roman Abramovich has spent £710m to keep Chelsea 'ticking along', albeit they are still running at a loss, and on the other hand Portsmouth having to offload players just to pay the months wages. Both teams have spent to big to succeed, Portsmouth to win the F.A cup and Chelsea to dominate world football. The difference being that one club can just keep spending whereas the other can not, and will possibly be relegated. Is winning the F.A cup a justification to spend at will (Harry)?. Yes it is, they are now in the history books. But to have no idea how much had been spent and whether or not they could afford it is just bad business. Chelsea will spend if they have to, and unless Roman walks away the players wages will be paid for some time to come.
Finally, and ominously, sackings remain constant with Megson the latest to go.

In other sport, to name but a few, we have a great cricket team, a world champion F1 driver, a world champion diver, darts player, cyclist, rower, yachtsman and woman, athlete, and gymnast of our own. We are not a bad nation really, although we do have a cross dressing cage fighter and glamour model duo to bring the standard back down a bit!

I would like to wish everyone an early and happy New Year. Thank you so much to those who have helped me on and off the field this year, and James, I never stop thinking about you. LOVE TO ALL MY FAMILY AND HERE'S TO 2010.

CH

P.S That's the doorbell, let the games begin!