To be fair, I think the lad invited it.

It was one of those penalty shoot outs, in front of the Norwich fans, between a group of children from Norwich, a group from Colchester and a big furry owl (well, OK, a man in a big furry old costume).

The whole thing was a blatant f**king fix. The owl-man used his big furry owl hands at full stretch to save the Norwich penalties, yet made only the most token, Simon Tracey-esque flaps at the Colchester penalties. I first thought the owl-man might be biased and cheating when I saw him wearing a Colchester shirt.

The fourth penalty was taken by a rather obnoxious-looking fat boy with a bent-up face and a matching Colchester shirt. When he inevitably scored his penalty, getting a thumbs-up from the corrupt owl-man, he raced over to the Norwich crowd and starting kissing his badge, like a younger, porkier Alan Smith.

Anyway, the Norwich fans, incensed by the meaningless farce occurring before them, started going "WANKER! WANKER!" at the fat child, who was lapping it up.

(I'd hasten to add that I didn't join in.)

Colchester won the shoot-out, and the game itself.

Posted By: Ottosson Foxtrot, Sep 23, 11:56:55