Paranoia sets in

Much as I don't like to sound like a Newcastle fan (Hahaha, Joe Kinnear, hahahaha), it has seemed like the media is working against us this week.

Maybe the fact that the team haven't been winning much lately is making me paranoid, but everyone seems to have been sticking the boot in. First we have Pravda going on and one and about Histon Village being above us in the table by an enormous margin of one point, a point just about gained against a ten man Lewes side who are surely the worst team ever seen at this level (yes, worse than Droyslden).

Fair play to Histon, who have started really well this year and seem to be going the right way about avoiding "second season syndrome", but I must have missed the news that the season finishes in September now. If they're above us in May then they'll have something to crow about, but until then the CEN should stop trying to make something out of nothing, and well done to Danny Brown and Dan Gleeson for not being drawn on the subject this week.

Then we have Setanta, who conducted a full on Oxford United love in before, during, and after Tuesday's game at the Kassam. "We thought they might crumble again, but thankfully they got a third" said Steve Bower during the post match summary. Thankfully for who exactly? Not for me or any other fans of the real U's, that's for sure. And by the way Steve, I'm not certain exactly how you pronounce the name of Oxford's number seven, but I'm fairly confident that he's not Yemi Od-uu-bad.

Of course, Bower is still more literate than the witless Paul Parker, who continues to display an overt anti-Cambridge attitude. At one point he accused Felino of diving in the box, then went very quiet when replays showed the defender had trod on his foot and brought him down. How these imbeciles get on TV I don't know.

To make matters worse, Radio Cambs have re-employed the smug, P*sh supporting, not-half-as-funny-as-he-thinks-he-is, numpty that is Paul Stainton to front their sports coverage. I think I might just stick to Teletext in future.