#RogueAgainstTheMachine - A journey through FPL

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” A surreal end to the EPL 2019/2020 in uncertain times but let’s admit it Project Restart worked in seeing out the season albeit with no fans. For those of us who can’t make it to the grounds, that easily, it was a treat to watch football on a daily basis. As the new season will soon be upon us and with very few if any pre-season friendlies for new recruits, new tactics for EPL Managers to bed down then I can see the use of the 1 st WC been more prevalent in the early stages. Naturally current FPL thinking is that the form of players finishing the 2019/2020 season will be key to how you balance your squads. But will they? The chalkboard has been erased, every team is starting a fresh, new objectives and fresh starts will be in EPL Manager’s minds. Therefore, a theme of switched identities is in store for FPL squads and hence why this poet and playwright sprang to mind when I first put thoughts into words for the new season. ⚽ Strat...

“There is a party, everyone is there Everyone will leave at exactly the same time” The wall of sound comes crashing through the terrace’s entry points onto the concourse nearly knocking us off our feet. The crescendo rising as Darren Fletcher finds the back of the net with a headed goal and the realisation around OT sinks in, United have taken the lead against City and F*** we missed a goal! [20 minutes earlier] As the Manchester Derby veered towards 1-1 at half time, the OT crowd were baying for blood with the familiar “Attack, Attack, Attack” but in all honesty we were under the kosh. My big brother nudges me and indicates that its time to beat the half-time rush and get to the bar asap. Are you off your rocker I scowled back at him, like a man possessed? Then, that all too familiar sound of the half time whistle rings around the ground and the race is on, for the bar. My hesitation to miss the action results in us taking our places at the back of the queue. Heh...

“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.” The TV appears on the TV, slowly increasing in size leading to the opening scenes of Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet which are in disparity to the original 16th-century theatre experience. The film is an overload of images which sets the scene for the viewer and your brain is in recoil trying to segment an age-old classic tale of tragedy against the back drop of 20 th century settings and strife. The methodology of Luhrmann in establishing the location of the film with high temp visuals which reels in the viewer is a juxtaposition when one considers that Shakespearean drama was written to be heard as an auditory experience. Shakespeare 's audience referred to going to hear a play rather than see it, emphasizing that the Elizabethan theater was an aural rather than visual experience. Shakespeare 's “5 Act” structure commenced with the prologue which helped to set the scene for t...