Published: 19 January, 2012
by RICHARD OSLEY

FROM now on in life my answer to everything, absolutely everything, will be: “Yeah but Thierry came back and scored against Leeds”.

It’s all we’ve got.

A little memory to help me through the bad times.

You were beaten 8-2 by Man United.

Yeah but Thierry came back and scored against Leeds.

Fulham and Blackburn beat you.

Yeah but Thierry came back and scored against Leeds.

Spurs won the derby (with a handball).

Yeah but Thierry came back and scored against Leeds.

Even Swansea beat you.

Yeah but Thierry came back and scored against Leeds.

This chap Andrey Arshavin doesn’t seem to be cutting it.

Yeah but Thierry came back and scored against Leeds.

Celebrity Big Brother still exists.

Yeah but Thierry came back and scored against Leeds.

You didn’t understand Sherlock, did you?

Yeah but Thierry came back and scored against Leeds.

People in this miserable old world are getting divorced, wars are going on, racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, hatred all still fester.

Yeah but Thierry came back and scored against Leeds.

What will happen to planet Earth in the end?

Yeah but Thierry came back and scored against Leeds.

Do you want to go for a pint?

Yeah but Thierry came back and scored against Leeds…

I need a reboot.

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