18th November War of the walls ready to begin

 


No it's not a mistype and I wasn't hoping to be reviewing a new staging of Jeff Wayne's classic War of the Worlds sci fi classic. Rather it is the countdown to what will be the war of the walls to end all wars of the walls. Just who will be the focus of attention for familes up and down the land, will it be in the red corner, the challenger of peopel's festive focus, the World Cup wall chart or will it be in the blue corner, the reigning winder wonderland champion, the Advent calender?

In the opening rounds it is expected to be all one way traffic with World Cup wall chart renowned to be a fast starter first out of the blocks and predicted to have100% possession of people attention for at least a week.  This fixed focus might start to wain depending on how well Eng-er-land do in their group games. 

Armchair pundits are already warning that World Cup wall chart is normally a summer beast and might not cope well with having to perform out of season. Larry Giniker, who has spouted endless tweets about why Quatar shouldnt have been awarded the competition, but who will put his morals aside in order to be there as the face of the BBC, has already told supporters of World Cup wall chart not to hope for it to reach the final stages.

Especially after 27th November when the real face to face battle begins when Advent calendar will come off the subs bench with its flash and glittery promise of chocolate tricks and sugary stepovers. And thats without mentioning it has on its side a Jewish Jesus capable of redeeming the whole world compared to a Brazilian who wasn't deemed good enough to even play for Manchester City.

At the time of going to press Grace Under Pressure is unable to confirm the rumoured arrival of a new non binary player in this competition in the form of the Advent football calendar. What will the Quataris make of that I wonder?



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