A Big Week
When I was a kid I spoiled one of the ‘big weeks’ of my life.
I loved American comics, particularly ones featuring Superman. One day on a trip to Peckham I saw a life-size Superman poseable figure and knew it was the best toy ever invented. I wanted it and nothing else would do. Over the next couple of weeks I nagged, dropped hints, sulked, pleaded and engaged in some utterly selfish kiddie behaviour. Eventually, driven to desperation, my mum told me she had already bought for me and I had ruined her birthday surprise for me. I can remember sloping away feeling guilty, stupid and greedy.
The life of a QPR supporter in recent times has been filled with proverbial ‘big weeks’ for the club. It’s been a mixture of sweet and bitter big weeks, with most of the sweeter variety arriving since September 2007.
Before then, the big weeks comprised police investigations, court cases, VAT winding up orders, take over bids fading away, kung fu fights with Chinese Olympic teams…oh you get the gist.
Since then our big weeks have included successful take-over bids that exceeded our wildest expectations, new managerial appointments (thanks for all you did LDC), some great loan signings and the type of permanent signings that once seemed forever beyond the reach of the club.
So will this week be a big week of the good variety. I have no idea. But I want it to be. I want some of the promises I think we’ve been made to come to fruition this week. I want to see a Real Madrid defender come on board. I want Watson, Shittu, Cook, Zamora, Evans or whoever else represents a serious step in the right direction to join our ranks. I suppose I want the bookies to be right in making us promotion favourites and I know we don’t have quite the right personnel to make that happen at the moment.
I’m not ungrateful - I appreciate that where we are now is fantastic in relative terms. I suppose I just hope that our new owners are wily old souls. I hope they are telling the world it’s a three-year plan, whilst privately they are bursting to be in the Premiership by 2009-10.
Maybe this week will be the big week, I suppose we’ll have to wait and see. But I’ve decided not to repeat the mistakes of my childhood. If a metaphorical Superman come along this week - well that’s OK. If they don’t I’ll be patient. Who knows what surprises might wait next week, or the week after that…
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