Charity Begins...In The Shop

I am a creature of habit.

There is not time here to list all the various rituals I go through before going to a football match.

I wear lucky t shirts, there are lucky songs, we have to park in the same place at certain grounds, you name it, I have come up with it as an idea to help us win.

And every night, on the way home from SexyFootball.org.uk I listen to Radio 5Live.

On the drive time show – a magnificent piece of radio – the other day they were discussing whether there was too many charity shops on Britain’s High streets. If I recall, they were in Rochdale, where apparently there were about 10 charity shops in 100 yards.

It wasn’t good, they concluded, for Britain’s shopkeepers, and whilst that might largely be true, it did go through my mind that these things existed because people like bargains.

Around a month ago my Dad was having one of his walks, and ended up in a town a couple of miles from where I live and happened to find himself in one of these shops.

He came home raving about it, to the point where he suggested my brother, who is soon to move into his first home with his fiancé, looked in there to kit out his new abode.

Whether my brother does indeed decide to buy his furnishings from the British Heart Foundation I don’t know (but then I don’t know how he bagged himself a trainee Doctor in the first place – life is full of mysteries) but it does go to prove that if you look away from the headlines you can find some great stuff out there.

And 5 or 6 a side football is where we can help you with that search. There is a massive difference in prices out there and as we grow – and believe me we have some big plans for 2012 – we will collate them all and make sure you get the best deal.

Now, we are away on Sunday, is it my lucky Iron Maiden shirt, or because we have lost the last few games shall I try something different? A Dream Theater one perhaps? We won when I wore at that at WBA…..