THE BRICK IS BACK !!

Overnight tv video evidence has confirmed that our street`s fleet footed wideman, Scott Wagstaff, did indeed score a breathtakingly sublime 25-yard volley into the top corner to notch Charlton`s second goal in their 3-0 win against Bournemouth yesterday.   But what was equally impressive was his goal celebration which saw the much heralded return of `The Brick.`

This extraordinary contortion was first used by Wagstaff after he scored against Yeovil in a game last season and it consists of standing still, then falling flat on your back and remaining motionless until your teammates converge upon you.   This inventive celebration resulted in Wagstaff making a guest apperance on Talksport`s Hawksbee and Jacobs radio show in order to explain what it was all about.  Here`s a clip of the Yeovil brick:-

Now, a few short years ago, during Waggy`s formative years, my neighbour Mr. Slightly and I offered our services to become his joint agents.   I expect he now regrets snubbing our proposal, which would have ensured a much wider application of The Brick and all it represents.   Even back then we saw it as a marketing commodity with enormous economic potential.   We would have seen to it that Waggy and his brick would have been patented world wide so it could only be used on licence;  we would have arranged nationwide televised bricking competitions and marketed a whole range of products including remote controlled bricking gnomes, board games and BrickFit exercise DVDs.

The potential is still clearly enormous but we doubt that the new contract he has just penned with Charlton makes any mention of bricking rights.   That`ll teach him to snub our advances.   Incidentally, I have often wondered how you `pen` a contract.   Is it possible to conjugate the verb `to pen?`   Knowing Waggy, however, it`s more likely that he used a biro, so he`s probably `biroed` his new brick image rights lacking contract. 

Good goal though.  To be fair.