TABLES TURNED..

......ah well, back to the mayhem.   And amongst the nonsense that seems to dominate the `news,` I see there`s a lot of fuss about Kate Middleton`s exposed boobs, in regard to which I confess, perhaps disloyally, to have absolutely no interest whatsoever.   Similarly, I can do without all the stuff about so-called `celebs,` whose sad lives offer nothing that might contribute to my wellbeing.   

As for politics, well it`s in a bit of limbo at the moment as our leaders prepare themselves for the annual shindigs of their party conferences and, of course, it`s business as usual in Brussels where the unelected and the unaccountable plough on in their fantasy view that everything in their world is just dandy.

So I am forced to turn to the parallel universe of football in an attempt to discover anything of  note and the first disappointment is to see that the top four places in the `best league in the world` are taken by Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal (not necessarily in that order) and that Southampton are firmly anchored at the bottom of the league with nil points from their opening four games.  All sadly predictable.

And then I see something of stunning significance.   It is that my neighbour`s heroes, the Gills of Gillingham, brushing aside their recent defeat at an Industrial Tribunal in Ashford, find themselves at the top of League Two, undefeated in their first six games.   Not only that but their `interesting` manager, Mad Dog Martin Allen, has picked up the Manager of the Month award.

So, with the Saints doing anything other than marching in and the Gills surging onwards and upwards, the tables seem to have been turned here in Snopper Street.  For us Saints fans, things seem to be going from bed to verse, as the art mistress said to the poet, and it says much that even in the unpredictable world of football, I find it difficult to escape the mayhem to which I have now returned.