Sorry for the off topic posting, but I'd just finished
writing this joke for a local NG and they thought it was
funny, so I thought I'd pass it on.
Peter Taylor, the manager of Hull City, gets wind of a
potential new young player who lives in Iraq. Taylor and the
head coach catch a plane to war-torn Baghdad and track the
young boy down.
They risk life and limb dodging bombs, bullets and grenades
but finally find him and convince him to come to England.
The boy does a full pre-season, plays all the practice
matches and gets picked on the bench in the first team for
the first game of the year.
Ten minutes into the first half, one of the players goes
down with a severe knee injury. Taylor turns to the boy and
says, "This is it son, go to centre forward and show us what
you can do."
The boy proceeds to play the greatest debut game in FA
history. He scores 5 goals, scores goal of the season and
lays on another 3 goals for his team mates . The team chair
him off the ground and give him three cheers back in the
changing room. Taylor tells the team what the boy from Iraq
has been through and that he is a model lesson for all.
Taylor then pulls the boy aside and says, "Go into my office
son, ring your Mother and tell her what you did today". He
proceeds to do so. "Mum", he says down the phone, "Guess
what I did today?"
"I don't care what you did today," his Mother replies. "I
tell you what happened here today", she goes on. "Your Dad
was stabbed and robbed, our house torched, our car blown up,
your sister molested and your brother abducted." "Gee," says
the boy. "I feel a bit responsible for what happened".
The Mother replies "So you should be, if it wasn't for you
we would never have moved to Hull.
SJM