How to become a Premier League Footballer ....

[DingleBelle]

Click on the following link:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/16/the-fiver-premier-league-starts

Scroll down the page to "Fiver Letters"

Find the following paragraph

"As an avid reader of the Fiver, I thought you might like to read this letter, which I have penned in an attempt to: a) get signed by spend-thrift Manchester City; and b) make some dough in the process. What do you think my prospects are?" – Iain Naylor"

Have a read and enjoy.  This is a friend of mine and is a trainee solicitor at the same firm as me.  He genuinely sent this letter to Manchester City and it was published in The Guardian on Friday. Made me laugh immensely.

Natalie

[DingleBelle]

Like how he got the cc in at the bottom!

Reminds me of when I was 8 or 9 and I wrote to Man Utd asking for a trial. Ron Atkinson was then the manager. I seem to remember a line in there that said I played for Thornton-Cleveleys U9's and how we had never won a game, with our worst defeat being 33 - 0.  But that wasn't my fault as I was a sub...

Dunno why I wasn't snapped up.

Still I did get a really nice letter back from Mick Brown the assistant manager - along with a really cool poster and some other bits and bobs.

Did they really?  That is so cool.

Somehow I can't imagine the big clubs these days doing the same thing.  That may, of course, be a massive and irrational generalisation!

B