gandalf the red wrote:bloodfiend wrote:Cthulhu wrote:My transfer deadline day sweet shop analogy:
The child in the Everton shirt buys sweets for cheap because that's all he can afford and sells them on to other children in the playground for a decent profit.
The child in the Liverpool shirt isn't allowed to buy any sweets because he spent too much on sweets last year.
The child in the Chelsea shirt can't decide which sweets he wants, so his Russian uncle buys them all.
The child in the Man City shirt can't decide either, so his Sheikh dad buys the sweet shop.
The child in the Newcastle shirt refuses to buy any sweets that aren't imported from France.
The child in the QPR shirt panics that the sweet shop won't be there the next day so buys many random sweets at inflated prices.
And finally... The child in the Arsenal shirt is made to stand outside the shop as his dad says they have loads of sweets back home, 2 of each in fact, and that they are more than good enough for consumption.
The child in the Stoke City shirt knows the sweets he bought already are crap, but chooses not to buy anymore cos they'll just about do the job.
The child in the Aston Villa shirt is bought a pile of rotten and broken sweets and told to make do with it.
The child in the Portsmouth shirt is beaten up by the owner of the shop for all sweets he never bothered paying for.
The child in the Rangers shirt who spent money he didn't have on sweets and is not allowed to play with the big boys anymore.
The child in the Barnet shirt wants to improve the bland uninspiring chews he is eating, so he decides that they'll be improved by combining them with grubby bashed-up and broken Dutch boiled sweet from 20 years ago. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't make his sweets any better.
The child in the Wimbledon shirt is so aggrieved about the sweet shop relocating 10 miles down the road that he sets up his own stall in the corner of the playground.
The child in the Brighton shirt is banned from the sweet shop for holding hands in the shop with a male class mate.
The child in the AC Milan shirt walks out of the shop, disgusted by the fact there are no black boiled sweets.
The child in the LA Galaxy shirt spent his parents' entire life savings on one old sweet which he vaguely remembered tasting nice a decade ago. It has now gone all mouldy but he made lots of money selling replica sweet wrappers.
