NoBlog Number 1 - Media Personality Jim Lovetoy Writes Exclusively for The Football Ramble
21st July 2009
Writing exclusively for The Football Ramble, media personality Jim Lovetoy brings you his regular musings on the state of the game...
So the 2008/2009 football season is over and that leaves me with about an hour of every week that I wouldn’t usually have free. With no Football Cup over the summer how do I fill the time?
In a word: I’ve been partying. I’ve been having all my cool mates over, I’ve even got a mixed race one with an afro. You should see my flat when my life is in full swing, it’s like a Pringles advert, you’d love to live there. I’ve got a big poster of the cover from A Clockwork Orange as the centre piece. I don’t own it but it’s meant to be an amazing album and in a way I think that’s really the point. I genuinely love Radio Head. I’ve got bean bags everywhere too. Bean bags are cool. I don’t sit on one myself, I have a big, luxurious La-Z-Boy like in Friends but that’s the only chair in the house. I like having everyone else on the floor, and not just with my jokes! I got the La-Z-Boy because I’m a lot like Chandler from Friends, I’m always ending sentences in really brilliant ways.
I had some mates over when the UEFA Championship final was on and it was a brilliant night. Music and chat, everybody loved it. From what I read on Twitter the game was brilliant so it was a classic night all round! I’m still bitter that my beloved Chelsea didn’t get through to the final and about the criticism the team are always getting. People say that Didier Drogba is a diver but if you’ve ever played Pro Evo you’ll know that just isn’t the case. It’s lazy journalism. Before long out came the gak and as usual I was dominating the room with my charm and wit. I’m almost envious that my friends get to hang around with a credible media personality like me. It must be so nice for them, they’re really lucky because it makes them cool by association. It probably helps that I’m not just famous for no reason. I really am ingrained in the world of football, more so than any footballer playing outside the Premiership. It means when we go out my mates can use my fame to impress girls. They’re a right laugh my mates, always challenging teenage girls to kissing contests! A combination of sambucas all round and the buzz of being seen with Jim Lovetoy is usually enough for them to start the proceedings!
The summer and the lack of football reminds me of the heady days of the 90s when I realised that rather than making you look like an uncultured thug, Cool Britannia meant that liking football could actually make you look cool! Once I heard Suggs’ Blue Day I was hooked. Madness are cool and iconic and Suggs was the singer so obviously the best one. Suddenly I’d been a Chelsea fan for life. As Outkast 3000 said: what’s cooler than being cold? Ice blue, that’s what.
Despite the lack of action there are still plenty of headlines to be generated and much debate to be had over the impending transfer sagas that light up every summer. The biggest one is of course Ronaldo’s return to Real Madrid. Make your mind up mate! Real have already signed Kaka and a headline I read said they’re close to wrapping up a deal for the entire Villa squad. I know they finished a lowly second in the rubbish Spanish league but it shows that if the second best team in Spain want to replace themselves with a few Galacticons and the sixth best team in England then the Premier League must truly be the best in the world.
I’ve killed my hour for the week now but don’t worry, I’ll be regularly updating you on my musings throughout the summer courtesy of the good chaps at The Football Ramble. Enjoy the sun and look forward to my next column, because as they explained to me about the title, this is no blog, it’s a column. It’s credible. Proper journalism that has an influence and shit. Laters. Chelsea Chelsea!
Jim Lovetoy
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Lukey Moore
:::2009-08-06 14:28:12
Cheers Jim!
Shurv
:::2009-08-17 00:00:54
Jim Lovetoy is exactly what the game needs, a straight-talking, unbiased, level-headed, credible journalist that would never do anything as stupid as breech broadcasting rules if his team was dumped out of a european cup by a team from the little village of Spain (I didn´t know that football had actually spanned to anywhere outside London!)
Good stuff Rambleforce, just to add my two penneth, Lovejoy is a twat!
Kelli Garner
:::2009-09-26 13:54:06
Thats very good to know... thanks
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