The Restoration (IS12)

On 11^th November 2004 the club lost a pivotal figure in its evolution. He drifted away after a long illness, killed by ambivalence. He’d become what the club thought was a throwback, an anachronism, in the new dawn of being a serious and grown up club, but was that really the case? The trouble is once you stop believing in something Santa, the tooth fairy, god, the royal family it becomes irrelevant. Everything in nature though needs balance, and nature has a way of finally correcting things that topple too far one way. Yin needs Yang, God needs the Devil, and Holmes needs Moriarty.

Years have passed and he became all but forgotten, a whisper, an echo, by all but a few faithful followers, the bizarre, the irreverent, the camp, the holders of the sacred torch of ‘truth’ the cult of the Thracian. That torch was once shone so unerringly at the comic heart of the club that people waited in expectation to see who it would touch next. These loyal acolytes have not been dormant; they began a project of painstaking research and in turn hold themselves readyness for the return of ‘him’.

Then, in January 2012 a rumour began to circulate, a rumour that ‘he’ had in fact faked his own death and was in hiding until once again the club needed him. Could this be true? Does he still have a role to play? Will he make a triumphant return like some Arthurian figure to lead us once more to the true way of doing things? Do you even know what I’m talking about! So I issue you this warning, are you too serious?, Do you think there is an ‘i’ in team, do you cause calamity wherever you go? Are you an old school buffoon or an injury prone hypochondriac! then 'He' is coming, 'He' is sharpening his rhetorical pencil, he’s looking for soft targets, and thats you! 'He' is coming and this time he won’t be serious! His name is 'Spartacus' and he gets his retaliation in first!

I’m Spartacus!