Joey Blows A Gasket: The Training Ground Detonation That Launches The Final Act
We don’t really know what went on during the training ground bust-up that gave us such joy when the story broke in the papers, so a little dramatic license can be taken here.
Obviously we’ve been hearing rumours about it for a long time, and there are really several different versions of the story.
In some of them there’s a lot of bad language and even the spilling of blood; any writer would need to decide whether they want to keep this strictly comedic or risk an 18 certificate.
I would tend to go with that myself.
What we do know is that Mr Ego decided that he’d let the rest of the players know how he felt about their performances, and that he would let the manager know how he felt about his. The resultant carnage got so bad that they sent him home and the press was briefed that he would probably never play for the club again.
As funny as all this is to us, their boardroom couldn’t have been a place filled with laughter at the time.
It would be appropriate to have a couple of scenes of scheming where they decided that it presented them an opportunity to get a first-rate dud off the wage bill.
Because, believe me, those conversations were taking place.
I simply remember that day as being one of great hilarity; this was the blow-up we’d been waiting for since BartRon signed, and when it arrived it was every bit as glorious as we’d been hoping for. The balloon had gone up, but it wasn’t over yet because there were another couple of twists still to come, and at least one of high comedy that still gets us laughing today.
