If you listen to the superb Danny Baker Show on Radio 5 on Saturday mornings (and if you don’t, you really should), you’ll know he spends the first 15 minutes of the mere two hours he is on air running through the various subjects he wants to cover.
Well, if you’ll excuse me, I need this week’s column to be my equivalent of that 15 minutes.
You see, the number of weeks of the season are diminishing all-too-quickly and the subjects are piling up.
Here’s what, with your help, I need to address before the start of May.
1 Football managers and coaches whose names rhyme with teams they could run. I’ve made a good start on this with my Twitter chums and if I tell you that the pairing of David Moyes and Newell’s Old Boys (Lionel Messi’s first club as a youth in Argentina) is not even the best one, you’ll see the bar has been set high.
2 Random football managers’ draw. I’ve been planning this one since last season – a cup-style draw to pair each of the 92 clubs with 92 managers, on the basis that I reckon you could swap them all about, and teams would still perform about as well or as badly as they would with different bosses.
3 A study of who was No1 in the singles chart when various Pompey fans and possibly players were born. This may extend into research on whether Pompey’s ups and downs over the past 60 years have any links to musical artists.
So there we are, the next two months are going to be a right old rollercoaster ride, aren’t they?
If you can help on the rhyming managers front or want to tell me who were your birth-date chart-toppers, do get in touch via e-mail or Twitter as detailed at the top of the column. And now, the travel news...
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