Hello to you all once again and I hope you've had a good week.
There can be nothing more frustrating for a footballer when you are training all week only to find yourself sitting on the bench or in come Saturday afternoon.
No matter what level you play at, if you're serious about your game it's a nightmare when your name's missing from the manager's starting eleven.
What's worse is knowing you're not going to be playing even before the team is being read out and that's exactly the situation I find myself in at the minute.
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Hello everyone and I hope you are all well this week.
I simply couldn't write my column this week without mentioning the most audacious transfer attempt in world football.
Depending on which paper you read,
Seriously, if this deal had gone through what would it have meant for
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The frustrations continued again at the weekend with our home after an early morning pitch inspection.
By all accounts the referee carrying out the inspection was on the line at the Airdrie v Spartans Scottish Cup tie and made the decision at 10am before travelling up for his match.
Now I'm not sure what the rules and regulations are for these types of decisions but we certainly felt the pitch would have been playable by the scheduled 3pm kick off.
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I hope everyone had a great Christmas and wish you all a happy New Year.
If any of you are similar to me, then January won't be your favourite time of year - it's like a whole month of Mondays.
I always take holidays from work through the festive season and now that we're back to normality it takes me a wee while to get into the swing of things again.
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Hi there, I'm Chris Jardine, midfielder with Scottish Third Division side Annan Athletic. I hope, throughout the season, I can give you a good insight into life at the newest Scottish League club and maybe even a few laughs along the way.