GLF50: How Faddy Broke My Heart

How Faddy Broke My Heart,

(an exclusive by Kris Jack)

I'd had a reasonably good day. It was the last Monday of my last school holidays and to make the most of it I had a day out in Glasgow with a close friend. Still basking in the afterglow of seeing my first article in the GLF,we talked of the previous Saturdays game against Partick, how we still had no idea why Pearo had been sent off, how, yet again, the team only ever lost headed goals and how our other associate Jim's bottle of ginger had gotten so damn disgustingly warm between parking the car and the end of the game .It was minging. Anyway, all was going well on the journey home until my upper thigh began to vibrate.

I thought to myself, " Strange, I haven't texted anyone today, so who the hell is texting me ? ". I wrestled the phone out of my pocket. One message recieved. Morton Mob. " What's this clown wanting ? " I asked myself. Opening message: Faddys gone. Evrton 4 2 milion. Scowse b$%*$&£s. ( His spelling has never been that good ).

My heart sank. My mouth went dry as the look of distress swept across my face. Fraser took one look at me and knew the inevitable, which had seemed so far away on Saturday, had happened. " How much ? " he asked. I told him, still feeling nauseous from the shock of it all. I was on a downer for the next few days.

You know that way you feel when you meet your first love's new man unexpectedly and you physically feel your heart sink and you want to grab him and give him a good smack in the chops but know that no matter how much effort you put into re-arranging his face, you're still not going to get her back and you have to deal with it, no matter how much you don't want to ? Well that's kinda how I felt reading that text and for the next few days. ( That scenario also happened in the same week for me, so it was doubly painful. Still plenty more fish etc... )

As I grew to accept life without Faddy, I wished him all the best and was jumping for joy the next Saturday when he scored the third against the Faroes. Since then he's become even more talked about in the papers and even got a mention on Radio 1. Chris Moyles' funnier sidekick, Comedy Dave, ( an Evertonian ) solved a listeners problem by telling him to get McFadden 24 on the back of his shirt after his first game. The Everton connection will no doubt see many 'Well fans travelling to Goodsion over the next season or two and I for one would be more than happy to go and see him setting the Premiership alight with his flair and temper. I read somewhere that the Everton frontline of McFadden, Rooney and Ferguson should be the only one to come with a public safety warning!

So I say, Good Luck Jimmy Mac, as an Everton Player, a Scottish Internationalist and a Motherwell Legend.

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