I’m still in a state of mild euphoria this morning because of the wonderful opportunity I was presented with yesterday. The way the action panned out in the second round of the Latin America Amateur Championship (LAAC) facilitated the stuff of headline writers’ dreams. I am by no means a headline writer. In fact I’ve always been terrible at it, but even I couldn’t miss that open goal. If you’d like to know more then you’ll have to check out the Friday round-up article. Or I could just tell you now. I’m that pleased about it, I just might... The two overnight leaders were Justin Hastings of the Cayman Island and Patrick Sparks of Peru. “Sparks Flying and Hastings in Battle…” Back of the net!
I wish I was good at writing headlines, it’s such an art. The one that’s often remembered in Scottish sport is from when Celtic were dumped out of the Scottish Cup by Inverness Caledonian Thistle – Paul Hickson in the Sun wrote – “Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious.” He never claimed full credit because he remembered a headline from the 1960s. Liverpool striker Ian Callaghan scored three goals against QPR and the headline was along the lines of, “Super Calli Scores a Hat Trick, QPR Atrocious.” All art is borrowed from somewhere.
