Prairie Fever!

According to legend during the early years of American history, prairie fever was quite common among the settlers as when they arrived in the wide open prairies their closed minds just couldn't take in the open spaces, or the heat etc. To people coming from sheltered backgrounds like ourselves that is understandable to a certain extent, as we do live a sheltered sort of life, in a small country, one in fact where you're never more than two hours drive from the sea. Bearing that in mind can some-one tell me how Raymond Kennedy, a native of this country, could come up with the ludicrous idea of switching to summer football? It's one of those 'red herrings', similar to the campaign for 'Sunday football', which has proved to be a non-starter, 8 months into the season and only one game played on a Sunday so far. Raymond (who is to brains, as freedom is to prisons), says this would solve our fixture backlog. Maybe Raymond (in fact there's no maybe about it), needs to be reminded that one of the reasons for our fixture backlog is that we lost two games at the start of the season, one due to a strike by referees who now get paid a minimum of £100 an hour (not bad if you can get it I must say)and the next week most games were wiped out due to torrential rain. This of course didn't happen in the middle of winter, but in supposedly high summer, 16 August. Another reason for the fixture pile-up is that last season the minimum number of games played by any team was 38(here I'm assuming teams played in the Shield and not the North west or Bob Radcliffe cups), this year thanks to the superior knowledge of Raymond and his fellow bunglers, each team must play a minimum of 42 games, four more games to fit into an already packed schedule and we've had the worst winter for over forty years to boot. So let's not hear any more 'Prairie fever' talk, sort out the fixture schedule, if you must do something, but only panic when it's necessary, it's much too early for that yet!