City can’t win without the man in the hat (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

City can’t win without the man in the hat

7:14pm Friday 27th March 2009

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Drastic times call for drastic measures.

With City’s season reaching crisis point, something’s got to be done.

The best way to get ahead is to get a hat – in my case at least.

I got a rather fetching Canadian trapper’s hat for Christmas which has done a fine job in keeping my balding barnet nice and toasty through the winter chill.

The hat’s arrival also coincided with an upturn in City’s results; 13 games with hat and just two defeats.

Now I don’t tend to be the superstitious type, unlike a certain member of the Valley Parade hierarchy who always has to eat his “special” pork pie before every game, but that’s not a bad ratio of success.

Particularly when compared with the results when my bonce goes au naturel.

Before last weekend, the score without my head suitably attired read played four, lost four – trips to Barnet, Notts County, Exeter and Bournemouth all hatless and pointless.

I thought Port Vale at home looked a banker to break the run. The hat was duly left chez Parker and look what happened! A first Valley Parade defeat for six months.

So regardless of the weather, the hat will be there at Chester tomorrow afternoon.

And if Stuart McCall’s dream is fulfilled and City do still make it to Wembley on May bank holiday, look out for the prat sweltering in the winter hat.

City obviously can’t win without it.