Only An Excuse SCOTLAND'S FUNNIEST FOOTBALL COLUMN - WITH JONATHAN WATSON & PHILIP DIFFER

From: Evening Times | Date: June 20, 2007| Author: PHILIP DIFFER; JONATHAN WATSON & | Copyright information

Grave promise drives fans mad

IF YOU'RE a Sellic fan, it's the kind of headline that plunges you into deep despair, makes you question the very meaning of life: Gravesen vows to stay and fight for his place.

According to Michael Laudrup, Gravesen (inset) needs to sort his head out. Fans should thank Michael for taking up psychiatry since chucking football and being able to impart to them that incisive insight. Without that, most fans would never have noticed Tommy's mad, scary e...

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