Rooks!

Where did this come from?! Completely snuck up on me. Nuevo Castillo de-stinged the Bees today at 5-1, the demolition causing me to look to see where Rooks wuz in the whatcha call standings table. Fifth! Newcastle FIFTH! Now, they have played two more matches than their nearest competitors, Brighton and Man-U, who, if they win their games in hand, would scale Newcastle with alacrity. But Newcastle have been close continuously to the Coke dispensing machine since they were most recently promoted and they are really, most sincerely not so far this season! Congratulations to the Striped Prison Shirtings and their fans. That is one of the grand clubs in all of Merry Ol' and they had fallen on hard times under a penurious owner.