For an aspiring writer, the endless effort to find
publication at places that actually pay hard currency is gruelling and
soul-destroying in equal measure. Thus, it was pleasing to have a first pitch
accepted over at BT Life’s a Pitch; even better that, five days later, it was the
most popular piece on the site (assuming that wasn’t manually chosen). Its subject
matter? Why Spurs should deploy Tom Huddlestone as a libero.
Now, popularity’s not necessarily a good thing with things
like this. It could simply be the result of how off-beam the opinion piece was:
a car crash has a certain fascination, after all. If you read the first
comment, the suggestion is that I’d been “smoking crack”. Nevertheless, a few
people sprung to its defence and, overall, it sparked a bit of debate, which, I
guess, is what websites are after: traffic, innit. Triffic.
Anyway, irrespective or not of whether I was talking sh*te, it
undoubtedly contains the best Stature of Liberty-related pun you’re going to
have read on the whole Internet that day. Describing Big Tom as a potentially “statuesque
libero,” I went on to say…well, have
a look for yourself.
