Cowdenbeath FC travel to Greenock today in a league match against the Ton. The Blue Brazil, so called because their uniforms mirror those of the Brazilian national squad (in the sense that home is away and away is home), should as visitors be dressed in yellow and green jerseys, blue shorts and white socks, like some kind of Esquadrão de Ouro, when they jog onto the pitch at Cappielow this afternoon. [Well, not quite.]
Cowdenbeath are not the Brazilian national team, but they have done pretty well lately, moving up two divisions in as many years. If they win the First Division it'll mean trouble, because their home park is too small by Premier League standards, and there'll be a row.
Trouble is no stranger to Detective Inspector John Rebus, a staunch but fictional Cowdenbeath fan. A rebus is a visual pun in which pictures stand in for words, as above: a Jersey cow + Daniel in the lions' den + opera singer Lola Beeth. Do you see? Cow+den+Beeth. Cowdenbeath! Do you get it, Inspector? They're clues! Inspector? Inspector! ... Ach, drunk again.
[Cowdenbeath prevail 2 - 1. Morton stand eighth.]
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