A good start

First things first, my name is not Dave. Nor is it dave.

I chose a fake name as I, like my co-blogger (fake name yet to be decided), do not wish to find myself besieged by young children, lost emo-kids and autograph-hunters when I am trying to watch my team play or scoff down a half-time sausage.

However, the fake name I picked was William. I typed William into the little form-y thing, required to set up this blog. I know I typed William, even though I am a little tired and was at that exact moment in time also communicating via Facebook chat with my co-blogger. If I had a house, I would stake it on the fact that I know I typed William. If I had a car, a dog or a pot to piss in, I would stake them too.

But somehow, blogger got from William (spelled with the appropriate capital letter) to dave (spelled without it). I wouldn't choose Dave as a fake name because a) I am no one's uncle and b) while I can't dance I rarely try. I especially wouldn't choose dave as a name because I am literate.

And before all the daves/Daves come out ranting and raving, I have nothing against the name dave/Dave. I just know a lot of people, myself included, with strange uncles, all of whom are called dave/Dave. Davids on the other hand... now there is a name you can trust. So if I had been going to opt for this particular moniker as my fake moniker of choice, I would have been David. Instead I chose William and got dave.

This is not the most splendid of starts.

Anyway, the idea behind this blog is that myself (dave) and my co-blogger (fake name yet to be decided) have been friends since we were about 11 and now find ourselves both holding season tickets for two different football clubs in two different countries in Europe and have decided to pool our experiences into this blog. Our dream is for a pre-season friendly between our two clubs (ideally over two legs and with some kind of trophy at the end) to take place in the summer of 2009.

I am the Bohemians fan and I live in Prague. Bohemians kicked their season off with a joke of a fixture (5pm kick off on a Friday evening away at Usti nad Labem) last weekend. And won 1-0, thanks to an own goal in the 14th minute.

And because I was unable to attend that is all I can give you this time round. That and a picture of the village of Loket which is where I decided to go instead. Pretty innit? (If by some amazing circumstance you have found this blog in the first 10-12 hours of its creation, the picture won't be there. Trust me, I will put it up there at some point)

This weekend is Bohemians' opening home game of the season, against Opava and Cardiff's first game of the season, at home to Southampton. Be sure to come back soon for Co-Blogger (FNTBD)'s pre-season rambles - if he has any - and our reports on the matches, the HT sausage and anything else we see fit to ramble about.