Janus, the roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings (so wiki tells me) and known to me as the man with two heads, who we used to hear about in Primary School when it was January. We just needed some dude with two heads, with different faces, to take our mind off December and the God of December, Santa. Janus could also refer to the star of 'Game On' and later 'Eastenders' and not forgetting 'Up and Under' (bad film about Rugby League with Neil Morrissey in it), but she's not really referred to when talking about January.
As well as being the time of new beginnings, hence the boy Janus, January is also a time for abstinence and feeling sorry for one's self in the bleak mid-winter. This January I tried to give up alcohol (lasted 2 weeks), tried to diet (didn't last) and then in the last week of the month I have started a points based diet (Slimming World, it was free because of all the fat people in Wigan, the PCT send people off to lose weight). Despite thinking that watching some football games would help me get through this torrid month, I didn't and I'm now thinking that it is looking difficult to get my last five games in, I'll have to do a few Tuesday nighters because I'm always busy at weekends now!
I haven't given up and I will get to these five games and maybe more! The mighty Farsley Celtic may not have long left. The main backer has pulled out of the club, then came back again this week. This week it seems that the Celts are having a winding-up order served on their ass. The club's success in the Conference last year was bank-rolled with a view that some of their land would be sold for housing, as it happened the Council refused them planning permission (at committee, the qualified planning professional said yes) and then the housing market went tits up shortly after. It could end up like a smaller scale version of Ridsdale's fuck up at Elland Road, but lets hope not.
