Undiscerning Concomitants of the Nidorous Development,

The football season has only just kicked off and its defining moment has come and gone despite the fact that not every professional club has even played a match yet.

The match was East Fife versus Brechin City at New Bayview, Methil. East Fife scored the only two goals of the game in the first half, but the undisputed highlight of the 2009/10 football season occurred in the early stages of the second half.

There exists a particularly vocal group of supporters, I could call them clueless but I prefer ‘adamant’, if I knew what they looked like, I wouldn’t sit next to them, but unfortunately, I don’t and chance decides the outcome. The gift one of them bestowed upon us on Saturday compensates for many years of tolerance.

Words can’t describe the brilliance of this moment and I guess The Bellyaches massive will be mystified.

After a few untidy midfield tussles, the ball breaks on the bounce to an East Fife player just inside the Brechin City half close to the stand touchline.

He is being approached by a Brechin City player. He decides he is going to hurry.

He chops the ball up.

The ball could have gone anywhere. It looked as if it might land in the midst of a potential aerial battle between one East Fife vertically challenged player and two tall Brechin City defenders near the edge of the Brechin City box.

‘YESSSSS!!!!!’, went the shout.

There it was. I imagine the supporter rose from his seat with his fist clenched.

They didn’t care for the result of the potential aerial battle. The very notion of this high, spinning ball heading roughly towards the Brechin penalty box satisfying, delighting, pleasing the imbeciles pushed me towards a breakdown, a collapse in a fit of giggling.

If only they were so easily overjoyed after every action of every match.

The ball was headed away to safety.