COPY AND HASTE
Mitch in a hurry to get back up the leagues but only with Cove
Sports fans had to head online for their entertainment as coronavirus laid waste to fixtures across the globe yesterday.
And those desperate for their Premier League fix were treated to a thrilling game of noughts and crosses between Man City and Southampton on Twitter.
Saints originally challenged Norwich, their scheduled opponents for yesterday, only for the Canaries to chicken out.
Champions City, desperate for any sort of action with a potential European ban also hanging over them, were more than happy to fill the void.
And Twitter users followed the game step by step as the clubs battled out a stalemate.
Players should have been on the skive, bingeing on Netflix as they tucked into a stuffed-crust pizza.
But eager beavers Sergio Ramos and Shkodran Mustafi posted vigorous workout videos from home to show what dedicated professionals they are.
Formula One world c h amp i o n Lew is Hamilton was quite literally left climbing the walls in Melbourne after the Australian Grand Prix was KO’d.
The Engl ishman headed to an indoor climbing centre (right) to keep himself amused on his weekend off.
His surname is tattooed on his back – “just to make sure everyone knew it was me” – from his first boys’ holiday in Ayia Napa, although he has become instantly recognisable this season.
Only red- hot Dundee United striker Lawrence Shankland stops Megginson topping the SPFL scoring charts outright with both on 24 league goals when Scottish football shut down on Friday. As was the case with Shankland, he was cut loose by Aberdeen having barely entered his twenties. And he has also been billed for bigger things only to stay put.
Since working his way from the top flight to the Highland League in 2016 via Dumbarton, Raith Rovers and Alloa, he has found the net 155 times.
While Aberdeen may have shaped him, Cove appears to complete him – even though the season might not be completed due to coronavirus.
“I sort of knew it was coming,” says Megginson of his Dons release after being a club fixture from Under-8s.
“But when Derek McInnes told me face to face I was gutted to leave my hometown team.
“Looking back, I don’t think I probably got a fair crack at it. I still could have offered a lot more to them.
“I definitely shed a couple of tears walking out the building because it’d been a big part of my life.
“Pretty much most of it I had been
“I liked a joke and a laugh but I was maybe called the silent assassin. I probably got away with more than others because it was unexpected.
“One of the boys got a brand new car, a Vauxhall Astra, and we trained at Balgownie so we had to take our car there. I think I was injured so I thought, ‘I’ll go and pick some of the boys up and do the running.’
“I didn’t want to take my car so I got his keys, he was out training.
“I got five of the boys in with muddy boots. I was tooting the horn, he looked up and saw it was his car – he was fuming.
“I drove it back (to the ground), it’s probably about a five, 10- minute drive, so I got a bit for that from him. It was absolutely stinking and clattered in mud.
“I have been good mates with Clarky (Robertson) for years, hehe’ss a family friend. I probably did that because I knew he’d at least let me away with it more than anyone else would have.”
His goals return would suggest there is method in some of Megginson’s madness.
Until last Tuesday’s demolition of Stirling, he had been wearing his captain’s armband upside down.
Having done so by accident one Saturday when Cove won then lost the next game after rectifying his mistake, he decided the wrong way was the right one for him.
“Funnily enough I did it until Tuesday,” he says. “I didn’t even realise until the fitness coach said at hal f- time, ‘ Do you know your armband is the right way up?’.
“We came away with a 7-1 win so I’m not sure what to do now.”
Then there were his Friday visits to former boss at the football John Sheran, who is still his gaffer at his day job, when housebound after a heart attack on the eve of last season’s play-off semi-final with East Kilbride.
“The first time was just to see how he was doing,” says Megginson. “And when you turn up you end up chatting before the East Kilbride game. We