Happy Blogday to me

Party Rings, Iced Gems and sausage rolls; streamers and balloons; a bouncy castle complete with Sammy Snake, it can mean only one thing...Sub Please is having a party.

The reason is that as of today I've been blogging away like nobody's business for 2 years, 2 whole years!  186 posts, with around 10'000 views in total and with followers from almost every corner of the globe (South America is yet to catch on to the craze, but give them time)

The beautiful thing about writing a football blog is that (with the exception of every other July), football tends to provide you with an endless stream of things to write about.  In fact the challenge is finding time to post all of my thoughts and sadly there is a high number of posts that were thought out but never made it to reality due to something else blogworthy cropping up before I had a chance to blog on the first thing.  Often it's tricky to find the time to post an update but it's something I still enjoy doing and a failing career is therefore a small price to pay, right?

Looking back over the archive it really does show how much happens in football - and it is crazy how things change and move on all the time.  Early posts on this site featured Roy Hodgson taking Fulham to the Europa League final; Diego Milito firing Inter to Campions League glory; Fabio Capello dropping the bombshell on Theo Walcott and also who can forget my forays into the creative arts with Gallery Corner.

The 2010 World Cup represented the busiest traffic time for the site, since there is something big to write about on a daily basis.  My aim is to report daily on Euro 2012, which could well descend into the ramblings of a lunatic madman given the sleep deprivation that lies in wait.

This time of celebration of the two years that have past is also a good time to announce the plans for the future.  Currently under development is the all-new super duper Sub Please.co.uk.  That's right, I'm revamping the blog and launching it in time for the Euro's; with a new look, improved functionality, different sections (including some exciting top secret areas that my legal department are losing sleep over) and also much more interactivity, so it'll be easier to post comments, tweet posts you like etc.

That is a work in progress but for now I'd just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has read any of my posts over the past two years.  Please keep visiting the site, use the Facebook page, pass it on to your friends, get in touch if there are things you'd like to hear my views on and just generally keep doing what you've been doing!  It's a very rewarding feeling to think that the tosh I put out actually gets seen by people and from time to time strikes a chord.  As for what the future might hold for Sub Please, who knows, but the only thing I can say is that when I started this blog, Southampton were in League One and Portsmouth in the Premier League.  Given the way things have gone since, I don't see any way that I can stop for a long time yet!

Thanks very much, enjoy the party, try the punch, don't forget to take a party bag.

Chris