Remember Boots and his Chelsea collars? The silly sod never seemed to hold onto them for very long, losing them all around the neighbourhood. He managed to get through around 9,963 of them before the Chelsea Megastore finally ran out.
That said, I’m sure that, if someone had put Chelsea accessories on me, I’d have done my utmost to lose them, too.
Since we voted to put Boots in Crystal Palace collars, he hasn’t lost a single one. He still wears the very first Crystal Palace collar placed upon him. Furthermore, the bell on the collar is larger and louder than the Chelsea one, and serves as a better warning of his impending approach to his stepbrother, Antoine.
Sadly it doesn’t seem to warn the local wildlife quite so effectively, as Boots – who was never that much of a hunter during his Chelsea days – has caught at least two rats since being Palace-collared, despite not being very well and on medication. On one of these occasions he had the whole body – or what was left of it – in his mouth, with the tail hanging out and slapping around. I don’t think his poor mamma will ever recover from that sight. Nor from that sound.
So clearly Boots was never a Chelsea fan. He’s a Crystal Palace fan.
Here is Boots, with collar, bell and fight-scuffed ears (to which we affectionately refer as his “scalloped pie dish ears”) on display, and looking rather pleased with himself:
And, astonishingly, Crystal Palace have been doing rather well since acquiring Boots as a fan. So maybe he will bring more luck to them than he has to his long-suffering mamma.
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