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More like a Chinese saying 'pray lets us not live in interesting times': that version of interesting..

Or maybe just to quite a few decimal places... I only came on the board to check on Hughes news, and oh gawd, I ventured on here..

Or even the Muppet show? Mods?

Cheers! Actually eating cats was so widespread in Italy later, during the second world war, that Mussolini issued a decree about it, for fear of a plague of mice!

I think he means £109,000.

The Vicentini are sometime nicknamed 'magnagati" or 'mangiagatti" from their ostensible prediliction for eating cats..

Snig ger..

I'll probably renew at the last moment, partly because it just misses a credit card statement date but mainly because I want their bums tweaking regarding poor renewals as they've so been taking us for granted.

You wouldn't be talking about Factless Allen, would you? I followed a link on a feed on my phone the other day, started reading without seeing the byline, thought "this is cr*p, it must be.." and on checking it was..

A sociologist's dream resulting in papers such as: "The football fan: a study in self-delusion" or "Football tribes: Schadenfreude as a theme in social media". Any more suggestions?

We know all about established behaviour patterns on this board..

Hmm, wish I hadn't now..!

Interesting. I presume that like us Stoke have a sports' science department, but it's interesting that I've heard reports of Hughes disatisfaction with our fitness levels, and our end of game goals conceded would perhaps bear that out. Perhaps for all the stats available, teams need the manager to use them and yield the big stick.

Yes, I also can't disagree with any of what Saint Albert says. His lack of any public announcement to the fans also is a negative point, although after his comments about Pellegrino when he was recruited perhaps just as well.

I'll have a look shortly, but it was on some article summarising all the released players which I picked up on some feed. Busy, be back later.

Poor. It would be Paolo..

That's a good point Graffito. He does put effort in, even tackling back, but apart from a couple of moments of brilliance and moments when he has got the crowd going the end result over two years has been poor. I'd like him to fully clear the air with Hughes and the club, and have a fresh start in a team not drained of confidence, and without a spirit-sapping manager like MP.

LOL. Hair's a bit receding though..

Of course, we wouldn't expect you to. It's a nagging question, and I'm sure you'd like to know too. Keep criss-crossing those paths. ;-)

More humour in some of the reactions, to be honest. At least there was support from that long term parody account, Batman.

That made me laugh!

In all of this debate where does Carillo fit in? A panic buy for sure, but who instigated and who had the ultimate approval. Did Reed push for it (if so why!?) or was he overruled. What was the involvement of the manager and the dynamic between the two? Perhaps Landford saint et al. can canvass the opinions of those closer to the club than us grunt fans?

More opinionated idiots, does this forum really need that? I'm teaching an online English lesson this evening and what came to mind reading this thread was some more work on collocations and reinforcing adjectives: sometimes there's a choice and we have personal preferences. "Utter w*nker" and "Absolute w*nker" were the two that came to mind. Do any of you use alternatives?

I see Pied has been released.

So is Ekon Okereke a Kenyan name? Looks Nigerian to me.. Edit : Snap