Miltonaggro

I think that the academic qualifications achieved by Nigel were to ensure a familial income inside or outside of football management (as a physiotherapist or in the sports science arena), and for that he should be proud. Not sure that these qualifications have any bearing on his chances of being successful as a top flight manager but it would appear to be unlikely, given the evidence provided by the current incumbents throughout elite sport / elite sport management, let alone football. What it probably does give him is a perspective on the difficulty of life outside the football bubble, and how hard kids have to work over three years at any university to get any degree. My only experience of Salford University alumus was spending a short period many years ago working at the Houses of Parliament alongside a mature student from that institution (on what now would be called an internship, then work experience), an unreformed hippy, who made Neil from the Young Ones look like Roger Moore (voiced by Steve Coogan), he used to ride between Manchester and London at weekends on a motorcyle combination in all weathers and was a malodourous nutcase - to his credit he was a City fan and they were sh*te at the time. I also know that Salford is ranked about 100 out of around 115 UK Universities after a bit of trawling a couple of years ago after being tipped off that an ex tutor of mine had been removed as a Professor at Salford after not stopping doing what he had been doing when I was being tutored by him...

I might commission Brennan to undertake this as the centrepiece for my bin storage area...

He will be their Brian Clough. It's his spirtual home after all...

He might also be keen to keep the home fans on side. Imagine that, a Saints biased ref at SMS...

Boruc has certainly got the ability to be up there with Neimi, but the twin demons of mind and waistline have to be tethered first. Perhaps he needs to feel the love of the fans ;-)

He'll shoe in something about Rodney Marsh and Stan Bowles at some point too, in order to add some historical depth...

Can you imagine a Brennan version of MLT, it would look like something from Mordor...

If anyone can get a group of disinterested overpaid tosspots playing, it's Droopy, unfortunately...

I would like to see one for each stand, and it would have to be Marcus and Le Tissier, with perhaps Micky Channon giving it the windmill. Just don't let Brennan near it...

He should have done Ted as a Sphinx...

Dignity and Dragon print dressing gown...

He'll be unemployed in that case...

There should have been but Mike Wilde lost the receipt!...

Di Matteo spent this evening hand feeding orphan puffins at a puffin sanctuary in Inverness. This after being sacked 24 hours previously. Not saying that this in any way diminishes Nigel's actions, but just adding perspective...

Will be Gazza, should be Boruc dependent on fatness and eccentricity...

Was he wearing the new stylee replica shirt?...

I reckon that this could be it, very similar to the Patrick and pretty universally popular...

It's amazing what a win can do, and even before the QPR victory the vast majority of posters on here and fans generally were very happy to back Nigel Adkins. The main variable though, as Alpine points out is that this backing will not figure in Cortese's decision, if he feels he must act quickly to secure Di Matteo. Should he make this call it is his a*se on the line if things don't work out, not that this would bother him...

Could tolerate the generic Adidas as long as we don't get the horrible block red back like Stoke (which Sunderland rejected). Tell you what though a 'reverse' Ajax would not be half bad and hark back to the early 80's Patrick model...

Apparently Ian Brennan has been commissioned to provide a 50ft gold plated statue of Nicola for the entrance (The Colossos of Marchwood) - this time he is not worried about getting the proportions wrong...

Lydon is 'irish' Arsenal. The 'strained' episode of Fantasy Football with him and Sylvia Krystal will forever live long in the memory...

We had a complete football lesson, particularly in midfield in the Euros back in the summer, the Italians made England look like plodding rank amateurs. Most foreign imports rate more misses than hits, but if anything Italians have always added flair and guile to the Prem, off the top on my head, Vialli, Zola, Di Matteo, Di Canio, Lombardo, Ravanelli, and now Balotelli. Of that lot, if Gaston fulfils his promise and grows into a 6ft Gianfranco Zola, that'll do...

Ramirez is hell of a player and is on a different planet to his team mates at the moment (three times on Saturday he threaded a needle with a pass and nobody was running on), once his fitness catches up and the rest of the side catches on he is going to be a potential trump card for us every game. Just a shame that the failure to sign the necessary defenders means that we can't fully relax and enjoy the talent at the moment...

I usually spend the whole of half time in a tense line waiting to get served before having to give up when I'm about eight from the counter or forfeit the start of the second half - the staff resemble young conscripts under fire in Saigon. I have tasted the fare only once, and it was nasty, which is wholly expected but could be addressed - it takes real negligent talent to f*ck up meat pies and beef burgers. All in all, it's a bit like the OXO Tower...