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And then call the ref and lino a cunt. 10 match ban aka David Prutton.

Actual time wasting or just receiving the ball from Alex for the 40th time?

I always do hope Saints win. But the worst case is another 0-1 or 0-2 where Russell’s fluffers get to claim the referee cheated etc when Allison has read his Kindle all match and Liverpool meander along in first gear with Slot patting Russell’s head after the game. Mind you, look what’s happened to the last big name manager who did that! He learned something alright - how to lose and and totally fold.

If we break Derby’s low PL points record, will that be a source of pride for you, the manager and the board?

And tied to Biden who ran out of gas two years into his Presidency, as I sense Trump may do if the mid-terms don’t go well and turning 80.

Takes one to know one Fabrice. How are things at the club’s PR firm. Business going well? The majority of boycotting fans were correct in 08/09 and those of us with STs propped up a bad regime.

He could be hired with a large bonus for promotion and then bin him off if you do get up. He’s only got one promotion though, it hardly makes him on a par with Warnock, McCarthy, Big Sam, Pulis Mowbray etc. He’s miles off the level they were.

Fair point Trousers, but those of us that tried with Pellegrino got tumbleweed. Our fanbase is totally different to the Branfoot and Lowe years. Very obedient, and those who once had a bit of go and ambition in them have had it knocked out by two successive record low PL points totals and gutless displays. Hardly surprising the fans are lacking in any backbone to show Martin, Rasmus and SR the door like we did with Branfoot and later on Rupert. Yet the football itself is worse now than it was under Branfoot and Nathan Jones. There was a bit more hostility towards Jones like the old days but for whatever reason, the fans don’t have the bottle to challenge Martin in sufficient numbers, so he can pick off individual fans as hecklers. Not just Martin though, go for SR’s throat. Albania flags on the Northam Wall, banners about Rasmus. Stuff that will get into the mainstream media and disrupt Russell and Rasmus’s vanity project. Drive a wedge within SR itself as well. They won’t do any of that though, and most are just understandably too tired fighting an arrogant, inept institution they used to revere and find other ways to enjoy their weekends as I have.

Inflation, inflation, inflation. Partly immigration, but mainly economic. Going back to Tory leaders, I don’t agree with Soggy that it’s about nice/nasty, I think their issue is they keep electing leaders who are not deemed relatable by Joe Public. And last one who was turned to be corrupt as hell with Partygate and more. Thatcher was a marmite leader with divisive policies (even if our household did well from them as a lot did in the SE) but people forget how relatable she was, sitting comfortably in the kitchens of families who just exercised right to buy discussing their plans for the house and their families. It wasn’t put on for the cameras either, she enjoyed it and was natural. They are trying to replicate it but can’t - Truss or Badenoch haven’t got any people skill. May had the sincerity but it didn’t come across naturally and was deemed wooden.

Not least Leeds’s away record - answers on a postcard as to where they finally broke that very long sequence?

Tonight’s offering SG was Phoenix, a collaboration between Hook Norton Brewery and Arbor Brewery in Bristol - describing itself as an American Brown Ale but much, much darker. And it looks like a Black IPA. Bitter up front from the roasted malt and blood orange from the US hops, with the palate clashing slightly but it then mellows nicely into a Terry’s Chocolate Orange vibe but with a sharper edge. Nice, would have that again. Got it from Dunkerton’s, the cider makers who have a big cider, ale (Stroud), global food and farm shop complex on the edge of Cheltenham off the A40. The farm shop sells other local beers and is run by Daylesford Organic, it’s where this came from. McEwans - I remember it was very popular in the 90s when I first started drinking, our local Co-Op sells their Champion ale in bottles (at 7.3% it could earn the moniker Red Death!). I liked the equivalent beer from Broughton.

After Russell is dismissed, absolutely.

As long as the manager is changed well before then. I’d make us relegation favourites with Russell Martin in charge. He’s making Ian Branfoot look like Brian Clough.

Whatever the inverse of the Midas Touch is, SR has it. VAFC should be ripping up that league. Feel sorry for their fans, even more so than ours

More chance of signing Baldrick.

We were the vehicle - but if you burn the show-home down, the rest of the development won’t be worth much. But they’re aren’t up to much at business either so this hasn’t dawned on them and Solak seems totally unaware that Ankerson and Martin are leading them back down the leagues in their vanity bullshit. Just leave them to it and when somebody buys the carcass in League one or two maybe we’ll take an interest again. None of the St Mary’s tourists will say a word until it’s far too late and we are 10 points adrift in the Championship drop zone in two years time,

If that’s an option, I’ll have Shankly thanks.

Sounds like more of a classical Trump loyalist pick. Other than the Scientology, not at a lot at face value to stop a nomination succeeding through a GOP majority Senate, and I can’t see the GOP being phased by that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi

Beattie as well was very reliable from the spot.

Yes, home to Spurs I think. My old man was impressed with Folly playing at DMC.

My old man had a few quid on him for the first goal at the League Cup final as he was our penalty taker at 16/1 and low and behold… Very nice little win back then I believe.

Allegedly kept our players waiting in a boiling tunnel at Plymouth pre-season whilst he received an award from them which caused ill will with the senior players (IIRC that was from MLT’s memoirs). Beattie got serious shit off their fans playing for Everton but denied he was horrible to Sturrock or offered him his autograph (was the rumour). Still, even 04/05 looks sane compared to Russell Martin, Rasmus Ankerson and the madness of SR.

I was there for City away, at the Barbados Test for Wolves and missed Claus’s first goal. My old man attended home games in my absence and saw Delap’s overhead kick. I should have gone on Barmy Army duty more often!

Fair point 🙂 The jocks managed to stop short of the cliff edge and there were loads of hidden costs in their leave campaign, not least a lack of clarity of whether they could carry on using Sterling, whether the EC would let them join the Euro (very unlikely as Spain didn’t want the Basques kicking off) and/or the EU itself.

I thought about Steve Williams but my first season was 83/84 and that was the only full season I remember him from although was superb. Christmas 1984 he went to Arsenal which never really worked out for him. I’ll edit to put him on the bench. Golac was slightly past his best by that time, have seen the WBA goal on You Tube. Keegan sadly just tantalisingly before my time, ditto Channon, both leaving summer 1982. Beattie v Lambert was a tough decision, Lambert was a more refined player but James’s astonishing 02/03 got him in. Imagine the conversation rate given supply from peak MLT, David Armstrong, and Danny Wallace!