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Do you give the arse or the gut when you pass them? Always find that a tricky scenario to navigate my way though. (although obvoiously in my case it's arse or c*ck)

Thought i'd resurrect this thread as we are now only two weeks away from the seasonand i'm sure most of you will be close to making all your new purchases to make sure your wardrobe is premier league class; so what's your style updates? I got a new jacket, a rather tasteful khaki coloured one. I've also purchased a pair of new gazelles, the ones with the gum sole. A new Ma Strum Polo and pretty green t-shirt have also entered the wardrobe and i'm off to Italy the first two weeks of September with a clear credit card intending to stock up some new and rare gear which will leave most of you trailing in my wake. What have you lot purchased to get ready for the new season?

Wannabe northern mug.

Exactly. Totally unnessasary. There are burger vans outside if people really are that desperate to eat and unable to cope without stuffing their fat faces for an hour and half. Get rid of the food and make them all beer outlets.

I agree and lets keep all the greedy, fat c*nts away from the food. You want to see morons kicking a ball from the half way life go to a village fete, you want to stuff your face with burgers go to Mcdonalds.

It's hilarious. It's also really funny to chant "Liverpool" and "You're gonna win f*ck all" at them.

Scotland and Northern Ireland dont really have a choice though do they.

Dont forget this little beauty.

Is it a sign of a positive relationship when a a manager is constantly threatened with the sack?

Sorry. What do you mean?

Puncheon was excellent when he first joined, then when his formed dipped a bit and like everyone else, made a bad start to our promotion season all the divs started getting on his back. Is it just coincidence that both Guly and Puncheon have had dips in form when the crowd have started getting on their back?

The Lad with the West country accent who was the guest on the cycling yesterday was hilarious. His comment about the girls team who got gold and broke the world record being " emotional things" cracked me up

Les Reids role is crucial. Cortese listens to him and whilst every decision is Cortese, football wise Reid is a huge influence. To give Cortese his due, unlike Lowe he knows he knows FA about football so leans on Reid for advice.

They had two fall outs in the summer. Adkins was "sacked" because he went off on holiday and Cortese was trying to contact him, about what I don't know, but he was unable too for 3 days, when he finally did he let rip at him saying a manager he can't get hold of is no good to him, he's sacked etc. This was the one Les Reid had to clam Cortese down over and made him see sense. the other one Was over the Gorkss deal. Adkins really wanted him and for whatever reason the deal never happened but the player was here expecting to sign only for the plug to be pulled at the last minute (unconfirmed reports cortese lost his rag with the agent) Again Reid acting as peace maker although on this occasion Adkins wasn't sacked.

See what I mean.Usual mongy response whenever anyone doesn't say everything is magnificent.

I'm sure I'll be shouted down for this but I know for definite this happened last summer and Les Reid had to sort things out and smooth everything over between them.

When was this? I know about one time about this time last year, during the summer. When else?

He was on radio 5 a few weeks back and same across as a really decent fella, as most of them do. Jessica;lovely girl. All of the seem like really decent humble people with no hint of arrogance and a great pride at being there. Probably also has a lot to do with why the whole country is gripped by it. The only times in my lifetime where its got close is Italia 90, the 05 Ashes and 03 Rugby world cup. It's rare for our sportsmen and women to be both successful and decent people.

Maybe, I find it a little strange that a manager who is preparing for his biggest season ever and achieved extraordinary things in his time here is regularly mentioning his future in a relatively negative way.

Can't have it all I guess.

More comments about his long term future as manager. Slightly odd in an otherwise positive article.

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He was brilliant. Fantastic night.

I agree, really good guy.

A lot said that about De Ridder at first as well. He does look promising but I'm reserving judgement until he's played 20 or do games.