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A permy move sounds great - the last one was Kevin Keegan, and he did well for us.

So if and when you say IMO should we take it that it isn't your honest opinion? And if you add neither IMO nor IMHO would it mean it wasn't your opinion at all? In that case shouldn't you add ISEO or even ISEHO? SWALK.

Sometimes I think you might be intelligent, and then there are many other times when you make it appear distinctly unlikely. This is one of the latter occasions.

There's something in the back of my mind that tells me if we did that we just might win the league?

Then we don't have the most talented side in the division, do we?

I'm not sure you meant it to sound so frequent!

Buck up, things must be improving if his efforts on goal are now half decent.

He also said IF they did, he has alternative funding possibilities. If he was absolutely cast-iron guaranteed certain they won't, he wouldn't have need to have consider alternatives, that much is obvious. They probably won't walk away but people are very quick to say with 100% certainty what they can't possibly be certain about.

This about a bloke who hasn't even posted on this thread? You need help with your obsession!

Actually I read the entire thing and took out of it the bits that to me show LM's view of himself. It's your opinion that it was twisted or out of context, but there are many others I'm sure who think that what he says and how often he says it is revealing of how important he still thinks he is. As I said, I've always thought well of him, but he really is beginning to sound as if he constantly needs his ego stroked, and it's just time he let it go a bit. He was sucessful for a while, and I give him a lot of credit for it, but he should quieten down and cease some of what looks like attention-seeking. Building bridges and offering olive branches or however he sees it - why on earth should NC really care about that? This "I'm always available - they can give me a ring" stuff (not intended to be a verbatim quote but an approximation) is not as quite as benign a remark as he is trying to make it appear. If I were NC or a new manager or whatever, I'd feel somewhat patronised at the very least.

It's been obvious right from the start that it wasn't really Markus who wanted to buy us but NC, and that he managed to get ML to bankroll it, and managed to enthuse him a bit (especially if ML knew he was ill and wanted a bit of fun for a while). If the Liebherr's want out then NC, if he want's still to run things, will have other finance options in his back pocket. It's all going to be down to NC's own enthusiasm and commitment.

I've normally supported LM, but he really is missing the point. He tells us there has been only one official FA cup winning team get-together. Well, how many "official" ones does he need? If he wants to get his mates together for a horlicks or cocoa that's fine, no one's stopping him, but stop living in the past in public. He offers the club "an olive branch"? Isn't that just a tad arrogant? That somehow the club should feel that accepting his olive branch is a necessity? He did well for us. I fondly dust off my 1976 etc. memories from time to time, but for heavens sake Lawrie it was nearly 35 years ago. I'm not going to forget it because I was there, but really, your regular public reminders are becoming a bit sad now.

Looks as if he needs a bit of meat on him to fill out that dressing gown he's wearing.

Well, I can't really disagree with what you say, but a lot of fans mix up lack of form, carrying an injury etc. with "can't be arsed", especially when they've decided they don't like him. Nevertheless I think that if the side as a whole has been poor the spectators have the right to tell them so. They are "professional entertainers" and should know what comes with the territory. That's the other side of the trophy bird/bmw 4x4 coin.

I'm waiting for the re-emergence of the "Have you seen Pulis play?" brigade, who have been clinging to the "he's a young lad and should be given a chance" or "someone must have seen something useful in him to have given him a contract" theories like a Titanic survivor would have clung to a fragment of floating handrail. Or maybe this time the evidence is incontrovertible? Time to get proper jobs Ant and Tom. Asda will probably have something suitable on minimum wage. You'll still be able to put on boots and have joke in the warehouse. They've probably got a free shower as well. With a bit of luck they may let you put out the odd cone or two in the car park.

Only when he was doing Jeux Sans Frontiers in 1977. Trouble is I had to wear lead-filled diving boots and an inflatable giant vegetable suit covered in shaving foam just to run him through the rehearsal. It wasn't worth the money.

To relieve the tedium (possibly), your post has prompted me to plan a sumptuous celebration of our 125 year history, featuring many of your own "stars" and a few of my own: Forsythe, Sir Knight what might thee partake on this celebratory occasionne? Some game Hare or Venison? Or prefer thee of fish or fowl? Pike or Crabbe caught welle by our Master Fisher? Thyne Kite has taken some goode Birds and a Drake may score well with thyne guests, although they may incline toward the dark meates of Bullock or the Chamberlain’s Ox lade out yonder, well-Beattie flat with an Mallett, simplie to cut with a sharpe Steele. Else perhaps mutton gently shorne by thyne own Shearer in advance of terminal butcherie undertaken by that bottle-tossing serf Hurlock, and much cutte about and set in Master Chivers Damme Jelle. Perhaps many will fav’r Master Syden’s ham, set out cut thinne on the left ‘ere. Will the blessinge and splashinges of holy water at the Fonte onto morsels of our repast be donne by our spiritual visitors the Dean and Bishop, or will our King and his Prince (alias King Richard’s Son) care to dismisse such religiousity not of a Sundae? Hesitate that I saye it should be a Godfrey celebration. I heare from your kitchens belowe that the Paine-Aux-Raisins deliver’ed by our Norman French player who supplyes this eve’s displaye of Ball juggling aided by an auld jesting Traynor from across the Irish sea are to be preferred to the cook’s own bad Hollowbreads themselves with their Burnsides all blackened. For the distraction of all we have the acquiescence of a younge ladde going by the name of Nicola to performe as a Cortesean (lightly-dress’d) on vertical poles cut from your own Forrest following deliverie of the platters to those seated at the long table. Perchance after the feast our erstwhile Lord Reader has it in mind to deliver a speeche from Myster Chaucer’s Canterburye Tayles, The Reeves own storie I believe, following whych he is designed on retiring to bed for his Knapp (severall tankards, nay Cases of Worthington’s finest ale to take their full effecte). I have advised him to entertayne us well else the Bates and jibes from the Earls will greatly offende his timide sensibilityes, though in such an event he has it plan’d to demande of them whether they have no Holmes of their owne to go to. And not to cut shorte the night’s entertainments and distractions, there is extensive tournament of Gurrning and the pulling of horrendous faces (but firste prize we must expecte will be won by Master Dowie as is usual, a verrie Lowely jeste on my partie!).

But you'd soon get pretty despondent in your own job if, despite being paid well and having a nice canteen or whatever, the customers kept shouting abuse at you. You start making mistakes over things you'd normally take in your stride. I'm not averse to a bit of booing at the half-time troop-off if the side has played very badly in the first half, but booing or barracking an individual player in your own team is out as far as I'm concerned.

Clearly Mr Cortese did otherwise he wouldn't have launched the shirt. Or are you saying he thinks the buyers are mugs who can be sold anything on the least pretext? Or are you saying the people who bought them to commemorate the anniversary are stupid?

Wow, a Daily Mail political cliche in every sentence. Well done.

That's exactly what I said at the end.

Nice bit of hindsight.

Not sure about that. RD didn't look before playing a weak pass inside, and he wasn't under any pressure either.