Lighthouse

I’d say the only thing that is ‘quite fucking obvious’ is that Ross Stewart is not going to just write off the last year of his wages, or even a portion thereof, for no reason.

Christ, that was probably the first meme/internet celebrity I can remember, along with the Numa Numa guy. Those two have probably shacked up and got grandchildren by now.

We lost 5-0 at home to Brentford, then in our next league outing put in a much improved performance at OT. Even teams as appalling as we are have relatively good and bad performances. Fulham was obviously a better day than Spurs but with less favourable wind that game is another 2/3-0 defeat, on par with the rest of our season.

Why though, how does that benefit either party in any way? He’ll most likely see out the rest of his contract here trying to get fit again and retire at the end of next season when we release him.

I’d say that’s far more likely than the £100m some are talking about. It puts him right in Lavia and Livramento territory, similar players from when we last went down.

Probably money back, maybe up to £25m but I can’t see us getting much more. He’s a PL player but he’s hardly been astounding this season and I don’t think his standing will have gone up with other clubs since we bought him.

He got one 0-0 in a game when Fulham missed a bunch of chances and Ramsdale made a couple of decent saves. He hasn’t demonstrated anything and there’s no reason to think he’d be an improvement on Juric.

Fair play, that’s a cracking effort.

Nobody wants to be relegated with ‘worst PL team ever’ on their CV, so it’s a bit odd to suggest he’s not really bothered about our fate. He’ll want to succeed and prove himself as best he can, same as any other manager we might have appointed. He’s only 49 too, so this is hardly one last, easy payday before he retires.

Yes they could. With no additions to this squad we’d be solid playoff contenders at the very least. Our players are better than 90% of those in the Championship and would win far more than they’d lose at that level. Stick half the teams in the Championship in the PL and they’d struggle to get to five points, let alone nine.

We managed to shake our losing mentality fairly quickly when we beat Swansea 3-0 a couple of months ago. The Burnley game showed that we will have to improve to be among the top teams in the Championship but you’re only ever as ‘confident’ as your last result. Start the season with a 4-0 win and this campaign will quickly be forgotten.

Forced out in the sense that Everton offered him something like the fifth highest wage packet in Europe.

He falls under the umbrella of ‘scumbag porn’. He’s no different to Katie Price or any of the d*ckheads on Love Island, Big Brother or TOWIE. They offer absolutely nothing of any benefit, talent or interest to society but people love to watch them and gossip about what absolute trash they are. I guess it releases endorphins or something, feeling like you’re much better than other people.

No place for this in football. I’d hate to think that intolerance could creep into our major tournaments, in Russia, Qatar, USA and Saudi Arabia.

That was good for a couple of months and it tends to be followed fairly swiftly by the IPL, which I think starts this weekend. If you pick a couple of teams to get behind, it’s usually a decent watch.

F1 is back and Hampshire’s cricket season kicks off in a couple of weeks.

First part - hopefully getting a good head start on our recruitment for the summer, identifying the players and managers we need to get us promoted again and hopefully make a better job of staying up. Second part - because there’s no point whatsoever in sacking him and his replacement would be a man who’s only ever managed at a National League level.

He’s achieved absolutely nothing other than undermining Ukraine’s defence of their own existence by throwing his toys out the pram and withdrawing military support

The great man has managed to negotiate Putin into promising he’ll only bomb schools and hospitals for the next month. What a shrewd dealer he really is.

Why should they?

I have sympathy for them because they’ve been thrown into a situation in which they’re hopelessly out of their depth and it can’t be good for your self-esteem to be getting embarrassed like this every week. Most of them are trying their best. They’re just crap.

I was starting to think we’d run out of ways this season could possibly get worse, but I think throwing kids to the slaughter and watching them ship double figures every game would probably do it.

Leicester’s last 7 home games 0-3 Wolves 0-2 City 0-2 Palace 0-2 Fulham 0-2 Arsenal 0-4 Brentford 0-3 United I mean… at least we’ve seen a couple of goals since Christmas.

Quite happy Newcastle won, personally. Don’t particularly like them or the PIF but at the end of the day they’re just another part of another soulless sports conglomerate. I’d rather them win the least fashionable of the big four trophies and make Liverpool’s season a bit less special. Plus everyone can now STFU about 70 years etc. In tonight’s game, Vardy on his way to another defeat, which is always nice.

At least my sh*te is consistent, so I must be getting plenty of fibre. Five games ago, everyone was saying I was ‘beyond help’ if I couldn’t see how Juric was a ‘night and day improvement on Martin’.