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He’s a truly dreadful manager and a horrible horrible bastard. Hes the sort of manager that ruins a football club: spunking money on old washed up players on massive contracts, playing turgid anti football and hoping to “nick one”, blaming everyone and everything for his own shortcomings, hiding behind stats and pseudo science and hoping no one notices hes as thick as pig shit. And thats before you get into his shady dealings and pocket lining antics, pompous self regard and annoying fucking drone. I hold him in the same low regard as Souness, Kinnear and The King. Managers who you know will be an utter disaster for your club before they’ve even turned up. I hope he doesn’t get sacked by Everton as he will ruin them; I’m sure he’d rather have a big pay off and put his feet up for the world cup, the greedy bastard.

I love how, in their head, Sam Allardyce is actually such a MLF when in reality, he's just a greedy bastard who was very well paid to (just about) do a job. Everyone else sees through him but that pack of needy, validation-starved lunatics.

And a 'massive lads fan', totally loyal to them, who would love to leave a premiership team and move to a league one side who couldn't be sold and had to be given away in the end.

One key error being made, and I mean across the board here, is painting constituencies as "Leave" (or "Remain") as if it's some kind of binary. Your constituency voted 55% to leave? OK, now you're a "Leave" area, and that's that. Even though there's 45% in the same area who voted to stay, and even though we know the referendum brought out a lot of voters who would normally never bother voting, and who likely won't bother voting in the next regular elections either. Clue: they're not the Remain voters. Even walking around this supposedly "Remain" neighbourhood, I know that 3 in 10 of the adults I pass are Leave voters (or soft remainers/don't-carers who didn't vote, which is almost as bad). Which is useful, since I hate most people. Might as well get a head start on finding reasons for doing so.

FYP, Donner McLeod

Or maybe, some POPE! Sorry

You won. Get over it.

statement of intent

I'd send Hayden out on loan, next year. Think there's a decent utility player in him but he probably needs another season of game time. Send him to Cardiff or something, I don't care if they have a say in the matter. Just force them to play him.

If he was wearing a Liverpool shirt, he'd be in, even if he started 10 games all season. With regards to Shelvey, it's maybe the worst exclusion since Darren Bent in (2006?) where he was in pretty strong goal-scoring form. For me, this crack about temperament is complete bollocks; I think he doesn't know how to play him and/or won't shift from whatever terrible system we're playing this year. You can almost see how the Tunisia and Panama games are going to pan out now. Lots of England possession as the midfield move it slowly sidewards, Sterling tries to take him man on but can't so he goes back into the centre, it's moved left very slowly for not-a-left-winger Rashford to try and take his man on but can't because they're so deep so he goes back to the centre, rinse, repeat. I think Alex's point about international sides sitting deep is valid but even with that mind, Shelvey's eye for a pass elevates him well above someone like Jake Livermore, who is going to contribute absolutely nothing. Imagine looking to the bench when chasing a game and see Jake Livermore and realising you've left Jonjo Shelvey at home. We deserve what we get. I'm not sure why it's taken the World Cup squad selection to remember that Southgate is a shit manager too

You never know, when his agent tells him Stewart Donald has called he might feel like he fancies working for the US president.

Wigan Away, Boxing Day 2007(?) Got beat one nil, probably a Ryan Taylor goal for them. We had tickets for Stoke in the cup and Manu away after that. When we'd been to them we weren't going fuckin back. Then after Stoke bisto tits got sacked and Keegan came in...... Was thinking about it today when some gormless talking head was banging on the usual bullshit about him. Maybe Ashley looked at him and his gigantic yet utterly fuckin worthless entourage of sport scientists nutritionists and head doctors and said to himself " am not paying these cunts salaries for the next four years theyre fuckin shit".... a fuckin bluffer with friends in the media to keep polishing the fuckin turd that passes for his career.

It’s like pubic tumbleweed

Twats.

That Grabbans beard is absolutely fucking revolting.

Evertons statistics are grim since he took over. They’re 19th or 20th in the league for things like shots, shots on target, chances created etc iirc. They brought him in to stave off relegation, and he’s accomplished that so he sees it as a job well done. The issue is they panicked about relegation far too soon and it shouldn’t have been about bringing in a ‘firefighter’ manager. He came in and managed them as if they were the weaker side every match. He’s now driving Rooney (who iirc is their top scorer) out of the club, for no real reason other than Rooney sees him for what he is. As others say there’s a reason this bloke is disliked everywhere he has been. He points to the fact clubs usually go down when he leaves them as if it means it was him keeping their head above water but the reality is he fucking annihalates teams, riddles squads with utter cloggers who can only play one way and it’s a fucking mess when he leaves. If Everton don’t get shot of him ASAP their ownership is fucking mental.

It’s almost as if these fans want to enjoy watching football. The cheek of them!

I'd have been tempted to give Butler the gloves and move Bairstow up to 4. Bairstow is probably second only to Root as the most reliable run getter we have at the moment so I want to see him in as early as possible. Also giving Buttler the gloves might make feel that he can contribute in more ways to the team so not feel like he has to go out and start hitting from ball one. No idea about this Bess kid but I'm glad we're giving a young lad a go in this series. Sticking with Moeen as a front line spinner has made no sense for a long time. It's got to be Stoneman's last chance. I'm a bit surprised they haven't given someone younger a go in this series. If Stoneman fails again they are going to have to try someone new against India. And unless Jennings can continue on from his last couple of knocks, or Hameed can find some form again, it's going to have to be someone completely new. And if Cook also struggles and decides to call it a day, we could be needing two new openers to come in.

And scoring goals.

I sometimes forget just how awesome it was that Allardyce reached the pinnacle of his career and achieved a lifelong dream in getting the England job only to have it ripped from him due to the fact that he’s a dodgy cunt.

Hopefully we can get someone along the lines of Pele or Maradona to play just behind him

Not even Southgate is boring enough to find stats interesting.

Bet every time the phone goes he's hoping it's Moshiri giving him the boot. Even when he was being interviewed about his future it was clear he couldn't give a toss about keeping the Everton job. Be interesting to see who they replace him with, might they try and tempt Dyche or Howe? I think the latter would be a very good appointment for them and a good step for him. I think he's taken Bournemouth as far as he can and if he could improve Everton and perhaps win them a cup or something then an even bigger job might be open to him, a job that at the moment he's unlikely to be considered for.

A year on and this picture still perfectly encapsulates the Brexit negotiations.

In one

I suppose who you think will go and who should aren't always going to be the same. Southgate is a boring man, a boring manager who will pick a boring squad. Pope should go but He'll take Hart Lascelles should go but Mawson or Maguire will, possibly Smalling Shelvey should but Livermore, Wilshere, Winks or even Barkley will be more likely chosen. I actually think barkley might be an outside bet tbh, hes the most like Oxlade-Chamberlain of the other "maybe" players and southgate wants someone to run the ball from midfield rather than pass it

You'd have gotten bored after 5 minutes because you didn't understand anything and started doing something else. A bit like David Davies

It's been the irony of the whole thing since it happened. Farage the classic case in point. A massive part of the reason for causing the mess basically fucks off and tells everyone else it's their job to sort it out the moment it occurred. And still people don't see through him

We're doing bits and pieces in the new house to put our own stamp on it after moving in. Mrs Fish goes off to visit her sister and I paint the 2nd bedroom the specific shade/tone/colour of white she's picked out and tested. Now, I'm painting over a really subtle orange colour. Maybe Spanish Cream or Spanish Cream Half on the Dulux chart https://www.dulux.com.au/colour/all-colours. I use one of those One coat tins and do the lot while she's out. First time I've ever painted a room and I have to admit I think I've done a pretty good job. "It still doesn't look white", so rather than argue I do another coat. "This wall still doesn't look white, are you sure you've used enough paint?" I begin doing a 3rd coat then realise the reason there's still one wall which looks like it might have a slight orange hue, is because the sun is reflecting through the window off the neighbours fucking red brick wall. Close the blinds and voylah, it's as white as a Jim Davidson audience. Then, over dinner, "Do you think the white is too cold for that bedroom?"

I’d love to be a fly on the wall for the moment they realise that not even Joe Fuckin Kinnear would drop that low.

Attendances v attendees. Wait till Donny finds out there's a big difference at the BOL.

Apparently they'll take Sam Allardyce back as a statement of intent Completely ignoring the fact he's a money grabbing bastard and would never drop that low.

Sad but brutally true. Neither Shelvey nor Lascelles will have been given a second thought. Instead some abominable set of cloggers like the aforementioned Livermore or indeed Alfie Mawson, Delph, Michael Keane, or Drinkwater will go.

Southgate is not a risk taker. At all. Too emotionally damaged from that penalty miss, I would guess.

If he’d any sense, he’d be shutting his twitter, fb and Instagram accounts and opening new private ones. But then, he’s bought sunderland F.C. so he’s obviously got none

The Don's sick as fuck of these horrible c***s already!

Steward. Its even spelt correctly for him in the tag.

https://medium.com/@paulbrownUK/the-so-called-worlds-association-football-championship-3f825e7b10e6

You win.