Alex

Aye, that’s what I meant. The other, other brother. But I think the one you mean was after Clarkson (briefly) edit: just checked and it was in between Clarkson’s two stints as presenter.

If you can remember the 90s you weren’t there. Or something.

I thought TOTP was on a Thursday. Did it move to a Friday? Also, I’m of an age where I would’ve usually been out in a Friday night in the mid/late 90s. I do remember The Word and Eurotrash though. TFI and Fantasy Football were a bit different to anything that had been on tv back then. Although the former has been done to death now by the likes of Ant and Dec. The latter benefited from the massive boom in football. Btw, the other Coogan brother was the singer in The Mock Turtles iirc. And I saw Steve Coogan live at the City Hall about 15 years ago. I still like Partridge but it was so bad I didn’t even see him do that bit of the act and left at the interval and went for a curry

Wynning

I think it’s largely because Trippier is our main playmaker in effect in the lopsided back 4. With Burn playing more like a third centre half a lot of the time. If you leave Trippier out, that doesn’t work so maybe you then need two fullbacks giving you width. Which disrupts things a lot, in relation to how you line up. Then I don’t think he thinks Hall is ready and doesn’t seem to rate Targett. I think Gemmill’s right about the game being on a knife edge. Gloom is right too though that you can’t play Trippier twice a week all season at his age. This squad is still very young (in terms of its development) too. What have we had? 4 windows since the takeover. With a decade and a half of poor investment (and not just in the first team).

Nice. He’s a funny one like. I kind of know him by association. I don’t he’s a well chap but that doesn’t excuse everything of course. I think he’s back writing the programme notes for Percy Main Amateurs so keep your eye out for volume two of The Village Voice 👍🏻

Got feet like you though, which evens it up a bit

Also 2 keepers on the bench. You would think just giving a young player the experience of being there would be more beneficial. I think that really smacks of ‘look how thin the squad is’

Don’t forget the hardworking families struggling to get to the food bank

Not just smug and fake but the format too. I couldn’t get away with it. There was a lass I knew who liked it before it really took off when Ross had a pet monkey, which was hilarious apparently. Obviously you would catch the odd episode as it was pretty ubiquitous in the late 90s. The scenes where they’d sit in a cafe or apartment when they’d all be there. Then they’d one by one do little skits - Joey the thick as fuck fanny magnet, Phoebe the ‘cookie’ shite singer or whatever. Fuck off you bunch of fucking cunts. It was going up against the likes of I’m Alan Partridge, Father Ted and The League of Gentlemen at that time. Even stuff like One Foot in the Grave was miles better imo, in terms of more mainstream stuff. Not really much of a one for US sit-coms in general though. Married with Children was canny when I was about 13 like. Although that might not have been 100% down to the jokes

Damaged goods

More than they paid for him fuck right off.

Seemed to have a lot of problems with addiction. RIP I fucking hated Friends like. What a parcel of shite

If you were any sort of fan you’d be pleased Gordon was proving you wrong instead of desperately looking for reasons to criticise him 👍🏻

Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t happen

Not sure if anyone has seen it (think it’s on YouTube) but Fury won via an absolutely terrible decision very early in his professional career v John McDermott for the English heavyweight title. Obviously he was a lot less experienced but it was similar in that he wasn’t in shape and thought he only had to turn up. And then, like tonight, by the time he realised what was happening he’d already ‘lost’.

That’s arguably worse than a loss. A completely bent decision against a bloke who’s never fought in a professional boxing match before.

Fury needs to get back on the wild boar

Big John Fury should be entertaining post-fight

Yeah. I agree and said earlier I can’t understand not putting those Hall and Livramento on with about 30 to go. It was 2-1 then as well. I guess Howe doesn’t want to disrupt things too much in defence at the point. But we’re going to have to utilise what we’ve got with the CL games.

I think when you look at the squad + the injuries this kind of performance is just inevitable with the extra matches. As frustrating as it is we’re just being found out and the manager is limited in how much he can influence that.

A long 20 (or 30) minutes here like

I don’t get signing the likes of Hall and Livramento if you aren’t going to use them in situations like this.

Aye, they’re using the Olympic Stadium while Camp Nou is redeveloped I think

Found the link btw: https://pca.st/episode/4f01de03-6147-4df1-9a3b-37a19685f10f