Alex

Like a deeply racist poor man’s Rod Hull

Yeah. More wishful thinking than anything else on my part

Get the UK in while we’re at it

I guess you can’t really use the excuse of missing 6 weeks when you’re 4 months into your stint at a new club

The axis of irrelevance

I always post from my personal phone. At work

Kewel story, marra

He reversed the polarity

Aye. I was going to say there’ll be a ridiculously overpriced bid waved through, no questions asked.

He’s a sergeant in the Home Guard

Aye. But Man City are one of the best teams in the world, marra

Someone I went to school with rather than a renowned ex-poster

Just twigged who you are

Quite possibly, but if they want Tino it’s highly unlikely we can do much about him going anyway. We can probably put them off until the summer (at best).

They’ll double or treble his wage which is the real deal clincher for him and his agent

There was a piece recently (think it was in the Sunday Times) about his struggles with alcoholism and mental health. He was very good friends with Shane Warne too as they played together for Hampshire. One of my heroes due to his skill and bravery, particularly in an era when he was going up against loads of top class fast bowlers. And one of the few shining lights in a dodgy England batting line up. The power of his square cut was immense. Very sad news

Only one sub allowed then too which I don’t think changed until the end of the 80s.

I worry about you worrying about that

And only about 16 players

That local authority at its absolute craziest btw. Making people drive much further to recycle / dump rubbish. Thereby discouraging recycling and making fly tipping much more likely. Not that there’s any excuse for the latter but you know what I mean. My lass’s parents are the same. It’s just a two minute drive but they can’t use it

I think the two housing estates next to West Moor / Camperdown (where the Miller and Carter is and the one over the road from there) were both marketed as East Gosforth.

Well my old high school (Seaton Burn) has rebranded itself as North Gosforth Academy. It’s not even in the same local authority as Gosforth