Alex

Very clever but not quite clever enough to fool Matt Le Tissier

Typical HR. Always passing the buck

Most HR professionals (and I have met and worked with many who are sound as a pound) couldn’t tell you what the fuck they actually do without slipping into ridiculous bureaucratic jargon

Moeen I reckon.

Tbh his place should’ve been under threat anyway. He’s never a number 3

I got an email at work about this time last year telling me I’d been overpaid about £6,000. I hadn’t as I was correctly being paid for being on temporary promotion but they proceeded to take £500 off my pay. Which just happened to be two days later. This being the civil service, the payroll was outsourced. The department approved an emergency payment so, fortunately, I wasn’t out of pocket. Despite numerous communications from my line manager and others within the department this took four months to sort out. With the exact same rigmarole of my pay being docked and then emergency payments having to be made to make up the difference. You couldn’t even speak to anyone on the phone about it. All communication had to be via email. Even if it was legitimate and I had been overpaid, how the fuck do they expect someone to be able to afford being paid £500 less a month with 2days notice? I wouldn’t mind but the people it’s outsourced to are based at Balliol Business Park, about a ten minutes walk from my office. Might as well have been on the moon for how responsive they were. It’s a bit like if you’re on an emergency tax code. It takes fucking months to get it back. But if you owe them a penny they want it yesterday

Pope’s out. I wonder if they’ll bring Foakes back in and play Bairstow as a specialist batsman. I hope so. So presumably it won’t happen

It was a persistent myth and my dad repeats it every time he goes past. It’s a funny fucking place to live though.

Steven Gerrard is, according to some reports, wanting to sign Jordan Henderson. #Imagine

I remember driving to Chester via the M62 and it was genuinely quite a scary experience

LTA having another normal one

I just googled it. It was originally Watford then Derby in later series. 54 episodes over four series apparently. When I was looking it up I did vaguely remember one about a ghost

No idea. Well I didn’t until I looked it up. I used to love that show though. I’d completely forgotten about it. Murphy was the Scottish football manager of the team. They used Watford matches in the scenes didn’t they? Coincided with when they were class under Graham Taylor with John Barnes and Luther Blissett. Can’t actually remember anything that happened in the tv series like.

That means he played for them for about 25 years

Luton definitely hate Watford. I always thought it was quite funny as, even in the 80s, Watford had a reputation as a family oriented club

It was more I could imagine him contradicting his own story with a negative spin

Edwards?

I think it must impact on your motivation a bit when you’ve gone from being almost an ever present at one club to getting virtually no time on the pitch. Especially when you’re at your peak. I’d probably take him anyway but a loan move would be perfect.

I used to know a Luton fan from Cambridge and he hated Cambridge United. Not sure if that was universal though

Claiming the entire County of Durham including all the bits of it that were historically within that county too is fine though. Even though, by their own admission, it’s full of ‘Mags’

Who the fuck is that desperate they go onto any forum of another team and then says how great their town is and slags off their rivals for likes though?

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/would-you-play-in-saudi-for-minimum-5-times-your-wage.1610432/ not a hint of racism in any of the replies 👍🏻

is #59 they gave him a free cheese slice to take to the match?

Were any of those other dismissals /attempted run outs or stumping at the end of the over after the batsman had gone back into his crease then left it again?