Alex

I bet it’s absolutely fucking gash.

Colin from Accounts is canny on iPlayer. I caught a bit of one episode and I’ve ended up watching 5 of the 8 now. The trailers on the beeb for it make it look a bit shit tbh so I was pleasantly surprised.

Well watching the second half in a pub rammed with gooners was nice

The train, fortunately.

I’m back home tomorrow night. Small mercies.

On me way down to that there London for some waste of public money conference bollocks tomorrow in Southwark

Pure, fascist scum

Not that it needs saying but a reminder of what a fucking lazy, incompetent, fraud Bruce is. Absolutely zero interest or desire to improve or look after his players.

Villa are about 8th favourites for top 4 iirc. Like I said earlier you can get 50/1 for them. I know the bookies get things wrong and odds can change and factors like the amount of money bet etc come into it. Even so that shows the virtually impossible task they have. I think as fans (especially NUFC fans) there is a natural tendency to go all ‘worst case scenario’ then assume it’ll probably happen. I think the bookies odds and the stats based on probability of different scenarios give a much more realistic view though

That’s a good point. Assuming the formation stays largely unchanged I would say he’s one of the wide front men (although they obviously interchange a lot with Willock / Longstaff anyway). I don’t think we’ll sign him though. Rice would definitely be a great addition but we’ll have lots of competition

Well, it’ll probably be shown to be legal. The RCN thinks it is. The government will no doubt take legal action at huge public expense on the basis of this technicality then blame ‘woke lawyers’ or something when they lose.

Now named after the move where you kick the ball away when pretending to pick it up

No, but easily the most famous

Yeah. I don’t get out much these days tbh But we probably catch up and have a few bevvies every couple of months

Was just thinking - imagine being trapped in Sudan and having James Cleverly coordinating the plan to get you out?

You can get 50/1 on Villa to finish in the top four.

Trust the recruitment policy. Everyone signs the odd duff one but we certainly seem to be doing our research. I know what you mean though. We’ve been so impressive that you kind of think they have to be top drawer, definitely improve the starting XI or they’re young prospects instead. There doesn’t seem much point in Burn / Targett type signings this summer (nowt against those two either)

Think the older ones with grandad (like that clip) were probably better. The one where they go on that fishing trip to Dartmoor and Del ends up in the cottage with the escaped murderer was a good one.

When Cruyff passed away I was talking to Tooj when we were out for a few jars. He said (and it’s hard to disagree) that no one had more influence on the modern game than Cruyff. When you think about the way he played the game, his time coaching/managing teams, as a commentator, philosopher on the game, as an administrator, etc….

That fucking bell end Phil McNulty had nauseating, sycophantic bollocks-riddled piece on the BBC website about what a good job ETH had done. It must’ve been up on there within about 30 seconds of the penalty shootout ending v Brighton. Not a fucking bit of insight in it. He justified it by stating the obvious, ie they’d won the league cup and were now in the fa cup final. I’d love Man City to give them an absolute hiding

I think it was in David Winner’s Brilliant Orange where’s he on about Cruyff. He said Cruyff had so much time to think about how the game should be played because when he was 18, he could already do everything

He’s on about the current Sunderland team 👍🏻

That was meant to be JFK’s dad. Although it’s probably apocryphal. There’s a shoeshine boy / barber version too.

Loved that Trio advert he did. RIP