Alex

neither of them have a thing to offer, do they? Bar more lies

I obviously don’t know your mam but I suspect a lot of the reasons for the way she’s reacting is because of the other stuff she’s been through recently. It’s not what you need and it’s not what you want now of course. I’m not defending it but try not to take it too personally is all I mean. I hope you can sort things out with her and your wife. Best wishes as ever. Feel free to pm me any time and the offer to go walking is still there once you’re feeling up to it

I rate him as our most important attacking player. I think we probably got him because he’s a bit injury-prone and it was clear we desperately needed a centre forward. The other factor is the bizarre way Ashley operated. A competent manager who was not a yes man and made demands of the owner got scraps to live off. Whereas a fucking hopeless yes man got (comparatively) loads to spend. It was always hard to read Ashley’s actual motivation. But I certainly wouldn’t put it past him to be partly driven by wanting Bruce to do better than his predecessor just to prove he was right and the fans were wrong. He always seemed to want to provoke some reaction even when things were going well. Ashley not having a fucking clue how to run a football club well into his second decade owning one was also a factor

Basically seems to be that we could spend more but it would impact our ability to do so later. An area we’d need to vastly increase our spending to really compete at the top table would be wages. A big factor in our spending being curtailed is the legacy of Ashley and our revenue streams being so low 15th in the PL. The recent shirt sleeve deal with Noon.com (which seems to have met the market value criteria) raises almost as much p.a. as the actual main deal with Fun88 which shows how poor a deal that is, for example.

I don’t know. All he seems to have is pace, power, movement and the ability to finish. As well as playing in a side that creates lots of chances

Hope the poor Man Utd fans can soon get used to being patronised in the way they’ve done to most other fans for the past 30 odd years

Inaccuracy of the last one ruined it for me

I would’ve taken him on loan and tend to think he’d have done well last season. But I wouldn’t touch him on that sort of money. I doubt it’ll do much for team spirit either if he continues to earn 10x more than his teammates for doing next to fuck all.

It can look a bit like we’re missing out on loads of targets but I’m not convinced there’s that many we’re in for (or have been). Obviously there’s the kid who went to PSG and Maddison seems to have been the subject of a genuine bid but there’s loads of speculation. Then we’ve got the lad who was registering his kids at a local school to be announced too

Their very early psychedelic rock effort Pictures of Matchstick Men was canny

Forgot about that classic. Utterly bizarre too

Mate, like SpongeBob says, hang the fuck in there. You’ll feel at rock bottom now but there is a route back from this. The sobriety before now was a massive achievement, even if it doesn’t feel like it at present. You’re a lot stronger than you think

Made myself a Manhattan with ingredients (bitters apart) purchased entirely at Lidl. Quite nice actually

They do both?

Aye, I remember it being lime as a kid. Not sure if it was always lemon and lime though and I just associate it with the Rose’s lime cordial and never realised it had lemon in too. Proper fucking fascinating mystery this like. Pisses all over Wagatha Christie

Of course the wokey snowflakes have seen to it that Paddington Bear is now on the Robertson’s jars instead of the golliwog

He’s just Googles them

There was a programme on recently about the tv ads industry and the big budgets they used to have (like Ridley Scott doing hovis ones for example). It was because there were so few channels so the ads hit b me adduce exposure. Now the Rees millions of channels plus streaming etc so very little effort and money is put into 99% of them now

What a prize twat

Fiesta XR2

I like a bit of marmalade. The Roses Lime / Lemon stuff especially. You can’t get smooth. You either get thick or thin/fine cut. It has bits of peel in or it’s not marmalade

Smallest moobs too

Same backers too I’d suggest

Biscuit (serious guess) Tongue on brown (manc-mag’s favourite sandwich)