Ayatollah Hermione

Some of the names being linked are genuinely interesting i.e. the likes of Vieira, Arteta etc and I'm sure they are interested at the moment. How interested they'll be after realising the shit they'll have to put up with is a different story. All I hope is that we give it to someone who, at least, has the chance to succeed rather than someone who has been proven to fail.

And then you stopped looking in the mirror! Got him!

Every Blossoms single I've heard confirms that they know their way around decently catchy choruses and verses but have no idea how to write bridges.

Haven't got round to hearing it yet but glad to see that it's kept the high standards of her EP. As an aside, who decided to not tell me, avowed fan of perfect pop practitioners, Blondie, that Paramore, of all people, went out and made themselves the new Blondie two years ago?

How many of them have cancelled their direct debits though?

Everton have made the bizarre move of making a successful loan deal, permanent. Why on Earth would they do that?

Neil Redfearn, I’d assume. Which is like going from Rafa Benitez to Neil Redfearn

Andy Woodman Forgot about him. The only coaching staff with pies on demand after games.

Not even sure Ashley is switched on enough to do that. Wasn’t it Pardew, Carver and Stone doing everything when they were here? And then when Pardew left, it was just Laurel and Hardy there giving it their all.

Van Bronckhorst has announced his interest. Hopefully he can still do a shift at left-back as well.

Evening Chronicle Readers Poems-tastic

One coach to help train 25 players, fuck me Wants to be a club where we develop players but won’t even stump up the cash to do that properly. It’s beyond a joke.

So, the people slating him were right, is what he's saying?

It only really works if you have a manager worth their salt so of course, we’re looking at Steve Bruce and David Moyes

Finally, what we all aspire to: The Watford model. Only done with about a quarter of the intelligence and money.

Luke Edwards reckons Bruce is the preferred choice There’ll be fucking hell on.

And now Rafa (or at least his social media person) is liking Ant and Dec’s slagging of Ashley on Instagram A true dream team if I’ve ever seen one.

My only hope is that they’re appointing someone on a temporary basis to run pre-season while a takeover happens. I can’t wait to be bitterly disappointed by my own delusions.

Charnley is speaking to...Anthony Hudson. I don’t know either.

Training begins next week, I believe and the China tour starts mid-July.

Wonder how likely it is that we don’t have a manager when the team go to China

Aye, gather round the Bobby Robson statue in the pissing rain to shout at an empty ground. That’ll do the trick.

7/2 to go down if you’re quick.

Gattuso or nowt. Let’s go down in style.

Aye, quite ridiculous that he managed to get this bunch of players looking like a well-drilled, cohesive unit with the blokes above him desperate to cut his balls off at every turn.