Optimistic Nut

I loved that grey USA one.

He doesn't want all the pressure and scandals...yet whats the odds he ends up in Serie A at Milan or someone like that next season.

And the club nickname "The Underfeltmen" where they got paid their "bonuses in carpet glue in order to avoid tacs". ITV has to repeat this sometime. Mike Bassett was a clear rip-off of it.

Class. Brian Moore doing the commentary as well.

Aye, the famous "sloping pitch" played on a hill. Alan Hardy: "We're playing against eleven men and *BEEP*ing Isaac Newton!" Tim Healy: "I've never heard so much *BEEP*ing *BEEP* in all my *BEEP*ing life." AH: "Second half just shoot from any *BEEP*ing where and we'll score" TH: "Do you wanna *BEEP*ing manage this team?" AH: "Yes!!" TH: "Well I'm the *BEEP*ing manager God help me and you all do what I *BEEP*ing say" AH: "Nobody understands a *BEEP*ing word, you *BEEP*ing say" Classic.

Was skimming through all my old taped VHS videos having a clearout, when I came across this f*cking classic of a TV football film that was shown on ITV in 1999. Starred Tim Healy, and also had Nick Hancock, Ralph Ineson (Finchy off The Office), Ralf Little and a few old stars off Corrie (including the man who is the Banker on Deal or No Deal who plays a legend of a character called Alan Hardy. Can anyone remember this? The sloping pitch, the coach driver, the gay paedophilic physio, the poet Scottish centre-forward, and the young Peter Beardsley kicked out of the club for not being good enough. One of the all-time classics for me.

"Well we will go on to top the league ladder, Liverpool don't have a realistic chance of being victorious, old bean".

I've noticed that every time a media source says it's a certain manager (Moyes, Roeder, etc) Shepherd comes out with the same statement...however he's never mentioned anything about whether or not Mancini has been offered that €3.5m contract mentioned in the Gazzetta dello Sport.

J69???

How come every thread now involves Jenas?

It was me.

:) F**king quality, Pud. If only it had been April 1st it would have went down as one of the best pranks ever.

Woohoo!

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http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/play_uk.php?id=806738

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"Choosing my confection"

Celine Dion = "My hot-dogs go on"

If no-one is lined up, I'd sooner keep Souness than give temporary charge to Shearer, Beardsley, Roeder, etc. As soon as someone has said he'll come, then sack him straight away.

I'd hang myself from the Tyne Bridge if that happened.

Desperado. Better than what I thought it'd be like.

People who'd sooner have a British manager. If Liverpool, Chelsea, Man U or Arsenal lost their manager tomorrow, how many British managers do you think would even be considered for the job? There's some excellent managers about who are available (Le Guen, Hitzfeld, Ranieri, Deschamps).

What has Allardyce done at Bolton that Souness didn't do at Blackburn? Don't think he'd be an improvement in the slightest.

Some more Melissa Theuriau.