The Fish

How hasn't he been fired for this shit yet?

All they want is big names, typical of those gravy stained Newcas... what's that? That's from a Sunderland message board? Blyme.

It'd have to get much worse. I didn't feel that sorry for them in League 1. Mostly because of how they didn't gain an ounce of humility even when they were losing to Southend.

Farage knew.

Yeah it's one of those "makes sense" instead of "makes waves" kind of signing.

I'll ask him next time we're in the queue at the Tesco garage.

Ah, I see. I don't disagree with any of that (besides the bench warming stuff). But, given my reputation on here I'll say it's all horseshit and you should feel bad.

I don't follow? What do you see as the difference between the two? The best players in the world would sit on the bench for £500k a week and 2 or 3 medals every year. Look at the array of talent at Real Madrid. Way I see it, you should only be allowed to spend what you can afford without putting the future of the club at risk, if your owner can afford to put hundreds of millions into the club without mortgaging the stadium go for it. But entangling your wage bill to the poorest club in the league reduces the widening of the gap between the haves and have nots. Keeps it more competitive and more interesting. If we were allowed to spend what we could reportedly afford, where's the incentive to produce our own talent? And without local lads getting their chance at the club the divorce between so called legacy fans and the team becomes more permanent. Fans like you or me would be replaced with kids who follow a player and have no interest in the club and fuck that.

They have, but not always by a massive gap and not always ahead of the same opponent. In 4 of Man City's titles, the gap between 1st and 2nd was 2pts or less and for their 6 titles second place was Arsenal (2), Liverpool (2) Man Utd (2).

It's boring and devalues the league. There's got to be an element of competition to maintain what makes the Premier League the more marketable brand. Otherwise we're just spanking a bunch of farmers around and we'll invite more and more tourist fans, more and more "ManlikeBruno" accounts, and Arsenal tv and shit like that.

To be fair, the amount of money that you (and we) can bring to bear would ruin the league as a competition. Unchecked both of us could buy the very best players from our opponents, the best in the world, and trade titles as they do in Spain. There has to be a limit on what clubs can spend, and it has to be significantly below what our clubs' owners can afford.

Thanks Taggart

contretemps? dissension? fracas? tiff?

Destitute, sucking cock for baccy?

No no no, you've got it all wrong, we want to get late into the competition without going far enough for Southgate to keep his job. The less time he's got to work with the squad the better.

Was having an tete a tete about this whole thing with a Man Utd mate and his position was that it's unfair because the wealth gap is so vast. So it doesn't matter where it came from, or how it funnels into the club, it's just too much money. Didn't want to hear about adjusting for football inflation, mind you.

Man Utd mate is terrified that they're waiting for the end of the Euros before they approach/appoint Southgate. He begrudgingly understood my giddy excitement at that hilarious prospect.

He's like Mr Burns from that Simpsons episode

RIP

"WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION, NUMBNUTS?! DIDN'T MOMMY AND DADDY SHOW YOU ENOUGH ATTENTION WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD?!"

Fish's performances begs the question - How can we keep him invested in this poxy game?

Yeah it worked out about the same, so we plumped for UK purely for ease.

Chris is a lercal lad after all

Our lad's school has one week of the whit break later than seemingly every other borough, so that's the one week a year that holidays are remotely affordable. Just got back from Centre Parcs and it was about 60% of the price than it would have been a week earlier. Can't imagine we'll be doing anything more interesting than going to visit the folks in the other school holidays.

My masculine spirit animal isn't Andrew Tate or Joe Rogan, it's Bandit; the dad from Bluey. Any parents whose kids watch it might not know this, but Bandit is an archaeologist and the mum is in airport security. So he digs for a living, and she sniffs out drugs. Because those are dog jobs.