SatanGreavsie

As I said before, for a fraction of all this and Rwanda money etc you could just pay the people smugglers to become border guards. Sorted!

Aye that's the annoying thing about what happened now and recently. But then again you could get the best manager possible in and max the performance, and it's still cup football. The latter fact does mean you're in the hands of fickle fate to some extent. Other teams at a EC or WC could have a golden generation on the pitch; one keeper fumble or a bad miss; you're playing in someone's backyard and the environment is against you or the heavens open and level things out; couple of crucial injuries at just the wrong time. So that's the problem measuring success in comps that only come round every two years and can hinge on just one 90 minutes. We could max everything out and still fall short. If someone had got the very best out of Sunday's team we could still have fallen short at the very end against a highly talented team, especially if luck was against us. That's cup football for you. But for all that, there's no way on earth he can said to have got the best out of what he had. All I'm saying is that even if you did, there's never a guarantee, never will be. Manager of the year will always be judged on what they did over 40 league games, not what happened in the FA Cup.

"TV on the Radio". Used to love the shout-outs written in by kids who would usually give the game away that they weren't quit as hard-boiled as they'd think - "to Rock God, from Sexwolf - good luck with your o'levels"

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told yah 😄

Could be a very good game now....

Article in the BN. Not sure why someone in Northumbria is locally relevant, but the quotes at the end suggest that the esteemed David has a rival to take over his mantle of the quiet but authoritative voice of nature on "Living Planet V" or summat https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/24436239.man-films-wild-poisonous-snakes-crawling-around-uk/ Tommy then demonstrates how he deals with the serpents: "So what we do is we gently prod her." He prods. Then addresses the snake directly. "Go on, f*** off." The offended snake slithers away. "And she's gone. You'd think we were in f****** Texas, not Northumbria."

Get fettled cockers!

Self identifies as a buddleia as well, and sobs when he says all the butterflies are shunning him. "It's so hard being a trans-plant" he wails at the start of the gofundme campaign (aiming to raise 100L of John Innes Peat Free compost and a bag of mulch).

Vincent Kompany. In a car.

as per a previous response to you saying this

"pivot". Fuck off.

From the wiki page on St.Florian, Patron Saint of firefighters. The bit I've bolded shows he was, in fact, a reet hard cunt Florian was born around AD 250 in the ancient Roman city of Aelium Cetium, present-day Sankt Pölten, Austria. He joined the Roman Army and advanced in the ranks,[3] rising to commander of the imperial army in the Roman province of Noricum. In addition to his military duties, he was also responsible for organizing and leading firefighting brigades. Florian organized and trained an elite group of soldiers whose sole duty was to fight fires.[4] During the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians, reports reached Rome that Florian was not enforcing the proscriptions against Christians in his territory. Aquilinus was sent to investigate these reports. When Aquilinus ordered Florian to offer sacrifice to the Roman gods in accordance with Roman religion, Florian refused. Florian was sentenced to be burned at the stake. Standing on the funeral pyre, Florian is reputed to have challenged the Roman soldiers to light the fire, saying "If you wish to know that I am not afraid of your torture, light the fire, and in the name of the Lord I will climb onto it."[5] Apprehensive of his words, the soldiers did not burn Florian, but executed him by drowning him in the Enns River with a millstone tied around his neck instead.[3][4]

Thing is the game is supposed to be about skill. Nobody has the skill to judge a fast moving attack, where they're looking for the ball and keeping half an eye on the man, to the level of a few centimeters when things are moving at printers pace. yeh you can play mind games with the opponent and leave them a full pace ahead or behind. But an inch or less? That's not skill, it's pure luck. And at speed and camera frame rates its meaningless anyhow. It almost comes down to a philosophical question - when do you "play" a ball? Is it the last moment you're in contact with it or after the first appearance of daylight from your boot? At the very least there must be daylight between planted boots. That's an absolute baseline for skill to be genuinely involved surely i.e. the attacked has genuinely stepped behind (in any sense we meaningfully use the phrase in real life) the opponent before the ball leaves his teammate's foot. So in the above case if the back of his his boot was touching the grass and was directly below the right edge of that 2nd "E" in "respect" then OK. You could just about claim he'd fucked up or the defender had done well. They could just about realistically say they meant it. Anything less is bollocks. Especially when so much subjective stuff can then come in about obstructing keeper's views etc. Still, Hawk Eye made £46M from global football in 2022, so that goose will not get shut of its golden egg any time soon; corporate jollies for FIFA elite will see to that.

Them two look like a couple of low-level "geezers" from opposite sides of the River greeting each other at a Kray funeral

Thing is, if someone lacks charisma but has done the bizzo then players will listen with respect. Fashion sense, political leanings etc are all mere bagatelles as well. Fact is he had three years at Boro which saw them relegated. In itself that's not a badge of dishonour for a club that size, if you then went on to spend the next four years building success somewhere else. Bring a giant back into the prem, do an Emery and get an unexpected CL place, deal with adversity in some cup games and battle through to an unexpected FA Cup win. Etc. What did he do for those next four years? To quote wiki: he had " four years out of football". That lack of experience cannot be bought through international management. There's not enough games - at all, never mind meaningful ones (ie not friendlies or half the qualifiers which will be against tinpot teams). It's not even his fault really; he simply doesn't have to "been there, done that" as a manager to gain players respect and awe and to deal with adversity in real time. Still, on £4M a year I doubt he gives a toss.

His wiki page suggests he's already paid nigh on £1M in club fines. That page is an interesting 5 minute read! To think it's only 2 years ago he won manager of the month for Bristol Rovers and then oversaw that 7-0 win that got them up, one of the most amazing results in league history really. Shows that for all the hard man talk and desire to criticise others, he hasn't got the bottle to knuckle down (though he's good with is knuckles, I'll give him that!) and actually just grind out a managerial career while behaving himself. He's just taking the easy way out by taking to the keyboard. He should realise it's a waste of potential - but I doubt he's arsed really.

hence the Empire analogy maybe.

This was what the Empire was built on. Soft as shite nowadays and so is the population.

YES! Any place apart from some cunting coffee shop should only do hot water added to Nescafe Gold Blend. Rest of us stand there for 5 minutes while some poor sod goes through some fucking ritual with steam everywhere, grinding noises and a hunt for whatever the fuck it is they sprinkle on top. Or whatever the fuck it is they insist on. Cunts. People who constantly whistle in public places should get locked up in Broadmoor. They can whistle to their heart's content then, as their next cell neighbour on one side will be howling like a wolf and the one on the other will be convinced he's Joanna Lumley. And that she has a thing about knives, thanks to his mental scarring after getting caught wanking to an episode of the New Avengers during his Nan's funeral service. Anyone who registers a religion on their census return should pay RAT (religious added tax) of 10%. On everything, unless it's barred by their particular religion. People who, online in profit making videos, espouse conspiracy theories / UFOs / Ghosts should be given a one year suspended sentence - and that's the length of time they've got to prove it, or they get banged up on the Isle of Man. And birched. Indeed, anyone found carrying a knife should be sent for birching on the IOM, while tied to the Laxey Wheel. Nice little earner for the House of Keys as they can flog the videos (tax exempt of course) to the BDSM community. So it ticks all the EDI boxes and raises some money to keep their kipper boats afloat. Finally, and most importantly, a punitive tax on peas - not the legumes themselves, but the farmers and consumers. Anyone involved in any way shape or form in the growing, harvesting or consumption of said devil's droppings should spend a night in them stocks up Rivington. Second offence, should they dare, and it's time for the "pea shooter" to load his gun for a daybreak execution. Anyhow, it's just a thought...

Cue jokes about a "large majority", a "big swing to the left" and "fist past the post".

Did read summat saying he stopped because he was getting so stressed about being on tv. Odd given he played in front of such big crowds and key matches, but that's life. I'm sure he made a good bob or two from the tv and hopefully he has plenty of time left after this event to keep spending it.

And gives them Derbyshire Neck