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I thought exactly the same. 'Stakeholders'. That just says it all.

Of course not. We've just stood up for the existing band of gutless, money obsessed weasels against another band of even more gutless, money obsessed weasels. End result is better than it might have been, but we're still in the kingdom of the gutless, money obsessed weasels.

Yes. 1. Win your league to enter it. 2. Commentary from away ties to be done over landline phone, barely audible. 3. Sub-teletext style team line ups which align diagonally top left to bottom right pre match. 4. Ties in countries formerly behind iron curtain to be played in full 100,000 stadiums where 90% of the crowd are in military grey. 5. Occasional match in black and white. 6. 50% of ties to have no television coverage at all, all fan access to events to be limited to local regional newspaper sport pages almost 24 hours later. 7. All English teams playing in it to have at least 4 Scottish players in team. 8. Prior to away match in Europe, obligatory tabloid photo stories featuring players from English club dressed up as questionable, often inaccurate national stereotype of country visited (ie Bryan Robson and Norman Whiteside dressed in ponchos and sombreros prior to away game in Bilbao) 9. Immediate 300% increase in outbreaks of police violence at away games (some countries clearly never moved away from this in the first place) 10. Barry Davies. There you go, fixed.

Woah! Are you suggesting Sugar doesn't really like football?

The Spurs one is the best one. Levy genuinely said this: "“We regret the anxiety and upset caused by the ESL proposal. We felt it was important that our club participated in the development of a possible new structure that sought to better ensure financial fair play and financial sustainability whilst delivering significantly increased support for the wider football pyramid." That conceit alone tells me that this can not end here.

I am starting to think this Super League might not happen.

Indeed. Spurs, 60 years with no domestic title, and they've only ever won it twice.

When they let you into the ground again, remember: cabbage. It worked for us.

That's the one. Absolute fucking chancer. The only 'billionaire' to run a global conglomerate with no web presence or evidence of people working there.

Thanks mate. Yeah, we weren't laughing quite so much 2016-19 in the Championship. It'll happen for you, he will fuck off eventually. Look how close to the edge we got, almost into administration, saved with days to go. It was looking pretty grim then, so can change quickly too.

Since 2010, we've had 6 years of clinging on, three years not even in the top flight, an one year in which we stayed up on the last day. Honestly, I will take finishing mid table and not feeling unhappy constantly I am very optimistic though - we have really sensible, minted owners, who are running us like a proper club, finally. Our previous owner has been in prison in China, lest we forget, that's how much of a chancer he was. Decent squad forming, and hooking the better players into longer deals, it is just so, so nice to have pleasantness abound. For a bit.

Tbh we've looked exactly like that for weeks now, so it was a sensible concern!

I doubt that very much tbh. We're more concerned about finally showing a bit of form again. Or at least the ability to grind out a result. Was starting to get a bit worried.

You're welcome.

"It's not the most thing on me mind", he says, slowly garrotting the English language. "I am not getting embroiled in it", he says, having got himself embroiled in it already, and going on 30 seconds later to get even more so.

He was referring to me. I lobbed the cabbage ;-) Good spot though!

You're not going to go down* To say you're not at threat of relegation, though, is of course the absolute faintest of faint praise for the manager, and shouldn't be anything like the benchmark your manager is working to. * although, Fulham, like.

regarding Bruce, I thought this, from Simon Jordan today was interesting. It's not about Bruce, it's about Paul Lambert, but his point about the 'interviewing well', protecting the chairman, the non achieving managerial merry go round and the 'even Steve Bruce' bit at the end are very relevant to you lot.

Was thinking that the other day. She’s a right PFW. She’s painfully thick. Listening to her is like wading through treacle. I think she's pretty hot. Mind you, I've got a thing about brummie women.

That's our worst performance in a long time. We've had a week off but up till then had six games in eighteen days, and it is starting to show. However, on the bright side, clean sheet, got a point, last year we'd have lost that by three or four. Martinez is an absolutely fucking superb buy.

When he joined you, and I basically told you all exactly what was going to happen made some predictions about Bruce's tenure with you, pretty sure I mentioned his idiot son being bound to start being a cunt on twitter sooner rather than later.

Aye, could eat an apple through an Auschwitz fence though. Hourihane is a great signing for them

Bizarrely, this resulted in a short term, temporary improvement in the quality of football before then regressing back to the standard facecancer crap otherwise dished up

If you think his little verbal tics are annoying now, if he did take you down and you kept him, you'd start hearing the most annoying of the lot. "That's the Championship for you" - delivered in such a style intended to remind you he's the master of managing in that league. Also serves as an explaining factor for everything. Lose at home to Barnsley? "That's the Championship for you" Limp defeat to Luton? "That's the Championship for you" Five games, one point? "That's the Championship for you" It drove us nuts, by far the worst of his limited vocabulary. Worse even than "Roll we sleeves up", "It is what it is", "One day you're the best manager in the world, the next you're a nobody" or the tendency to see a totally different game to everyone else.

Poor Albion. Hahaha.