B-more Mag

Got that fucking Third Eye Blind "How's it Gonna Be" song stuck in my fucking head.

Sounds like the worst shock jock duo ever.

Bournemouth started the '08-'09 season at -17 points in League Two and they stayed up with him at the helm for most of the season. Much different league? Yeah. A lot of fucking pressure? Yeah.

Howe. You like me now.

The thing that stings about Rafa is that where we are right now (not league position, but the people in control now and project opportunity) is totally the event he was looking for.

The way the takeover finally went down kind of fucked us. I mean I'm 1000% happy it happened. I think it just fucked having any kind of rhythm in terms of getting stuff lined up on the front end and implementing it smoothly. Not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, though.

True. But we're also just not in a situation that's ever going to be risk free. Maybe it feels slightly less risky with Emery or that ilk, but, given where we are, it's just an inherently risky situation pretty much whomever gets appointed. That not to say "fuck it then, just appoint trash" either, but I don't think that's what we'd be doing here.

Definitely warming up to him as an underdog type. I think he'd exceed a lot of people's expectations.

Winner of the Football League Manager of the Decade Award: 2005–2015, people. ( )

If you told me we might get a manager that had kept a club from being relegated out of the football league after taking over at a 17 point defecit, got that team promoted the next season, and got them up to the PL in the course of seven seasons, taking time off to manage another club for a season, and kept them up for several seasons, I'd probably snap your hand off.

"How many candidates do we have now?" "Just the one, Amanda." "Okay, stock taken!"

Hope not. No refunds on my custom "I've Talked Myself Into Howe!" t-shirt.

I'm going to latch onto this and choose to believe the part about canceling the other interviews is B.S.

That's got to be an overstatement--I hope. They'd have to know nothing is ever done until it's done and would be similarly far down the road on a deal with Howe or whomever else--I hope.

Doesn't meet the advertised standard of "fascinating" and isn't particularly enlightening, but if you need to kill ten minutes or something:

Take a cheeky run at Mike Williamson.

Not really worried about Martinez. Wouldn't think he'd be looking at leaving at this point in the WC cycle. It's not like he's really under any pressure to leave, either.

It's going to be hard to find a manager who doesn't have some sort of failure in their history. Obviously a different level, but Emery also couldn't get Arsenal out of winless streak and by most accounts had totally lost the locker room by the end.

Dude's just shy of 44 and got Bournemouth up from League 2 in the course of, what, six or seven seasons? So, yeah, maybe not a world beater and not of the ilk we'd all really love. But I'd have time for him.

Howe at least doesn't seem to be in the PFM mold.

Would face the issue of convincing someone to leave a club in the middle of the Champions or Europa League, again. But still the type of person we should be looking at.

Get in Emre and pretend it was all just a big misunderstanding. (Not really. Screw that racist doofus.)

Not everyone can just go and pull off a Ben Arfa.