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Well...that was a trip. I'm not sure that forum isn't just a load of bots chucking random words at each other. I mean, every post is either an intricate and well established in joke or it's just nonsense. How do they even follow the conversation? You know those random cut aways in Family Guy that make no sense in an attempt to be zany? That's what it felt like to read. So grateful for here.

This Sheikh of Araby, he from another forum? Sorry, think I missed anything about him.

I don't get this at all. Why after all the media hype are they not going for bruce?

It's a legal thing. It's accepted that all laws, contracts etc say he/him/his etc (unless specifically applicable) to save any unnecessary confusion.

Well if we're going to just make up names, I'll vote for Heathcoate Pursuit.

Mike Hooper.

I've never heard this one, but there was a story I heard on the 3 Legends that Bernie read out where one of their players were swapped. I can't remember which player but I think he was an Eastern European defender. Apparently he was really good for them but went away back to his own country (maybe for an international break or something) and when he came back he was utter shit. The theory went that the original player had been replaced with a lookalike who didn't have the same footballing ability. Whilst we are collectively thinking about the answer for the OP's question, does anyone remember this 3 Legends story and which player it was? EDIT: This was about 10-15 years ago.

Had to watch that 3 or 4 times before I caught on...then maybe another 3 or 4 times. Just to make sure. But yeah, Soccer AM was like Loaded Magazine but on TV and mainly football. Didn't really like it that much. Now the first few seasons of Fantasy Football, I thoroughly enjoyed those.

Don't really consider him one of the WUM brigade tbh, he's just a bitter ex-player who hasn't come to terms with the fact he was a shit manager. If he had ever been considered a successful manager then his views would be of more interest, but he wasn't. He won some stuff at Liverpool on the back of the groundwork done before him, then he promptly turned that to shit. He also a trophy or two at Rangers where he spent much more than Celtic, the only other club in the league capable of winning anything. Not disputing, but he also won the League Cup at Blackburn. Yet he still went on to prove he was a useless manager with us. No idea what the circumstances were with his short term success at Blackburn, but he proved at Liverpool that winning trophies meant nothing there, they went on a downward spiral so fast the longer he stayed there. They were almost unrecognisable as a big club by the time they kicked him out. And absolutely no one acknowledges the Ali Dia fiasco when he was at Southampton.

Not gonna read a dm article, but wasnt the ruling the equivalent of a draw? Barclays were shady but she didnt warrant compensation was how I read it.

Wow, really inspires confidence does wor Bruce. Those problems being we have an overinflated binbag masquerading as our <whiny voice> "head coach"?

Gonna try and do this without the difficult choice of shoehorning players into roles they really weren't the best at (but I liked them). Gonna be tough. ~~Disclaimer~~ some of these I just liked, dont care if you judge me Srnicek - Czech Reuplic Hottiger -Switzerland Dabizas -Greece Albert - Belgium Pistone - Italy Solano - Peru Speed - Wales Ketsbia - Georgia Papavasilou - Cyprus Kluivert - Holland MacDonald - England Subs: Given - ROI Acuna - Argentina Hughes - NI Allen - Scotland Tiote - Ivory Coast Mirandinha - Brasil Almiron - Paraguay No way am I picking shearer with his current wankfest/lack of criticism over bruce. I wanted beardsley too but I couldn't after his conduct at the club. Honourable mention to Rob Lee who I would have liked in there.

Yep. Think the 11th choice was just some bizarre reverse PR. No doubt in my mind he was top of a shortlist of no more than three. The boat was properly pushed out to get this creep away from Wednesday and on board.

Wait, it's pronounced Chris Wow? I always thought it was like "Pluff" as in Jane. EDIT: ignore me, I listened again and it's like Waf.

Awful appointment. A soggy bit of mouldy bread in a suit. Nowhere near as odious as that prick pardew, but he was alex ferguson's right hand man at man utd during bruce's playing time so he had a hand in shaping our current incumbent incompetent.

I'd love to know if he talks like he types. With air quotes over certain words? Not taking the piss, it's good to have a distinctive style. I can pretty much tell a lot of you by writing style. Please no tests or follow up questions

Watch him do a boris or a trump tactic and suddenly develop covid before having to deal with a difficult circumstance then miraculously recover within a very short space of time. The equivalent of pulling a sickie when you don't want to do a presentation at work. Of course, he'll have the added bonus of extra sympathy from edwards, talk sport, the s*n and the like.

This would be close to my list, although I'd swap around allardyce and daglish. Maybe even replace Daglish with gullet.

Pretty much where I turned it off. The CV comment was staggering.

Rafa was tough, didnt care about personal lives. De Matteo (or Martinez, he changes his mind part way) said you shouldnt have kids and you're a champion's league team and bruce is such a wonderful human being and great manager. Knew who your wife was etc. It's screen punchable like yeah.

Always got the feeling that was part of this shitty regime's way of getting people's hopes up by mentioning the likes of Viera, then giving the job to carver to make ashley, charnley and co giggle for a bit at our dismay.

I think time is an issue with this. I hate bruce, but pardew was the original smarmy, yes man ashley sucker. Bruce is just another one, albeit with a better playing career. They are both in the shit sack of mouldy diseased twats who have 'managed' (or 'head coached') here but i'd rather our once proud club wasnt associated with either of these useless arseholes. Seriously though, you know that pundit off of BT sports who calls the dickhead pundits out? Maybe he could ask the likes of merson et al if they will head the charge to hire bruce for arsenal (or the preferred club of whichever pundit is balls deep in his guts at the time).

Glorious - with monkey mitts hoying the towel in to signal a win for the takeover! I'd make the towel out of velcro so it hurts when he throws it.

"PIF have told Ashley to sack Bruce" Is that the line from your source, mate? Have I missed something? Where has Mimms said this ? page 596 I can't see where he's said "PIF have told Ashley to sack Bruce" Because he hasn’t. Yet IMTTS is insisting that he has. And people now jump on that as they can’t be bothered to read through the posts to find out for themselves. Yet again, IMTTS is sowing negativity and lying for no reason other than to be obnoxious. Yeah he hasn’t said it. He did say months ago PIF want Bruce gone straight away if they take over. However posting cryptic messages about Bruce packing his bags in the takeover thread rather than the Bruce thread suggests Bruce is going at the request of PIF Ultimately tho fuck knows. So little to go on I absolutely hate that I might be sticking up for penn/imtts/lee ryder cosplay king/edwards but is he not saying that his source told him this? So he hasnt said this on the board but he has been told this in real life?

I like the supermarket analogy but why would, say, Tesco be bothered if Sainsbury's swapped out with ALdi? The individual teams surely cannot give a toss who makes them up as long as they are not affected. Why would the PL care? Just to respond Pons Alias' post that I kind of poopoo'd in my original question; it's cant be "because London" unless my knowledge of geography is massively out of date and the borders of London have expanded to Lancashire Edit: My bad, i didnt read Pons' post correctly and if I fill in the unsaid part I get it. They wanted another London based team. Sorry!