Mahoneys Tache

Or his naivety is being manipulated by a rapacious agent and the dippers, with the collusion of some ersatz journalists.

He’s never lived outside the bubble of professional football since puberty though and he’ll be getting his strings pulled by people who live off the scraps from his table so he doesn’t know any better. Not necessarily thick, just naive.

Eeeeh. You could get cod and chips for ten copies of the Sunday Sun and an empty broon bottle when I was a bairn.

Somebody under 50 photoshop the goodfellas poster with Isak instead of Ray Liotta

Didn’t Larsen get 19 goals last season? That’s 19 more than Wilson.

People pissed and moaned when Eddie was interested in McTomminay. He’s done alreet hasn’t he?

The be doesn’t get paid.

Simmer down there lad.

Struggling to figure out why folk are asking about a new midfielder when we have Miley who’s a cracking player already and can only improve.

I was getting more Joe.

Well that’s me telt.

Maybe the penny will drop that his agent is a cunt?

A few years ago when I was managing a small hospital I interviewed this kid for a junior role. He’d been a qualified mental health nurse for about 8 months. He presented well and I was going to offer him the job. I rang the agency up and their response was ‘Tim feels like he needs a more senior role.’ ‘Tim shouldn’t have applied for the job then. Tell Tim to get some experience, do some nightmare night shifts, and come back when he’s earned it, if there’s a job. In the meantime, Tim can go and bollocks.’ the agency were taken aback that their bright young hope for a fat fee was not going to get his own way. We never heard from said agency again. isak = Tim.

They did last year too and we didn’t but we coped.

He’s under contract. If he pisses about he doesn’t get paid. I still think he’s young and daft and he’s being badly advised but the contract is the contract. This is win win for the club. He either winds his neck in and does his job or he rots and the message to the rest of the world is that they can’t take the piss. Or Liverpool cough enough money for it to be palatable.

No. I stashed in the shitter in the farmers when I got off the bus and gave myself a thorough wipe down.

No one suspected a thing once I’d stashed my key behind the cistern in the toilets at the farmers (god rest its soul. Best pub in Newcastle). Couple of beers to settle my stomach and it was like nothing happened.

I shit my pants on the 632 from Blaydon to the haymarket in 1990 on account of some bad prawns. I still had a thoroughly lovely time watching the stones at SJP though.

You sound like Trump’s press secretary. Giveowwa man.

Because the lassie withdrew the complaint.

You sound like the bairn I saw today collapsing in grief because his mam wouldn’t get him the placka dinosaur he wanted.

A lad of my acquaintance who o cannot vouch for has just said that the dippers have made a bid for Sesko.

Because he gets these kind of reactions to it?

Yes. He won the league with Leeds in 1992 but other than that his career was pretty pedestrian until he went to Liverpool at 36 years old and won a cup treble.

Like I said elsewhere, McGinn could be like Gary McCallister signing for Liverpool and being fucking superb.