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Mejbris 'Aye', Mejbris, 'Naw'....

And therein lies at least part of your problem.

Nobody ever went bust underestimating the taste of the public. QED.

Is that tie-dyed? Whatever it is, it's a bloody mess.

I am not sure who holds the ace in the hole here. I suspect that it is Clement: if only because it will be easier for him, if he leaves, to explain himself to a prospective future employer than it will be for the board to explain itself to a prospective future employee.

We are looking at starting competitive football with half a squad, and folk are worried about hairlines. Charlton, Zidane, to name but two baldies who could play a bit.

t is rumoured - I am told strongly, whatever that means- that M Clement is scunnered, with the Board, principally, due to a perceived lack of support, and that he may, as they say, be considering his position. I don't know how much faith to put in this, but, if it is the case, the Board requires to take a view, and very quickly. Whichever direction it decides to take, it is clear, will be expensive.

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Well, this is desperate. A completely inept showing against a side which, unlike our lot, is sprightly, and enthusiastic, whose players have -clearly- played football before, and who have -equally clearly-played together before. Wow. It's only a friendly, Ah ken, but...... ..I am now beginning to worry, with panic coming up fast on the stand side.

Nailed it

Presumably. Anyway, the Brummies culturally appropriated it.

The song was was written by Harry Lauder. from Portobello, (and no' the wan in Darien) later domiciled at Lauder Ha', up by Strathaven, and near the Shoogly Brig. (YNWA is hardly a folk song: a maudlin piece of kitsch from a maudlin piece of kitsch, called Carousel.) You are right, however, about the speed with which anthems are essayed, these days.

Though the way be long, so hard and long, They’ll be joys and sorrows too. As we journey on, We will sing this song, for the boys in royal blue, We’re often partisan, clap x3 We will journey on, clap x3.... Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Though the way be long, let your heart be strong, Keep right on to the end, Though you’re tired and weary, still journey on, ’Til you come to your happy abode, Where all you love, you’ve been dreaming of Will be there.... At the end of the road! And that, leaving aside, for the moment, those old, partisan, tunes which we may not sing on pain of death, or of a fate immeasurably worse (clue: it involves Sturgeon, a gaol cell, and a gimp suit), is, approximately, the Blues' (B'Ham City) anthem, possibly the best football song. It is one I have often thought we should have appropriated it, and made it our own. It seems to have become increasingly relevant in recent, difficult, times.

Best, Law, Charlton

Sign him up as your valet, then.

He would be first pick, then, and after a few games, we would be watching hoof and hare football, with the problem that not enough players would be sufficiently fleet of foot to 'get on the end of' headers or layoffs. The man is no van Basten, no van Nistelrooy, no t even a Maakay. As the late Arthur M might say: 'A punt up the park.... up goes the head...'

Would the Railway Sleeper play the whole match, or just the last half hour, when all else has failed?

It is the impact a quintessential Big Lad Up Front will have on the style of play that concerns.

ROUTE 1 ALERT @Rousseau!!! Latest rumour, from WhatsApp, so its veracity may be warranted, is that Rangers are interested in Wout Weghorst: The 6ft 6 centre forward who always came on as a sub for Holland, when they were desperate. He was at Man Utd for a spell, although, did nothing of note, i I r c. Apparently in the last year of his Burnley contract and not on massive EPL wages. Long Ball is the new Tiki-Taka. (And you heard that here, first.)

Of course he is is back training, as he is contractually obliged to do. He can't just swan around until the Riyals, or the Euros, clear. If the deal with whomever, for whatever, falls through, he might have to play for us......

I'd rather believe "my" report. Or, indeed, any one which increases the 3M GPB fee I doubt, if he is Saudi bound, he will be taking a pay cut, although the tax regime in the Kingdom would influence, heavily, the bottom line.

From WhatsApp, ergo beyond impeachment, obvs, a rumour, or two, of Trumpian standards : This messenger will dodge any bullets that you fire in his direction, with Trumpian suppleness, and subtlety of movement.

Perhaps they appointed a selling agent some time ago, on the hush hush and QT, and, since receiving that commission, it scoured the world, relentlessly, for a suitable mark, found one, and has been in negotiations with him, again on the hush hush and QT, ever since. Of course it could all be a lot of utter bollocks, but a goy can dream, surely.....

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