Benidorm + Coronavirus = Managerial mayhem!
As Spain becomes the fourth most infected nation in the world… Some Brits are doing their best to avoid virus precautions and carry on with their holiday as normal.
Pro drinkers month starts today. No queues at the bar for a few weeks with all the part-timer sheep doing their silly January detox. Hit it hard in January then duck out in February when pubs get overrun with Six Nations weirdos. Attack January, you know it makes sense. A bosh.
Just argued with a mate that Littler is more likely to win 0 wolrd titles in his life than 10+, so we’ve bet on it with a 2064 cut off. So not only do I need him to lose tonight and every subsequent year to get paid out, I also need to live til 85. Not well thought through.
I would open pubs for 35-45 year olds exclusively first. The youth can’t be trusted not to go silly and the elderly are at risk if they catch the lurgy. Clear sweet spot of age which can be trusted. Rest of you stay safe at home please, give us a month to check it’s safe out.
The weirdest football development of the summer by a mile is Wigan Athletic selling a defender called Reece James to Sunderland then loaning a defender from Chelsea to replace him also called Reece James.
The top five beers in the UK today:
1. The pre-match beer
2. The barbecue beer
3. The free beer
4. The hotel bar beer
5. The airport beer
As you can see, there are a good number of beers in the UK today, which is your favourite?
Brentford don’t go up and Ivan Toney goes somewhere in the Prem and Jonson Clarke-Harris goes to Brentford and Peterborough get someone I haven’t thought of yet and we all do the same thing again next year.
Spare a thought for the West Ham fan who has gone on the pitch there, got arrested and a probable three year banning order, all for a goal that didn’t count.
Look forward to The Sun and The Mail calling this a disgrace tomorrow, despite effectively waging war on Raheem Sterling for a few years for having the audacity to be black and rich.
Why would Sky not put League 1 and 2 games on at 12, 2, 4 and 6 today, before England play at 8? Nothing on all day for football fans. Those clubs are desperate for a little extra money and exposure, more than ever. This could have been lower league weekend.
Took my son for a hair cut, barber tells him sit still or I might cut your ear off.
I say then we’d have to change your name to Van.
Not a murmur from anyone. The barber doesn’t know our surname and the boy is 5 so I’m not sure what I was expecting. Maybe Twitter will like it
Football fans can be so petty, it’s all a bit childish. I think it’d be great to see a former Wolves player who’s gone on to bigger and better things finish the evening with a CL winners medal. No matter what others say I for one am right behind you. Best of luck, Jesus Vallejo.
Sometimes horse racing can’t get out of its own way but whoever pushed for Kevin to represent it in these televised debates gets a big pat on the back because there can’t be anyone better to do it. Man against boy here.
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For those who don’t watch any Championship football yes, Leeds are this good every week. They are not 20 points clear because sometimes, just like this, they forget to score a goal.
Sometimes I watch sport on TV and say I could do better than that, but I don’t really mean it because I’m nearly 40, fat and only have one working ankle. In this case, however.....
Paul Scholes will probably do a good job as a manager and have a very successful career doing so, then a few years after he retires as a manager it'll become fashionable to tell everyone was actually a far better manager than they all thought at the time.
Guesses on votes against then? I'll go for 148. Just because I need 150+ and given my luck lately I won't even be allowed the good badbeat story of 149.
On train to Southampton, couple opposite doing crossword.
1. Her: First ever female MP, Nancy someone, five letters?
Him: Reagan.
2. Her: Minor chess piece, four letters?
Him: Pawn.
Her: No it can’t be, the third letter is W.
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Just explaining to my wife what the Europa League is, and the range of countries we could be going to on Thursdays next year.
“But you wouldn’t actually go to the ones in Azerbaijan or Ukraine would you?”
“Haven’t really thought about it yet”.
*I have thought about it lots*
Sky Sports News having a full post-mortem on Man Utd’s Champions League exit, because everything Man Utd & Liverpool do must be examined from every angle. I’ll save them some time. The 3rd best team in a group of four ended up coming 3rd of four. It couldn’t be less remarkable.
Exam results day tomorrow is it? Great, a day full of pretty talentless cretins who have somehow burgled a career as a minor celebrity tweeting “don’t worry I failed all my exams and look at me now!”
Pricks.
If I were betMGM I would simply build a website that’s usable on any type of device before spending a fortune on television advertising to tell the world you’re the new big thing
One by one, the good people of Great Britain are discovering the 2pm live game is Palace v Wolves not Liverpool v Villa and I take huge delight from their collective disgust.
The youth of this country have been superb during the pandemic. Seeing some people of my age and older now turning on them & calling them selfish or entitled. Bollocks. 16-30 are the best years of your life, they’ve effectively been robbed of one of them.
Learned more of the neighbours names in two months than I had in eight years. Always worth making the effort to stop and say hello on the daily exercise walk when every single one is a potentially clean 365 account.
My (Scottish) wife is currently in labour and has just told the midwife ‘you have an hour left to get him out, I am not having a baby born on St George’s Day’ and the midwife laughed like she thought she was joking. She got given the look.
Ah, that sense of pride of seeing one Brit left in this tournament, ploughing a lone furrow against the giants of the USA, with a username epitomising everything that's great about our nation.
This is the opposite of what most football fans are thinking. Comfortably the most interesting thing happening on twitter this week - hopefully they will fire several more shots at each other today and this will spiral into pure hatred.
Really sad seeing Shearer and Owen, two of England’s greatest strikers and two genuinely likeable, intelligent individuals, arguing like this in public. Their dispute demeans both, demeans Newcastle and demeans England. Please get together, sort your differences and call a truce.
Seems the people who shouted loudest for 9mths about how unfair it’s been having their freedoms taken away are now also the ones shouting loudest about not wanting any part of the vaccine designed to give freedom back. All based on their vast scientific qualifications, naturally.
Jermaine Jenas sounds like someone who would have stood behind you in the 90s while you were playing a fruit machine and advised you on how to play it optimally.
@Wolves
I saw this coming to be fair. Remember coming out of Blundell Park after Bully’s hat trick saying to my Great Uncle Wilf what this club really needs now is to enter the Kung Po League by taking over Chending QPRhappy. He looked at me like I was mad, but I was proved right.
All credit to the (admittedly only a couple of) Spurs fans behind the goal leaving early, when they've not been to a game for 14 months, are only 1-0 down and there's only 7,000 there so no crowd to beat anywhere.
Heard so many people around my age talk of stopping drinking and it made them feel so much better. So I’ve given it two weeks. Loads of bollocks. I don’t feel better in any way, haven’t become more productive or suddenly morphed into a good person. Trial over, back to normality.
Who’s seen first in public:
The Queen 4/7
Shishkin 11/8
Winners welcome. Machine watchers can buzz off. Any bet over £500 needs to send me two years of bank statements and a letter from your Year 7 maths teacher to prove you can count.
It’s very well known that tweets only resonate with Aston Villa fans when you mention 1982. So in 1982 Stevenage FC were playing in the United Counties League Division One.
Right, a thread about Aston Villa and what they’re doing. This will get a bunch of replies about sour grapes or jealousy but that’s football fans, let them say it. To analyse football properly, forget the club’s name and judge the actions.
As I hit 40 I really do feel I’m becoming more relaxed & losing a lot of the argumentative, angry edge which, for better or worse (prob worse) defined my 20’s & 30’s. The rage is dying down, with one exception. The Australian cricket team. Fuck them. Fuck those horrible bastards.
My Dad’s been shielding for 11mths, hasn’t really gone anywhere except a few walks in the summer. Got in his car for the first time to drive to the vaccination centre, smashed into a taxi and wrote it off. He’s fine and won’t mind me seeing the funny side but how’s your luck ffs.
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if skint, yes. This comes back to the thing about how many times you will be in that position. If it's a spot you'll be in numerous times a year you do what's value. If it's a one-off potential life-changer the notion of value is secondary to ensuring you get the money you need.
Seeing some suggestions of sadness that one of Italy or Portugal won’t make the World Cup but a) watching them meet in a one off eliminator which both would view as a total disaster to lose will be must watch and better than see them play each other in Qatar and b) fuck ‘em.
THE TOP FIVE HANGOVER CURES IN THE UK TODAY:
1. The full fat Coke
2. The go back to sleep
3. The hair of the dog
4. The full English
5. The brisk dog walk
As you can see, there are some excellent hangover cures in the UK today. Which is your favourite?
In the dog house now for making too much noise coming in and singing in the street.
“At this time? Really? What will the neighbours think?”
They’ll think we’re going to Wembley, that’s what they’ll think.
Spelling and grammar Nazis can get a bad press but we must ignore the abuse and continue God’s work all the time confusing “into” and “in to” changes the meaning of a sentence as much as this one.
Right, it’s about time to go out & get properly smashed, turn up at 2am, fall up the stairs & wake the whole house up, then finally surface half dead about midday tomorrow to be told I’ve ruined Christmas & promise it’ll all be different next year. For the 22nd consecutive year.
Penalties are scored about 75% of the time (even by the best takers). If you take two of them in the same game it's close to 50-50 (45-55ish) that both aren't goals. It's not really 'guts' (guts were needed for the first one too), and it's not even really unlucky. It's maths.
It's all about the interviewer asking Warnock the right questions with the right tone now. If you gently prod him, wind him up carefully, slowly, slowly, you could get the proper meltdown we all want to see.
If England win the group I make them 11.85% to win the tournament. If they come second that becomes 9.47%. If you go to the pub tonight & someone tries telling you we're better off coming second, tell them maths can be hard but not hard enough to prove they are definitely wrong.
Those are the astonished faces of people who have sat patiently through 35 years of underachievement, nothingness and Dean Saunders witnessing a truly world class footballer playing for their team.
24 people in a preseason game where you have to pick four Prem players whose season league goals add up to exactly 21, and all four of them must score at least once. 3 out of 24 nailed it. Utterly ridiculous for three to do it (my effort bust by two as Trossard scored too many).