Ayatollah Hermione

How many of “Trent’s” passes even come off? He’s batting at a far worse average than Schar

Meenzer laughing basically confirms that my pal’s gaydar is spot on tbh

His name is Joe Willock and he’s back in a few weeks

Tough on Ewerk to see his boys come across the new Brazil ‘70

If Fred had scored a couple of goals past the mags, they’d be campaigning for his murder hovel to be given protected status

If I was playing for England, I’d simply mime the anthem. Not like that pillow tongued idiot we’ve got as captain. Need a sneeze guard on the camera as it passes him during the anthem

I listened to that English Teacher album a couple months back and found it in the same vein as your Black Country, New Road stuff. Middle class post-punk that’s oh so very literate and intelligent

Also, Mackems on holiday update: no football tops but they were near us on the plane. Clapped when the plane landed, cheered when the rep read out their hotel name on the transfer and spent an hour pointing out words on road signs that were similar to English ones

Cancun Airport. Fucking shambles. 9 and a half hours to be launched into carnage. The Pina Coladas better be good

https://archive.ph/DKs8K Athletic article is ever so slightly more nuanced than Hopey the Shit Stirrer’s

Got to say like, that Mitchell interview has me thinking this all ends in tears with him and Howe

Also not looking forward to this at the resort. Hopefully they’re all in bed by half 7

Let’s hope he doesn’t try to go on any donkey rides when he’s there. That poor animal’s back will never be the same

Even Lewis must be finding it hard to believe he’s at São Paulo. He’s not a typical Brazilian full back, being generous

Mexico on Friday, boys. Strangely dreading the 10 hour plane tourney but the free drink will probably help. If I over indulge and end up trapped in a Mexican prison for life, it was good having a bit crack on with you all. Well, most of you

Sorry for your loss, Gloomy. Hope you and yours are doing as well as can be expected

I’ve had that Pigalos pizza before and it’s certainly something. Their burgers are canny but they’re definitely “Instagram” food. Load it with a load of sauce so it looks canny with a filter on but there’s plenty of better burgers about

Ten Hag subbing on a random child in his latest instalment of winging it

I tell a lie, this kid also likes Sam Fender because he is the lads choice for guitar music in the 2020s

Kid at work, he’s probably mid-20s, couldn’t fathom how I wasn’t a massive Oasis fan. Like, genuinely baffled that I didn’t think they were Britain’s greatest ever band. Through the day, I was asking him his general opinions on other bands and, out of about 25/30 bands from the Stones onwards, he’d only listened to The Jam and Catfish and the Bottlemen If you love Oasis then fair enough but at least try and expand your tastes a little bit.

I’m always wary of Hope as he’s a shit stirrer by nature and always has an agenda but there is often truth hidden inside the sensationalist slants. I have absolutely no doubt that Howe is fucking furious though

Well, at least with it being deadline day, this deal can’t be ELANGATED!

Hope loves nothing more than driving an agenda and he’s almost certainly trying to exaggerate dramas for clicks but if there’s truth in that then, we’re in for a rough ride off the pitch this year

Starting to think that Darren Eales isn’t the master CEO we’ve all been told he is

Quite a big thing stopping The Smiths reuniting tbf. And I don’t just mean Morrissey being a cunt