The Fish

Love a Walter. Used to work with Stan whose totally ordinary, run of the mill, fishing vest wasn't bought it was issued. Whose peripheral vision wasn't like normal people and extended basically behind his ears. He could speak seven languages fluently (despite barely making sense in English). He also invented ANPR and used to be a sniper. He wasn't just a fat welsh mess, oh no sirry bob, he was some kind of ultra-cool Bond type. Must have been deep, deep cover when he was working the same job as the rest of us and drinking pints of bovril out of a Sports Direct mug.

If the prices come down, definitely. There've been adverts on Preloved (I didn't name the site before you lot fucking start) for cockapoos and cavapoos for c£1.5k, so it makes financial sense to hold fire to see if that trend continues. They are totes gorge sweetiepies though.

Lockdown stopped you meeting mates, not having mates.

Loads of people with dogs round our way. Seems a 50/50 split between horrible yappy little froofroo dogs and normal ones. Bugger all staffies, alsatians, rottweilers etc. Just labs, spaniels, and the occasional Dalmation or Bernese, and then furious little balls of teeth and fur. did see a pair of Great Danes and the temptation to get one, stick a saddle on the back and let the lad go riding off across the fields is looming large.

I had the Astrazeneca one and didn't feel any side effects. Sounds like your mates/colleagues are all using 'side effects' as an excuse not to see you. Probably all out having pizzas.

They're a fair representation of where we're at now, but things like players returning from injury, or a team going on an unlikely run of good form can skew the numbers a lot. Still, I'd say that given all the factors, the bottom 3 are likely to remain the bottom 3 at the end of the season. So my willy stays waving.

Once the piracy issue is put to bed, surely the PL would see the KSA $$$ and reckon on the other clubs just moaning for a bit then, getting over it? Wonder if Spurs had as big an issue with any of the other recent takeovers?

The only issue is the piracy. If the Saudis weren't twocing the broadcast, this takeover would have sailed through.

Look at you trying to wind him up, you Masters Baiter.

My only worry is that, if Ashley is still in charge Bruce will keep his job. Even if he is fired, it'll be a quick spin of the rolodex to find another useless gomer from the pile of British shite we've endured before.

Retail reopens, Ashley immediately bins off a store. I am shocked.

Aye, I can't see anything but a comfortable win for them. They're in good form, Lingard won't have to break sweat to avoid Shelvey, him and Bowen will have a field day against us.

6 from Sheffield and Fulham, 2 from WHam, Arsenal, or Leicester. Especially if their positions are all but confirmed by the time we meet the latter two. Going to be interesting to see if there's a big performance drop off for teams with nowt to play for, in front of empty stadiums.

No! You need to get some more shower gel by the way.

538 has us with a 14% chance of relegation, Fulham 82%, WBA 97% and sheffield >99%. Mind, they have Brighton at 1% and Burnley at 5%, I think that's a little generous. Brighton have Chelsea, Sheffield, Leeds, Wolves, West Ham, Man City and Arsenal. I'd say it's only 3-5pts from those. Burnley have Man Utd, Wolves, West Ham, Fulham, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield. 6-8pts? We have West Ham, Liverpool, Arsenal, Leicester, Man City, Sheffield, Fulham. 4-8pts?

Looks pretty estatey. But yes, that is very weird.

Flags at half mast around your estate in recognition of the death of comedy.

Yeah, it's probably that. Not that UM is a prick, it'll be the Labour club thing.

It's gone awfully quiet...

Keeps the Cateau de Chassilier nice and cold.

More research than I will on the dog? I have stats ewerk, stats!

I hear Prince Phillip died in the Queen's arms. Shouldn't have been in the pub in the first place.

'I love the new dog Dave, but a couple of points. Your son's face has inflated like a pumpkin, which is either because he's allergic, or because the death grip the mutt's got around his throat has forced all the blood to the head?' 'Aye, but he was free and some mouthy 'tato toucher on the internet has a problem with me getting what's best for us, rather than the cunts who abandoned the dog in the first place.'

What're you talking about, achievement? This is a fan group who're trying to get a scintilla of say in the way our club is run. They've laid out a simple win-win plan. Either we get a say in the way the club is run, or local charities get a much needed cash injection. What's the fucking problem?

It's not about raising £350m man. It's having a pot of cash to invest in shares during a takeover, a rainy day fund if the club tumbles down the leagues and needs rescuing, or, at worst, a large donation to local charities.