The Fish

They have, but not always by a massive gap and not always ahead of the same opponent. In 4 of Man City's titles, the gap between 1st and 2nd was 2pts or less and for their 6 titles second place was Arsenal (2), Liverpool (2) Man Utd (2).

It's boring and devalues the league. There's got to be an element of competition to maintain what makes the Premier League the more marketable brand. Otherwise we're just spanking a bunch of farmers around and we'll invite more and more tourist fans, more and more "ManlikeBruno" accounts, and Arsenal tv and shit like that.

To be fair, the amount of money that you (and we) can bring to bear would ruin the league as a competition. Unchecked both of us could buy the very best players from our opponents, the best in the world, and trade titles as they do in Spain. There has to be a limit on what clubs can spend, and it has to be significantly below what our clubs' owners can afford.

Thanks Taggart

contretemps? dissension? fracas? tiff?

Destitute, sucking cock for baccy?

No no no, you've got it all wrong, we want to get late into the competition without going far enough for Southgate to keep his job. The less time he's got to work with the squad the better.

Was having an tete a tete about this whole thing with a Man Utd mate and his position was that it's unfair because the wealth gap is so vast. So it doesn't matter where it came from, or how it funnels into the club, it's just too much money. Didn't want to hear about adjusting for football inflation, mind you.

Man Utd mate is terrified that they're waiting for the end of the Euros before they approach/appoint Southgate. He begrudgingly understood my giddy excitement at that hilarious prospect.

He's like Mr Burns from that Simpsons episode

RIP

"WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION, NUMBNUTS?! DIDN'T MOMMY AND DADDY SHOW YOU ENOUGH ATTENTION WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD?!"

Fish's performances begs the question - How can we keep him invested in this poxy game?

Yeah it worked out about the same, so we plumped for UK purely for ease.

Chris is a lercal lad after all

Our lad's school has one week of the whit break later than seemingly every other borough, so that's the one week a year that holidays are remotely affordable. Just got back from Centre Parcs and it was about 60% of the price than it would have been a week earlier. Can't imagine we'll be doing anything more interesting than going to visit the folks in the other school holidays.

My masculine spirit animal isn't Andrew Tate or Joe Rogan, it's Bandit; the dad from Bluey. Any parents whose kids watch it might not know this, but Bandit is an archaeologist and the mum is in airport security. So he digs for a living, and she sniffs out drugs. Because those are dog jobs.

Hanging out with mates being a form a mental health therapy, is a hill I'd definitely die on. I'd argue that as the role of modern man has changed, it's severely impacted the mental health of men of our age. Where once men could spend most evenings in the pub with their mates, now we have to take our kids to tennis lessons and shit like that. I've no idea, but I'd also guess that 2-3 pints in the pub a night didn't significantly impact your pocket then, like it can now. I bought a pint of Madri recently, it cost me £7.50. Even the little bar near me charges £4+ for a pint of their own beer.

Used to work with a bloke who thought asking a lass "Ever had your breasts weighed?" then miming groping them while shouting "Wheeeeeeey" was the best chat up line. Same vibes

Since the arrival of the new one I have to take the eldest to Rugby (I know, I know), football, swimming and tennis. Swimming and Tennis isn't too badas I'm mostly just talking with the other parents on the sidelines, but Rugby and football are a "Lets get the parents involved" kind of thing. That's Saturday and Sunday mornings gone for the foreseeable, Monday and Friday early evenings gone too. As an aside, rugby dads are the fucking worst. Chummy cunts whose idea of banter is talking about how the Saracens got on, pretending they thought I was a sunderland fan, or asking how the match went after a loss, all with a vacant grin on their face. At least with Tennis it's mostly yummy mummys who at least provide a bit of eye candy.

Which one?

My sympathy can only extend so far for this lad. One of the major reasons he doesn't want to go into the office 5 days a week is because he doesn't drive and would need to get the train from Ilkley to Manchester every day. Not that he can't drive, he's got his license and everything, but he just won't do it. One of the jobs he's applied for is with the same company Mrs Fish works at. Which is a remote office entirely inaccessible by public transport and is 2hrs from his house by car anyway. Also, they insist on 3 days a week in the office too, so..... Like I said, sympathy only goes so far.

He's never won a popular vote.