The Fish

It's all part of the plan. Establish themselves as great place to farm kids on loan to so that the big clubs like them, that keeps the "Just play the kids" lot happy enough and fuels the delusion that these 'promising stars of tomorrow' may stay to help them get promoted next season, keep cycling through managers so that the failure to get promoted can be spun as an inevitable result of striving to get the best man for the job, sell the kids that show promise to fund the repairs of lifts and turnstiles, rinse and repeat.

Shit one, not the permacrock

Got to be a good album's worth of material from that heartbreak.

And yet Mainoo is the one who should get an England spot? Good job I couldn't give a shit about the national team.

You're right, he doesn't. But I would.

Immediately made me think about "I swear I can't help it" on Channel 4.

His return could allow us to play more variations during the game. If we're on top, but not making real in-roads, swap out Longstaff or Miley for Anderson and play him in the hole?

Probably still haunted by antediluvian memories, right?

Jesus Christ. Did you bunk with Methuselah at Uni?

and yet plenty of sexual peeking.

Fuck you're old

Why not? Forget about football for a minute, there are some really good ones out there, whatever you're in to.

Yep, if Man Utd had approached Newcastle first, I wouldn't have been shocked to see them stump up a reasonable fee and for Ashworth go on Gardening Leave until the end of the season. No muss, no fuss.

Wait, I thought it was us who insisted on a big name manager?

Keep the key talking points as notes on my phone. The agenda is there too.

In the last 5 years they've had Grayson, Coleman, Ross, Parkinson, Johnson, Neil, Mowbray, Beale. But sure, Marcelo Bielsa or Will Still.

Heading to Sunderland?

The model

Honestly don't know which is funnier; them sacking Beale after 12 games, or Beale sacking them off after 12 games.

Wait, before this you had to actually justify your time off? Or is this just a different, additional, type of leave? I get my annual leave days that I can take whenever and don't need to say why I'm taking them. Just "I'm going to be off this day BRBLATERZLOL" A few Care of Dependents days. So if the little'un is sick I can take time off work that isn't annual leave or my own sick days. A few Family Leave days. So if he's doing something at school, like a play or owt. Sick days (obvs) All of these require zero manager consultation. And every month or so a 'Spirit of Me' day where our side of business has zero internal meetings and you can use it for whatever you like as long as you're on top of your work.