PaddockLad

Hiya Isegrim!!

Peter Withe?

Australian international? He’ll probably end up being fuckin brilliant but only available for 2/3 of the season due to being fuckin knackered from all the travelling to and from the likes Guam and Bhutan for World Cup qualifiers

Old age? Charlie done her with a pillow when she was having her afternoon nap, plain as day

Dan Snow on the PM’s media round this morning

Understand that NUFCs new data specialist is of Iberian extraction

Can she be removed by conference?

On the basis of that she should get her cards today

Pippa Crerar knew…..after her work exposing the no. 10 parties that got rid of Johnson I don’t think there’s a lot she doesn’t know…

Tory party conference next week 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆🤣

Let me get this right…the UKs central bank have intervened to protect the UKs citizens from the consequences of the actions of the UKs government?…. 🤔

Sounds like a Saturday night talent show on ITV

Yeah, but in a cabinet stuffed with nine of them who’s uttering caution? “Britannia Unchained” could almost be their battle cry and who’s name is all over it as Rayvin said?… if he had any common sense he’d have played a longer game but I suppose the mess Johnson left them in means they thought this could buy then victory in 2024…

Yeah I’d agree with that, but Sven never had the balls to pick,of all people, Scott Parker unless you can think of someone else from back then?… Erickson was a fuckin fan boy, same with McLaren. Don’t think the players were having Cappello, and it showed in South Africa…

Kwarteng is an exceedingly clever man, his PHD thesis was published as a book and is apparently ,as quite a few very learned people have commented, very good.He’s one of these that us blue collar proles often encounter in the work place though . He’s got the common sense of a fuckin park bench. It would also appear his chain is being completely yanked by the ERG. And they’re the opposite of clever, they’re ideological zealots. He’s probably in thrall to them because of the aforementioned lack of common sense

Yeah that’s pretty much what I’m saying.l, although I think there’s less of a debate on the quality between the two. Southgate’s got a bunch of good players playing in a system that has worked to a large extent… it’s failed at the very top level but they always look motivated and they look like they give a shit. Yet they and the manager are being annihilated as much as Erickson, Cappello and McLaren were. I don’t get it. Well I do, it’s typical English arrogance and exceptionalism. But that’s my Scottish side saying that

For all that, he’s got to a semi and a final, which other more gifted squads failed to. Which is precisely my point. I think the alleged “golden generation” lacked quality wide players but I don’t think those on offer to Southgate bare much comparison. The midfield is nowhere near as good, no one anywhere near Beckham’s passing and crossing , no one even close to Rooney. Rice is plainly a good player but comparing him to Scholes, Gerrard or Lampard us frankly bollocks .In terms of pure talent it’s not even an argument. Southgate has achieved more…but is getting annihilated…I don’t get it…

I think “the talent at his disposal” is the problem, that’s why I posted the picture . There’s not a defender as good as Ferdinand, Terry or Campbell, or a midfielder as good as Lampard, Scholes or Gerrard. Forget this team’s various failures, that was down to the managers, both international and domestic if Liverpool and Man Utd players are to be believed. The current squad’s relative success may well be largely down to Southgate rather than in spite of him…. largely agree with the general comments about his faults, but look at the talent available 20 years ago, it’s unreal, and they didn’t get beyond a 1/4 final

These were de rigeur for my very first “lads” holiday that summer… following the Radio 1 roadshow round Devon & Cornwall

Look at the individuals in this team…am not sure any of the current players are better than any of these, maybe Kane? People bang on about how lucky Southgate has been…has he really when you compare player for player? Obviously tactics and bizarre loyalty to players are and have been huge issues. But at the end of the day his squads are nowhere near the likes of these…

That’s PR fucked then