As are the players, ground staff, marketing and HR folks. And as we know, in this life, if you pay peanuts.... This is a very f'ed up world, where Orange Buffoons play puppet to crazed and blood-thirsty lunatics and Horse-riding psychopaths speak in snake-eyes from the end of ridiculous long tables. Football should be a welcome diversion for the masses, and should allow us escape from the awful realities of human suffering. Instead, we are treated like idiots and expected to swallow relentless shit dressed up as a football club. Stop the ride. I want to get off. VENKYS OUT!

If it helps you feel a bit easier he has dual nationality with Cape Verde.

Shaw, Agnew, Shebby, Senior then choas without even a CEO until Waggot so why is this one going to be any different ? 'Cue the "Give the guy a chance ffs" brigade. When the writing on the tin says what's inside it that's what comes spilling out of it when it's opened. The most worrying post Waggot thing is the real CEO now has free reign without challenge this end. That is truly petrifying.

why does it matter?

Andy Zaltzman has a fascinating stat in his Observer column today. Across the world and in England & Wales except Headingley runs per wicket have been greater in the first innings, then 2nd, then 3rd and then 4th, as you might expect. At Headingley it is exactly the reverse - the best innings has been the 4th.

Nothing ultimately changes until the owners change. The COO, the CEO and HoF are all paid employees, nothing more.

Sorry to be an old fart, but this reminds me of seeing Genesis at the Amethyst Club in Preston. A quick google search tells me it was 30th September 1971 - no idea how much I paid but something online tells me that Genesis were paid £75 for it. My memory thinks there were only about 20 of us there. The Amethyst was a Thursday night residency at the Hibernia club on Avenham Lane and all sorts of other bands also played there around that time. I also saw them earlier that year at the Floral Hall in Southport with Lindisfarne and Van Der Graf Generator - the latter were top of the bill. Ticket price 50p.

Don't see what difference it makes whom we have in this position... Ultimately the club's still being run by the same people..

it matters not who our ceo is,the man really in charge is pasha,the new ceo will have the job of being the public figurehead and taking all the flack from the fans,snake like pasha will be still be slithering about in the background

What annoys me about Buckley is that what he can do and bring can't really be taught. Some of his vision stuff is fantadtoc. But the stuff which is basic and can be taught he doesn't do. That three different managers haven't drummed it into him doesn't auger well but there's definitely a case of what could have been with the lad.

Interestingly I watched it with the wife who has no interest in football. She enjoyed it too and had no idea prior to watching that they got relegated again. I think seeing her incredulity of the situation helped reinforce how nuts the whole thing was.

Funniest series I've ever seen and not in a good way

Having watched the documentaries- which really are excellent- I can't say I'm excited to have him here. Not sure Grayson was a bad shout, with 4 promotions for few failures at that point, but the contracts and the way the season went showed he was plenty culpable. The moment that stands out was Bain overseeing a machine that was brought to aid revoerely that none of the team used but that he did. Sunderland were a basket case club. So are we, so it's a good fit in that respect. The solution to some problems however - I'm far less confident of.

One thing people overlook when it comes to cheap punts and clever work in the transfer market is that under the previous competent regime it was always combined with spending proper money on players too. Nelson and Mokoena came in on the cheap - at the same time we paid good money for Savage. We had punts on whether strikers like Fowler & Jeffers had anything in them - at the same time as paying for the likes of McCarthy and Santa Cruz. Nothing wrong with punts so long as they are combined with proper investment. That never happens with this lot.

Now, they really are taking the piss and pushing it our face.. Will this nightmare ever end? Just fuck off Suhail and all of your agent, clubkiller friends!

The gravy train is a bubbling folks!

You can see why the club want to appoint him.

Wouldn’t mind losing him - barely got a game on his loan spell away, not fancied under three managers shame though as he was great for bets on to receive a booking

Yeah, he always seems to be playing within himself.

Venkys might think it's a ringing endorsement though, sounds like it fits their MO. Perfect CEO for Dysfunctional Rovers FC

If they are looking at appointing this former disastrous Sunderland CEO, will the Coalition voice concerns about the appointment or even release anything before it happens?

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - I Can’t Stand Up (For Falling Down) Edit: Posted at the same time as Riversider but should still be okay I think

The Cure - Why Can’t I Be Me?

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