Hill was a good loan signing.

Let’s hope so.

Really, I’ve got a good optician, maybe I should send Southgate his phone number. Phillips is just a grafter who runs around a bit. Wharton makes the ball do the work.

Robert Knight - Everlasting Love

We can’t afford to get this one wrong. Gally is injury prone, Leonard missed most of last season injured. We can’t risk another Ennis type signing.

Possibly, that’s what I’d do, but who knows with Southgate ?

Reading between the lines it sounds like he could well be going to the Euros. We’ve no other player that can play exactly that role. Only Southgate’s innate conservatism stands in his way.

Brenda Holloway - Every Little Bit Hurts

Every pass right where the other player wanted it, with at just the right amount of pace on it.

I agree with you about Gallagher, he’s a grafter but he’s not a game changer.

M’learned friends will be rubbing their hands.

Southgate thinking - “ Well, that’s one problem solved “.

I don’t normally have it on but since they announced it was coming from Blackburn I had a listen.

James Gilreath - Little Band Of Gold

Nah, they gave us what they thought they could get away with. And they were right !

That’s the one thing can count on with the Chicken Chokers, their unfailing ability to make a bad situation worse.

Didn’t I read somewhere that every Premier league club had made enquiries about him at some time apart from the dingles ? Even the dogs in the street could see he was going to be a special player.

I’ve got a large framed photograph of the Beatles playing back in the early Cavern days. It’s on my stairs wall. Best is on the drums and he’s autographed the bass drum skin. I bought it years ago in a fancy modern art gallery in the Northern Quarter in Manchester. They specialised in posters and photos of bands. Regarding “ The Jamm “ - they were really good in that they had more than one singer so they sounded better than the real thing.

Speaking of The Beatles, I used to go every years to that Beatles weekend in Liverpool on the August bank holiday weekend. It was brilliant, loads of live stages with bands playing from all over the world. Plus lots of old time Liverpool bands like The Undertakers and Karl Terry and the Cruisers playing in the pubs. Then they moved it all out to Sefton Park and I’ve never been since then. When it was still in the city centre it used to get hammered. Massive crowds of people from all over the place. I remember making my way slowly up Mathew Street and I noticed a bloke walking towards me with a minder in tow. It was Pete Best. Surrounded by hundreds of people who didn’t know who he was. He was to speak at some Beatles book signing. How different his life could have been ! Incidentally that was where I saw “ The Jamm “ , they were great. Another really good tribute band back then “ The Maximum Who “.

Gallagher is hard working and he runs around a lot but he won’t trouble the better sides we’ll be facing. A bit like Phillips was when he played for England. Moving the ball from our back line into our opponents half without losing it is a key role in any team. None of Manoo, Gallagher etc can do it as well as Wharton. Even Rice, who really has to play, isn’t as good in that particular aspect of the game. They can all move it sideways, Wharton can move it forwards. He makes the ball do the work, rarely runs far with the ball so he’s rarely caught in possession. Plus, as I was coached, if you pass the ball out and the ball goes astray you are still between the ball and the goals. If you run it out and lose it you’re in trouble.

It’s his decision making that makes him stand out. He knows where the ball is going next before he receives it.

Never gave it away once, popped the ball off with either foot right away. That’s what a like about him, he gives it early.

Crying out for him tonight, that Gallagher’s not fit to lace his boots.

Bugger, who forgot to press “ Submit “ again ?

The Clovers - Devil Or Angel