Mattyblue

He gives as good as he gets!

7 London clubs, plus three on the south coast, plus potentially Luton. That’s a hell of a lot of southern clubs and it’s a pretty grim development… but considering it will be a northern club that takes the final relegation place regardless, not sure I understand Jim’s logic of wanting Burnley to stay up to counter the likes of Brentford, Everton and Leeds can do that for us northerners thanks very much!

So first we were reliably informed that Nyambe and Rothwell can’t wait to ‘go down south’, latest update is Lenihan (and his entire family) would not suit a north east lifestyle. Chadster is missing his calling presenting Location, Location, Location…

Christ, imagine the state of the club if they weren’t interested…

GSTQ/K will always be the royal and UK anthem, but I do think England needs its own anthem for sporting events as a differentiator. And it is not without precedent, as Land of Hope and Glory is used for England at the Commonwealth Games, plus Jerusalem is played before play at Test matches…

I was there, remembering queuing up at at about 5 in the morning for a ticket, my mate was about ten people behind us… they’d sold out before he got to the counter (and he had more ‘stubs’ than me 😁). We went with Darwen Blues on Des and Phil’s 007 bus, think we stopped in a pub Ormskirk way. No smartphones, obviously, so you kept hearing folk shouting stuff like ‘Cole’s missed a penalty’ (there was no penalty) , torture! Still remember the coach getting back to Ewood and fans were all over the streets welcoming us back like a conquering army… my dad them disappeared until the Ewood party night the day after 😅 Epic times, what a journey, and what an honour to be a part of it.

With Cooper off the list, that is one piss poor bunch, imagine purporting to be a big time agency and that lot being the cream of your ‘talent’…

At the ready, Mods…😁

Toni Kroos…

It was a good achievement, no question as you can very easily get stuck down there, however we also got lucky, us and Wigan aside it was a very weak league, I mean, Shrewsbury were our biggest rivals! Now you’ve got Sunderland, Wigan, Bolton, Sheff Wed, Ipswich, Portsmouth, L1 masters Rotherham all around the top 6.

Exactly right.

I’d rather have him around the first team than anywhere near an executive position. *Cough* real estate *Cough*

There was a load of them travelling pretty big distances every day at one point; Graham, Downing, Chapman, I assume Pears, Johnson from Derby. It’s up to them, but can’t be good for you if you want to operate at optimum levels…

‘Deep down’? I’d say it’s fairly on the surface…

Four weeks?! So six weeks before the season starts, plus ça change!

Nah, that’s going to be Venus’ role, the shit that won’t flush, from Sharpe in the LT… ‘Venus has worked alongside Mowbray throughout his career, but has stayed on after Mowbray’s departure, including at his previous club, Coventry City. He has worked closely with current head of recruitment Park, and previous incumbent Stuart Harvey, and while his time as assistant manager may come to an end, there is the prospect of him staying on in a different capacity. It is understood that Venus’ contractual situation is separate to that of Mowbray, who said he couldn’t speak for his assistant when asked of his future.’

Footballers ay! So entitled, everything on a plate. All you need to do is keep fit and half of them can’t be arsed with that…

Lampard was an odd and risky appointment, but the Leeds one was even worse, ridiculous decision to make in a relegation fight…

A ‘dream transfer fee’ which won’t be anywhere to be seen for the team, but it will kick the FFP can down the road for a bit. As I suppose, finding something decent to sell every year so we can scramble away from sanctions, players, training ground, is the ‘dream’ these days…

They were absolutely dreadful last night, wide open and constantly caught on the break, bad discipline, load of injuries, a manager that looks totally out of his depth… that lot down the M65 will be rubbing their hands

Links to the club through him and his son, lives locally, string of failures, cheap… certainly shades of Coyle’s appointment

‘But FFP, the owners are literally being stopped from investing, they would if they could, it’s the EFL that are holding us back’ ’You do know that infrastructure and maintenance spend are exempt from FFP, so why is Ewood falling to bits?’ ’🤯‘

For a lad that’s only been here since he was 12, he had a pretty strong Cumberland accent a couple of years back, then I heard some fella on the radio news the other day talking about the new captain, I was wondering who it was… it was Stokes! Gone for a bit of a wander that accent 😁

Illuminating table in The Times, between arch rivals, who has had a higher league finish the most times…

Two down, one to go!