Hobsons Choice

The key point for me. Being a player does not give you skills to be a good manager. Being a manager teaches you these things. The best ones have worked (and probably failed a few times) at places where they can work on those skills without the pressure and expectation of top flight football.

Will knock SHA's facility score up by half a star on FM25, that.

Also ///person.villa.count I need to stop now.

Haha. That's incredible. My best so far is ///scarcely.them.improving A surprising number of squares have the word slimy in them. I've seen 4 so far.

New brand launch 'in a few weeks'. Wasn't it in a few weeks at Christmas? New brand launch D'reckly.

Luckily I'm not bothered about platinums. I'm gonna jump straight into rebirth when I finish this. Just got to the Rufus fight, but had to sleep. Plus I read that very little copies over from the remake save, so I have no incentive to revisit chapters etc.

Are you Slot-shaming?

I'm calling BS on Peugeot. Myself, and everyone I've ever known who had one have all had constant and ongoing unfixable electrical problems. I had to replace at least one electrical component (bulb, sensor etc) every other week. Also, the one I had needed a new clutch and flywheel at 35,000 miles (and no I don't rag cars- it was a motorway cruiser), problems with ignition (electrics again) and on and on. My wife called it the lemon. Best thing I ever did with it was accidentally wrap it round a tree. That said it was by some distance the best car to drive I have ever had. Now my Volvo, only thing I ever had to change in nearly 100,000 miles of driving were brake pads/discs and maybe one bulb. Absolutely bulletproof.

They'd rather Dock Notts Forest and Everton another 20 times before they touch a 'big' club.

During Covid we switched to shopping for at least 2 weeks at a time (at 9pm-recommended), which we have done ever since. That pretty much rules out getting any fresh chicken. Although the meat at Lidl is a little better than Aldi on this score.

I shop in Lidl and Aldi, but I must concede that their fresh meat, while not bad quality, does not last well, even in the fridge. Chicken in particular has a very short home shelf life. Last time I shopped in Tesco the quality of everything was garbage. Way worse than the so called budget options.

To everyone who has read this post: You may post on here saying that you are not on What3Words as we speak, checking every square metre of St. Andrews to see if there are any other appropriate references, such as ///troglodyte.asbestos.nightmare. But I won't believe you. Happy hunting, boys.

See I loved Staunton, but I don't think he'd make it now as a fullback. Current fullbacks can't really survive without pace these days. If we could convert him into a 6, and play him in a double pivot with a ball winner laying it off to him to distribute with his monstrously good left foot, then I think he'd be great today.

Up until this year I would have swapped Yorke and Ollie, purely based on talent, no off the field stuff, but this year Ollie has gone stratospheric, and I don't think I would now.

Oh Man, mid way through chapter 17 in remake. The end is in sight, but I have kids and these 2am sessions which start as 'i'll just do the next bit' are killing me. Do I try and get by for a full week of 4 hrs sleep a night, or take a break? Aaarrrggghhh but there's Sephiroth. God damn.

I wonder if he thought he'd have to win us over, like the Arsenal fans, when in reality he had us at 'sign here'.

DVB Mate.

And? Well? What did he say??? You're killing me over here.

Bravo, sir.

It's so weird that only the lion was upside down. I could understand if the whole thing was flipped, but just the lion make no sense to me at all.

Late to the party as usual, but did anyone ever get to the bottom of why the lion on Emi's badge was upside down. And why no-one, even Emi, actually noticed it?

I'd be really surprised if this was the case. It would be a huge boost to everyone to announce it ASAP, even if it was with caveats.

Indeed.

Breaking now on the BBC. Click to be happy.