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You can’t rely on Pope. Typical for a catholic, he’d pull out at the last minute.

Does anyone take notice of the banalities served up by players in press conferences? They are wheeled out and instructed by the press officers as how to respond to likely questions. The headline the next day will be “ Fabregas backs so and so”......Yawn... If players were able to speak there minds and say for instance “ I hope Morata gets transferred out”, or “ I don’t think our manager knows what he’s doing”, they might be worth taking notice of. They are a PR exercise designed to give newspapers a story, no matter how mundane.

Fantastic stuff. Grew up on Laurel and Hardy. The Music Box won an Oscar for best short. My personal faves are Busy Bodies, Men of War, and Sons of the Desert. Ps I saw a documentary on them recently. In his later life Stan Laurel had his number in the telephone directory. He would pick up the phone to strangers and have a chat. One person who rung him up out of the blue was Jerry Lewis; they became good friends as a result.

The two grounds that spring to mind are Cambridge ( I did once count how many steps were in the away end and it wasnt many), and Brisbane Road. Didnt Hickey once climb up a floodlight at Brisbane Road whilst dressed in a Gorrilla suit?

I was very close to that when it happened. Scintillating stuff. He was one of the very few players that was universally liked. Away fans used to clap him. Ps Dennis Wise nicknamed him Red Rum owing to his large knashers.

I guess a psychoanalyst would broadly divide the posters into glass half full, and glass half empty camps. ( Chelsea wise) Personally speaking I find it less taxing to expect .... all and hope to have a nice surprise come May, rather than expecting great things and needing councilling come May. In days not long ago you could let out your football frustrations at the game rather than on a forum, however nowadays your probably safer letting steam off on a forum.- try it inside SB and your likely to get slung out by an over zealous steward. Win or loose, up the blues.

I think the pyramid type structure of the building in the background is the roof of Earls Court Exibition centre, which only got flattened recently. Its the only thing I recognise in the skyline.

One minute it’s panick stations because “ our incompetent board have got their thumbs up their backsides and turned us into a laughing stock”, next thing we’ve pulled off a master stroke and Sarri is the second coming. Theyre a lot of drama queen grasshoppers on here - most I guess that don’t even go to games- jumping around from one position to another.

What rebuilding the stadium process would that be?

QPR had a benifit match for him last year with a very decent turnout. Theres legions of SB stories including this one... In 73 when Sunderland one the FA Cup, the next home game they paraded it at Roker Park. Apparently they placed it on some sort of table pitchside. Stan had a bet with a team mate that he could knock it off its perch with his first touch... the game kicked off, Bowles received the ball, made no attempt to find a fellow player with a pass, instead side footed it smack into the FA Cup. The crowd went apesh*t and he was lucky to get out the place alive. He was also well known for arriving in the dressing room with minutes to spare because he’d been in the bookies.

Great article. Let’s hope he “ does what it says on the tin.” I’m particularly exited by the pressing, high tempo aspect. It seems like forever we’ve been playing cagey counter attack football.

Our fifth Spaghetti twirler manager in 15 years. Good luck Sir, and a bit of attack minded football would be much appreciated.

Being respectful of the old, I’m a big fan of granny knots.

We were in the side Kippax terrace. Every man jack that had ever followed Chelsea was there that night.

Agreed. His gloom was all pervading. Very nearly everyone who manages professional football clubs will get the bullet at some point. Some get sacked almost every season and still manage to stay in work.

Is that Eddie McCreadie with the shades on?

You really are a tender soul. All this repeated concern over poor old Conte and his millions that await, and those delicate little lambs otherwise known as professional footballers, who are overcome with confusion over who will be their manager. Get a ....... grip.

In the history of tournament football we’ve reached one final, which was played at home 52 years ago.I’d be ecstatic to reach a final- if we get there, our heads will say France however you just don’t know. ( Remember when if was freezing cold in March thinking, a few months time I’ll be walking down to me local wearing shorts and flip flops to watch games- kept me going.....) A fantastic tournament, England have been way, way above expectations, there’s been a heatwave- as a country we don’t get any happier than this. COME ON ENGLAND!

Boy was some of the football last year boring ( that wouldn’t matter to a lot of posters who are content watching any old defensive dross as long as we win) I sometimes thought I’d be 50£ better off and have more fun staying at home watching a fish finger defrost.

As far as I’m aware football clubs don’t telegraph their intentions. They don’t give prior notification when sacking managers, just as they don’t when they wish to sign players. In poker parlance that would showing your hand.

This thread is like one of those never ending board games where you have to throw the exact number to win....... Zzzzzzzzzzz.......

Having just finished Jimmy Greaves book he rated Gilzean as a strike partner. There was also some sort of message of condolence from JG, which surprised me; I thought his strokes had completely incapacitated him. Nice to know he’s not completely cabbaged.