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They certainly seem to go to matches for the football rather than the politics. I’ve heard mention of “the Geordie Nation” though but it’s maybe more a cultural thing than sporting.

Liverpudlians and Mancunians have inferiority complexes, their towns playing second fiddle to London. That’s the advantage in coming from a wee town. You don’t have to worry about second fiddle. You’re not even in the orchestra.

Hear, hear.

Too right.

Liverpool supporters have been like this for years. They seem to have cast themselves as the true victims of Heysel. Remind me of the followers of another team of similar background. Can’t speak about Evertonians in the present day but my brother married into an RC Evertonian family when Goodison was still the School of Soccer Science. Better people you couldn’t find. Their heritage was Lancashire rather than immigrant which might explain different attitudes.

Every retiring Lord Advocate expects to get that job if he wants it.

The prosecutions were hopelessly incompetent. As somebody rightly remarked, the whole thing was well beyond the abilities of McPlod to investigate. One place to look for a plot is within HMRC. Why relentlessly pursue Rangers instead of compromising? Was there another plot involving the spivvery? Hmmmm. Were they connected or was it just opportunism? Then it comes to the polis and m’learned friends. That’s where incompetence looks to be favourite. Unkind observers might suggest odds on.

What sinister thing have you in mind? Mulholland the tim and the preening ninny who succeeded him raking off a cut? Never under-estimate the power of incompetence.

Leicester have a new defence coach. They didn’t have two banks of five defenders, it was more a narrow ellipse of ten. No need for that. Haaland wasn’t playing. City still managed to get through but were a bit off with their finishing. Rogers was wearing a poppy lapel badge. That rules him out of a return to celtic.

I laughed at that but actually ……

I reckon Dyche would get the team fit and disciplined and train the players to defend. It won’t be pretty but it will be effective and get them competing with celtic. After a couple of seasons get some poet or artist to take over if we want to. Affordable alternatives who might be willing to take the job? I don’t know if Dyche is affordable.

Dyche

Perhaps, but in the context of £5M?

I sort of agree with that and disagree at the same time. 🎶Two Scott7s There’s at least two Scott7s🎶

Who are they?

That Aberdeen side would stroll the current league.

Skin in the game is the key, isn’t it?

That’s why hartson and sutton are whining now.

The velocity of Cooper’s free-kick appeared to increase with distance travelled defying the laws of physics Archetypal Durrant finish for the second goal. How often did we see that? It used to be good fun to make fun of Leighton but swop ‘keepers for the day and that game doesn’t go to extra time.

Emery to the Villa.

Did he not bankroll Holmes/Souness or perhaps have the clout to persuade a bank to do it?

Correct.Was Lawrence Marlborough our wealthiest ever owner? Even he had to turn off the tap after a few years.

…. and the enterprise fails.

I thought we didn’t do walking away.

A good point. Imagine a coach saying that to Baxter or Henderson. Or Gazza or Laudrup.