SEE YOU! A brand spanking new modern fitba thread 2021/22

Used to ring Fergie with outrageous loan requests. I'll never forgive him for selling us Charlie Adam ::

 

"it is believed he was ruined by alcoholism".

 

Jesus

 

Best comment was he "has an England flag in his teeth"

 

There used to be two Andy Gorams. Pretty soon there won't be any, it seems. Oesophageal cancer. 6 months he's been given. Do feel for him. Still can't believe he squeezed in two appearances for Man United

 

Oesophageal Cancer is what killed Christopher Hitchens, a man whose father had it and whose daily akkahol intake was, by his own description, enough to "stun a mule".

If the bass don't getcha the rhythms gonna...

 

The relegation factor really puts a different spin on things. This is the worst season Everton has had since I became a fan (We also finished 16th the season I became a fan.) Yet spirits are high around Goodison and people are singing songs about Lampard.

Had Everton lingered around 13th/14th place and then fell back to 16th, crowds would have dwindled and people would be calling for Moshiri's head.

But falling back into the relegation zone and then climbing out of it inspired crowd scenes at Everton that hadn't been seen in ages. Survival felt like some kind of accomplishment at the end. To be honest, LFC failing win the league and losing the CL final kind of added to the end of the year party.

Compare this to our 2017/18 season when Allardyce had to come in. Fans hated Allardyce's style and couldn't wait to get rid if him that summer. However, Allardyce actually improved our place in the table when he came on. Lampard did not.

 

Scenes from the Everton team bus before the Chelsea match. If we are sitting in 11th or 12th place, this doesn't happen.

 

In a shocking move nobody could foresee Paul Pogba is leaving Man United.

 

All things considered one of the poorer bits of transfer business ever

 

It's going to be an interesting summer at Man U. Before the January transfer window, you had a dozen players vying to play in the attacking half of the pitch. And whoever was picked seemed to underachieve except Ronaldo (the tap in king.) It was that way with Ole and Ragnick or whatever the fuck his name 8s so it wasn't just a system failure.

Ronaldo, Fernandez, Sancho, Lingard, Pogba, Van De Beek, Rashford, Martial, Cavani, Mata and a couple of other fucks I can't think of. Overloaded with big names too big for the bench yet can't click when they do get picked. At least half of them will get cleared out.

 

QPR have snatched Stevie G's brain!

 

And if the new manager isn't getting immediate results he'll probably be fired before he even has a chance to implement anything meaningful.

 

I am going to predict this right now. Man U and Chelsea are going to put some high priced players on the market and Newcastle will get at least one big name from both of those clubs.

 

Twice

 

I see Scotland is in on the act now too .... If I'd remembered that was on TV I'd have watched it but went for a top down (top of the car) drive thru central London with two Polish birds last night. Good enough fun until the younger girls blaring Spotify started to fuck me right off. Loads of Drake and shite.

 

Couldnt care less about Scotland, I was watching prehistoric planet. Which was brilliant albeit i was disappointed Deinosuchus never made an appearance there's a whole episode about late cretaceous rivers, the t-rex is standing there paddling....somebody make the fight!

 

Don't you ever find the plethora of sudden climatological goings ons of past aeons even remotely incongruous with the current narrative of rising seas etc?

Aint no SUV in TRex day, bang a meteorite, get it on, get it on.

 

The most interesting one to me is just what happened circa 12k years ago during the younger dryas. Monumental flooding over the next thousand years or so, some saying coastal land totaling twice the area of China was lost. The most famous is probably doggerland which joined England at ~Hull all the way to Denmark. Imagine! A handful of thousands of years.... humans watched this happen. It also coincided with the near total mass extinction of megafauna everywhere bar Africa. But there's still a lot of dispute as to what happened and why.....current best theory seems to be astroids hitting Greenland. Which is fucking terrifying. And puts a new spin on myths like Atlantis and Noah's flood

 

@Slice N Dice

Whats your thoughts? Im really interested to see how he gets on: he seems like a guy with big ideas but otoh he's a bit of a charisma vacuum so its whether can he get players to buy into them

 

Yes I'm excited too, like you say he seems to have big ideas, his track record as an assistant manager is excellent and he deserves a shot.

Where I'm remaining cautious is that there are many cases of excellent number 2's like Brian Kidd and Steve McLaren who couldn't cut the mustard when given the hot seat.

 

Wales shaded battle of the obnoxious nessus today.

 

Sheltic to sign teenage attacking mid Christopher Scott from Bayern.

 

In far more important news......

 

That ones been going around for a while - he looks really exciting. BIG ANGE

 

I guess Bale will have to sign up with some team to get game time ahead of the world cup. Whoever it is, it should be a pay as you play contract because after they bomb out at the group stage, it's back to the golf course for gareth

 

I'm happy for them. Honestly I think Bale has to rate above Giggs now. Giggs the more naturally gifted, I won't argue that, but what Bale has done for club and country has to put him ahead now.

 

Spurs.

I had a dream the other night that Spurs beat Chelsea in the Champions League final.

 

I really couldn't be bothered about Bale, but Wales do my nut in. Their bottle job Vs Denmark gave me immense satisfaction last Summer.

 

I have a soft spot for Wales in most sports tbh. They consistently punch above their weight and when it comes to football it has to be said they tend to be as loyal as it gets. Giggs for example could have chosen to play for England, especially as we were screaming out for a left mid at the time, but stayed loyal. Contrast that to Grealish and Rice (not a dig by the way, was genuinely gutted when that happened for Ireland).