Daggers

Calling anyone who has won an FA Cup on Football Manager with a non-league side:

I don’t though, at least I don’t if I have to pay for it. No tickets, no products, no nothing. I’d prefer the club to go bust and have to reform as a fan-owned entity at Step 8 than to compete for Europe again. Once you’ve got shot of an old stadium with terraces it’s like a band hiring a new singer, everyone knows it’s now fake. Stranglers without Hugh Cornwall, Genesis without Peter Gabriel. Companies cosplaying at being community assets.

Nope. I don’t give a flying ****. The old game, back when players said their favourite car was a Ford Tippex and their best meal was steak, then I could have raised some ****s to give. Terraces and rattles and noise. Now clubs are run as businesses, why is anyone bothering? These clubs are already dead. Soulless, half and half, Michael Owen commentating, prawn sandwiches, £110 shirts bullshit. People may as well spend £45 to stand outside Next and cheer on their favourite merchandising team: ”Oh Carol folds sweaters, and works the cash machiney, And when she goes off into town, she smashes the Lambrini!” All people do these days is a la recherching all of the temps perdu. You see “one of the most prestigious and ancient clubs”, I see a shite sports Tesco with funny voices charging entrance fees, imposing membership schemes and quadrupling the fair retail price of the clothing made by third world children. I’ll finish your sentence properly for you: “If you give any fvcks at all about football fans and local communities in this country,” you’d happily watch the whole game burn to the ground.

If you enjoy fur in everything you eat or drink, are perfectly happy to be kicked out of bed, and have time to kill in order to wait for them to decide that the thing you wanted done can be done now. Oh, and all my food is apparently her food.

I would venture, and this an example, that the use of bracketing commas is perfectly acceptable.

The Killer - lighting is something to wank over. Cut scenes executed wonderfully. Little directly explained for idiots. Sexual music. And Fassbender. Ignore Stadt.

Well, that was another easy block.

You want to own an intimidating dog, put it on a lead and in a muzzle. Not doing so makes you a bit of a cock.

If Leicestershire decided to wage war against North Northamptonshire with never ending waves of missile strikes, I wouldn’t be waiting for text messages - I’d already be yomping through Milton Keynes bent on getting to Barcelona. Fvck Kettering.

Next time the girl is back home I’m going to get her to taxi me and the wife so we can do the Friday night tour/session/fish and chips.

Crazy Daze - most ABV per £ 😁

Popped along to Pot Belly Brewery this afternoon to pick up a 10l box of bright beer. £1.42 a pint is a bargain in my book.

Hi, how was your Holiday Inn?

See, @Wymsey? Another one of those macho traditional supporter types with the remnants of their half-eaten kebab staining their shirt from the night before; a night of alcohol excess, pugilism, and amorous back alley adventures. A part of me is jealous of their ability to engage in witless excess, but then I have a port by the fire and quickly get over it.

Thank you. Finally a rational voice of reason and sense. I guess it’s because they are all rufty tufty footy fan types and we represent the more refined end of the fan spectrum. I’m prepared to wager that these tea cake things do not appear on a Claridges high tea spread.

Has @Parafox said what channel his birthday is on? No, no he hasn’t. Typical.

I have opinions but don’t debate them - because I recognise the pointlessness of my opinions. The only one I do have that I venture is that some people in the UK are weaponising the suffering - and I think that’s despicable.

If he has then fair play - £11k’s worth over a long weekend is impressive going.

Dublin coddle - winter fuel

If anyone needs an impartial referee, I’m here. I have no idea what either product is. I’m assuming that this is a Northern thing that Born Again ee-by-gum Rich is culturally appropriating? Next week’s scintillating survey: best caps - flat caps or even flatter caps

Aha, there’s your problem right there, stop snorting it. Everything that exists hasn’t been invented to go up your nose.