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No.

No he won’t. Our fans are pissed off with senior pros who are failing to put a shift in week-in, week-out. They will not take it out on a young player just returning to the fold after being unfairly frozen out for three months. If you think they will, you do not understand the fanbase.

That's one relegation spot sorted then.

The attacker tried to kill somebody the night before on a different train, so it doesn't seem likely that the Huntingdon incident was just a fight that escalated. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c93dwq33vkwt

That would be genuinely hilarious but I can't see it. Carrick seems the obvious choice.

He'd be sacked within two months.

Not in detail, no. But I clearly remember his media spokesman Guillem Balagué saying that Enzo was shocked at how amateurish the club was behind the scenes and wanted to change it.

That’s just the FBI cover up story. The truth is that Jackie whacked him with a tea towel after a fly landed on his head and they couldn’t get him to work again.

In Enzo we lucked upon an elite manager who was able to paper over the cracks. Before he left there were reports that he was demanding major changes behind the scenes because he felt our off-field operation was nowhere near the level required to compete at the top, and that the club had agreed to do what he asked. Then Chelsea came in for him, none of the changes were implemented and we downgraded to Steve Cooper. A proper sliding doors moment.

This is precisely it. It’s all very well craving an old-fashioned, no nonsense manager who won’t take any shit from the players, but if the players won’t have him it won’t make any difference - he’ll be sacked within a fee months just like the last bloke. The reason this type of manager is getting rarer is that the ‘hard bastard’ schtick is becoming less and less effective with today’s footballers. The cultural sickness at our club started during Rodgers’ reign (and while he was complicit he wasn’t the main cause) and continues to infect the squad. Whether we keep Cifuentes or sack him, and whether the next incumbent is a no-nonsense type or an softly-spoken Pep disciple, nothing will change until the root cause is addressed.

I’ve also been wondering about this. Two arrests, but some of the eye witness accounts I’ve read suggest there was just one attacker.

The eye witness accounts emerging are terrifying. Miraculously no fatalities reported yet - hopefully it stays that way…

Or mid-afternoon people.

Fascist Farage vs Hypnotits. What a PMQs that would be….

It's the Leicester way.

There was a story about the squad getting the hump with him during one session because the drills were too complicated for them, and it got a little heated. He then apologised and apparently that was the end of it. But I suspect the issue was the toxic culture in the squad meant they were unwilling to learn new things rather than Barry Murphy not understanding how to plan a training session. Either way, he doesn't seem to be having much trouble getting the Cardiff players to understand him...

Not sure he’d fancy that given that the age of consent is higher in most US states than in the UK.

This is a good point: modern identity politics has very little to do with the traditional left-wing values. The problem is, many people these days who regard themselves as being left wing clearly believe inequality is primarily about the marginalisation of narrow 'identity' groups rather than being driven by economics and class. And these people tend to be the loudest on social media and university campuses, etc.

Indeed. I have huge respect for Coogan's comedy (well, most of it) but you never get the impression that humility is one of his chief character traits.

Glad to hear this. My sister-in-law works with Richard Taylor and reckons that everybody who knows him thought his portrayal in that production was grossly unfair. It was a shame they relied so heavily on Philippa Langley's account of events given that she's clearly a bit bonkers.

It's because identity politics plagues the right at least as much as the left. The identities the right obsesses over are different, but the retreat away from rationality and into subjective, emotionally charged notions of selfhood is the same as that seen on the left. It has not been positive development.

Given that it won’t be the EFL that decides on any deduction, that would seem unlikely.

Copy and paste for the match itself.

Hopefully we’ll choose the first half for our customary 45mins of effort because if we need to change things at half time we’re ****ed with that bench.