Jimothy

Not only has the appointment of Rooney undone all the good work Eustace did, its also reduced their pool of potential managers. What decent manager will want to work for them now, they'll be scrapping the bottom of the barrell and will have the likes of Bruce, Hughes and Ince fighting it out for the job.

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But then don't actually take anything. The constant wondering what's missing will drive them crazy.

Betty Boothroyd died in February.

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1. Noddy Holder 2. Sir David Attenborough 3. Hugh Jackman 4. Dolph Lundgren 5. Sir Alex Ferguson Under 40 Lindsey Lohan

Not really stealing, but I'd cancel the series links they've set up on all their TV shows.

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My cat photoshopped into my favourite Leicester shirt

People made their minds up before watching. They didn't take in the information. Watching that 2 hours show where all 6 were (well 5 as McIlroy wasn't) interviewed, is the opportunity for people to learn about what some of the people they were less clued up on had achieved in 2023. Hewitt should have got a top 3 spot based on that at least, but nobody actually listened to his story and learned about his achievements. There's a lot of people trying to push women's football on at the minute and they would have voted Earps regardless. The cricket fans were out in force to get Broad a top 3 spot. It didn't matter what they actually achieved. I agree with the last bit too. I hate to think anyone would see me being aligned with Piers Morgan or Joey Barton just because I'm disappointed in the choice the public collectively made. I'm happy for women's footballers to win this, Beth Mead deserved it last year, and we've had some horrific choices for winners from men's football, Ryan Giggs in 2009 being one I was particularly disappointed about. I'm just not impressed on this occasion. I think most years the public pick a good winner. Sometimes it wouldn't have been my choice, but I can understand why people did vote for that person, but this year I just couldn't see it from a sporting achievement perspective.

Alfie Hewitt won 5 Grand Slam titles and KJT was world champion. I think Earps had a good year but those two were ahead of her IMO. To say there was no competition to her is just wrong.

I mean the women's team did win the Finaliissama, so she wasn't completely titleless, but that's a nothing trophy in the grand scheme of things. Last few years we've had Beth Mead (Euros), Emma Raducanu (US Open plus numerous records broken and firsts achieved), Lewis Hamilton (F1 Champ), Ben Stokes (World Cup). In fact you have to go back to 2011 to Mark Cavendish, when he won the points classification but not the actual race in the Tour de France to get the last non title winner to win. We're good at sport now, picking someone who didn't win takes me back to the days of Greg Rusedski winning it for making the US Open final. We're better than that.

Surely Hewitt being nominated for something like this, being interviewed on national TV in front of millions of viewers is intended to raise the profile of his sport. People should watch, engage, take in what's been achieved and vote based on that. He was by far and away the most successful sportsperson on that list this year and the most deserving of winning the award. Earps did have a good year, and her team not winning the world cup shouldn't go against her too much. I'd have her in top 3 behind either Hewitt or KJT. McIlroy 4th and Broad and Dettorri in the last two spots. They appear to have been nominated based on ending their careers more than anything else.

So is this line up wrong?

Worrall is centre back and wasn't in the squad at all on Friday. He's been frozen out, that's where half these issues with Cooper started. Picking a fight with the club captain.

Was surprised to read that Howe is the 7th biggest spending manager since the PL started. That's not adjusted for inflation but still, he's not spent the chunk of that at Bournemouth. The injuries and weary legs are his fault. He's barely rotated. For example he has 3 left backs, plus Dummett and Ritchie but he played Burn until he was ran into the ground and even now he's playing Livremento there, which means Trippier gets no rest and mistakes are sneaking into his game. I get it's difficult to know when to rest players and its a risk using fringe players, but that's the challenge of being a manager. They have good honest professionals like Ritchie, Dummett, Kraft, Manquillo who would be ready to fill for the odd game, or youngsters like Miley, Anderson, Parkinson, Hall who could also have come in for an odd game.

I don't know if the tweet is real so I won't call Grimes out specifically for it, but I've seen enough from him and people who hold similar views that are so uninformed and unresearched about such basic things it baffles me why anyone would listen to them and think they are anyway informed on more complex subjects. If they can't be arsed to do a quick Google, how can anyone trust they have spent time researching, and can understand, complex political, financial and social issues. This one as an example, again we don't know if it's legit but as it's here I'll use it as an example, would take a few seconds to Google. If you are that bothered that she's not at the funeral your gonna speak about it, but not so clued up that you don't even know she's dead, surely you'd find out of they'd fallen out first.