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Talking of new found enthusiasms, I may be binning one of mine. The wife's birthday is next month so we always spend some time in London, one of our fav cities on the planet. We will never bin our London trips in November but we may need to revisit our accommodation strategy. Last year was the Savoy and 2015 was the Dorchester. China Tang and the Savoy Grill were outstanding culinary experiences but you don't have to stay there to eat there. Next month we are staying at the Ritz. But deliberately not dining there. This time I want to judge the accommodation on its own merits and not be taken in by the quality of the meal served from within its environs. I suspect the money they charge for their rooms isn't actually worth it so if you have any recommendations for decent hotels in London, I'm all ears.

Interesting analysis and nostalgic for me too. Because I despised Dodds. But yes, Man U have looked good this season... against nobody. Although with Woy's Boys beating Chelski today, maybe there are no nobodys? The second that the eyetie bitch of the Russian Jew admitted to the Italian journalist that he wanted to go home, that spelled his end. Conte bell-end. Liverpool were far superior today but weren't good enough to score. Ashley Young was so pedestrian.

If he is - and arse should've binned the arse a LONG time ago - he's of zero interest to us.

Bit of a damp squib in the end. Not enough quality to produce an individual flash of brilliance but good enough quality not to make fatal errors. A stalemate and a point earned by Mourinho, two lost by Klopp. Draw totally fair result.

Having survived some great attacking play by Liverpool in the last third of the first half - Coutinho and Salah especially being very dangerous - Lukaku squandered the best chance of the game. Liverpool showing great flair and imagination going forward but unable to score yet, thanks to a world-class reaction from De Gea. Get on this game. Highly unpredictable and fascinatingly poised.

For anyone who doesn't understand the value of formations, strategy and tactics, check out the fascinating encounter between Liverpool and Man U. 28 minutes in and it's all about the shape of the away team. Mourinho is missing some big players and is happy for Liverpool to have most of the ball. He knows his team will make chances and the fact that this is going to be decided by individual mistakes or individual pieces of brilliance is testament to how well he's set out his stall.

I assumed Moyes would've worked out by now that his big club management days were history. I see him as an elder statesman type figure who has a decent brain and good experience. I also loved the honesty of his slap comment, the one that the politically correct culture killed him with. For me he's the best man for the job. It's a part time job anyway.

Speaking of stereotyping, generally a man's life is written in his face. Some wise old dude said so but I can't remember who nor the exact quote. Harvey Weinstein. Come on. One look at him spells greedy fat cunt. Obviously. Sam Allardyce is unlikely to also be a sexual predator but he's a wrong un too.

Good argument, especially the underdog achievement record but I suspect your tin hat may be required. He's a horrible ugly soul and the way he chews gum is reminiscent of a cow cudding.

I'm not saying Moyes would be a good move. I speculated that he could (might) be a good move. McInnes? Holy fuck. He was quoted in the news bites today. It was an interview from 2/3 years back when he was lamenting Shinnie not getting a call-up. Admirable loyalty and support to his player but contradictory and imbecilic as history since proved. He described Shinnie as "the best left back in the country" and yet rarely played him in that position, the last game being the first time in ages and by all accounts, GS had his best game for as long as we can remember. Not that he had much to beat being surprisingly disappointing this season. McInnes can't motivate a decent size club far less a country. Too many fatal weaknesses in his vocation.

It's not going to be "corroupt Sam" and it's not going to be "he's Portuguese, he's one of these". Like the idea of sitting tight for a while. No rush here. Important decision. A long term one. Get some cunt in on a trial basis and see what he's made of. Moyes maybe or the cheaper McLeish, who's record was awesome... but did he not fuck us off? No matter, can't blame him at the time.

Great news. The bookies fav is Moyes apparently. That could be a good move actually.

That is a horrible thought but not surprising if it comes to pass. It would be a typically lazy and unwise decision from the incompetent SFA.

I can't think of ANY good football managers who are Scottish and who might be the right man for the job. And it is important that he is Scottish in my opinion. Alex Neil has good potential to be a (very) good Scottish manager but it's not the right time in his career. If there is a Scottish manager who could do a good job for Scotland, he's escaping my mind at the moment but I'm sure there's enough knowledge on this forum to come up with a credible alternative or two, someone I hadn't known about or had forgotten about.

One of the reasons he won't get sacked is the lack of credible alternative. That should not be a consideration of course but when the employer is equally inept, the easiest thing to do is nothing.

Excellent post Rico. Nailed it. I don't think he'll get punted even though he deserves to be. If he goes, it will be because he'll sulk off, probably as a result of him spending hours trying to gauge public opinion. He's a very insecure little shit and whilst it's quite normal to want to be liked, he goes about it all the wrong way.

I take it that Strachan failed to front up for the post match interview? Hilarious and predictable if true. What a fud. His biggest error - apart from the obstinacy in his nature - was the loyalty to Dingus. When an AFC phone captured McGhee's true nature in times of adversity, he should've been finished. Strachan should never have started. Weirdo Embra tink.

Thanks for sharing MBT. A guy so talented and confident in his ability, he can abuse it for a comedic performance. That was awesome ? In fact, that example shows the difference between then and now. Kids today don't put in the effort to be expert in anything. That guy invested many thousands of hours to become that good on a guitar.

Brilliant performance by hatchet face the day. The boy giving her a P45 was class. Plus the way he ripped Boris the cunt. Her cough was a metaphor for nae cunt wanting to hear anything she had to say. The letters falling out behind her were too good. That had to be engineered?

We also got Dod Osbourne's "northern powerhouse" yesterday. They've not come oot with that een fer a filie. They're so see through and stupid too. Invoking the northern powerhouse is not an intelligent strategy for a number of reasons: - It is by it's very nature an acknowledgment of the north/south divide. Nobody believes it. It's like these two words are designed to make the NE and the NW forget about the chronic lack of investment. It originally came from a particularly vile and insidious public schoolboy, a man who wouldn't have been invited to make tea at the Liverpool Echo or the Bridlington Gazette, far less become the editor of the biggest regional paper. Print media is dying anyway. The only people who believe in the Tories are obviously sick in the head yet we NE Scots trust them. Mundell and Davidson wouldn't get a job in a fucking factory and yet they're lauded by the establishment.

Exactly what the wife and I said yesterday. They never thought about that in Madrid.

Monifieth is a good track and from your enthusiasm for the catering, I'm guessing you went to the clubhouse furthest from the car park, as the food is superb in there (Monifieth GC I think). Same caterer who does the Carnoustie GC where I'll be eating this week at the Dunhill. Fuck paying on-course prices for a substandard burger when you can get a quality sit doon meal for less.

You looking for an "arguement" 8321?