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Good, but they did charge fees for QPR (though in general they don't). As long as you don't 'allow offers', which froze you out from selling to anyone else but was non-binding on the buyer..?!?
There is a Facebook group for face-value sales, if anyone is interested:
Exactly, it is this sort of thinking, coupled with doggedly picking only English players, that has held England back all this time...
Joking of course, but the serious point is, for example, how many English managers have won the Premier League? How many English Premier League managers even are there (is it 3?).
I can't say I'm keen on ECB cricket-style three-overs-at-Arundel to qualify, then can you open for us at the Gabba, but the FA must know that the current system isn't going to throw up another Venables by magic, it has barely churned out a Sean Dyche.
Apologies for this, busy moving house (two houses, in fact), but on a nice Covid-induced break at the mo, so...
Belated congratulations to LFW Fantasy League winner, Nathan McAllister and his team Thruxton Slapstick.
It wasn't even close in the end, and the less said about my own title challenge the better.
Well done Nathan - if you send me your details/choice by PM, I will arrange an Art of Football t-shirt your way (be honest, easier to just send you the money, if you'd rather...).
There will be some carping at the inclusion of Chelsea players, but you have to go down to about 9th to find a non-doping entrant, and I appreciate many of you will have been participating in other leagues where the prize money is more than some schmutter.
Thank you to everyone who took part; alas, in the commentary style of Glenn Hoddle, you just needed to have more quality.
With Clive's blessing, we will be back next season, hopefully with one little star over the badge after this evening.
Morrison was pretty tidy at Wigan last season, although not always first choice while Kerr and Goode were fit. Played left CB in a four with Charlie Hughes (who we can't afford, alas) from what I remember, perhaps looked less at home in a 3, but vocal, whole-hearted and has a good forward pass in him. Good age too. Big tick from your Northern correspondent.
Some great recommendations so far, what a well-read bunch we are, thank you!
May I plug a favourite of my own - Richard Powers' 'The Overstory' is just breath-taking, and although I don't always enjoy Pulitzer prize-winners (Oscar Wao, anyone?), this is an absolute gem.
Nine stories intersected and interwoven by trees, yes it is a bit preachy (I'm no tree-hugging hippy - don't let that put you off), it is beautifully written, will make you cry several times over, and heck, yes, look out Mildred, he's actually going to say it, 'it may change your life'.
Reminds me in some ways of my all time fave, 'Moby Dick' (in that you will, besides a cracking tale, learn rather too much about whales/trees in passing) - I have no higher praise, until Clive's first novel (don't tell me you haven't though about it).
It's a very good book, a little overshadowed by all the controversy.
I'm off now to castigate Dickens for writing 'a Tale of Two Cities' when he was neither French, nor a revolutionary, nor indeed lived through the French Revolution, but a TZ book club thread, there's an idea perhaps?
New Pornographers - Mutiny, I Promised You. Might have gone with Sing Me Spanish Techno, but the video here is Kristen Schaal's Penelope, Princess of Pets and makes me laugh every viewing (despite having cost all of £2.30 to make)
Indeed, was just reading this article this morning, have a look at how often eg Leicester kicked off at home at 3pm Sat, or that Leeds stat, 80 days since they last did the same.
And then picture what it might be like with 4 times as many televised games...
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