The Fun Factory

A Great British Eccentric. He learnt boxing the hard way in New York as a kid, the rest was just entertainment to put bums on seats. Had Joshua shown even a quarter of Eubanks' bottle in the 2 Thompson fights last week he could have well won it.

I think we will grow into the season whereas last year we faded from about January onwards. I think we should aim for a top 10 place and if that leads to a European spot that would be great. We haven't finished in the top half in the prem since 2010-2011.

Tammy to city in the summer?

Because he is mates with Bojo.

I have enjoyed listening to Lord Frosty complaining bitterly about the NI Protocol and that is unworkable, when he was the UK representative to the EU on this.

That was pre Abramovich apart from the last season and he made them come 2nd which they hadn't reached since the 50s. To quot wiki ' Ranieri's four seasons, Chelsea improved their points total season on season. The core of the Chelsea team which won two Premier League titles under Mourinho, including John Terry, William Gallas, Wayne Bridge, Claude Makélélé and Frank Lampard were all brought to Chelsea or nurtured by Ranieri. During his final months at Chelsea, Ranieri also identified Didier Drogba, Petr Čech and Arjen Robben as players Chelsea should sign, all of whom went on to become key players at the club''

Over a 46% win percentage in 35 years of management suggest his knows his onions.

I am after watching Villa for the last decade or so.

Fury is trying to talk up Wilder now as I guess the ticket sales are not doing so well. More likely to be a Fury-Wilder IV than v AJ now.

Its inevitable. He was going to trade off some of his creativity and time on the ball to join a football winning machine. He must have know that when he told his agent to do the deal. He won't look as good but will win trophies, will start every game for England, and earn millions more. Simple as that.

I just can't see how they can play Foden, KDB and Grealish all in one team at the same time regularly. Unless the plan is to sell de Bruyne some time as he is injury prone. Long term surely they will build around Foden as he is a man city player since he was a kid and is 5 years younger than Grealish.

The interest in Newcastle is always going to be limited given its distance from the rest of the country and the fact it is a poor area. Yes they get good support but it is quite localised.

You do know we are only 7 games in right? Chill

Until La Liga decide they can't afford to have a average Barcelona side and change the rules again.

Once we get Buendia and Bailey fully fit and integrated into the matchday squad, we will be different gravy.

Disappointing but 1 win and 2 narrow defeats at Chelsea, United and Spurs away is promising. I don't think we have hit top gear yet but are still competitive bar Watford, in all of our games played. Not entirely sure if Ings and Watkins will work long term though.

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A routine win versus a bunch of part timers, and a win versus the racist lot. I am more annoyed next year when the entire season is going to be paused for the world cup to be played in that cesspool of a country that is Qatar. I will probably go off and watch some non league football for 3 weeks.

I always find it quite ironic that the good old us of a which is probably the most capitalistic country in the world, actually has a fairer distribution of income of most of their sports. I may be wrong but I believe quite a lot of the sports over there have salary caps and shared distribution of television incomes. Plus the draft system is designed, at least in theory, to favour the worst teams in picking the best young players from the college systems. You still have the big cities having the biggest teams with the largest budgets but the winners of the sport are more evenly distributed. Look at the Packers they are from a tiny place in Wisconsin. I know you can't compare as its a franchise system with no promotion and relegation etc but always think its interesting.

The best bit of live and let die is the reggae interlude by Linda. Equality street.

Can I say happy birthday to Jimmy Carter who is 97 years young today.

As a child of the 80s has to be Williams. But all great. Shows how important music is to a film or tv show, get it wrong and it ruins it.

Tough result for Celtic last night but doesn't help when you have Lennon slagging off the manager. Not very classy.

Barry, Zimmer, or Williams?

He must feel more at home here than at United. If stays fit then I would seriously consider a offer for him at the end of the season. He is not going to play at United, they are just protecting their asset with the new contract.