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Just flicked this on to watch the nonsense. Timed it just right - Popey just leaving. Then watched open-mouthed as Susan Boyle croaked, missed her cues and sang thoroughly out of tune to a miserable dirge-ful tune.

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Think we'd all prefer that this whole affair had never happened (certainly not in the way that it did) but I guess we'll have to wait and see how effective the changes are, eh?

Being reported on 5-live according to the twitterati. **Edited to clarify - 5-live were suggesting it was going to be announced today but this has since been denied. This from the Express and Start todayshould give some more background (if it is to be believed).

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But if you go and listen to one of last weeks podcasts, they painted GH in a very different light. According to them, he was the one lobbying hardest for Domenech to keep his job - the subtext being that he expected him to resign with one or two more bad results at which point GH would take over again. They painted him as a very self-serving Machiavellian type. Not saying I believe either stories TBH but I thought it interesting that they could discuss GH one week and then give him a completely different description a week later.

Excellent news! Let's hope he hits the ground running then.

Agreed - it's looking like it's shaping up into a good wee series. Shame it's only going to be 4 episodes though - hope they manage to get a commission for more. Still trying to work out why I fancy Smell though - so wrong :oops:

I'm as much of an Ashley Young fan as anyone but to say he's been "consistently brilliant over the space of 3 years" would be stretching is a bit for me. Equally, I've seen him play in an England shirt and be pretty awful too. Sure, he's not had many chances to impress Capello in matches but he's been in plenty of squads and therefore trained a lot with England and you can bet, if Capello had been impressed, he'd have played him a lot more. For my money, I think AJ is a great wee player. Maybe slightly over-hyped at the moment but when I think that we had the chance to buy him but MON insisted we got DJ instead........... :cry:

Think this was discussed on Football Weekly last week. The consensus was that he backed Domenech, expecting him to not be able to turn the French team around and consequently fall on his sword. At this point, Houllier expected to take over the national team for the second time, in the hopes that he could make up for his poor first attempt. Sounds all a bit Machiavellian to me.

They even have a poll on their own site asking "Would Houllier make a good choice as Villa manager" 54% said yes and that was before the appointment.

Not nearly as good as Yillan's but one I found in the gf's house:

Fantastic summary, Blandy. Was going to say "couldn't have put it better myself" but that wouldn't be true - I couldn't have put it anywhere near as eloquently as you have. I just hope that everyone will now unite behind the new manager and support Randy's decision although I fear I may be slightly optimistic in that hope! UTV!!!

Rats! Was hoping it's be within the next two pages so that my prediction on the size of this thread would have been spot on!

This one?

I saw that too but did wonder if they were just using GT's comments from yesterday about his recommendation for the same during Gregory's time to make a story out of it.

History proves otherwise especially when it comes to MM I think he means in relation to the current manager search. MM has already said he is in the dark.

Could be worse - I'm just thankful that Berti Vogts is gainfully employed with the Azerbaijan national team at the moment :winkold:

Profanity filter FTW!

I think I recommended this when it was out at the cinema. Fantastic film and a surprisingly excellent performance by Arteton.

I really like the Coen Bros, but this bored me! Clever yes, but entertainment? Did you not find it funny? I think its very funny. Agreed. But I think it helped that I did a bit of background reading on it first. The whole Schrodinger's Cat thing was definitely a good tip-off.

Genuinely surprised by Cemetery Junction last night. OK so it's not the best of movies and the plot is telegraphed from about 20 minutes in but it was still pretty enjoyable.

The thread has gone up by about 30 pages since midnight last night - I'm betting it'll be at 455 by breakfast tomorrow, if not earlier My guess would be 630 but I'm only hoping it'll be that soon. Anyway, back on topic, the ever trustworthy ( :winkold: ) Villa_insider is twattering that Houllier is the gossip going round VP today. My money's on KMac then

http://tinyurl.com/33zsoph The most interesting bit of that article came at the end: