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Yeah, I couldn’t agree more. I’d say a must read for anyone who’s grown up with the Premier League and the dominance United had. Some interesting stories I never knew about in there. I never expected that about Hargreaves but he doesn’t comes well at all.

Finished the Sir Alex Ferguson audiobook ‘My Life’ earlier today. Liked it, some really good stories in there and a good look into the mind and thought process of the greatest manager of our time in the Premier League. Might go for the Sam Allardyce audiobook now. I’ve never been a great fan of his, so this might be a chance to change that viewpoint. And if it’s crap, it’s cost me nothing.

Looks like it’s gonna absolutely pelt down with snow where I live, getting home from work should be fun this evening.

Us Brits love a weather chat, so here’s our own one. ‘The Beast From The East’ hasn’t defeated me this morning, it took me 3 hours, 5 minutes door-to-door this morning.

Nick Griffin? There’s a blast from the past, excuse the pun. Whatever happened to the BNP? You hear nothing of them since UKIP/EDL have emerged. Anyway, terrible news. Some truly disturbing images.

Yeah, his newest book.

Got Sir Alex Ferguson’s book ‘My Life’ from Audible for free. Half hour in, good listen so far.

He’s not been charged for impersonating a Footballer, too? That’s a shock.

The first KFC restaurant in the UK was in Preston.

That’s the title race blown wide open then. Boreham Wood in 8th are only six points behind Macc. Seems most likely though to be a three-way fight between Aldershot, Wrexham and Tranmere.

https://twitter.com/HackneyWickFC/status/957555658399846401 Hackney Wick, a team founded in 2015 and 'merged' (basically they just took their place) with London Bari in the Essex Senior League in 2017, will play their home games next to the Olympic Stadium next season. Looks an interesting venue, I had a brief look at it when walking round the Olympic Stadium before West Ham v Leicester in November, I might get over for a game there next season.

Is he still playing the trumpet? Once saw him play it at an opening mic type night when he was at West Ham.

They have been for a while, from what I understand. Odd.

What the fuck does John Terry’s wage have to do with Southend United? Terry played at the top of his game and in his prime was a multi-medal winning, highly respected footballer in Europe and therefore, justified his wages. Southend United used to regularly flout tax bills, then gain a winding-up order, only to pay the bill and subsequent fine once money had been sourced from directors, it was regular for them to do that for a few years. I’ve never understood the “[Player X] earns £250,000 a week whilst little old [Team Y] need £75,000 by the end of the month to survive, why doesn’t Premier League players stump up” argument, if that’s the argument you’re trying to make. Top players shouldn’t have to help clubs who have been mismanaged.

Chester need £50,000 by the end of next month to survive. This is Chester, the fan owned club, who's own board, made up of fans, have completely mismanaged them. Must be a tough night to be a Chester fan.

Given the number of Footballers who don’t get sacked for the past Twitter behaviour, especially Andre Gray, who’s comments about gays, were well over the mark, it would be unfair, IMO, to sack a manager for the same offence. The only people who should be getting abuse at present are The FA, who’ve undermined Women’s Football by appointing someone who’s criminally inexperienced for the role.

Why give him that long? He’s not got another 12 months in him, he’ll go bat shit crazy by October if Conte keeps at him.

Finished The Sinner over the weekend, wasn’t a massive fan. The last two episodes were good but the middle part of the series was just weird and not very entertaining or enthralling, tbh.

Non-League Football in England suffers badly through the winter months and there’s always one side somewhere in the country left playing 5 games in 12 days or something equally as daft as that.

Can’t see many games going ahead tomorrow due to the after effects of the weekends weather.

The Director of Football, ex-boss Martin Ling, basically was in charge for pre-season, which was disjointed because of needing a whole new squad and the late deal in regards to the change of ownership. Steve Davis got a matter of weeks, I think about three, with the team before the season started and that didn’t help but neither did him being a dire manager. Justin Edinburgh seems, from what I can gather when I actually look, to know what he’s doing.

International football as an example of players being good. Mate, you’re not winning this one. Mina needed to come to England, Italy, Spain, Germany and maybe Holland or France to prove his ability on a bigger stage week in, week out. Not every few months in Internationals. He’s doing it, we’ll see if your prediction is right.

No I didn’t. I said that these players need to play in a top League to be considered a top player.

So, he’s going to one of Europe’s big leagues from a feeder league like I said? He’ll be gutted he can’t join a big club like Rio Ave and make himself a real big name.

42 year-old Jamie Cureton has signed for Bishop's Stortford, only two of the current squad are within twenty years of his age and when Cureton played for Farnborough against Stortford in November, not one of the starting eleven for Stortford that day were born when Cureton scored his first Premier League goal.