If I was BW, two of the top things on my wishlist would be a manager I’m really going to develop under, and the chance of playing in Europe.
The Arse just about scrape by on both criteria, but it’s borderline. Second rate on both, even if technically the box gets a faint tick.
Everton, no on...
Palace is like one of those episodes when they go back 8 months later to see the promised makeover of a run-down wreck, only to find the buyers have actually frittered the budget away elsewhere, and have done naff all.
It's very hard to know what's really going on.
There's talk of tickets potentially becoming available to people able to go, but no-one knows when or how.
But also apparently 68% have already been sold, so I'm also trying to track down one of them!
That was different though. Nobody had anything personal against Gritt, it was more that ANYONE taking the job faced resistance - such was the topsy turvy toxic world we lived in then.
So we get a free kick in a good position. These are possibly our best chances. It’s curled into the mixer, and the only England player there for it is Sterling. Who despite all his talents is not the tallest. WTF.
But, you left out Scotland?
Top five, at least, surely, after their magnificent tournament-winning victory at Wembley the other week?
The last triumphant revellers are only just starting to leave the fortnight-long victory parade in Leicester Square.
Makes me feel my age. I don’t expect plummy Queens English accents, but she’s mangling everyday words, never mind the attempts at “Muh Ratta” and “Asbee Get Uh!”.