I know Paul Simpson from his time at Carlisle pretty well. Among football managers, he's one of the most decent, straight-up-and-down people I can think of.
The new job at Preston may have inflated his ego somewhat, but I for one would tend to take what he said fairly seriously.
Of course it was a reasonable question. But whoever asked it was never going to get the contract to ghost "Sven: My England Story". And that's why no-one asked it.
It's now in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames -- and Royal Mail has not used counties as part of addresses since 1996.
But yes -- it was an odd place to play. A bit like Eastbourne, only not as good, or not as big. It occupies a corner of the London Welsh rugby ground in Old Deer Park...
Because most football journalists have all the courage of a field vole. They spend their careers covering the same very small group of blokes -- and are usually either the type that 1) writes everything the club says they should; or 2) writes everything that agents say they should.
They're too...
Do you think David Dein (the vice-chairman of Arsenal and of the FA) put pressure on Sven to pick Walcott so as to boost his value?
I think he might have.
I went to Richmond earlier; it was the most comprehensive SPANKING I've can remember seeing Sussex giving out. In fact, the whole kaboodle was over and done with in 2 hours 10 minutes. Our fielding was SPOT-ON as well -- Hopkinson's catch was outstanding.
Nash looked nervous to start off with...
Yes, yes I do. The house next door to my block of flats has a SWIMMING POOL.
Yes, yes I am. Perhaps if I lived in Harlesden rather than the mean streets of West Ealing they wouldn't have been round quite so quick. Mind you, I would have been burgled ALREADY.
Some little scrotes attempted to break into my flat last night (well, attempted to climb in through the partly open window :jester:), but I shouted at them and they ran off.
So I made a non-emergency call to the cops when I got up this morning and told them about it. Don't worry, they said...
Am I missing something? People whose houses overlook the cricket ground are complaning?
But their houses overlook the cricket ground!!!!!!!
Lucky, lucky bastards.
They won't worry about us harming their Parliamentary election prospects -- because let's be honest, we won't. Probably not even in Lewes.
However, one of their main campaigning planks is being "the party of local government" -- and we have a job to reveal what Lib Dem local government really...