In my local medical centre - if i turn up there and wait outside and be prepared to queue for about 15 mins (7.45am wait for 8am) - then you get appointments normally that morning within the hour. If you call at 8am its a bit of a lottery but some same day appointments are available. As with...
I keep remembering all the players we signed and then discarded ...
Paddy McCourt !
Nzuzi Toko ! - never played !
Al Habsi - played once during a mad goalkeeper / loan crisis !!
Boybands Forever is a terrific , moving documentary at times and doesn't shy away from conflict or the negatives. It also has the best opening to a music documentary in quite a while.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0024qbx/boybands-forever-series-1-episode-1
I think it all started to go wrong - recruitment wise - when Stephen Ward understandably changed his mind at the last minute and chose PL football with Burnley. And weren't we close to signing Lewis Grabban from Bournemouth but he went to Norwich instead ?
Adrian Colunga , who seemed exciting (Spanish !, er, thats it) is now 40 years old, barely played any more football for a variety of clubs - including incredibly a couple of appearances for Goa ! - after leaving the Albion and retired in 2017.
Yes. Of course David Burke was sacked on Xmas Eve - Hallelujah - once Tony had come back from Australia to hold the ultimately successful chats with Hughton.
Someone called Paul Winstanley emerged as his replacement. Whatever happened to him ?
Yes. What do they say. The darkest hour is just before the ....sight of Solly March scoring exactly the same type of goal he'd later score against Palace and Liverpool in the Premier League ...
I'm sure i've seen somehwere in a lovely graph - and still surprised to this day - that the player budget actually went down that season. and i think it was the only year in Bloom era that this was the case. Have you ever worked out why or the rationale for that ? (David Burke ? Expected...
The bleakest night ever at the Amex .
(I'm writing a piece for that Dogma marking 10 years since Hyypia - 2 Ys not 2Ps - resigned. "A very honourable man " said Tony Bloom at the time, His worst ever move . Says well ? Most of us i guess. )
Sammy Lee ! The loans ! The inexplicable strikers...
Also the only home game before Christmas is the Palace one on Sun 15 December. So if they're singing outside it will be next to a massive police cordon and a load of horses. Not fun i imagine.