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Surprised nobody's mentioned the late Joe Kinnear's first press conference as Newcastle manager. Could only find an audio version and it's not great quality (but there's a transcript in the YouTube notes).

Are we expecting any of the newly promoted teams to do as badly as Sheffield United and Burnley did? I suspect they'll do better, which in turn means a more open relegation fight. Maybe one of the three will stink the place out, but I'd be surprised if we had all three go back down, and more...

I'm not the person you're asking, but tbf to them, they did say "one of the best potential candidates"

Of course, it's one rule for Bloom with Brighton and USG, but another for the Manchester clubs. We all knew the authorities wouldn't allow them to be affected by this rule, and it stinks.

I just struggle to get past how small-time we'd look by reappointing Potter. There's a reason we all laughed at Palace every time they went running back to Hodgson. That said, I'd get over it eventually.

This one's out of our reach, I reckon. But I said before that it'd take a "wow" appointment to shake me out of my post-RDZ funk, and this would definitely be a "wow" appointment. Edit: That said, we do seem to have a good rep in Argentina thanks to how we've handled the careers of Mac Allister...

I can't see this myself. It brings to mind Palace re-appointing Roy, and we're better than that. Aren't we?

So you think an elected councillor and MP's aide managed to keep his views secret from the party? Or did he just fit in with a certain part of the party? Which is more likely?

I don't know a huge number of Swedish people, but I do know a few, and if any of them said to me "it sounds like you know what you're talking about" I'd assume that whatever I'd just said was totally, utterly, laughably wrong. Maybe the Swedes I know are more sarcastic than the norm, though :)

Which of his beliefs have changed since he was a long-term Labour councillor and an aide to a prominent MP on the Labour right?

I know I'm gonna get shouted at for pointing this out during an election, but the fact that Anderson moved seamlessly from the Labour Party's right wing to the Tories and then to Reform without changing a single one of his beliefs or adjusting his worldview whatsoever says everything about the...

Was a bit of an Asimov obsessive as a teenager. I must have borrowed every book of his that was in the old Brighton library before it moved it the new premises. As I got older I got more into weirder sci-fi like PKD. But Asimov's work, and the Foundation series in particular, will always mean a...

I'd rather we gave it to Bruno tbh. Don't really want Potter back but I guess I'd get over it.

I'm not sure we even did appoint a manager with that ethos when we appointed Hughton. We were a flowing, attacking side under him in the Championship. It was only once we came up that he went fully backs-to-the-wall, hoof-and-hope.

I recall a Czech friend pointed out to me some 20 years ago, with a little alarm, that when we shout "SEEEEEAGULLS" it sounds like a certain German phrase that Czech people most definitely don't like hearing. So no Adolphs for me, thanks.

I have nothing against the guy, in fact I think he handled a horrible situation at Man U with more grace than that club deserved. But I just don't feel we have a "David Moyes squad". I don't find his brand of football very watchable most of the time, so I wouldn't want him for that reason too...

It's weird how we've risen from the very bottom of English professional football to its top division when all our past managers have, apparently, been totally useless.

I was pretty convinced by the McKenna Four Four Two video, now I'm pretty convinced by the Rydstrom video above. On balance I think Rydstrom sounds more fun and will be harder for the opposition to figure out. I suspect we might get some early-era RDZ-style results out of that alone.

Just thought of another reason why I want this guy. Chelsea sacked Poch so they could nick in ahead of us and get McKenna. How funny would it be if the McKenna interest was just a decoy while we sew things up with Rydstrom? Another Bloom victory over the American Boehl-end. (But tbh McKenna...

I don't remember that 2002-04 one at all. That was just after I finished university and was starting my past life in London, so I wasn't really following the club as closely as usual. But I'm still a bit spooked that I don't remember it whatsoever. Voted for it though because I think the...