Of course, all this bung business does suggest another reason why AW is always in the

[redgunamo]

Mind you, I think we can all agree that nothing feels quite as satisfying as a large bundle of cash of which the Revenue know nothing.

I wouldn't know anything about that

[Mo Britain less Europe]

Peter Sellers looks quite hip in that pic.

[Brentwood]

firing line from the punditocracy of British ex managers and players. After all, in a world where everyone's on the take, everyone hates the guy who isn't, don't they?

https://www.theguardian.com/football...is-controversy

Looks like Fat Sam has been persuading/forcing his players to sign for that agent. Suggestions that Ravel Morisson was sent on loan from West Ham to QPR for refusing to sign with the agent. So the person who is supposed to be getting the best deal for the club, when it comes to signing players and setting their wages, will personally benefit the more that player earns (as the agent gets 5% of everything they earn). Stinks to high heaven

[Lar d'Arse]

People behave the way they behave because that's the way they behave. A hound doesn't stop chasing after hare just because he has a tin of Chunky Lumps at home, does he.

That was almost Wengeresque r.

[redgunamo]

https://www.theguardian.com/football...is-controversy

Looks like Fat Sam has been persuading/forcing his players to sign for that agent. Suggestions that Ravel Morisson was sent on loan from West Ham to QPR for refusing to sign with the agent. So the person who is supposed to be getting the best deal for the club, when it comes to signing players and setting their wages, will personally benefit the more that player earns (as the agent gets 5% of everything they earn). Stinks to high heaven

That's football, ain't it. Seems to be the way things are done everywhere.

[redgunamo]

That was almost Wengeresque r.

Too kind, I'm sure

[Ash]

That was almost Wengeresque r.

Even better, Chunky Lumps doesn't seem to be a brand of dogfood that the internet has heard of. Top, top aphorising.

[redgunamo]

Even better, Chunky Lumps doesn't seem to be a brand of dogfood that the internet has heard of. Top, top aphorising.

Ha! Actually, I pinched it from an old Spitting Image sketch, possibly involving Harold Wilson. Ted Bench perhaps? The brand name just always appealed.

Edit. Found it! Your internets must be rubbish. From about 6:35.

[Ash]

Ha! Actually, I pinched it from an old Spitting Image sketch, possibly involving Harold Wilson. Ted Bench perhaps? The brand name just always appealed.

Edit. Found it! Your internets must be rubbish. From about 6:35.

Fantastic! especially as Jim Callaghan (it was he) was voiced by Chris Barrie just as I'm watching some old Red Dwarf. Top synchronicity!