not as bad as the media make it sound

[2 Strikers?]

“I have no doubt about my motivation,” he said. “I built this club with hard work and without any external resources. If you compare the club when I arrived and how it is today, it is moved forward – and without any help from anybody. There was no money from anyone. Now I am even more motivated than the first day I arrived. And I feel even more pressure and responsibility to keep this club moving forward.

still a nut job though...

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

'Simply the truth' would be another.

[Classic Jorge]

...and twisting it into some sort of egomaniacal self-aggrandising insult to everyone else.

I'm happy as it doesnt sound like he wants to leave, and frankly he has every right to tell us to go f**k ourselves, but I do think it will take something huge to get over the negativity most people seem to demonstrate towards him.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

It's just horrible. :cry:

Why can't football just f**k off?

[Luis Anaconda]

Being completely wasted at Real - bunch of c**ts (see also James and Isco [as being wasted not being complete c**ts])

[Luis Anaconda]

and of course because it is on in the pub. Would actually prefer to watch Bayern Juve

[Berni]

http://www.thefootballramble.com/images/blog/dwhof-stickerTONI.jpg

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm not sure I can bear to watch us being dry fisted :-(

[Classic Jorge]

The worst thing about it all seems to be that the only way out of it revolves around placating, or even validating, emotionally retarded man-children and further reinforcing their already massive, elephantine, grotesque sense of entitlement.

I strongly believe he should tell us all to go f**k ourselves and go get mash up with Pelegrini.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It is the death of the soul which concerns us.

[redgunamo]

In fairness to Him, football folk are all necessarily like that, because we all have extremely short memories.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

How are you liking The Night Manager? I've never read it, but if the series is anything like the book, it's one of the ones where Le Carre gave up on complex character development and introspection and just went for a rollicking, slightly lobotomised spy thriller instead.

None the worse for that, of course.

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

loving it, I reckon. This is exactly where you want to be, as a football manager. All but perhaps two or three of them would happily swap places with Him.

[Classic Jorge]

That would be a massive boon for us.

Here's another massive Boon.

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/B4N7FE/actor-michael-elphick-takes-time-off-during-filming-of-central-tvs-B4N7FE.jpg

[7evens]

we're probably going to have to accept that he'll be here next season. He'll acknowledge the frustration and force through three or four summer signings. The squad itself is more than capable of top 6 minimum, therefore a string of results is never that far away.
In the top 4 by xmas, pressure subsides with performance and the fans will know he'll be gone by summer 17..

What we don't want are him losing the plot under a torrent of moronic abuse and fans kicking lumps out of each other in the ground.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm talking about John Le Carre, nom de plume of David Cornwell, who has written so many marvellous novels about the world of SIS; the man who introduced us to such timeless characters as Alec Leamas, George Smiley and Peter Guillam.

[Berni]

[Luis Anaconda]

So pretty much made it up. Not sure if him and Oezil are a perfect fit (you know the whole world cup win aside,) but I would bloody love it if we signed him

[7evens]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Most of the acftion in the book takes place in Pine's head, really. It's thick with fear and claustrophobic with tension; the moments of action are a welcome release from the stress of introspection, a gushing climax, if you will.

[Classic Jorge]

After the swansea game it felt like we'd reached a watershed and that whatever he did he was bound to be gone. I dont think people's feelings towards him have changed - and i do think we're in such a slump that we could easily fall to another couple of defeats - but I'm glad he's still fighting.

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

He is very much my favourite thing.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Why?

[Berni]

everything depends on what's on the pitch and how they're feeling about things.

He's impotent. :-(

[Ashberto]

[Berni]

trying to read 'The Little Drummer Girl'. which was a bit ****e.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

He's old now. Old and half mad.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

If it was any good, people would have been banging on about it.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

How perfectly extraordinary!

[Luis Anaconda]

[Ashberto]

Despite the eventual slump they could have gone 3-0 up against Swansea in the first half, and if the mirror****'s goal hadn't been judged a gnat's nose offside we'd probably be back at Wembley again.

Results have been ****, but the performances haven't all been entirely ****.

I've no idea why I'm clutching at these straws, tbh. Maybe I'm saying there's a chance of squeezing out a few wins to hang on to third or fourth. Won't stop Spurs winning the league, unfortunately.

[Berni]

God, I remember when you went through your Dickens devouring phase. That seemed positively masochistic.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The Tailor of Panama, The Constant Gardener, A NMost Wanted Man, Single And Single. Grand stuff.

[Brentwood]

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Backsliding now.

[Ashberto]

Perhaps I'm saying he might find it again.

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

doesn't score enough goals"?

[Berni]

Now, unless there's something you know that I don't, I still hope to have a decade or so in which I might get round to them.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

I am now beginning to think the more he gets criticised, the more defiant he becomes, the more he wants to succeed doing it his way. Unfortunately, while not hurting us, it may be what is preventing us from reaching that next step.

Perhaps the best course of action is to stop getting on his back and maybe his attitude might change.

[Berni]

[redgunamo]

vigorously, even when not under attack, simply because nobody else ever will.

They all know very well that the period of time between being carried shoulder-high through the streets in either triumph or burning in effigy can be the blink of an eye.

[Classic Jorge]

One minute you're all

http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/3-01-2015/A6B8X9.gif

and the next it's

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/84347101-manager-of-inter-jose-mourinho-looks-dejected-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=GkZZ8bf5zL1ZiijUmxa7Qf1nKkJ9h3MS7c69DK4NP8qot8Nn mEDcR15BNDxGhHrWXZXjVlUyWHwGz2%2BGV6cPbw%3D%3D

[Bergkamp's Brain]

I remember a young Jack Wilshere...... whatever happened to him?