Similar to Chelsea turning over managers. They've been successful, but not successful enough. Like crashing out in the CL quarters and finishing 3rd in the league each year. Which we'd take - at least for a while!
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Similar to Chelsea turning over managers. They've been successful, but not successful enough. Like crashing out in the CL quarters and finishing 3rd in the league each year. Which we'd take - at least for a while!
Yeah Hotspur, Rovers, Forest, United, Wednesday, Town, City and Albion are much better.
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Surprised to see him go. He's won the World Series once, which is huge, obviously, but he's also had two first place and two last places and having won the AL East this season with the huge investment in playing staff it was a big blow to go out so meekly in the ALDS for the second straight year. He's also been off with cancer a bit over the past two years.
Not unusual at all to sack a manager when everything was lined up for success but for two years he fell short of the very high expectations. But the Red Sox have only had one other manager last five years since the war, so he did well to last this long!
I've always thought "Hotspur" was quite ace and weird. Like a boy's comic from the 50s.
Actually, I think it was.
But I quite like the austere, functional aspect of calling the football team from Liverpool, "Liverpool".
If you had a pet named sox you'd lose half every time you washed it
Hotspur was someone's actual name, wasn't it?
I never quite understood Wednesday. Naming a club after a day of the week?? Unless that was someone's name as well.
I never quite understood Wednesday. Naming a club after a day of the week?? Unless that was someone's name as well.
It was a team of Butchers (I think) who could only play their games on Wednesdays as that was their day off.
It's still a weird name, imagine Liverpool Tuesday or Chelsea Thursday. Hotspur, Argyll and Rangers (as in QPR) are all as weird as any of the aforementioned American names.
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Hotspur is pretty cool. Funnily enough I've been doing some work for English Heritage this week and I came across Harry Hotspur. He was from the NE and was instrumental in getting Henry IV on the throne and kicking Scottish arse. He was nicknamed Hotspur by the Scots and his family had a place in Tottenham. Which is why they are called Tottenham Hotspur, apparently. Fun Friday fact folks!
"Thistle"
...or, as Billy Connolly said in one of his routines, "ThistleNil".
If we're going north of the border, I'll see your Thistle and raise you an Academicals.
All the better for coming on a Thursday. Were you the guy in the Vatican who introduced Saturday evening masses counting for Sunday obligations?
That came in in 1953, so either Sean was remarkably precocious or he's even older than I thought he was. 😉
And before anybody asks, I wasn't even born then.
And before anybody asks, I wasn't even born then.
I wouldn't be so sure of that mate.
Ha! I'm going away tomorrow and so this is may last day at work this week. So my brain automatically shifted in to Friday mode.
I thoughts it was more recent than that. Wiki suggests it was introduced at Vatican II, which ran from 1962 and finished exactly a week before I was born in 1965
I'm afraid Wiki is incorrect. Pope Pius XII gave the relevant permission nearly a decade earlier.
For now City and PSG are doing OK. But the underlying governments (lets not hide) that own them - you can never guarantee long-term stability by being owned by the oil rich nations. Also those economies are domestically not that great given the price of oil. The only difference being Qatar because they have those gas fields ( if I am correct) and so have other sources of income plus the fact that all that money they earn only needs to support 300K people also handy.
Knowing our luck we will be owned by someone related to the Saudi government.
I think he wrote the Bible.
That's nothing compared to down under - Victory, Glory, Heart, Phoenix, Roar.....
The AFL, NRL & Super Rugby teams are worse - added to your general animals you can follow the Eels, Bombers, Rebels, Force, Power, Suns, Demons, Crowd, Sharks, Roosters...
My favourite is the Manly Sea Eagles
You're forgetting the best name of all, and it comes from the mother land.
Harland and Wolf Welders.
I forgot about Distillery. There's also the mighty Dungannon Swifts.
Chimney Corner...
Hahahaha. The new world corporate football order & STILL we get the shitty end of the stick. FFS.
Hahahaha
When I was a kid, listening to the Scottish classified results made the place sound incredibly strange and exotic:
Partick Thistle
Hamilton Academical's
Heart of Midlothian
And my particular favourite, Queen Of The South
East Fife won 5-4 on Saturday but it wasn't against Forfar.
Anyway I suppose there is no billion dollar buyer after all if we are digressing into these other areas...
Yeah I didn't exactly do us any favours there did I? Ok, how about Liverpool Industrial & Commercial Bank Of China.........Liverpool ICBC.
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