Very good pete, I had barry out of auf wierdersehen pet reading that:-)

Took a bit..

I like that, Pete. Made me smile. A couple of years ago we were talking to a waiter in Verona. He said he'd had a Brummie girlfriend and how much he liked the people. He said that when he visited they'd say : 'Harbinyer?' Talk a bit to work out that it was 'how have you been?' what with his accent and all.

Paddington - Brummie accent joke for you:- A Brummie walks into a tailors. "Alroit, mate. I'd like a 70's suit, please." The tailor says, "Certainly sir, and would you like a kipper tie?" Brummie says, "Ta mate, two sugars please."

OMG I just realised I never asked as to whether Womble Of Bodmin Moor got back ok. I hope the journey was ok that really is a long old poke from Plough Lane.

We've found loads of Brummies and Black Country people in Somerset too. They come here for holidays as children and fall in love with it. They're lovely people aren't they? No side, as my mother would have said, not like us lot and Mancs.

12 villa fans in pub in sandown, seems brummie.love the island either holidaying or relocating.

Go Villa!

Maybe give the two Sicilies a miss.

I shall look that up OI. (I've also been talking to our son about 'thee', 'you' etc and an old English word for 'you' and so on when it's only two of you, a topic Mr P finds intensely irritating).

Padds - you could also discuss the competing lineages of the Bourbon-Two Sicilies ;)

That was an own goal from Porto worthy of Noel Blake

We've spent the last hour eating curry, drinking beer, and telling each other stuff we're reading on the Internet about Fabergé and his egg- making descendants.

Imagine their insurers are looking closely at the T&Cs ...

[Link] Gotta question why you’d have £2:2m worth of your company’s goods in a handbag on the floor of a soho pub.

Easier way out “This is simply an autocorrect issue. I intended to say ‘go duck yourself’ because i thought his insight to be so inspired and laser-focused that he must prove he is not using witchcraft.”

Second vote confirmed - [Link]

TF - Mark Harris is fucked, so if I was him I'd go the whole hog with a followup email : "Further to my reply to Alex Duckfield, I would like to not only repeat my suggestion he should go fuck himself, but also that he has a microscopic penis, that he does unspeakable things to livestock and that the Glazers are good owners of Manchester United".

The press is now on it in force, Trig. Calls for Harris to resign etc. Go fcum man!

Yeah that’s kinda why it’s more humorous than outrageous. Would still expect a league official to exhibit more professionalism but maybe things would be better if more people just said what they mean.

TF - his email to them to begin with was a bit shitty though (see underneath)

Not verified or fact checked but interesting/hilarious: [Link]

Agreed Laurence, we need to keep people with experience of running businesses on the Board, not letting them get frustrated or frozen out. Has anyone heard about either the governance review or the election review (I would have hoped Shane would have been kept up to date on the latter but that is probably silly of me)?

Alan I very much doubt we’ll get the money back. But to have no communication out to members about the situation or how it’s been resolved or measures taken to prevent it recurring - just absolute silence not even an official “due to x, y and z we will not be commenting” is just absurd but unfortunately not surprising from the current leadership. Honestly the decision making and leadership we’ve seen since just before Erik left has been of such low calibre it really concerns me that anyone seeking to put money in may be put off completely when they get into discussions with the likes of.*

Is the annual interest on bond payments something like £400K? Presumably that'd mainly go into our playig budget once bonds are paid off, along with some / most of the 'working capital' being provided by investors, so hopefully we can dream of having a playing budget that is actually vaguely competitive in L1.