Chairman Meow

I saw Blyth Spartans play against Sheffield FC in the FA Cup quite some time ago. Used to go quite regularly but stopped when they put the ticket prices up to a tenner. We had a non league version of Le Tissier as well. He was highest scorer in the country when we got promoted to the Conference North, but had a tendency to be quite lazy and then do something spectacular occasionally.

Got what we deserved there, been shite most of this half.

Mate of mine is a Wolves supporter, his take is quite realistic in terms of what football is these days. I don't think it will be all that entertaining a prospect anyway, the Champions League is mostly shite until the knockouts. With FIFA also wanting a bigger club world cup set up as well are we just going to move to football being a year round sport. How many games do they ultimately expect teams to end up playing.

Patty Bam Bam is just a poor mans Bambang Pamungkas.

I wasn't especially a fan of theirs, but my viewpoint was largely that other than being the plaything of a money launderer of an oil state it was unlikely anyone could get anything more out of us I could at least tolerate them. I'd quite happily see them fuck off now though.

That doesn't stand out as particularly special.

I'm fairly certain I said this at the time he still played for us, but if some of the more talented players we have had over the years put in the level of work and effort Dirk did we'd not have been half as shit as we have been over the years.

They did the same when all the Suarez shit was going on as well. They are only around if there is something good that they can claim credit for.

He's just said in pre match that he only found out about it yesterday. FSG are all over it if something good happens, but any hint of trouble or something that might kick up a stink they are nowhere to be seen and the players and manager are cut adrift and left to deal with the shit. They are a cowardly bunch of cunts and now are somehow managing to actually stand out as even bigger cunts in a sport which is more than well stocked in total cunts.

Surely the biggest benefit to us by joining the Super League is that we'd have even more money to not spend on players.

In my last proper job we used to design and supply Fire Alarm and AOV kit, almost the entire industry did the same with the race to the bottom, getting stuff made in China that was barely functional and every job being run to the bone to milk as much money out of it by doing the bare minimum. The bolded parts seem to be a common theme across a lot of industries. I'm doing a Mechanical Engineering degree now, I had been doing an integrated Masters but I'm dropping to Bachelors as the degree is a complete waste of time. All they are bothered about is churning out degrees, myself and the one other mature student wipe the floor with anyone else on every project/assignment. However, whenever we raise issues about the course the entire faculty is baffled and the response is always a variant on "but you've got the highest scores" because their entire mindset is that it's about scores and passing rather than learning. The fresh out of high school kids are all really good at the maths side of things (certainly a million times more capable than I am) but none of them can design a bloody thing. We had to make a prototype car as a scale model and then race them against the clock, we made the only one that went in a straight line, mainly because we used bearings and they were all amazed and couldn't figure out how we knew you needed bearings. None of them seem to have done simple stuff like maintaining their bikes as kids or that kind of thing. I don't think a single one of them has held a spanner before. When you press them as to why they want to be an engineer it usually seems to boil down to "it's a good job", rather than any specific desire or interest. I suspect that may be the same with some in the architecture field? The main thing that has thrown me though is how poor they are at the IT side of things, partially that over reliance on the software that you mention, alongside the lack of physical experience means they can't see results are inaccurate i.e. we did an FEA module and they couldn't see that the results didn't match what you'd expect just from having experience of bending metal. Even though I grew up first messing around with Spectrums, including doing "Hello World" when I was probably about 8 years old or something and have done programming in the past I really thought the kids should be better with that side than me as it's been there for their entire lives. But they have really struggled to learn any software and complained about the "programming" being too hard on projects which are really just based in relatively simple markup. Sorry, I've veered off a little. TLDR: Mechanical Engineering is fucked as well.

I only let her take those photos because she promised she wouldn't share them.

Good luck with that. I "won" a fridge magnet in 2015 and my fridge is still waiting for a TLW magnet.

Surely the title should be something more along the lines of "Three days of pain: doing something you've never done before and are clueless about is invariably not as easy as you thought".

That's the least of his worries.