England won't get relegated from the World Cup - anticipate two years of The Big Sam delivering the international module here

^ benched

He should not expect a great deal of sympathy but in the grand scheme of managerial scandals it is certainly a few notches down from the passage in Joey Barton’s newly released autobiography about the “creative accounting” of one manager (though not one, he says, he ever played under) whose “speciality was making late substitutions on the understanding his assistant would later collect a percentage of the player’s match fee”. That manager, according to Barton, was infamous for giving homegrown players their debuts, sometimes just for a few minutes, so the academy director would collect a bonus, to be split again. The manager would re-sign players he had worked with at other clubs and take a cut from them, too – paid monthly, and invariably in cash.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:27 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Who?

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:28 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Redknapp surely

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:52 AM (one week ago)

I've heard rumours of this type around Warnock for years.

when he was at Town he fell out with the chairman over some misunderstood verbal agreement for him to have his own club merchandise shop in the town centre .. the bloody shameless grifter!

jason puncheon was fined 15k for publicly accusing him of the re-signed player racket, but homegrown debuts doesnt really check out - given maybe like five in the last decade iirc

also worth asking yourself what % of every substitution you've ever seen in your life was purely of sporting motivation - clubs paying less if they come on after 60 mins etc

Wayne Rooney has a massive bench coat on as he sidles up alongside Jamie Vardy in the dugout. He's having a laugh and a joke. He'll be hoping to have an effect from there.

he's supposed to be sitting at one end of the bench but he's moved to the middle.

kyle walker just hit the worst cross of all time

Hang on dude I've seen Theo Walcott play

Walcott hasn't walker's consistency

cue frantic phone calls to Bruce this morning before he takes the Villa job

https://twitter.com/JohnSalako/status/798643534202974209

Worst tweet since Piers Morgan on the day OBL bought it.

merciful god

his deflected shot saved us from losing at home to non-league daggers when we were premier league tho so he's a bit forgiven

Remembrance Sunday. Thank you for paying the Ultimate sacrifice for us. God Save The Queen.

Gets bodied in stan collymore's autobiog iirc

collymore is CARD's press champion too, weirdly. the white knight to save us all