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Straight swap for Ambrose seems right. Maybe yengi if they ask nicely. Plus and added £1m.

Don't let me put you off Manc Life is full of different opinions. At the end of the day Mrs Manc and you might love it

Nerves are really setting in for this now, bet I'm absolutely no use whatsoever in work tomorrow . No idea what to expect, the Danes may well be a bit rattled after bottling it or they may be really pissed off and highly motivated. Regardless though we need to be on it from the off. It would be nice if we actually look like a team that wants to go to the WC and not the limp dicked dawdling around the park of the first 43 minutes against Greece.

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18 if you count HMP Chelmsford Utd

Aye. Both Sweden and the Italians are shite just now, so wouldn't be as bad as a couple of the alternatives. Not that it matters, as I concocted a little plan to take down the Danes by sneezing into their chips.

I would say winning at home v Denmark is probably an easier prospect than winning away to any of those Pot 1 teams, except maybe Ukraine.

He has signed for Braintree Town in England and scored a goal.

I spent a fair bit of time in Texas through work but I don’t think you really have to go there to know that it’s pretty batshit. You can’t both sides this. The right in America are absolutely crackers. The ‘left’ aren’t left at all. If they were British, they would be Tories or similar to Starmers Labour

If we can’t make a player like Clarkson work in our team then that’s our problem rather than his and he would be better off away. Which, imo, is a sad indictment of our current state of affairs.

Trespasses - Set in Belfast during the troubles of the early 70s A young catholic school teacher, falls for a high profile, married, Protestant lawyer. Who is fighting on behalf of detained , supposed IRA terrorists. Stars Gillian Anderson as the drunken mother of the school teacher. Not bad, but couldn't help think it would have made a better film than a four part series. One thing I took from it. Flags on lamposts are very wrong.

The sad thing is Clarkson would excel in another team's midfield. Hibs play a three-man midfield; usually Barlaser who sits between Grant Hanley and the other two midfielders, McGrath and Mulligan. I don't think any of those players are particularly more talented than Clarkson. Barlaser does the simple things. Collects the ball from defence and passes forward. McGrath and Mulligan collect and have three to four passing options -their front two and the two wing backs who get forward at pace. They repeatedly cut us open with just two-three passes a few weeks ago, not helped by our front three doing little pressing on Barlaser, and Palaversa having a nightmare, but that's another debate. For us, when Clarkson plays, often he turns and his options are a long ball forward (not necessarily a bad thing because he can pick players out from distance, one of his strengths) or a side ways pass to the wing back. He could be used so much more effectively in a three-man midfield. Technically, he's a better player than Hearts' Cammy Devlin, but even though they also play two midfielders, Devlin has two wingers and two strikers to aim passes at. Wait for him to sign for Hibs in January and start opening up chances for Boyle, Bowie and the two Caddens, while we're still scratching our heads.

Presumably if this thread is focussed on AFC-related non-footballing matters we can just merge the Peter Ambrose thread into it?

Spot on. When my tree goes up this week, I'll be thinking back to Hearts victory against the Central Powers in WWI. If it wasn't for the Jam boys getting a rare European away win, we'd all be speaking German.

Singing Kettle - Three Craws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVtTR8UUP-o

Because the night - Patti Smith

I thought this was a reference to Darren and Derek