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15% sell on for Fernandes with West Ham looking for £80m. Could be very beneficial this summer….

Gone into talks about his future at the club. Provided he will accept a relegation reduction to his salary, they’d be mad to sack him given he’s won that league. But depends what their finances are like - not good was the last I saw even if a miracle had happened yesterday. £160-180m in transfer fees owing. EDIT - it’s worse, £196m according to Kieron Maguire who usually knows his stuff https://www.hammers.news/news/new-196m-west-ham-revelation-turns-up-the-heat-on-clubs-under-fire-board/

Certainly an unusual take on ‘wiping the slate clean’. I’d certainly pay on time if I were the customer unless I wasn’t happy with his work. Judging by the voices on the video it sounded up north somewhere.

The only car (apart from a Land Rover Defender) I’ve ever seen burning on Motorways is Citroen Berlingos. And I do a lot of miles,

Makes me think of the Godfrey and Cream song ‘Cry’. Ralph got pelters for an emotional moment at the end of the Liverpool win when everyone’s MH was down the bog. No such excuse for Hellberg. As someone else said, it’s very un-Swedish as well.

Some contraction was inevitable from the boom in small start-ups after Brown’s Small Brewers Progressive Beer Duty reforms, plus 30% of Gen Z not drinking, but the support of tax relief has been far too slow. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9werp5keqlo Pub cos have a great deal to answer for too. They’re not all bad because one of my local pubs is 15th century and the maintenance is hefty. But it’s taken two closure periods and a more experienced landlord coming in to say to Stonegate ‘we need more variety and choice in what we’re selling’. Two different ales from before and always has a local one on = doing much better. Open up tied pubs to more guest products = rising tide lifts all boats. The big lager brands brewed under licence are declining albeit they’re still huge. Nothing against lager but make it good e.g. Utopian in Crediton or import it. Finally, offer Gen Z and those as designated driver to rural pubs 0 options for beer, wine, spirits that fit in better with their company for the evening. I don’t know why Guinness don’t offer their very popular (and very good) Guinness 0.0% on keg, it would make a fortune and really help pubs. Gloucester Brewery and Deya do some great 0% beers, Hobsons in Shropshire. I enjoyed Little Swine from Hogsback Brewery last night. Better that than brewed under licence Carlsberg or even worse, Carling on the taps. Finally, some pictures below from a Cotswolds brewery tour we did autumn 2024. Hook Norton Tower Brewery pictured as referred to in the article and their taproom and eaterie is superb. They have Christmas markets etc as well. Also, North Cotswold brewery are superb as well - last two pictures, one of them a pint of their Mild freshly brewed.

😂 Another reason to change the logo back to the city one to help reset. The tree will be a permanent reminder.

It’s tricky and never a position fans should be put in, as has been the case over the last two weeks overall. Personally I don’t see the results continuing with Tonda and I see a hangover next season, but I can also see why people are saying persist because the EFL and media OTT response. The lack of fury at SR is inexplicable and less understandable. They’ve shredded the football club over the last 4 years with horrific managers, experimental signings and total lack of strategy. No wonder 50% of fans are desperately clinging to a damaged manager because he’s the only one who connected them to the club and players. I can’t blame them for that even if the FA report makes it untenable.

Labour have done some silly things eg employers NI rise but fundamentally, nothing is as damaging to businesses as Brexit and the type of Brexit chosen by Farage and Johnson https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c775mx4rnngo

That’ll be as minging as the team SR puts out next season.

Agreed, their fanbase has got x100 more lead in their pencil though. Imagine the reaction if their club had just fucked up like ours had? Dragan is hardly quaking in his boots.

Got far more guts and get up and go as a fanbase, that’s for sure. Giving it to Sullivan for a couple of years and they really cannot stand the stadium, which will be a millstone around their neck v Lincoln less than half full https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/west-ham-relegation-statement-fan-anger-b1283511.html The chant of ‘You sold our soul for this shithole’ was powerful. Our lot can’t even decide whether to change a manager who is probably about to banned by the FA. Even Cheltenham Town fans successfully called for Gary Johnson’s head as DoF early season and it’s worked for them. When your fanbase is less ambitious and outspoken than Cheltenham’s, you’ve got existential issues as a football club.

Only a matter of time before Robert Kenyon, Reform’s candidate for Bakersfield, was exposed for idiotic views and being a general fuckwit. Covid vaccines and Nazis, Holocaust denial and the list goes on. He should connect with MLT online if he hasn’t already done so. Whilst I don’t like Polanski, their candidate who became an MP in the seat Burnham was blocked from contesting combined being a normal white working class plumber with her own business without holding fascist views. https://x.com/doctoriaindarcy/status/2057460311968395750/photo/1 https://www.itv.com/news/2026-05-22/reform-uk-backs-by-election-candidate-accused-of-posting-offensive-comments https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-robert-kenyon-makerfield-byelection-burnham-b2982418.html

Was in the Daily Telegraph IIRC

The main qualification was probably a 7 day membership at Stoneham GC. MLT has been a member there for donkey’s years and Solak is known to play there when in the UK.