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Hah, Yes, my bad.
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Is the right answer.
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Good shout. He was an incredible man. He actually lived up to the correct use of the phrase 'broke the mould' because there's been no one like him, really. Wrote a book in part about him:
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/content/shan...
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I'd still take it, warts and all. European football should have three trophies.
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Ah, of course. Duly entered.
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Sorry, to clarify: this is a London thread.
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Good call(s)
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Agreed.
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Exactly.
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We all know that this isn't easy. The Farage propaganda machine is rich, powerful, influential, and dangerous. He's aided and abetted by a supine media either too willing to promote him or too scared to stand up to him. But you don't beat bullies like him by avoiding the fight.
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One step at a time.
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Indeed. Turn him into what he is, a jumped up gin-soaked 19th-hole bore you'd want to avoid rather than have to listen to. Do the photoshopped mock ups to make him look like Liz Truss and pump out the FB-targetted ads.
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is that he is somehow on 'our' side, when the opposite is true. Tell people that. Call him out. Mock and demolish not just his politics but the fraud that he is as well. I'd go further, in a way that Starmer can't but Labour comms perhaps can: you'd have to be a mug to believe a word Farage says.
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to expose this. Questioned why Starmer with the background he has is less popular with people from that background than a privately educated City boy, Starmer spurned the chance. A mistake IMO. Many voters these days, sadly, are moved by vibes, not policies. The vibe around Farage, unbelievably>
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'Tells it like it is! I'd go down the pub for a pint with him,' etc. This image is glaringly fake. He has nothing in common with the interests of working class people. He's a rich, far-right, born liar who despises the voters he claims to like. Starmer was presented with an open goal by GB News (!)>
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Oh, I dunno.
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bsky.app/profile/gare...
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Shankly. Few, if any, equals.
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'Didn't he play for...?' etc
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There is that.
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đź‘Ť
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Excellent. Once upon a time we were in a taxi in Seville just before Lo Celso signed for Spurs. We saw the driver had a Betis pennant hanging from his rear view mirror and asked what he thought of him leaving.
What ensued was the most frightening taxi ride I think I've ever been in.
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They walk among us.
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Concur.
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Yeah, tend to agree. And I have little faith in those making the change work if that’s what they opt for. But I don’t think it’s a slam dunk to not change.
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Oh yeah, the Brighton game meant zilch. But if the Europa win has shifted the dial (it has), the league defeats also have over a longer timescale. FWIW I don’t think there should be a change, but I can see where it’s coming from.
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Ok, devil’s advocate, a bit:
lose = no Europe, a need to focus on attritional league.
win = CL, a need for European guile and pedigree.
Different managers for different scenarios?
Appreciate it’s reaching, but…
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Ha ha
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Whilst I think people would move on pretty quick if results are good (see Ange post Conte, see Redknapp post Ramos, see just about every managerial upheaval) Enic are on a sharper horns of a dilemma than previously. And it's of their own making.
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The line seems to be 'good squad, in the CL, job's a good-un'. But - and hear me out here - I think Paul Merson got it right that almost the opposite is true, as others have been saying in this fred. Same goes for Tuchel and the Ingerland job after Southgate. He has to win, and big.
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With the compo Enic pay, and no real damage to rep? Hell yeah.
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It's very interesting to see/hear this. But it would not be any surprise that, if there was to be change, loyalties would switch very rapidly. Nature of the game.