Of course ‘Satire died when Kissinger won the Nobel peace prize’ as the late, great Tom Lehrer said, back in the days when Big Website didn’t need to explain to readers who either Kissinger or Lehrer were (although those were the days in which people were also dumb enough to think I was named after a prize, so swings and roundabouts I guess), but if Chelsea end up missing out on the top four and Bigger Cup because they haven’t bought enough players then it will surely be the season that irony died” – Noble Francis.
Pep has already fully patronised them: “Today modern football is the way Bournemouth, Newcastle, Brighton and Liverpool play,” he cooed last month, gushing on Friday: “They have a lot of threats and a lot of positive things.” Has Howe knocked out the essence of Newcastle?
And City’s rot started fully with a loss to Eddie’s old boys Bournemouth on 2 November, the first time his former club had ever beaten a City team.
You then mentioned two more examples of such scenes (Aniq Rizqin throwing punches and Alexander Barboza losing a tooth to a punch) but annoyingly failed to provide any links to the videos we would of course have ignored as they were scenes nobody wants to see.
The managers have been well acquainted for some years now, back to Eddie’s Bournemouth days when his trusty bunch of former EFL-ers would turn up in Manchester to get thoroughly gubbed.
