It’s getting boring now.

2 Responses to It’s getting boring now.

1. Blue Bayou says:

   June 2, 2025 at 9:00 am

   For what it’s worth, and following your thread Paul, my hunch would be that Vincent Tan’s favoured candidate for the City post is Nathan Jones!
   Not only has he got Charlton promoted from League 1 this season, but Jones is an outspoken Evengelical/Born Again christian, who has often made reference to God’s plan.
   We are told that Vincent Tan is a deeply spiritual person, who used to frequently use the phrase ‘God willing’.
   Also according to former City defender Lee Peltier, Mr Tan would encourage our strikers to join him in prayers to score more goals.
   So god willing, Mr Tan will make an announcement by the end of this week!
2. Dai Woosnam says:

   June 2, 2025 at 12:05 pm

   Paul compadre, and MAYA friends…
   Oh my giddy aunt…!! I have pins and needles in my head after devoting half an hour of my time to trying to fully consider this ever-so-thoughtful posting from you Paul, and BB’s comment with his admirably witty closing sentence.
   Not for the first time, I find myself perplexed by events to the point that I feel that perhaps I should shout ‘stop the world, I want to get off!’
   But here are some points re my take on things… in no particular order…
   •Trust me I am not a poor version of a Christopher Hitchens contrarian… who if you tell me that smoke is blowing south from a chimney, will adamantly deny it and insist it is blowing west… but that said, most modern ‘football thinking’ is completely alien to me.
   •And talking of smoke and chimneys… is it not remarkable that we have currently taken circa twenty times longer to choose a manager, than the last papal conclave took to elect a… Pope… who let me remind you all, is not managing a squad of 25 but a squad of 1.406 billion!!
   •I note that things have gone quiet on a ‘director of football’. So they should. It is an absurd fad that I predict will be gone in a generation. If it is that sensible a policy, how come his is not the first appointment to be made? (For surely one would want a manager to sing note-for-note from the same hymn sheet as that of the chap he reports to? You cannot have them butting heads daily.)
   •And if people say ‘well just look at how the top successful teams all have a technical director/DoF’, I will counter with ‘so did Southampton, Leicester and Ipswich’. Just one more snout in Vincent Tan’s trough… and God alone knows we have a myriad tracksuited folk there already… all doing backroom jobs that Bill Jones and Wilf Grant would rub their eyes in befuddlement over if they were raised from the dead today.
   •I fell about laughing at your – new to me – anecdote about Nathan ‘doing the Ayatollah’ to the crowd at Swansea following his Luton team winning. Magic. Makes me love him even more… I had previously thought the ‘high’ I got when he got under the skin of that arrogant bully Steve Morison, could not be topped… but I think that your anecdote will bring a smile to my face for years to come…
   •Quite why, is a bit of a puzzle in one respect… and here I refer to my distaste for the action of ‘doing the Ayatollah’. As I understood it, the action is a hallmark of Shia Muslims when they are in (wait for it)…
   …
   …
   … MOURNING…!!

   Have I got that wrong? If I haven’t, please run it by me how that thinking works if we are tapping our heads next season as we are trying to enter the Division 1 play-offs…? Do you think this sign of ‘anticipated disappointment’ might be perceived as irony on the part of our fans… in the same way as fans at The Hawthorns have to read the 23rd Psalm all around them every home game?
   •A final point re fans choosing to adopt an absolutely unique physical action to express their support: where do we draw the line? I guess a Hitler salute, deemed okay for the England team as late as May 1938
   https://tinyurl.com/2n8vjt53
   would be out of the question… but how about the two fingered Agincourt salute (of the urban myth?)… but done slowly, and not with a violent upwards thrust?
   Suggestions on a virtual postcard please. Lunch beckons.
   TTFN,
   Dai.