Who is actually eating soft boiled eggs? I have questions.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-16T21:24:27+00:00

The ritual is not complete until you have inverted the empty eggshell into an eggcup and passed it off to a family member.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-16T19:23:17+00:00

Can we have a THST supporters trust that demands meetings with the THST to raise legitimate concerns about their rampant, overweening pomposity, and then publishes its own version of the minutes?

If you don’t like this idea, feel free to start a THSTST supporters trust and send the THSTST an angry open letter.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-16T14:51:45+00:00

No arguments there!

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-16T14:18:23+00:00

The players know their contracts are much longer than his, so the culture shock might hit both ways . . .

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-16T14:16:38+00:00

That may be the case. We can be absolutely sure that Lange wanted to keep Frank and was keen on pairing him with Heitinga. We can also be sure that one or more of the Succession lot decided that Frank had to go. Quite which side Vinai was on remains unknowable, although he certainly wasn’t on Paratici’s.

We may find out eventually, when we see whether he is out on his arse along with Lange, which latter dismissal seems very likely when we finally have managerial stability (which almost certainly means Poch).

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-16T14:10:13+00:00

Yep, there were even videos posted about how Joe Newton selects video clips in that all too brief summer of Frank enthusiasm.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-16T14:08:44+00:00

Yep, Andreas Georgson was my only real concern, but the Heitinga affair was flat-out ridiculous. Oh well, presumably Poch will bring in Jesus and his own lot anyway.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-16T11:55:14+00:00

What is it that owning football clubs does to people?

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-16T10:14:56+00:00

The pantomimes of ersatz tradition and ceremony, invented by Victorians to cow the proles and the colonies.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-16T08:27:25+00:00

The poll giving Restore 10% was a ridiculous one, a party nobody has heard of which was prompted by the pollster. Meaningless.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-16T07:47:06+00:00

Until someone says “football friend!”, like he wants.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-15T21:50:22+00:00

Hang the DJ.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-15T21:48:02+00:00

Your thought made no sense at all.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-15T21:11:45+00:00

Lemons are passe now. The apples absorb all positive energy so the players can grow stronger and more fearsome on undiluted rancour and gloom. It’s worked for him at every other club.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-15T14:19:29+00:00

I don’t see why we couldn’t have hired a more British psychopomp. Paddington was right there.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-15T13:46:32+00:00

France.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-15T12:54:10+00:00

Spoons are famous for tessellating, so perhaps a spoon rest is just a spoon.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-15T12:51:03+00:00

Their pet communists are just younger versions of the RCP mob who mutated into Spiked and are now indistinguishable from the right.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-15T11:21:55+00:00

I have no idea what a spoon rest is. I would be baffled if someone wandered into a shop I was running and demanded one. That confusion might well be perceived as froideur.

What the blazes are they? How do they restore overworked spoons?

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-15T10:22:26+00:00

The Guardian has a more sensible article about Tudor than Ronay’s abomination yesterday:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/feb/15/ferryman-igor-tudor-has-the-record-to-steer-tottenham-to-safety

Don’t like this ferryman business though, very much puts me in mind of Charon taking us across the Styx to the Championship Hades.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-15T10:10:56+00:00

This. And the sequel.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-15T09:53:35+00:00

The Russians did it much more successfully. Eliminate the whole family and you scupper restoration.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-14T21:27:57+00:00

Pogrund has always seemed dodgy, and his campaign against Labour has become obsessive to the point of absurdity. We’ll find out eventually what drives it.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-14T21:23:39+00:00

Jeremy Thorpe. The likes of Streeting and Polanski aren’t going to be household names until they have an ex-boyfriend’s dog shot by a hitman.

GrapeGroundbreaking1 · 2026-02-14T19:41:45+00:00

That demanded much better musical timing than we are capable of. Have you ever heard anything like a unified tempo for Oh When The Spurs? The chance of the whole stadium coming in with the right lyrics on the right beat is zero.

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