The Batman

Yeah sorry about the use of the word but wasn't sure how to phrase it any other way.

Surely all clubs have insurance polices in place when it comes to, and I don't mean to minimise him but he is an asset to a company, "goods on transit" when it comes to player transfers?? ... Is this not a matter for the insurance companies to determine and not the clubs or have we gone well beyond that?

Probably somewhere on this forum, somebody has a list of player contract expiry dates. When does his current deal expire? Hard to make a judgment on a player who has such severe injuries and never plays. As @SecretSamsays above. The damage down the line could be a lot worse. Cheesley was before by time but for the younger group, he retired at 23 due to a severe injury. I know technology, medical care, rehab etc has advanced a lot, but sometimes the body just doesn't / can't work. Ayman is not far off that age.

Car insurance is a racketeering con. All in league with one another and because it's a statutory cover, they can all hike across the board and claim it's "the market". As @nebristolredsays re the job. They were built in to systems many years ago. If you do any form of admin work, just put administration / administrator.

I remember being mesmerised by spending £1.2 million on Akinbiyi and £1 million on Thorpe under Ward in the late 90s. Lot of money back then but Goater replacement was desperately needed. So was a Shaun Taylor replacement considering his injury but every CB we signed that year was awful.

Yep. I was there at Wembley and I thought in that split second he should be watching the game and not running over and arguing with the ref. Low and behold, quick free kick, cross, goal. Cavanagh and Thorne were quality at league 1 level.

Belter and I'm all for it. Old but gold.

I showed him the Southampton goal where he pelted by the defenders when the keeper went up for a corner. As pacey players go in my city supporting lifetime, very few would have been faster than he. Anyway, back on Trundle, loved watching him play, even at Swansea with all the tricks, flicks etc. Just something different back in the day. Delighted when we signed him. One would assume he spent most of his career in lower leagues (league 1 and below) bar his time with us? Even when he went on loan to Leeds, they were division below us at the time.

My colleague came in to work this morning and told me he'd listened to this. He asked me about Ivan sproule so I'm guessing he got a mention somewhere. Great era for City around this time.

I thought he was a decent player, for both us and Swindon. Just very injury prone. But maybe that's just my nostalgia showing. He would have played for us in what is now league 1.

I imagine there's lots of small print in deals, both with players directly and transfers with other clubs. Famous one of course was when we signed Robin Hulbert from Swindon. Good player that never played for them after a while, turns out there was an agreement in place where Swindon would pay Everton every number of games and 1 more would blow their budget so eventually they sold to us on the cheap. Not saying every agreement has it but unless we have the contract in front of us, we won't know for certain.

Install early 90s Real Madrid mode. The opposition can score 3, as long as we score 4. We have the attacking talent. Let them off the leash. Go out there with the mindset to outscore the opposition as opposed to not wanting to concede.

I've been a fan of Rico Henry since his Walsall days. Still in his mid 20s. Plays regular for Brentford. Southgate very much sticking to his favourites though, as he does with all the positions.

Click in her profile, she has 3 flags in her bio. Hard to see who the parody accounts are nowadays

It is a belter but the side parts ruin it. Shame it ain't the same colour all the way around. That Narinder Kaur skank is on Jeremy vine at the min saying how it's solely a flag of bigotry, fascism and racism and nothing else. Obviously it's one person's opinion and probably just saying it to get people to call in but you never know. She's subsequently said that nobody is proud of this flag. Well I'm someone with not too distant Caribbean ancestry and dating an Indian lady. I'm proud of it, come throw the race card at me.

That's the thing. Nike wouldn't just do it (ba dum tss) , it would have needed sign off from the FA. Whether the FA went to Nike with the idea, or vise versa, it takes 2 to tango.

Yeah flashed up on my facebook memories this morning. A great day. A great team.

Has Southgate or someone from the FA spoke about it yet?

That's the badger. Wasn't that account I saw it from but it's the same pic. As Germany have announced a deal with Nike, I did see someone do an obvious "playful update" harking back to Germany's history. Think you don't need me to post it on here to know what it is

. Was going to post something similar earlier. Say SL sells to a Vincent Tan equivalent and he does to us what tan did to Cardiff by putting blue seats in Ashton Gate and changing the kit to the blue and white quarters. The important question to ask is why they felt the need to do it and who is the target audience for it. Just some nonsense buzzwords on a tweet means nothing.

Not that I've seen, although I've seen people say replace the lions with other animals, elephants & unicorns as examples. Someone has also put the star of David on the Palestine flag, that might put the cat amongst the pigeons. After all, it's just a playful update of a flag. What's the problem?

A fair few examples of "playful updates" are doing the rounds already.

I don't get what playful update to unite and inspire means. If fans ain't inspired by their country playing in a major tournament then they may as well not bother. Here's a "playful update" of the Swedish flag

Eugh, maz-ball fits. Yep. That's what it's called from now on.