IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER

I am reliably informed that Herr Butcher was seen in The Ahr Region in the north of the Rhineland-Palatinate and he has bid for two locals that he has been following closely for years - Spätburgunder and Frühburgunder.

As Kayode Anthony once explained to me "It's hard to accept, but you can't change the past. You can't go back and manipulate things to the way you wanted them to happen. Because life would be meaningless and boring and just not worth living. But you can change the future and that's a beautiful thing about life. Yes, you will make mistakes. And yes, you will have bad days, but as long as you let the past go, you'll have such a gorgeous and bright future ahead of you. Knowing that things were meant to happen. Knowing that each day you will learn something so that you keep growing to be a better person. Life is like a rope, twined in all its complexities and yet weaved into one marvellous stream that you have the chance you use something amazing from. So grab hold of it." But then my old mucker Bob Marley crooned "But Johndo my bruvver - In this bright future you cant forget your past"

RICHIE FORAN IS FECKIN DANGEROUS

What do you call a footballer under a car ? Jack Foran

And who bet me that I couldn't drag the merger thread to 20 + pages ??!!

I have just texted Richie and told him that he is barred from the meeting at the Pickwick on the Woolwich Road. We simply cannot take a chance that somebody is going to embarrass us.

Taxi fer Sheerin ?

Hopefully he was having a butcher at the standing areas in German stadiums.

I intend to use Mr Foran as a role model for the fan bonding session at Charlton. I intend to get well and truly caught up in it but I doubt whether I will last till 3.30 in the morning. I am reliably informed that Richie is an accomplished car mechanic and that he was simply attempting to assist a stranded motorist.

But what a great phottie of the Kenyan as he rode to the line in Paris.

I rioted at Burnley and Wembley

The words Titus Bramble, Gary Caldwell and very talented together

Keeping up the good name of Scottish Football ??

Man Utd got turned over by an Asian pub side and then Chelski win by one goal. Lincoln beat Villa, Oldham beat City. As I alluded to before we are stepping up the gears and my only fear is that we have given us only one real motivational text before the start of the season.

Glamour to me would be a game in Europe - I would have taken either Malmo or Rosenborg and in with a chance of a home and away game at Swansea or Wigan. And that was so much feckin closer than imagined. And Scarlet - are you deliberately trying to stir up the pre- merger crew ?

Good to see the potential first team in action - take it that it will be same again at Charlton. Results at this stage don't really matter - interested to see how Vincent and Grenlaghe performed. And how did we lose the goals ?

I am reliably informed that the gun Laurence alludes to was a replica made by the Bury Black Pudding Company. In those days the travelling Shaker would have had a black pudding in each pocket and a couple of bottles of Greenfield Amber in their caps. And as fer pubs on the Woolwich Road why is everyone ignoring the palatial Pickwick. I Adam and Eve that we can all get Brahms and Liszt in the currant bun. I am reliably informed that there will be Liberal quaffing of ale and spirits and a wee pub crawl sounds like a feckin good idea.

Most impressed with the Merkinch concept of having four sets of goals.

Last season may well have been our most "successful"" ever but we had a terrible start - as bad in many aspects as the season before. With the weather that we have had you don't need to train abroad and we simply don't have the drachmas to do that. But we do appear to have learned - we have got practically a full squad together right from the off and we have arranged a variety of games allowing most of the squad to show their potential. The fixtures have also been well planned where we are stepping it up against better and better teams. The only thing that I feel is missing is a second game in Englandshire against 1st or 2nd division opposition. We could have played Raif and then missed out on the delights of Arbroath and travelled South to camp and play on the Wednesday evening - could easily also have been in the London area. Of course finances may have put pay to that as well but I would have preferred higher opposition.

If anybody is actually looking for anything less than a Top six finish the they are having a feckin laff

Pre season simply has to be all about experiment. Looked like a great wee short corner in the highlights clip which could so easily have resulted in a goal. But at the end of the day it is as much about looking at the weaknesses of the opposition and that can only really happen in the SPL although I would hope that we have studied Charlton. To me it is all about variety and delivery. After all if a training ground routine works once it is unlikely to work again.

Great to see a spectacle where the winners are the cheating, lucky bestards.

Gratifying to see that Helgin are as crap as ever and Borough Briggs is still a shitthole.

LOL - But there wouldn't be mouse droppings as the mice would already be in the pies.