Paul Cannell
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The problem with we (as a confederation of true OUFC supporters) "do not have faith in The Acting Manager*" is that it's too loose.
A SCAM diehard supporter like @Scotchegg** will answer yes because, well, he is convinced that SCAM will lead the line - as Gracie sang "Sing as we go, we're marching on to glory". Which is fair enough.
However we have to protect the integrity of the poll against sportive disputators, like @tatabanya, who will rightly express that they have faith in SCAM's existence - after all, they have seen his works*** and tremble before them and maintain that is sufficient that he, SCAM, exists to answer yes without regard to the implicit issue of faith that he, SCAM, is a fit representative of the club off the pitch and an manager who can fulfil the board's (OUFC board) will to play football in a higher league.
Furthermore, there are the telephone box agitators, like @horseman ****, who assume disputatious positions to loftily disagree. Their standard hobby-horse ***** is SCAM may be a pretty poor specimen but hang on, it could be worse - we could have Robbie Fowler, Sam Allardyce or the Boston Strangler. Pretty convincing and they'll do it anyway but that, gentlemen (and the others) is a reason to strengthen the proposition.
If anyone's still with me here, I propose, eschewing fashionable double negatives, "We, the true supporters of Oxford United, are convinced that Karl Robinson, bein a negative role-model for OUFC off the pitch and incapable of creating a team on the pitch that can progress up the Football League, should be removed from his position immediately."
* As I can't be bothered to write this phrase repeatedly I will use the acronym SCAM (Scouser Currently Acting Manager) which has the merit of being accurate in at least 2 descriptive ways as well as short.
** I know he says he's not, but I also know he's a humble sort of guy who loves a joke, specially when it's on him
*** The 65-minute substitution rule, the mad waste of transfer money and talent, spurned players sobbing in the changing rooms during training, simple tactical ineptitude and folly, the spare time and recreational activities whose names we dare not utter, you get the idea.
**** Speaking of whom, someone once asked me if I liked his posts; all I could say was "I've never managed to read a whole one." Only joshing
***** cf Uncle Toby, Tristram Shandy. Read it!
A SCAM diehard supporter like @Scotchegg** will answer yes because, well, he is convinced that SCAM will lead the line - as Gracie sang "Sing as we go, we're marching on to glory". Which is fair enough.
However we have to protect the integrity of the poll against sportive disputators, like @tatabanya, who will rightly express that they have faith in SCAM's existence - after all, they have seen his works*** and tremble before them and maintain that is sufficient that he, SCAM, exists to answer yes without regard to the implicit issue of faith that he, SCAM, is a fit representative of the club off the pitch and an manager who can fulfil the board's (OUFC board) will to play football in a higher league.
Furthermore, there are the telephone box agitators, like @horseman ****, who assume disputatious positions to loftily disagree. Their standard hobby-horse ***** is SCAM may be a pretty poor specimen but hang on, it could be worse - we could have Robbie Fowler, Sam Allardyce or the Boston Strangler. Pretty convincing and they'll do it anyway but that, gentlemen (and the others) is a reason to strengthen the proposition.
If anyone's still with me here, I propose, eschewing fashionable double negatives, "We, the true supporters of Oxford United, are convinced that Karl Robinson, bein a negative role-model for OUFC off the pitch and incapable of creating a team on the pitch that can progress up the Football League, should be removed from his position immediately."
* As I can't be bothered to write this phrase repeatedly I will use the acronym SCAM (Scouser Currently Acting Manager) which has the merit of being accurate in at least 2 descriptive ways as well as short.
** I know he says he's not, but I also know he's a humble sort of guy who loves a joke, specially when it's on him
*** The 65-minute substitution rule, the mad waste of transfer money and talent, spurned players sobbing in the changing rooms during training, simple tactical ineptitude and folly, the spare time and recreational activities whose names we dare not utter, you get the idea.
**** Speaking of whom, someone once asked me if I liked his posts; all I could say was "I've never managed to read a whole one." Only joshing
***** cf Uncle Toby, Tristram Shandy. Read it!
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f**k knows what's going on in this thread, I'm off
