This should be Bielsa>Poch, Simeone, Iraola.

Fuck sake!

So all the ex players spent their whole careers under the greatest manager ever without ever learning from an elite coach.

So give it Giggsy til end of season, put Ole back at the wheel and hope Fletcher and Carrick can play the Utd way but it won’t work out.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

While the list goes on, Utd are notable outliers and something G Nev said about SAF never taking training.

His longevity was sustained by a rolling cast of Assistants - Kidd, Quiroz, Phelan, McLaren. It was like they had half a dozen managers over the years always with Sir Alex as the figurehead.

Compare other coaching family trees and Sacchi mentored Ancelotti who coached Zidane, Conte, Deschamps

Bielsa>Poch, Simeone, Bielsa

Cruyff>Pep>Xavi, Arteta, ETH, Maresca, Kompany

Alonso is the best young coach because he worked under basically everyone and has a smorgasbord of influences.

Bruce, Hughes, Ferg Jnr, Keane, both Neville’s, Giggs, Ruud, Carrick, Rooney all had a crack at management with varying degrees of success but none of them have really made it to the very top.

Why has arguably the greatest ever manager failed to produce an heir?

Also worth noting that their biggest issue was around nationwide chronic understaffing, not pay.

Stagnant pay plays its role in that but it’s doing double/triple the workload to cover for a half full team that leads to burnout.

My partner voted in favour of strike action and said she was close leaving the service if working conditions didn’t improve.

And if she/others are prepared leave and never come back then where is the moral argument against walking out for a day.

What a shame.

I said ACL as soon as I saw him go down and it’s horrible to be proven right.

Thatchersim — still the basis of so much of our economy — worked by making us buy things we already owned, using money we borrowed from our grandkids, and then cancelling the maintenance and calling it "savings".

And now everything is broken.

Test cricket is finding a really good boxset. Takes a week to binge and you go deep into the characters and storylines as the tempo slows down then suddenly speeds up. A 30 minute passage can turn the whole thing on its head.

Once it’s cooking and you can’t miss a ball there’s nothing better.

What’s the point in showing the yellow card if you’re going to blow up bang on the added time anyway.

It just incentivises the defender to let the ref waste another 30 seconds getting booked. It’s not like they pay the £12 fine from the FA

And how did everyone in the stadium except the referee and Ollie Watkins think the first half had ended.

Isn’t Kristi Noem the one that had an entire South Park episode where she went around shooting puppies?

I went all the way through school, GSCE and A-Level History without India coming up once.

Ireland was only covered at A-Level and I was shocked by the guy in a Celtic shirt already having a (strong) opinion on something we'd yet to learn.