Football Daily | Mourinho is ready for his clásico return – stock up on popcorn, folks!
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Football Daily has never had much time for conspiracy theories. Lee Harvey Oswald dunnit, Stanley Kubrick didn’t fake the moon landing, Vinícius Jr doesn’t have a body double and Miranda isn’t a secret traitor. But our Spidey senses picked up when the UK government announced their Be Ready campaign on Thursday night. In case you missed it, or live outside the UK and couldn’t care less about this weird little island, we’ve lifted this from our news story:“Every Briton is being urged to stock up to nine litres of bottled water and three days’ worth of food in new government guidance designed to ensure that households can survive a weather, cyber or other serious emergency. The Be Ready campaign is aimed at persuading people to stock up with supplies to last 72 hours, amid growing official concern about the impact of the climate crisis, technological dependency and hostile state threats.”Would it not be much easier all round if the two big clubs in Manchester simply swapped all playing and coaching staff before the next round of fixtures? United would finally get the squad that Bruno Fernandes and Lisandro Martínez clearly feel they deserve, one of serial winners who are worthy of the club’s fine history (and free of the whiners). Meanwhile, City would might get a team that would make them (somewhat) competitive in the lower tiers where they’re surely headed. And a manager who has coached there quite recently. Sure there’d be a few grumbles from the fans, but more importantly in the current football climate, think of all the potential new shirt sales, and the Us-Against-the-World mentality that Enzo Maresca would be able to instil in his team whose own supporters would even hate them. And no-one would even have to move house. It’s a win-win solution. Although, no, it’s United; so probably a win-high-scoring-draw-against-Wycombe solution” – Justin Kavanagh.Like all right-minded people, I only read Big Website to get my fill of news and information (ahem …). However, I did come across a recent piece in The New Yorker on James Daunt, the chief suit of the US book chain Barnes & Noble (no relation). The billionaire Russian oligarch, Alexander Mamut, asked him 20 years ago how much it would cost to buy Waterstones, and when he was told it would be £40m, he looked pleased and just said, ‘That’s less than Fernando Torres’, before adding, ‘It’s not even half a boat’. Odd reference points these billionaires” – Noble Francis.May I be the first of 1,057 Daniels to say thank you for the good luck message at the end of Thursday’s Football Daily. It has put a little extra pep in my step today” – Daniel Mee.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...
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