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Absolutely Mark Hughes, although I do remember feeling somewhat frustrated with Pellegrini at the time. Yet while with Manuel I feel a tinge of "he did what he could for us", Marky Boy gets the full on "what the fuck was he doing at my club!?" treatment. The only positive of his era was the...

I'm plumping for Alfred the Great, in all honesty.

In any case, Happy St George's Day to those who celebrate the man specificially for his Christian significance! I personally celebrate today as a day for celebrating the nation of England.

I care about facts and being historically accurate and the "St GeOrGe wAs TuRkIsH" diatribe is, in my experience, often spoken by a certain mindset of a person. I'm not a Christian so I don't celebrate him, but cannot deny that St George's place amongst English cultural history and its place...

Nyeehh... its debatable. Scholars affirm he was British, but living in Wales. So he could theoretically have been an English citizen living in Wales.

What's your point? St Andrew wasn't Scottish. St Patrick wasn't Irish. They're patron saints whose deeds resonate with the Christian believers of that populous. St George isn't Ethiopian, Catalonian, Portuguese or Georgian yet they still celebrate him. A Patron Saint doesn't have to be born of...

And that St Patrick was actually Welsh.

Cappadocian Greek who fought for the Romans. How can he have been Turkish when Turkey wasn't even a thing back then? The Ottomans didn't conquer the land for another 1000 years. He's also a patron saint of Portugal, Genoa, Venice, Georgia, Catalonia and Ethiopia, who all celebrate him today as...

I think you're labouring under the impression that i'm against the Grealish deal. You're pretty much agreeing with the sentiment my original post was about. What was the point of all this?

So Villa were keen on selling him to City were they? Right.

I never said they did, what are you on about?

Or refreshing Teletext pages for score updates. Simpler times.

Because Villa didn't want to sell him. They made a huge asking price to put us off but it didn't work. We were adamant about getting him.

I was thinking this too. Doku on the left, Jack on the inside of him, able to do his thing and move the ball forward. Left winger, while he can do it, isn't Grealish's best position IMO.

Football in general is becoming boring. VAR, additional games, overinflated seasons, pointless international friendlies, social media oversaturation of opinions from nobodies carrying on like their opinion holds merit, supporters treated like customers, the chat, the endless chat and...