I was always an admirer of Lou Macari, but this has really bumped him up my list. Outstanding effort. Imagine he'd earned as a player whet they earn now - we wouldn't have a homeless problem!
Strange you don't talk much about the footy anymore ? And everything else seems to "boil your piss " Personally I'm on here to talk football and in particular Leeds United as it's a life long passion...everything else I couldn't give two hoots about. Just sayin
I can talk about what I like and if you have a problem, then take it up with the mods. As for non footy talk, I'm not the only one who does, so don't be targeting me.
Heres almost a film script right here. But fantastic football career, fantastic managerial career winning titles and promotions with Swindon. Managing West Ham Birmingham Celtic..... he even owns a chip shop near Old Trafford and still works at OT on matchdays and doesMUTV, Sky etc. But the homeless thing could be defining. But this below? His mother died just before the 1978 World Cup in strange circumstances, overdosing on tablets, her son was to find out. "My mum had been on her own, and in the conversation I'd had with her she said she had some friends up there. Putting the pieces together after she died, I just wasn't convinced that the friends were good friends. Some money had gone missing."[32] His sons Michael and Paul have played professionally with Stoke, when Macari was manager of the club. His youngest son Jonathan died by suicide in 1999 after being released from his contract at Nottingham Forest.[33] Family friend and former manager Dave Bassett said that Jonathan could not handle the pressure of living up to his father's greatness. There was also talk of drugs affecting his son's life and leading to his suicide,[34] but Macari later discounted that theory, admitting that much like the death of his mother, the complete story behind the tragedy may never be known.[32] Years later he claimed that "money in a young man's pocket is a recipe for disaster and we had that disaster. Only when you go through something like that do you understand the hell of it."[35] Macari worked with Stoke-on-Trent council to set up The Macari Centre, a street retreat to house the homeless sleeping rough, which opened in February 2016.[36][37] In the COVID-19 pandemic, following the closure of the crowded premises of The Macari Centre, Macari rented a warehouse and filled it with glamping pods for homeless people, giving them socially distanced places of their own and their own individual addresses.[38]
I've mentioned this before, but the most astonishing revelation I heard from Macari on the radio was that there were 72 midfielders in the original squad 'shortlist' list for the 1978 WC. I thought it ridiculous until he ran off a couple of dozen names, proving his point. All were excellent. Changed days for Scotland now. I'd make the MF shortlist myself, & I'm a 62yo RB!! Turned it down though. Apparently you're limited to 10 pints before kick-off. I'm not having that!
America should do that with their homeless problem and places like Skid Row in L.A. which has been ignored for decades. It’s all very well sending exploratory space missions to Mars costing billions of dollars but it’s time they got their priorities right. Greatest country in the world? Are they ****.
Theres a story going around and I first saw a couple of days ago, it could be bollox but now had some more infi that makes sense, but could still be clickbait apparently Tom Heaton who got himself badly injured after his transfer to Villa last season, is now fully fit and raring to go. However Villa bought Martinez and he is in pole position, but theres a contractual clause that causes Villa a problem? Heaton as you will know is an England keeper and very highly thought of, but it seems Villa may have no option but to allow him to leave and Leeds are rumoured to be sniffing around. Heaton is now down the pecking order at Villa and understands that Meslier is No1 but willing to come in as No2. If this is true I think its fantastic and it would also mean Kiko is on his bike in the Summer too. Heaton is a great keeper and will add value to Meslier and the other teenybopper kids we have as the eldest is only 18yo if there is a contractual clause then it must be that he isnt allowed to fall down the pecking order to No3, which makes little sense but who knows what it is?
It's an absolute pleasure Forza. However the same observations, day after day across multiple threads that's the tedious part
