He's a vegan member of the green party and part-owner of Erpingham House, the largest vegan restaurant in the UK, unusual to say the least, for a footballer now managing the Saints respect indeed.
Any Idea which Erpingham house ? The one in Norwich is temp shut , but there seems to be more than one . There is one in Brighton. , but there seems to be mention of them going into liquidation .. liquidation as in Not good for the business , not making soup !
They appear to be closed Norwich may reopen. Pity if people have lost their jobs. "7 Mar 2023 — The Erpingham House vegan restaurant in Tombland, Norwich has announced it is closing temporarily due to rising energy bills." Wiki says he passed A-Levels in history, PE and drama. What really matters is that he is getting a tune out of the team.
I don't think that's likely as he's a Green party member unlike Morrissey who during a recent performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (and at a number of live shows in New York), the former Smiths singer sported a For Britain badge. For those unfamiliar with it, For Britain is a far-right political party. Even Nigel Farage believes it is made up of “Nazis and racists”. He can scotch his glads up his rusty. "He’s become the Oswald Mosley of pop.” (B. Bragg.)
“closing temporarily due to rising energy bills.” This one sentence from your post. How many more businesses have the same issue? Don’t know what your utility bills are like in the Netherlands but for one calendar year, Aug 22 - July 23, in Spain, my electricity cost €676 and the bottle gas came in at around €260 - €290. Can’t be precise with the gas as the price was quite high last year (€25/26 a bottle) but has been down to around €17 for several months now. Around a grand for the year. And on topic, I said give Martin until the last international break and review and I am in the keep him in group.
Yeah it’s crazy. Interesting to see the difference in Spain. My monthly electricity and gas bill is about half what you pay for the entire year which seems crazy Back on topic, I still feel like we are scraping by in spite of Martin rather than because of him, but can’t complain with the results at the moment so he should stay, hasnt earned much grace with me though so if we have another run like we did earlier in the season I will want him out
So the business temporarily or permanently tas do others and those working there now out of work are faced with mounting utility bills. We prepay €75pm for gas and electricity using under half the national average for our humble abode. So €900pa and usually get a rebate €100 or so. I didn't vote, not fond of polls.
He has got his players playing and the fans baying, not sure what else he can do within the limited resources that he has, to please some entitled people?
Well this is where I disagree. I don’t think he has the “players playing” respective to the level we are at. Scoring last minute equalisers/winners feels good at the time but when you look at our respective squad against the opposition we should be winning fairly comfortably against the likes of Millwall and Preston in my view. Not sure what these “limited resources” are either. Would wager our weekly wage budget is comfortably in the top 3 in the league, and at least double that of more than half the teams in the division
A quick google returned this on our limited resources 1. Leicester City – £60,190,000 2. Southampton – £40,014,000 3. Leeds United – £39,513,000 4. Norwich City – £24,196,000 5. West Bromwich Albion – £23,060,000 6. Cardiff City – £19,444,000 7. Stoke City – £18,340,000 8. Watford – £14,952,000 9. Sheffield Wednesday – £14,584,000 10. Middlesbrough – £13,582,000 11. Birmingham City – £13,228,000 12. Bristol City – £12,894,000 13. Hull City – £12,333,200 14. Swansea City – £12,276,000 15. Queens Park Rangers – £12,020,000 16. Ipswich Town – £11,378,000 17. Preston North End – £10,942,200 18. Coventry City – £10,008,000 19. Millwall – £9,856,000 20. Huddersfield Town – £9,258,000 21. Sunderland – £9,150,000 22. Blackburn Rovers – £7,678,000 23. Rotherham United – £6,674,000 24. Plymouth Argyle – £6,060,000 https://www.planetfootball.com/quic...age-bills-2023-24-leeds-leicester-southampton
Aribo is on over 3m, McCarthy over 2m, Adams and Mara on 1.5m. So that's 8m just there. My point being that a relegated team's inflated wage bill is not always due to having the desired players, but partly because they can't sell/loan certain other players out.
OK fair enough, but money spent alone, isn't always going to guarantee success, how many of our current squad would wallk in to a Premier side? First things first, we need to concentrate on getting promotion, that is going to need a lot of hard work and will need a lot of support. If the current players weren't playing we wouldn't have got any of the recent results. One step at a time and be realistic about the standards that you set, otherwise the disappointments will hurt more. We will still need to spend money in the next Window or we will fail for sure.
