Author: Harry Hotspur

If that didn’t get your attention then arguably little will. I could weep.

And a very ‘good morning to you’, too.

Jamie Bothroyd’s name has been cropping up with alarming regularity of late and slowly slowly it is beginning to emerge that this tale has legs. Which sounds like something Sid Trotter would say or at least Gerald Scarfe would draw.

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Afternoon. Reports flying in of activity at The Stadium of Light and we’re not talking about Niall Quinn declaring today, ‘Naked Friday.’ Again. The Neopolitan Swordsman, aka Jermain Defoe has been spotted on the premises. Is he on the verge of becoming Barren Dent 3.0? Is he having a go on one of the girls from their Club Shop? Or perhaps he was simply taking the stadium tour? Time will tell. The news comes via @windyCOYS who passes on the sighting via a friend at SAFC in very good faith. If you’re interested in our U18 players and such then…

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Wotcha. People like football and people like free stuff. And those your Lordship are the facts of the case. So all you have to do is Tweet, ‘Cad!’ to me @theboyhotspur to be in with a chance. The lucky winner will be announced late on this evening. Look at the studio blog filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 j Just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash t shirts on… Wheel Of Fortune. Harry Hotspur! To see the full range, just click on any of…

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Good morning. Is this the calm after the storm or before it? I do like a good shipping forecast. Reading between the lines from Arry  the  cosy chat betwixt the Croat and the Chairman rather left old Modders in a state of shock. Deflated and emotionally done in. All I can say to that is, ‘ Ah diddums.’ He appears to have genuinely thought that this is how you do things over here. To a certain degree he was right, of course. But to attempt what he was attempting with a shade under 5 years on his contract was …well,…

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Waheey! Modders agent  Nikky Vuksan has told BBC Sport, “I don’t think he’ll hand in a transfer request. He will honour his contract. He wants to play Champions League and win trophies. The only way we can resolve this is to sit down and talk. Luka will report today for training and will do his best, as always.” “I have never been in a situation before where a player has had to fight a club and it’s not something we want to do. The only official offer so far is from Chelsea and we haven’t talked to any clubs. It’s…

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Guten Abend. I think my slow burn admiration for Levy & Co may well get me nicked for pyromania. Courtesy of our boy Danny Kelly on talkSPORT, our Chairman has drawn a line in the N17 sand that I can only coo over, “It’s not about the money and he understands our position. We are not selling our best players.” Just a quickie – to give new readers the merest of glimpses into my private life – when was the last time someone like Levy was ever prepared to ‘wind down his Range Rover window and give quotes to the…

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Good morning ladies. Forgive the brash approach so early in the day, but just what is the delay with our transfer activity? Levy & Co assured us that the perception that we do all our business in the last fifteen minutes of the window was an inaccurate one. Whilst elsewhere, Liverpool are firing at will. Stoke want watching. Yanited aren’t mucking about. Chelsea will soon be going through the gears. Where are we? The striker targets so far appear to be as nailed on as wet Sellotape. Admittedly we’ve brought in Brad Friedel, but seeing the snap of him in…

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Good evening. In the softly spoken words of Sidney Wang, ‘Conversation like television set on honeymoon: unnecessary.’ But this latest shot from our gallant lads in training must be worth a punt at the old caption comperoonie. The winner of the funniest suggestion wins a set of autographed dentures belonging to David Gold.  Second prize is a fortnight for two in Mr Gold’s panic room. Third prize is 3 entire minutes in the company of David Sullivan. The judges decision is final. Your home may be at risk if you go out leaving all the doors and windows open. …

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Good morning. And so here are the results of the Supporters Survey. And my thoughts at no extra charge …you lucky people. So my sneaking suspicions were confirmed. The capacity figures at The Lane appear to be right and the bulk of you don’t attend every game home and away. The bulk of you do you bit and join in as and when you can. So the message there is perhaps not, ‘sack the publicist’ but certainly tell them to buck their ideas up? The Trust may win more friends and thus more clout and respect if they made…

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