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My mum sang this to me in the bath, also Try A Little Tenderness - but she didn't have many records, so it was years before I knew who they were by and managed to buy them...falling in love big time with both Louis Jordan and Otis Redding's catalogues.
Haha I remember being on holiday with my Dublin-born mother in Donegal - my first 'gig', as a 6 year old, was a guy with his acoustic guitar in the hotel bar.
I absolutely lapped up the likes of Whisky in the Jar and the number below...but mum made a point of packing us little English-accented kids off to bed "when the rebel songs started".
Albert, then playing for the oppo, is serenaded with "Albert is a Ranger!" by the travelling...well it wasn't hordes, to be fair, but we sang it loud enough for him to turn round and beam on a couple of occasions.
There is so much to dislike about how football runs itself...it is morally bankrupt on pretty much every level imaginable...but the fact that "JT", with his playing track record, has been unable to forge any kind of meaningful career as either coach or pundit is a rare tick in the box for football folk thinking "we just can't go there."
Eze sale or no Eze sale, I can't see us spending an awful lot, but the sheer number of out of contract players will still mean a very different squad come August.
Particularly interesting will be whether he reverts to the 433 he said on arrival that he favoured; or sticks with the 4231 we've used for some time now.
He's been quietly very ruthless too...from the binning of Dozell at the first opportunity via the sidelining of the likes of Kakay and Adomah as soon as the late window bodies came in to seemingly deciding Hodge wasn't what was required after all and hooking players at half time when they're not performing / coping (most recently two of his favourites Dunne and Andersen at Hull).
Be fascinated to see how that translates into the summer - who we keep / who goes / who comes in.
I voted Cook for PotY with JCS a close second, as I think that partnership, which Marti relied on to stop us leaking goals, was pivotal to the gradual turnaround and eventual survival.
But for me Chair is by far and away our best / most important player. As many have said on here, we'll realise that even more if / when he goes. Fans of every other club clearly see him as our main man.
Re his stats - remember that for the last 2.5 seasons, he's achieved these in a crap team.
I suspect we're all conflicted about Rockgate (the severity of the accusation vs innocent until proven guilty) - but no point speculating on that, let justice take its course I guess.
Pre-season - no chance End of August - tiny glimmers of possible hope. Boro away - hey we look half decent Rest of Sept / Oct - fck me we're completely doomed, please make it stop. Rotherham away. I like the cut of this man's jib. Stoke home - we've turned the corner! 4 bloomin' goals! Hull home - turned the corner and into the straight Plymouth home - just a blip Wednesday - from home & hosed to definitely doomed in my worst 10 minutes of the season Xmas and Jan - gloom. Still impressed by Marti but we've reverted to type and even he can't stop it. Last day of window - interesting, very interesting. Feb - this is when belief coursed through my veins (lucky Bristol came just 3 days after Stoke in A Tale of Two Very Different City Performances) Leicester / WBA - dreamland. Boro / Mackems - why can't we shake off these pesky other teams? Why does Wednesday's new bloke have to be as good as our new bloke? March 29 - Jimmy Jimmy- Jimmy Jimmy oooohhhh! Swansea - tell me that I'm dreaming Then 1 point from 9 - but genuinely felt that too many other teams needed snookers to catch us PNE - phew Leeds - suspect we may be safe
Secondly...just over 5 months in as a grandad for me and it's everything you've heard and more. Watching the sheer wonder on my granddaughter's face at every new sight, sound, smell is priceless.