Big Phil

andy

Offered England job.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/4949118.stm

Official. I think he'd be ace. And he's got an ace name.

I think O'Neill is hanging on for the Man U job next year.

Liz

How funny. After all the carping about not wanting another foreign manager. Do you think it was all just a big plot to try and derail Charlton and Boro's seasons?

andy

Why bother?

Mid table no-marks. They're perfectly capable of derailing their own seasons.

David

Mid table no-marks. Unlike that behemoth of football, Swindon Down, oops, Town.

andy

Bah - we've just announced a new £1m investor.

We're going to be one of the behemoths of League Two, I tell you.

David

You'll also be the first team ever to drop from the top flight to League Two.

fordster

don't think that's true. Happened to Carlisle in the 1980s.

andy

But in the calendar according the cash-obsessed, billionaire criminal loving Premiership, 1992 was Year Zero.

There was no football before then.

So yes - since all top flight football sold its soul to Murdoch - Swindon will be the first team to fall from the top flight to the bottom.

This has happened previously to Carlisle and Oxf*rd United.

fordster

good call. Was forgetting about Oxford.

andy

Oxford may well be the first team to get relegated from the top flight to the Conference.

I am torn about that. On one hand, I think it would be really funny.

On the other hand, the Oxford-Swindon games are the silver linings of being in League Two.

fordster

Also, how do we feel about Accrington? Strictly as founder league members they were top flight, and have obviously just been promoted from the conference. Do they count??

andy

Accrington - Swindon. Going to be a classic.

Were there 4 leagues when Accrington went out of it? They probably count though.

And Notts County, while we're at it.