Spotty's Seriously Sub-standard Second Rate Transfer Thread.

[thebish]

I'm sorry but I'm not having it that the players will be contacting Wonga to pay for their turkeys.

I'm sure clubs will be queueing up to offer them big fat deals! line up! line up!! errr....

[LeverEnd]

Footyballers are a flashy lot - many live month by month like the rest of us and their outgoings percentage wise may be no different that the man

Exactly what I was thinking. Older higher players ight be ok but the younger ones might struggle. They've got the moneybags PFA to look after them though, unlike th epoor bastards who don't play football for a living.

[Enoch]

Footyballers are a flashy lot

Yeah, that'll win the sympathy vote.

[Riviman]

Footyballers are a flashy lot - many live month by month like the rest of us and their outgoings percentage wise may be no different that the man

Exactly what I was thinking. Older higher players ight be ok but the younger ones might struggle. They've got the moneybags PFA to look after them though, unlike th epoor bastards who don't play football for a living.

Problem is not just the wages to the players but you must feel for the backroom staff of cleaners, tea ladies etc etc who won't in all likelihood have "massive savings" to rely on.

[thebish]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

[Riviman]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

Not a clue but someone must do the cleaning, wash the kit, get the half time oranges cut etc, it's those I feel sorry for, the players will I'm sure get another club somewhere.

[thebish]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

Not a clue but someone must do the cleaning, wash the kit, get the half time oranges cut etc, it's those I feel sorry for, the players will I'm sure get another club somewhere.

aye - but they'd be kit-washers, cleaners and half-time-orange-ladies!

sorry - am just amused by the idea that every time the back room staff of a football club are mentioned in any context , they are tea-ladies! I'd be surprised if many players even drank tea!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

Not a clue but someone must do the cleaning, wash the kit, get the half time oranges cut etc, it's those I feel sorry for, the players will I'm sure get another club somewhere.

aye - but they'd be kit-washers, cleaners and half-time-orange-ladies!

sorry - am just amused by the idea that every time the back room staff of a football club are mentioned in any context , they are tea-ladies! I'd be surprised if many players even drank tea!

Just asking: do football clubs employ pastors? If at half time you're feeling a little bereft of spiritual unction can one trot from the changing room to the 'chapel' (or whatever) and get reinvigorated by god. [and isn't his, (the pastor, not god)'s assistant ALWAYS a tealady????]

[Lost Leopard Spot]

^ It must be me. My wife tells me that Father Ted is NOT really how Christians operate. Sorry.

[thebish]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

Not a clue but someone must do the cleaning, wash the kit, get the half time oranges cut etc, it's those I feel sorry for, the players will I'm sure get another club somewhere.

aye - but they'd be kit-washers, cleaners and half-time-orange-ladies!

sorry - am just amused by the idea that every time the back room staff of a football club are mentioned in any context , they are tea-ladies! I'd be surprised if many players even drank tea!

Just asking: do football clubs employ pastors? If at half time you're feeling a little bereft of spiritual unction can one trot from the changing room to the 'chapel' (or whatever) and get reinvigorated by god. [and isn't his, (the pastor, not god)'s assistant ALWAYS a tealady????]

they often have chaplains - Bolton have the only full-time chaplain in football - Phil Mason

here he is with Muamba... having worked with CAFOD and Muamba to get the football shirts that were left as tributes while he was in hospital - hundreds of them - to vulnerable children and young people who have become separated from their families through poverty and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

[Bruce Rioja]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

I've not seen a Tea Lady since I worked for Bolton MBC Environmental Services in 85/86. Proper set-up. She'd wheel her trolley into our office, big earn of hot water on the top shelf with tea bags, coffee and sugar sachets. Jugs of milk, cups, saucers and tea spoons on the middle shelf, a selection of slices of fruit cake and packets of three biscuits (Digestives, Bourbons, Custard creams and that), plus Penguins, Blue Ribands, Viscounts, Breakaways, Club biscuits on the bottom shelf.

Wish we had a tea lady where I work now. I'm fecking sick of having to make it!

[LeverEnd]

I was a tea-lady at Burnden Park.

[bobo the clown]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

I've not seen a Tea Lady since I worked for Bolton MBC Environmental Services in 85/86. Proper set-up. She'd wheel her trolley into our office, big earn of hot water on the top shelf with tea bags, coffee and sugar sachets. Jugs of milk, cups, saucers and tea spoons on the middle shelf, a selection of slices of fruit cake and packets of three biscuits (Digestives, Bourbons, Custard creams and that), plus Penguins, Blue Ribands, Viscounts, Breakaways, Club biscuits on the bottom shelf.

Wish we had a tea lady where I work now. I'm fecking sick of having to make it!

Such a shame all those public sector cuts put a stop to this vital service.

[Enoch]

My tea lady is still in a job.

Primarily because her redundancy package is eye watering!

[jonnycooper]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

I've not seen a Tea Lady since I worked for Bolton MBC Environmental Services in 85/86. Proper set-up. She'd wheel her trolley into our office, big earn of hot water on the top shelf with tea bags, coffee and sugar sachets. Jugs of milk, cups, saucers and tea spoons on the middle shelf, a selection of slices of fruit cake and packets of three biscuits (Digestives, Bourbons, Custard creams and that), plus Penguins, Blue Ribands, Viscounts, Breakaways, Club biscuits on the bottom shelf.

Wish we had a tea lady where I work now. I'm fecking sick of having to make it!

This reminded me of the terrible (Christmas Cracker) joke! About the robbery on a biscuit tin!
A Bandit did a Breakaway in a taxi!

[Harry Genshaw]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

I've not seen a Tea Lady since I worked for Bolton MBC Environmental Services in 85/86. Proper set-up. She'd wheel her trolley into our office, big earn of hot water on the top shelf with tea bags, coffee and sugar sachets. Jugs of milk, cups, saucers and tea spoons on the middle shelf, a selection of slices of fruit cake and packets of three biscuits (Digestives, Bourbons, Custard creams and that), plus Penguins, Blue Ribands, Viscounts, Breakaways, Club biscuits on the bottom shelf.

Wish we had a tea lady where I work now. I'm fecking sick of having to make it!

Such a shame all those public sector cuts put a stop to this vital service.

They look like good value compared to us paying for a full time Chaplain!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

I've not seen a Tea Lady since I worked for Bolton MBC Environmental Services in 85/86. Proper set-up. She'd wheel her trolley into our office, big earn of hot water on the top shelf with tea bags, coffee and sugar sachets. Jugs of milk, cups, saucers and tea spoons on the middle shelf, a selection of slices of fruit cake and packets of three biscuits (Digestives, Bourbons, Custard creams and that), plus Penguins, Blue Ribands, Viscounts, Breakaways, Club biscuits on the bottom shelf.

Wish we had a tea lady where I work now. I'm fecking sick of having to make it!

Such a shame all those public sector cuts put a stop to this vital service.

They look like good value compared to us paying for a full time Chaplain!

It does seem a tad extravagant. I wonder, have we also got:
the only full time sock darner
the only full time careers advisor for ex-football players
the only full time technical area white line painter
the only full time scout in Fiji
the only full time sager makers bottom knocker
etc.

[Bijou Bob]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

I've not seen a Tea Lady since I worked for Bolton MBC Environmental Services in 85/86. Proper set-up. She'd wheel her trolley into our office, big earn of hot water on the top shelf with tea bags, coffee and sugar sachets. Jugs of milk, cups, saucers and tea spoons on the middle shelf, a selection of slices of fruit cake and packets of three biscuits (Digestives, Bourbons, Custard creams and that), plus Penguins, Blue Ribands, Viscounts, Breakaways, Club biscuits on the bottom shelf.

Wish we had a tea lady where I work now. I'm fecking sick of having to make it!

Bruce is the office brew bitch!

[Gary the Enfield]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

I've not seen a Tea Lady since I worked for Bolton MBC Environmental Services in 85/86. Proper set-up. She'd wheel her trolley into our office, big earn of hot water on the top shelf with tea bags, coffee and sugar sachets. Jugs of milk, cups, saucers and tea spoons on the middle shelf, a selection of slices of fruit cake and packets of three biscuits (Digestives, Bourbons, Custard creams and that), plus Penguins, Blue Ribands, Viscounts, Breakaways, Club biscuits on the bottom shelf.

Wish we had a tea lady where I work now. I'm fecking sick of having to make it!

I worked at Bolton MBC Environmental Services in 84/85

I wasn't the tea lady.

[Bruce Rioja]

how many actual tea-ladies do we actually employ? do we have ANYONE whose job it is to make tea? Is it the law for all football clubs to have a tea-lady?

I've not seen a Tea Lady since I worked for Bolton MBC Environmental Services in 85/86. Proper set-up. She'd wheel her trolley into our office, big earn of hot water on the top shelf with tea bags, coffee and sugar sachets. Jugs of milk, cups, saucers and tea spoons on the middle shelf, a selection of slices of fruit cake and packets of three biscuits (Digestives, Bourbons, Custard creams and that), plus Penguins, Blue Ribands, Viscounts, Breakaways, Club biscuits on the bottom shelf.

Wish we had a tea lady where I work now. I'm fecking sick of having to make it!

I worked at Bolton MBC Environmental Services in 84/85

I wasn't the tea lady.

Your hair was longer though, Grebo

And Bob, I actually do make more brews than the two colleagues for whom I brew up, otherwise we'd be down to two brews a day rather than the two brews an hour as is my requirement.