Bristol Beaufighter was a car manufactured by Bristol Motor company back in 70s/80s. They used to have a showroom in Mayfair and manufactured cars to order until quite recently.

Heard a few things about what comes up in the next 3 episodes of All or Nothing.
The Aubameyang situation stripping him of the captaincy, including Arteta keeping a dossier of all his misdemeanours
The cup defeat at Forest - Arteta goes very angry
Arteta having covid and ripping in to the squad from the training videos he’s seen where efforts weren’t good enough whilst he was away.
A few interesting motivation talks about specific opponents

I can’t wait

How many episodes are there going to be?

I think a further 3 released tomorrow and then the final 3 released a week later. So 9 in total

Austin - the car maker (not the home of Lance Armstrong)

Also Caterham, as in Caterham 7 (the Prisoner)

Nine, blimey? Thanks but I didn’t know it was that many. I’ve only seen the first two at that free showing for attending all the games (got a letter from Venkatesham and Arteta thanking me for the same thing).

From memory they went up to covering the home game against Tottenham.

Charlie Patino had his first start for Blackpool yesterday, against League Two side Barrow in the league cup. Played 70 minutes and was voted motm. The Blackpool fans seems to have taken a liking to him already.

Some great old UK car names
Humber Snipe
Triumph Stag
Bristol Beaufighter
Jensen Interceptor
Austin Healey
Lotus Cortina(or the coveted 1600E)
Rolls Royce Corniche
Ford Zephyr (or Zodiac)
Jaguar E Type
MGB GT

Morning DHD .....Armstrong Siddley ...... think Hawker Siddley made planes ...... Bristol , Morgan , Sunbeam , Vanguard , Brough Superior , Alvis , Allard , Lanchester , AC ,

I've seen all those and one's you mention wish I'd bought a barn and stored a few . The amount of wonderful old machines that ended up in landfills shocking .

My thinking would be why so many British car companies went under ; too many beers at lunchtime ; outdated work methods , union unrest , sort of we produce whatever and if you don't like it F**& off attitude .

Always found English cars to be unnecessarily complicated to work on , lots of times thinking why the hell didn't they mount that there etc

Japanese cars had nice heaters , radios , overdrive ,

I think it's eight episodes in total, with only two released in the last week. Looking forward to the new ones tomorrow in any case, thought it was really interesting.

Thanks KP - ARMSTRONG Siddeley with the sphinx mascot on the bonnet.

I think the basic reason the UK car industry went under is because the foreign competition was making better cars - cars that were better built - cars that didn't break down - cars that didn't piss oil - cars that came with 'free' extras like radios, heaters and wing mirrors.

The first Japanese cars to arrive were pretty ugly but once they began to align with western tastes, it was no contest really. They were just better and cheaper.

I'm very interested to see how Arteta uses the squad this season. Last season we hade some injuries and a very thin squad, so we started the same players a lot. This year we've deepened the squad and we also have Europe where squad players can get more games and possibly build some form - last year they didn't get a lot of minutes and had to do a lot with very limited playing time to impress Mikel.

There's an opportunity to rotate a little bit now; Saliba arriving means we have three quality centre backs, Zinchenko is a genuine option both at left back and in midfield, White can play right back too, there's Vieira who can play in the Ødegaard position, and all our attacking players are quite fluid and can cover multiple positions.

Just read that we’re two players over the non homegrown players list which would very much explain why we’re looking to shift out a few before we can bring in.

We're only allowed 17 non home grown players. (note: Saliba and Martinelli count as U21 players this year and will count as home grown from next season) Also Torreira is not on the list below having just been sold

Homegrown players (10): Bellerin, Holding, Nketiah, Ramsdale, White, Maitland-Niles, Smith Rowe, Nelson, M. Smith, Olayinka

Non-Homegrown (17): Runarsson, Turner, Tierney, Gabriel, Cédric, Tomiyasu, Mari, Zinchenko, Partey, Ødegaard, Vieira, Lokonga, Elneny, Xhaka, Jesus, Pépé, Lewis

Under-21s: Saliba, Saka, Martinelli, Hein, Marquinhos, Sousa, Walters, and the rest of the academy

you can have 25 senior players for the prem league squad with no more than 17 non-home grown players, you can have as many U21's as you want.

So we need to lose 2 players from the top two lists. I'd say that's pretty easy considering Bellerin, M.Smith, Olayinka, Runarsson, Mari, Lewis are all on those lists

Runarsson is on £780k a year and his contract expires in 2024. Paying that off and giving him a free transfer would only cost around £1.5m. That’s little over a month of Özil’s salary at Arsenal. Why not do it unless we can send him on loan? Mari will surely be leaving soon, as you’ve said.

It all looks very manageable to me and I’m not sure it stands up as a reason for not signing Tielemans, or whoever else. Lewis? Surely he can be sent on loan or, if he’s not expected to reach the top, pay him off too?

There is strong talk that he’s off to Turkey on a permanent deal

How the mighty are fallen. Tony Adams, now 55, is to appear on Strictly Come Dancing.

I prefer to remember his goal against Everton when we cliched the title in 1998.

It’s a programme I’ve never watched. I presume I must have been in the room when it’s been on, but I doubt that counts as watching it.

New all or nothing out.

Wow there’s a lot there in these 3. It depicts the aubameyang saga warts and all. Richard garlick comes across very well as a mover and shaker guiding Edu. The club had no choice and were utterly screwed.

I thought Ben white came across well in his piece.

Just finished watching the fourth one (first of the latest three).

We really did get robbed in that New Years Day game didn’t we? Outrageous.

https://www.sportbible.com/football/antonio-conte-tottenham-spurs-transfers-latest-20220811

Arteta made Aubameyang train away from the main group due to multiple disciplinary breaches. Conte makes players train away from the main group if he wants to sell them.

I'm convinced Conte is on a win now strategy, and for me there are only two ways that goes.
1) they do win something, his star rises again and he moves on to a bigger club
2) they don't win something and Conte moves on because he doesn't want a proper rebuild

Clearly Conte has something about him and it is working at Spurs but I don't think there is a longer term plan for him or the club.
Don't forget Conte only signed an 18 month deal, who does that if you're truly committed, so he's in the last year of his deal now, and in the lowest moments of last year after particularly demoralising defeats Conte was very quick to talk about how he might move on if there was no improvement. Maybe he has changed his mind and will sign a new deal, i don't know. But I'm not yet convinced