Justine, the football expert

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In the car, on the way to something, listening to R4, and come across Justine holding forth on ....

Football

Not mumsy stuff, but football. And genuinely knew her stuff, too

Impressed

Yes, about Bill Shankly, wasn't it?

It was, but not just about Bill (which could have been mugged up). There were a few anecdotes about other managers as well. She knows her football managers, does that gal.

a woman who knows more than mumsy stuff

did you mean this thread to sound so rude?

Oh gosh, I really didn't mean to cause offence :( It's just that whenever I've heard Mumsnetters on the radio it has been about Mumsnet and Mumsy related stuff.

I didn't think you were being rude. It just sounded un mumsnetty. When I've seen Justine quoted before it's always been on MN stuff.

Yes, indeed, Justine's something of a longstanding football fan / expert (actually she knows a freaky amount about a lot of sports tbh.) I believe she supports a team called Liver Pool, or something like that.

Wasn't she once a sports journalist?

Aha! Now I understand that amount of uncanny knowledge about football managers :)

She supports the wrong team, though. Just sayin'

turning the conversation a little, Justine, who's your tip for the new Utd manager?

Bookies have Mourinho marginally as favorite over David Moyes - who's out of contract at Everton at end of this season and good friend of Fergie. I'd go for Moyes on balance but that may be wishful thinking.

I would hope that his retirement and the associated 'blip' that might occur as everyone adjusts to a new era at Man U. might work to the advantage of some of the other Premier League Clubs (for a year or so...).

Who will have the confidence to fill his shoes though?

2 questions:

What language are you all speaking?

And

Is Helen's next performance review going to go badly?

@Tee2072

2 questions:

What language are you all speaking?

And

Is Helen's next performance review going to go badly?

She's hanging on by a thread, let me tell you

Wouldn't that be unfair dismissal? I mean, she hasn't even gotten a yellow card yet!*

*Tee proves that she's down with the football talk.

@Tee2072

Wouldn't that be unfair dismissal? I mean, she hasn't even gotten a yellow card yet!*

*Tee proves that she's down with the football talk.

No, you can get a straight red for seriously unprofessional conduct/dangerous play. And to be frank I think we're in that kind of territory.

You know, this is one of the main reasons Zombie loves MN so much. The entire HQ staff from Justine on down will enter in dialogues with us on serious things and have a larf with us on less serious ones.

That's why the MN community feels more like a family than a group of random strangers.

@IamtheZombie

You know, this is one of the main reasons Zombie loves MN so much. The entire HQ staff from Justine on down will enter in dialogues with us on serious things and have a larf with us on less serious ones.

That's why the MN community feels more like a family than a group of random strangers.

Yeh, yeh, yeh but... Arsenal or Liverpool?

Spurs fan here.

Looks like we're about to do the usual end-of-season pfffffft.

Yes, Zombie forget all that lovely stuff and pick a damn team!!!

Not that I could tell you anything about teams. Or football. American Football, maybe...

I like Justine's thinking of an automatic red card for Arsenal fans. Clearly going to be popular. A new emoticon may even be required.

Zombie is but a humble lower leagues sort of Zombie. She supports Shrewsbury.

Olgaga, I really hope you do go pffffft!! Arsenal fan here!!

I knew I liked this site for a reason.