The Barclays Premier League Thread 2013/14

[Noah]

Fulham have officially been sold.

To this guy.

[TCO]

Plus i know someone who knows Faulkner and he has pretty much said £25m is the minimum they want

Firstly, at the first half of that statement, brilliant. Secondly, Benteke is class and had a good season for Villa, but I can't see any club spunking £25m on him, let alone us.

Nope. Family friend on Twitter who runs catering at Villa and sits in Directors box with PF.

So the COO of a Premier League club is going to divulge confidential information to the caterer who sits near him sometimes for home games?

[Lineker]

He spelled it out for him. In his alphabites.

[Colly]

I really want some alphabites now. Why would they stop producing something so amazing?

[Lineker]

They haven't - I made them at a barbecue three weeks ago.

[Colly]

Made them?

[Lineker]

Well, cooked them would be a more specifically accurate term to use

[Colly]

Where did you find them? I get the feeling this going to result in me smuggling frozen food North when I work in London...

[stokeriño]

Although the Alphabites brand have gone (except for one random super-obscure place that I forget), you can get identical ones under some store brands - for example, Asda's Potato Letters.

And yes, they're still awesome.

[Lineker]

Where did you find them? I get the feeling this going to result in me smuggling frozen food North when I work in London...

iirc it was a Sainsbury's, in Stanmore.

[stokeriño]

Sainsbury's Alphabet Letters, presumably.

[Lineker]

Probably. They taste the same!

[Colly]

Brb, off to Sainsburys. Also, this is miles better than rubbish transfer speculation.

[Ant]

Eh. Believe what you want. No skin off my nose if you don't or not.

[Adam]

Potato Letters just doesn't have the same ring to it as Alphabites.

[Hobo]

Eh. Believe what you want. No skin off my nose if you don't or not.

Someone who is in proximity to people who made decisions about stuff can be a useful source of second hand information.

But such sources have to be treated with a degree of skepticism. That's how things work.

[Colly]

And that's a fact, as a mate of the brother of Joey Bartons horses dad once told me.

[King Ellis]

More of this potato based discussion, please. Much more enthralling than Aston Villa issue #2452.

[Hobo]

And that's a fact, as a mate of the brother of Joey Bartons horses dad once told me.

Your friends with a horse whisperer?

[Colly]

Why would my friend be with a horse whisperer?