Unai Emery

[Risso]

I got a 'B' in General Studies, despite only being entered for the exam right on the deadline. It's basically like Trivial Pursuit, so for someone who loved quizzes it was ideal. And it helped get me on to my degree of choice at Brum Uni, as I was one grade down from the requirement on one of my other A Levels, but they said the extra A Level in General Studies made up for it, so that was nice.

I was also one grade down to get in to Brum Uni but got in on their scheme to let more working class riff-raff in. I could have done with that General Studies and saved a bit of hassle.

When I went in the early 90s, all of the halls of residence were segregated on class lines. One of the questions on the accommodation questionnaire was parents' occupation, and obviously they knew which school you'd been to. So posho Eton types were in University House opposite the main campus, lesser public school kids whose parents were lawyers and doctors etc were in Lake Hall, and us council house dwellers were in High Hall. Sounds crazy, but everybody we knew in that time fitted the profile exactly. My mates on my floor were all from places like Stoke, Salford and Mansfield. Other people on my course who were in Lake Hall, all seemed to be from Surrey and the posher shires.

[edgysatsuma89]

I got a 'B' in General Studies, despite only being entered for the exam right on the deadline. It's basically like Trivial Pursuit, so for someone who loved quizzes it was ideal. And it helped get me on to my degree of choice at Brum Uni, as I was one grade down from the requirement on one of my other A Levels, but they said the extra A Level in General Studies made up for it, so that was nice.

I was also one grade down to get in to Brum Uni but got in on their scheme to let more working class riff-raff in. I could have done with that General Studies and saved a bit of hassle.

When I went in the early 90s, all of the halls of residence were segregated on class lines. One of the questions on the accommodation questionnaire was parents' occupation, and obviously they knew which school you'd been to. So posho Eton types were in University House opposite the main campus, lesser public school kids whose parents were lawyers and doctors etc were in Lake Hall, and us council house dwellers were in High Hall. Sounds crazy, but everybody we knew in that time fitted the profile exactly. My mates on my floor were all from places like Stoke, Salford and Mansfield. Other people on my course who were in Lake Hall, all seemed to be from Surrey and the posher shires.

Ah that's interesting, thankfully by the time I went in '08 it wasn't too bad, still notable in social groups. I was definitely far behind though in terms of what the public school lot had done at college compared to me. Halesowen was a poor college though.

[Dogtanian]

I got a 'B' in General Studies, despite only being entered for the exam right on the deadline. It's basically like Trivial Pursuit, so for someone who loved quizzes it was ideal. And it helped get me on to my degree of choice at Brum Uni, as I was one grade down from the requirement on one of my other A Levels, but they said the extra A Level in General Studies made up for it, so that was nice.

I was also one grade down to get in to Brum Uni but got in on their scheme to let more working class riff-raff in. I could have done with that General Studies and saved a bit of hassle.

When I went in the early 90s, all of the halls of residence were segregated on class lines. One of the questions on the accommodation questionnaire was parents' occupation, and obviously they knew which school you'd been to. So posho Eton types were in University House opposite the main campus, lesser public school kids whose parents were lawyers and doctors etc were in Lake Hall, and us council house dwellers were in High Hall. Sounds crazy, but everybody we knew in that time fitted the profile exactly. My mates on my floor were all from places like Stoke, Salford and Mansfield. Other people on my course who were in Lake Hall, all seemed to be from Surrey and the posher shires.

I got into Birmingham Uni, but as I left home at 17 and worked evenings through my A-levels, I'd got sick of being skint by the time I'd finished and couldn't hack another 3-4 years of ASDA  soup every night or my mate's 'yuck surprise'.

I'm glad I didn't after reading that, as with my school and where I grew up, combined with my parents occupations, I'd probably have been put in a ditch.

[Rory]

I got a 'B' in General Studies, despite only being entered for the exam right on the deadline. It's basically like Trivial Pursuit, so for someone who loved quizzes it was ideal. And it helped get me on to my degree of choice at Brum Uni, as I was one grade down from the requirement on one of my other A Levels, but they said the extra A Level in General Studies made up for it, so that was nice.

I was also one grade down to get in to Brum Uni but got in on their scheme to let more working class riff-raff in. I could have done with that General Studies and saved a bit of hassle.

When I went in the early 90s, all of the halls of residence were segregated on class lines. One of the questions on the accommodation questionnaire was parents' occupation, and obviously they knew which school you'd been to. So posho Eton types were in University House opposite the main campus, lesser public school kids whose parents were lawyers and doctors etc were in Lake Hall, and us council house dwellers were in High Hall. Sounds crazy, but everybody we knew in that time fitted the profile exactly. My mates on my floor were all from places like Stoke, Salford and Mansfield. Other people on my course who were in Lake Hall, all seemed to be from Surrey and the posher shires.

Ah that's interesting, thankfully by the time I went in '08 it wasn't too bad, still notable in social groups. I was definitely far behind though in terms of what the public school lot had done at college compared to me. Halesowen was a poor college though.

You were there at the same time as me, edgy.

UoB definitely attracted a lot of very posh kids, a lot from the South West on my course. All perfectly nice, but I felt very out of place for most of my time there.

[Hookeysmith]

Anyway back on thread...............

I wonder what SUE is cooking up to regenerate our season which is in danger of falling a little flat as we have not had any flowing football (that we had got used to ) since the City / Arsenal wins.

Not a lot of change around in team selection as injuries have put paid to that - so tactically where can we improve?

[tomd2103]

Anyway back on thread...............

I wonder what SUE is cooking up to regenerate our season which is in danger of falling a little flat as we have not had any flowing football (that we had got used to ) since the City / Arsenal wins.

Not a lot of change around in team selection as injuries have put paid to that - so tactically where can we improve?

I'm not sure it's a case of tactical improvements to be honest, just think we need a run of games where we can field the same side and get a bit of consistency going again. 

Think the enforced chopping and changing and players coming back in not quite fully fit has disrupted things really.

[john e]

can someone tell me what SUE means again

[paul_e]

can someone tell me what SUE means again

Super Unai Emery

[chrisw1]

I think we need Torres back.  He seems to be key in both beating the press (eg Chelsea) and unlocking a low-mid block.  He's pretty fundamental to what we do.

I also think getting Tielemans back up to speed will help against deep defences with his ability to split the defence with a pass.

[eamonn]

can someone tell me what SUE means again

Super Unai Emery

He knows exactly what we need.

[brontebilly]

Anyway back on thread...............

I wonder what SUE is cooking up to regenerate our season which is in danger of falling a little flat as we have not had any flowing football (that we had got used to ) since the City / Arsenal wins.

Not a lot of change around in team selection as injuries have put paid to that - so tactically where can we improve?

I don't think 2 up top has worked for a while. Diaby is coming to feet rather than stretching teams in behind, Torres is likely a loss here with his ability to distribute the ball quickly and accurately. So I think we need to adjust.

I wonder if Bailey on the left might be worth a shot. Good to see McGinn with a much better showing at Chelsea back in his best spot and we can't keep moving him around. More of a 4231 at times

McGinn, Tielemans, Bailey
-------------Watkins

[john e]

can someone tell me what SUE means again

Super Unai Emery

Thanks
I thought it was something to do with an FFP thing not something is super obvious as that

[Brazilian Villain]

I thought it was something to do with an FFP thing not something is super obvious as that

It can mean Solvent Under Emery, if you prefer.

[Toronto Villa]

Safe, Successful, Superb, Stable, (at times) Sexy also works

[chrisw1]

The Clough story. A few people have said it's made up.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/07/brian-clough-dean-saunders-nottingham-forest

Fair enough, I had never read that before and the article makes some good points about Saunders making profit out of Cloughs problems and Kendalls as it happens.

I've heard it before and I don't think he was poking fun at or trying to exploit Brian Clough's drinking problem.  I think it comes across as him trying to paint a picture of how bizarre the encounter was.

So him mentioning he "suddenly suspected he might be drunk" in a way to elicit laughs in the presenters (and presuming in the after dinner listeners he also tells it to) when someone who was there states nothing like that even happened does is not exploiting Cloughs problems?

I saw Saunders and Merson speak at Dudley Town Hall last night.  To be honest having read the above put me off going a bit, but Clough never got mentioned.  It turned out to be a really good night.  Saunders is an excellent raconteur and spoke quite a lot about BF Ron (who he's still good friends with so all good natured stuff)  There was some pretty eye opening comments about agents and also Merse was incredibly honest about his addictions and failures at Walsall.

I know people often think these ex-player pundits talk nonsense and don't know anything about the modern game, particularly when there a TalkSport soundbite, but they were insightful and entertaining.  A good evening.  Didn't realise Merse was a huge Chelsea fan though!