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So it’s been an interesting day to be a manager of a Premier League team!! Joe Kinnear is looking to leave hospital after being admitted with High Blood Pressure on Saturday, Tony Adams has bitten the bullet at Pompey, and now news is filtering through that Big Phil Scolari has been sacked from Chelsea!! It’s gonna be an interesting few weeks now! Specially as Chelsea have to travel to Aston Villa on the 21st Feb, with a Villa win taking them 5 points ahead of Chelsea! Oh happy days! How I’d love to see Villa sneak into second, leaving Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea to battle it out for 3rd and 4th

From Sky Sports Website:

Chelsea have sacked Luiz Felipe Scolari with immediate effect, with Ray Wilkins placed in caretaker charge.

The Brazilian only took charge at Stamford Bridge in the summer and after a promising start the club have slipped to fourth in the table, seven points adrift of Manchester United.

Saturday’s 0-0 draw at home to Hull City proved to be the final straw for the World Cup winner and the Stamford Bridge outfit have now confirmed his departure.

A statement on the club’s official website read: “Luiz Felipe Scolari has been dismissed as manager of Chelsea Football Club today (Monday) with immediate effect.

“The Chelsea board would like to place on record our gratitude for his time as manager.

Sadness

“Felipe has brought many positives to the club since he joined and we all feel a sense of sadness that our relationship has ended so soon.

“Unfortunately the results and performances of the team appeared to be deteriorating at a key time in the season.

“In order to maintain a challenge for the trophies we are still competing for we felt the only option was to make the change now.

“The search for a new manager has already started and we hope to have someone in place as soon as possible.

“While that continues assistant coach Ray Wilkins will take charge of the team on a temporary basis.”

Grant

Sky Sports News understands that the club have already compiled a two-man shortlist to replace Scolari, with Guus Hiddink and Avram Grant the names in the frame.

Grant stepped into the breach following Jose Mourinho’s departure before being axed at the end of the season despite finishing second in the Premier League and reaching the UEFA Champions League final.

Hiddink has been linked with a host of Premier League posts after his exploits as Russia coach, including reaching the Euro 2008 semi-finals.

One possibility is that the duo could work together, with Hiddink taking charge of team affairs and Grant operating as director of football.

This bloke got VERY VERY lucky in this video!!

So with the snow coming down  and the freezing temperatures there was no chance I was gonna go out in the car just to head to the gym, so not been since last Monday, and part of me is itching to get down there and work out, and get some more shape to this body   Unlike me I’ve not been on msn much either, mainly due to other commitments, namely COD5! I find when I’m signed into msn on the computer and playing on COD, everything stutters, and by the time I see some bloke in front of me he’s stabbed me or something   Altho I have still managed to have a few long chats with my mate CarolAnne from up in Scotland, either on MSN or through Friendzii, altho we don’t discuss the fact her fella is a Gers fan, and we’re hoping that her son changes his allegiance from the Gers to Falkirk or something safer :p

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Last night was interesting I got home from work, and sorted my tea out, and had a few games online, before changing my radio to Radio Nottingham for the Forest vs Derby game.  The City Ground certainly sounded like a great place to be, specially after the first minute when Cohen smashed one into the top corner! Forest fans must have been in dream land after 15 minutes or so, when Tyson smashed home a penalty to make to 2-0 against the Derby scum!!  Commons it seemed was shooting from everywhere to try and get a goal against his former club, but he’d have to wait a while for that! Once Hulse scored near the end of the first half the mood I felt from the radio seemed to change, but at the start of the 2nd haf they seemed bouyed on again! Sadly for Forest tho, old boy Commons popped up with the winner, and so 20,000 Forest fans will have been feeling a little sick this morning   whilst I was listening to that, I had the Everton vs Liverpool game on the telly Whilst chatting to a few folks on msn! Proper little multi-tasker me   Really wanted Everton to smash the Red Scum out of the FA Cup, and there was 2 massive cheers when Gerrard and Torres went off injured HAHA! Anyway it took a cracking strike from the young Dan Gosling to light up Goodison with about 2 minutes to go in extra time, before I think the Red scum would have fluked it on penalties   Really wanted to stay up and watch the Froest highlights, but cos the Merseyside derby had gone to extra time, everything else had been put back 45 minutes or so, and I found myself asleep before they came on

Woke up this morning, to a fresh blanket of snow, and a van who tried to get up the hill for about 45 minutes through a few different attempts! He tried forwards, reversing up, getting people to push, but it wasn’t to be! Shaun managed to make it up this time, with the help of the two big blokes from the van! Had a nice walk to work this morning, and took one or two nice scenic pics

and the whole of the UK seems to fall on it’s arse!! I did have a bit of fun driving home in it last night tho

Was gonna go to the gym, but decided it was a better option to stay at home and chill out, rather than risk driving all the way to Kirkby.  When I was driving home I noticed someone had pretty much built a snowman in the road on Barringer Road, heading towards Ravensdale, so cars were pretty much skidding into the other side of the road to miss the bloody thing! So once I’d got settled at home, I donned my Lacoste hat, and thick Mini-Marquees jacket and went for a walk to the shop to see if I could see any devestation, and maybe take a look at the giant ball of snow in the road, but someone had already smashed it up, so no pics i’m afraid   Once I’d sorted some tea out I chilled on the xbox for an hour, with the curtains open watching cars slowly come down Deepdale, wondering if any were gonna go straight on into the kerb, and tyre marks show there was nearly atleast one person almost kerbed it!!

Was woken up around 5.45ish I think with someone attempting to drive up a hill somewhere, and all I could hear was the revving of a car engine, and from then on I couldn’t get back to sleep   Ended up turning the radio on early, and laying in bed listening to Galaxy 105, and then heard a few cars attempting to make it up the hill and onto Barringer road, including Shaun who lives over the street (Stevie’s mums fella)  I was in an evil mood, so decided to get a pic or two of him attempting it, but then failing and  rolling back down the hill! Was funnied watching this Audi from further down the street trying it! He let the car roll too much onto fresh-ish snow, and then couldn’t really get anywhere! As I walked past him, I could see him getting really red in the face and cursing, until he parked up, got out and walked back to his house

Come on Shaun.. you can do it…

So near yet so far, and he was soon coming back down the hill! Altho according to Beth he made it not long after

So that was a tiring weekend   Thursday and Friday at work were quite amusing, and I’ll go into that more shortly! I’m absolutely shattered and somewhat gutted bout certain parts of the weekend

Anyway, Thursday I think it was Maddsy was on the phone finding loads of different contact points regarding some work that was going off ON his front garden   He had a small BT point for ages, and Stevie had signed something saying she agreed that they could make it a little bigger, but by the time they’d finished it had gone from an A4 black box to a 1.5m x 0.7m box with a concrete slab slapped on the top for good measure! Of course he was getting very stressed out, and having to deal with one painful customer in particular just seemed to almost tip the poor lad over the edge! Me, Smash and a few others found it more and more funny the more he was getting stressed out

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