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Big Ron Manager: Must Watch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ron_Manager

For those who don't know (or don't remember) what Big Ron Manager was, it was a TV show setup by Sky in 2006 that put Big Ron into an 'advisory' position at Peterborough United. At the time they were heavily pushing for promotion, their assistant manager Steve Bleasdale had just become 'the gaffer' and things start to go very badly wrong not long after Big Ron arrives!

Atkinson immediately starts to interfere with Bleasdale's management, demanding he's let into the dressing room on matchdays etc and results take a turn for the worse in this ageless reality TV show. There are so many hilarious moments, some of it is like Brent vs Neil in The Office, and I implore everyone to watch. I only saw the first episode last night because when it came out I was working over in Hong Kong so I had no idea about it.

It's all on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkVl3ZhFzf0

Highlights from Episode 1 are the way Sky just brush over Atkinson's racist comments on Desailly, like he's the greatest guy in the world and also when Bleasdale declares to his team 'tomorrow we're going to a factory, to watch how their workers go about their jobs and if anyone asks WTF is going on they can F*CK off because when Jose Mourinho does it, it's f*ckin great'.

posted on 28/9/22

Bleasdale is now a wedding photographer!

posted on 28/9/22

''SAY FU>>ING CHEESE''

posted on 28/9/22

comment by Culèr: Mr Brand ✅ (U9489)
posted 2 hours, 27 minutes ago
comment by Christ We Won (TENƎꓕ) (U17162)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Christ We Won (TENƎꓕ) (U17162)
posted 23 minutes ago
Culer i enjoy reading the small snippets of your profession through many of your articles. Hong Kong, a very interesting place
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That's it - go on encourage him
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He has some great insights into the world of business
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Let me tell you a story about my time out there....

You know the movie 'The Dark Knight' right? Well at one point the movie is in HK and Batman has to extradite some corrupt accountant. He does so by diving off the IFC building and gliding into another set of offices.

Anyway, that building is the International Finance Centre and I was working on a project there with a company that had some silly idiot in charge who I had to regularly liaise with.

So one day, towards the end of the project, I informed this idiot that the projections they had managed to put together were entirely wrong and needed to be re-done.

Their office was on one of the top floors and she was starting out of the window as we argued, she was in denial as a usual woman would be, but eventually she agreed I was right and she was wrong.

Now at that time her team were totally snowed doing procurement and she was too busy 'managing them' (aka sitting on her arris doing her makeup, filing nails and so on) to re-do the financial projections.

I knew then that I had come across a huge opportunity; my entrepreneurial flair kicking into overdrive as I told her that I could re-do the projections, but my contract was coming to an end.

She then realized I was in charge, the one with the power, and she begged me to stay on for another quarter and re-do their projections before she lost her job. When she said she could lose her job, I knew I had won. I knew I could absolutely hold her to ransom and get my own way.

I informed her that if she wanted me to stay, my fee would be 50k upfront and my day-rate tripled to £6300 GBP. She was absolutely outraged at my demands but when I told her if she didn't agree, not only would I walk out but I would inform the board what she'd done, she agreed.

The money was paid, I got my day rate tripled and when she stopped having her tantrum she remarked that she wanted to strangle me (laughing) and throw me off of the building.

So when The Dark Knight came out, I sent that scene of Batman jumping off the building to her and said 'Thanks for the money honey'

She replied with laughing emojis.
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And everyone of the bus started clapping?

posted on 28/9/22

comment by The Post Nearly Man (U1270)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Culèr: Mr Brand ✅ (U9489)
posted 2 hours, 27 minutes ago
comment by Christ We Won (TENƎꓕ) (U17162)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Christ We Won (TENƎꓕ) (U17162)
posted 23 minutes ago
Culer i enjoy reading the small snippets of your profession through many of your articles. Hong Kong, a very interesting place
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That's it - go on encourage him
----------------------------------------------------------------------
He has some great insights into the world of business
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Let me tell you a story about my time out there....

You know the movie 'The Dark Knight' right? Well at one point the movie is in HK and Batman has to extradite some corrupt accountant. He does so by diving off the IFC building and gliding into another set of offices.

Anyway, that building is the International Finance Centre and I was working on a project there with a company that had some silly idiot in charge who I had to regularly liaise with.

So one day, towards the end of the project, I informed this idiot that the projections they had managed to put together were entirely wrong and needed to be re-done.

Their office was on one of the top floors and she was starting out of the window as we argued, she was in denial as a usual woman would be, but eventually she agreed I was right and she was wrong.

Now at that time her team were totally snowed doing procurement and she was too busy 'managing them' (aka sitting on her arris doing her makeup, filing nails and so on) to re-do the financial projections.

I knew then that I had come across a huge opportunity; my entrepreneurial flair kicking into overdrive as I told her that I could re-do the projections, but my contract was coming to an end.

She then realized I was in charge, the one with the power, and she begged me to stay on for another quarter and re-do their projections before she lost her job. When she said she could lose her job, I knew I had won. I knew I could absolutely hold her to ransom and get my own way.

I informed her that if she wanted me to stay, my fee would be 50k upfront and my day-rate tripled to £6300 GBP. She was absolutely outraged at my demands but when I told her if she didn't agree, not only would I walk out but I would inform the board what she'd done, she agreed.

The money was paid, I got my day rate tripled and when she stopped having her tantrum she remarked that she wanted to strangle me (laughing) and throw me off of the building.

So when The Dark Knight came out, I sent that scene of Batman jumping off the building to her and said 'Thanks for the money honey'

She replied with laughing emojis.
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And everyone of the bus started clapping?
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Huh

comment by Elvis (U7425)

posted on 28/9/22

comment by Culèr: Mr Brand ✅ (U9489)
posted 7 hours, 17 minutes ago
comment by Christ We Won (TENƎꓕ) (U17162)
posted 25 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Christ We Won (TENƎꓕ) (U17162)
posted 23 minutes ago
Culer i enjoy reading the small snippets of your profession through many of your articles. Hong Kong, a very interesting place
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That's it - go on encourage him
----------------------------------------------------------------------
He has some great insights into the world of business
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Let me tell you a story about my time out there....

You know the movie 'The Dark Knight' right? Well at one point the movie is in HK and Batman has to extradite some corrupt accountant. He does so by diving off the IFC building and gliding into another set of offices.

Anyway, that building is the International Finance Centre and I was working on a project there with a company that had some silly idiot in charge who I had to regularly liaise with.

So one day, towards the end of the project, I informed this idiot that the projections they had managed to put together were entirely wrong and needed to be re-done.

Their office was on one of the top floors and she was starting out of the window as we argued, she was in denial as a usual woman would be, but eventually she agreed I was right and she was wrong.

Now at that time her team were totally snowed doing procurement and she was too busy 'managing them' (aka sitting on her arris doing her makeup, filing nails and so on) to re-do the financial projections.

I knew then that I had come across a huge opportunity; my entrepreneurial flair kicking into overdrive as I told her that I could re-do the projections, but my contract was coming to an end.

She then realized I was in charge, the one with the power, and she begged me to stay on for another quarter and re-do their projections before she lost her job. When she said she could lose her job, I knew I had won. I knew I could absolutely hold her to ransom and get my own way.

I informed her that if she wanted me to stay, my fee would be 50k upfront and my day-rate tripled to £6300 GBP. She was absolutely outraged at my demands but when I told her if she didn't agree, not only would I walk out but I would inform the board what she'd done, she agreed.

The money was paid, I got my day rate tripled and when she stopped having her tantrum she remarked that she wanted to strangle me (laughing) and throw me off of the building.

So when The Dark Knight came out, I sent that scene of Batman jumping off the building to her and said 'Thanks for the money honey'

She replied with laughing emojis.
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posted on 29/9/22

This is brilliant, i'm sat here at half 6 reading this and laughing my head off.

A great start to the day.

posted on 29/9/22

About Big Ron??

posted on 29/9/22

Haha my mate just reminded me of a funny story:


I was in The Box sports bar on Deansgate a few months ago when the women’s World Cup was on and as we watched on, my mate brought up a very interesting point: How good would Alexia Putellas look in the EPL? For those who don’t know, Putellas is the current Ballon D’or winner and plays for Barca. She's class, pure quality on the pitch.

Unfortunately due to injury she was ruled out of the WC, but my mate brought up a reasonable argument as to why she’d look decent at Premier League level. He was insistent that, by the law of averages, Putellas would have to look at the very least decent and had loads of counter arguments against me. I told him she wasn’t strong enough physically, but to be fair neither was David Silva he said.

Now don’t get me wrong I was laughing my head off at some of the standard on show, as some of the women playing were truly useless and I was even told to be quiet by a group of girls who were watching on the table next to us (probably feminists) but does my mate have a point? To be fair there are probably millions of women in the world who play football, so surely by the numbers game the best footballer out of all of them would look reasonably competent at the men’s highest level?

My only real counter point he couldn’t answer was about the mental strength of a woman compared to a man. I don’t think they’d be able to handle the mental demands of our game, or deal with the pressure well at all. I could even accept an argument about them handling hard tackles, but not the mental side of male sport as I really don’t think they’d be cut out for it.

Anyway we ended up getting thrown out because the table of women complained about me to the bouncers

comment by TCW (U6489)

posted on 29/9/22

Where's the funny part?

comment by Beeb (U1841)

posted on 29/9/22

Ulcer, you really do need to stay off the cheese before bed.

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