I'm really hoping they wind up with like, Alan Sugar presenting Match of the Day
Someone completely unqualified because pretty much anyone who can do football punditry isn't that much of right-wing knob
(Also Alan Sugar has posted multiple partisan political opinions on his personal platforms whilst not getting barred from working with the BBC, presumably because he supports the tories)
i know this was sent a few days ago so it's not totally relevant (sorry my bad), but yeah i agree! i saw a small number of middle-aged men on twitter saying that they could present match of the day easily and i was immediately like... you absolutely could not lads :-) i think the absence of gary lineker (and the whole motd team) helped us appreciate just how good he is
and yeah, you're totally right about alan sugar - and his right-hand woman karren brady is literally a tory peer. she probably has much more influence in the literal house of lords than gary lineker has on twitter. not to mention people like andrew neil who has been chairperson of the spectator since 2008, during which time he also worked for the bbc news team!
Finding out that “Lord” Sugar got hit with a tax bill totaling nearly two hundred million pounds because he didn’t realise members of the House of Lords are automatically considered tax resident in the UK is the most schadenfreude I've felt in a while
Remember how for a solid chunk of 2021/2022 it was Popular Fandom Perception that Alan didn't like Kyle? How did that even happen. You read comics and Alan is like, here is Kyle, my favorite child, I will randomly set the headquarters of my team on fire for no reason but I will let this baby drag me out on coffee dates every other week because I adore him. Kyle pointed a gun at Alan the first time they met and Alan was like 🥺 that's a baby right there
“We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.” ― Alan Watts
Hal, Kyle and Guy try to get money out of Alan, because Alan is a rich man who is close to them and obviously they'd hit him up before Bruce, but Alan went bankrupt that morning and is lecturing them to hide it.
Chapter 2 (the last part of the two-parter) is up! This chapter has shower smut 🚿🍆 and also hints at family planning. 👶🏽 But overall, it's about Alan finally returning home from Jessup County and Janie, his wife, taking care of him once they get back home. Hope you enjoy!
Stay tuned for my second Alan and Janie fic, Jumping the Broom. It's also gonna be a short fic.
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