Basil Fawlty: May I congratulate you on your choice?
Mr Walt: Yes, excuse me?
Basil Fawlty:Yes?
Mr Walt: I’m afraid this is corked.
Basil Fawlty: I just uncorked it. Didn’t you see me?
Mr Walt: What? Look.
Basil Fawlty: No, no. You see, I took it out of the bottle, that’s how I managed to get the wine out of the bottle into your glass.
Mr Walt: I don’t mean that. I mean the wine is corked. The wine has reacted with the cork.
Basil Fawlty: I’m sorry?
Mr Walt: The wine has reacted with the cork and gone bad.
Call it sour grapes from Newcastle United, but if Moussa Sissoko was a bottle of wine, it would be corked.
It’s not usual for selling clubs to mock the buying club for having bought a lemon.
The knives are out on Tyneside.
Jack Colback says that the dressing room has improved since the club was ‘purged’ of want away ‘stars’ Sissoko, Wijnadlum, Janmaat and Coloccini.
If the stats are anything to go by, we’ve actually managed to downgrade on Nacer Chadli.
Chadli: £13million = 4 Goals, 2 Assists
Sissoko: £30million = Nichts.
We were told that this was a player that Pochettino wanted.
If true, then surely this is another indicator as to why Paul Mitchell felt he was banging his head against a wall at Spurs?
Mind you most Spurs fans appear so desperate to welcome these no marks, I doubt they’d know a Bordeaux from a claret…
