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Looks like the new manager has had his assistant appointed for him,,, wow the credentials blow you away …… The influence of Mr Zav Austin is huge

Do you want to expand on this?

I was browsing the Charlton forum for snippets about Jojo and other players and saw this that was of interest (to me at least) when they saw Jamie Day had been appointed.

"He's a cracking bloke. I used to coach at the level his son played and Jamie was always open to give advice and feedback to young coaches"

What do Karachi and Jamie Day have to do with eachother?

methinks someone has been at the toilet duck a little early.

Just a bit of casual racism being thrown about trying to tie them together.

How is that racism? I would have thought that having an assistant manager with experience of that neck of the woods would be calculated with the link with Karachi.

If it’s all above board, of course.

Karachi is a bit of a walk from Bangladesh

Utter madness Dhaka (capital of Bangladesh) is roughly the same distance from Karachi as London is from Moscow.

I can't believe people are so gullible.

So what you are saying is Zav has links with Putin?

Perhaps he is Putin 👀

That a fucking huge area of woodland. Gotta be what 2k miles boarder to boarder…

Fookin 'ell, that is some bedsit!

Edited to add:-

Border- it's Border.

Don’t see what you’re getting at.

My point was that if we have a relationship, of whatever kind, in Karachi it kind of makes sense employing Day as he has knowledge of football in that part of the world.

That part of the world?  It's a different timezone FFS

I don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.

Pakistan is no where near Bangladesh.

Jesus.

I’d imagine managing Bangladesh in international games with surrounding countries is liable to give you a bit more experience than if you’d spent all your life working in the EFL. Ergo any link with Pakistan in type of players, temperament etc is ,ike,y to be a bonus.

There’s some real grindy  fuckers on here

I mean in fairness is is the same continent.

It would be like hiring Paul Caddis for his knowledge of football in Italy, you know that part of world. Europe.

It’s not about distance, it’s about culture.

Apart from the divide between Hinduism and Islam that's torn their 2 cultures apart. It's not people getting aggy when people continue to post absolute bollocks

In that case someone in UK would have knowledge of new Zealand as the culture is similar.

The link between the 2 is tenuous at best they don't even speak the same language.

I think some are being a bit unfair on Aud here. Surely Banglasesh Geographically play other Asian countries like Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan etc and so I don't think what he's saying is that ridiculous.

That may be the case, but Australia's group included Japan, suadi Arabia and China so I don't really see how it helps.

In Europe we have far more cross border high profile comps but very limited interaction in Asia and subcontinent.

I suspect the fact that he is a decent coach and has management experience is the reason for his appointment as assistant manager, rather than the possibility that he may have set foot on a football pitch in Pakistan a couple of times.

Although it actually adds less than you'd think to Audrey's case, I wonder how many having a dig here realise Bangladesh used to be called East Pakistan.

I did not know this.
Although it changed 51 years ago now.

To be fair they are both on the Indian subcontinent and there's only a single country between them. But it is India which is fucking massive.

Totally 80% bollocks  :D

This is more like it TEF

Sod the obsession with Port Vale ticket sales or manager betting odds

Racism?

Some of us knew this, there are not many benefits to being around when large parts of the world were coloured pink. And it had nothing to do with the progressive gay movement. Right, now, where is that SAGA brochure.