Under fire Livi sort-of manager, Fug Gough, last night received support from a very surprising source.
Dundee Utd manager/chimpanzee hybrid, Ian McCall, has thrown his weight behind his Livi counterpart and openly spoken out in defence of Gough and his erratic team selection and tactics. With the help of his keeper, Mbozza Ritchie, McCall told the Tabloid of his admiration for Gough, in particularly the way his cataclysmic ineptitude has secured McCall’s Tannadice future for the time being.
Gough’s woeful managerial style handed relegation rivals United a comfortable six-point cushion two weeks ago, and McCall is a very grateful man/chimp for it.
“Oo oo oo Ee ee ee EEEEEE oo oo oo OO oo OOOOO!” he told our reporter whilst swinging from an old tyre. According to his keeper, McCall has been doing back flips ever since United’s 2-0 stroll at Almondvale. He has also been using a toilet instead of throwing handfuls of dung at other keepers, proof of his unbridled joy according to Ritchie.
We asked McCall whether he expected Gough to be in charge at Almondvale much longer. However, the United gaffer was more reserved and merely chewed on some gum whilst passing wind. He then hugged his keeper before swinging across the roof of his enclosure to join the rest of his troop.
Yet, even with such latent simian support, this is unlikely to impress LionHeart’s Pierce Brosnan. “Oi hate feckin’ monkeys!” he said when we called at his plush 90 room mansion in 