AWOL 2015 Issue 353 13th November | Page 24

Visit www.awolonline.net watching the defectives Sherwood and Rodgers form crime fighting duo england Following his failed singles bar partnership with Stuart Lancaster, Brendan Rodgers has now teamed up with sacked Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood to form a detective agency. Sherwood and Rodgers will drive around the country solving mysteries, they confirmed yesterday. The duo launched the detective agency called ‘Rodwood’, promising to deliver their special brand of justice wherever they are needed. Rodgers said: “Each week I will have three envelopes, one of which will contain the name of the criminal we’re after and the other two will have a series of excuses why we didn’t catch them. “We’re hoping for a 61% conviction rate, which is enough to put you in the top four of crimefighting duos alongside your Dalziel & Pascoes and your Rosemary & Thymes.” Above: Villains beware! Rodwood are after you. For their first case, a series of small bandstand fires in a Carlisle park, Rodgers has asked the local authority for a budget of sixty million pounds to assemble a team of promising young detectives from across Europe, as well as Joe Allen. Sherwood said: “Tim Sherwood will get results because Tim Sherwood does not know the meaning of the word ‘failure’, despite the numerous chances Tim Sherwood has recently had to find out.” Rumours that a film crew will be following the pair around in the hope of making a new comedy TV series have been vigorously denied by their lawyers, Dewey, Cheatham and Howe, although they did confirm that they are in discussions for David Moyes to join the team after his sudden departure from Real