Am I right in thinking that the good DR (sic) had given Nobby Noble until 5 pm on Friday to accept his offer of moving upstairs.
And who was the world famous biggest name in RL who was poised to take on the role if Nobby didn't accept.

Or was it only a dream ?

They met on Friday and agreed to extend the deadline into this week. They'll be meeting again in the next day or so.

Brian Noble's legal man has been away watching The Masters. Expect a decision back end of this week now he's back.

To be fair to "Frombanginfront", he's showing off with the "sic" and at the same time showing his ignorance. The abbreviation is Dr (or Dr.). DR tends to be used as an abbreviation of Democratic Republic, Diagnostic Radiology or Dynamic Range.

But let's not allow that to prevent an ironic posture by someone who can use "sic".

Well I thought he was expressing his wholehearted support for Dual Registration. I assumed he wasn't trying to claim that Marwan referred to himself as "the Doctor" because I see no evidence that he does. People at the club seem to refer to him as Marwan.

DR can also stand for Disaster Recovery.

More apt, I think you'll find.

Marwan Koukash on Twitter
@drmarwanK

I am being a pedant again: his (jokey) twitter account is not how he refers to himself but is his twitter address. I do not call myself by the Terrace on which I live.

I cannot work out what some posters envy: that having started life as a refugee in one of the most volatile areas of the world, he self-improves to the academic heights of a Ph.D and the business heights of a rich businessman? Hmm.

He is a Dr. and has every right to refer to himself as one.

The issue for me though is that he has a Phd in engineering. What relevance does that have to either being a rich businessman, a racehorse owner or the owner of one (or more!) RL clubs? Answer zero. So why use it at all - if he was a university lecturer whose job depended on it, then fair enough.

I am a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, a designation/title I'm quite proud of - and at least as difficult to obtain as a Phd - but I don't put FCA after my name every time it is used, only where it is relevant. Nothing at all to do with jealousy, simply feel that there is some bragging about it...

Maybe that's where you went wrong he uses his qualification and becomes a rich business man and racehorse owner and you didn't and became a wage slave.

Very few Phd's use the title Dr outside of academia it is seen as being a bit pretentious otherwise.

You might use it in a relevant enviroment such as work specifically related to say Engineering work.

So we've established he is a Dr (again) and has every right to use it. Remind me what the problem is again?

So how much original work is involved in becoming an FCA?