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Quick reminder that Bristol Rovers are scum and I for one, ******* despise them.

I'm not sure how to word this as I would never try to belittle what happened there as it was utterly horrendous, but for me, Belsen shocked me more. I'm not going to try and use numbers as a reference as to why I think that as humans should never be referenced as just a number but Belsen was harrowing. Especially considering they never actually had gas chambers there (no matter what the Sex Pistols may have sang about) I suppose it didn't help that my grandad was one of the first wave of troops that helped liberate Belsen. From listening to the people that knew him before that (especially my nan) they all say he was never the same afterwards. As a kid growing up he would tell me loads of stories about certain parts of the war (he was a desert rat fighting Rommel through Africa/Egypt and Italy). He told me about scratching his name on the sphinx and how his best friend burned to death in a tank that he escaped from, but he absolutely refused to speak about Belsen and what he saw. One of the great British reporters of the time Richard Dimbleby (father of David Dimbleby) said at the time "Here over an acre of ground lay dead and dying people. You could not see which was which... The living lay with their heads against the corpses and around them moved the awful, ghostly procession of emaciated, aimless people, with nothing to do and with no hope of life, unable to move out of your way, unable to look at the terrible sights around them ... Babies had been born here, tiny wizened things that could not live ... A mother, driven mad, screamed at a British sentry to give her milk for her child, and thrust the tiny mite into his arms, then ran off, crying terribly. He opened the bundle and found the baby had been dead for days. This day at Belsen was the most horrible of my life." Every day of our lives we should be thankful that we have never had to see or live through the absolute horror that people of only two or three generations past had to live.

Things we take for granted. I was chatting to a Pompey fan and when I said I was from Bristol he asked me did I support rovers to which I replied there's only one team in Bristol. I then relayed a few facts to him such as the one testicled Austrian who saved them the ignominy of having to apply for re election for finishing rather embarrassingly bottom of the entire football league in 1939. Or the poor chap buying a season ticket for row N of one of the tented stands only to find out that it doesn't exist. How embarrassing. Or the hugely embarassing time they were relegated to non league by a team wearing their own kit. After recovering his composure from laughing uncontrollably for several minutes the Pompey fan duly agreed that there is in fact only one team in Bristol

So does this ex rovers fan mate of yours ever invite you over to his home in Guernsey!

Coincidentally that’s the score of the 2032 Champions League final, the first 3 way final following UEFA’s “excitement” reforms.

Maybe their club could issue another Brexit statement to reassure their stay away supporters.? ...or maybe it's just their fans aren't as great as they continually claim to be.

Football shirts spotted at school open day in Weston today - City 3, Liverpool 1, Barcelona 1. We are quietly building a very strong support base amongst kids in the area.

Row M mate, not N. Bloody Teds always exaggerating for comedic effect.

Looks like someone has stolen their line.......

I was out having drink after work tonight and pointed out to one of the prowed loyal and true that we will have 3x, almost 4x more than their attendance vs Gillingham. His response...? "You sound bitter" #gaslogic

Half of our city do support one of the top 4.

You know what to do Mark Ashton.

I love this irony in Cockman’s latest after match interview ; ’ Let’s stop looking back, 12 months ago we would’ve been really happy with five points from nine.’

I fear it never will, given the shameless nationalism (the bad side) racism and growing penchant for voting in nut jobs. If Trump was around in 1930s Germany, I know which political party he'd have been a member of.....

The number of days we've been in front is now greater than their attendance ? Mind the gap