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4: When he's safely in Wormwood Scrubs, via a note smuggled in by Mad Nobby from the next cellblock.

King Curtis ?

The player we all hoped he would be. ?

Well, Pochettino was interested, but he lives too far away....

It's spelled Szmodics. Just a typical, old Essex surname. Oh, and the answer is 3 points!!! ?

Because when he did play he looked rubbish. Probably moved too far up the ladder too young. He's 26 now and two seasons further on then when we had him last. Has developed as a player.

According to Wikipedia, Liam is eligible to play for either England or Italy. Surprised the Azzurri haven't snapped him up. ?

Keep watching from above and rest easy, John. My condolences to his family and friends.

Erm, I'm not trying to "be little" you. I actually agree with your original point that although we could do worse than Stephen Lansdown as an owner, we could do better as well. You seem to have missed my point though, which is that the owners of the clubs you've listed were wealthy fans of those clubs, before they took them over. I wasn't suggesting that those clubs were run by the collective fanbase. I was differentiating them from Burnley, which is owned by an investment group from America who probably couldn't even find Burnley on a map. They are out to make money from a lower PL club based in a declining Lancashire town, where a high percentage of the population are Asians with little interest in football. It'll end in tears for the investors or for Burnley fans - or both.

That's the git.

Yet you've cited Norwich, Brighton and Brentford as well-run clubs - each run by fans. Mae your mind up!!

Not very popular at Pompey either, Gray, It's worth noting that he did the same during his first stint at Stoke as he did with us: sack off all their foreign signings, bring in a number of unfit journeyman and play Route One hoofball. It was only during his second stint there that he decided to play slightly more nuanced football. Still his many clubs, did at least mean a varied career bench-warming for his talent-free son Anthony Pulis Jr. Plus it was good news for the makers of brown envelopes.

Burnley are owned by an American investment company that owns dozens of different sports teams and absolutely want to make money on the transaction. None of the directors are fans of Burnley. The club was bought with a high-interest loan secured against the equity of the value of the team and club assets. I don't think it'll end well for The Clarets. https://www.sportico.com/business/sales/2021/alk-capital-burnley-debt-1234621513/ Haven't got time to write more. Just off to se the bank to secure a loan to buy Man U using the value of the club's assets as security....

Your stag weekend was versus Stuttgart?! Mine was just versus a bunch of chavs in a kebab shop in Herne Bay. We'll call that one a no score draw....

I vote no. The two members of the Dolman Weak Bladders club who sit in front of me already get up a minimum of three times a match, usually during penalty box action. If they could drink while the match was active, they'd be popping to the loo more often than Geoff Twentyman says "Top Man" during a phone in!

I may be wrong, but I think they renamed it "Stan's".

L is short, but his genetic inheritance is hardly his fault.

Or this one, who is only an assistant manager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taylor_(soccer)

I personally love @Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan's unbridled hatred of all things Gas. I just have a sort of dislike and distaste for the Blue Few - in fact I'm quite friendly with a number of their fans and even have had a few beers with one of their directors. However, POHH's posts about them not only shows a great memory for all their hilarious naffness, hideousness and failure, but are also very funny. More power to his elbow!

The Football League's bollocks rather than Radio Bristol's.

All to do with rights issues.

You can listen to Radio Bristol on a Freeview telly providing it is tuned correctly. I think it's somewhere up in the 700s in the channel list. It's how Old Mother Robbo follows City away games, whereas chez moi we either watch or use the old-fashioned radio.

I'd endorse @Kid in the Riot's selections. Plymouth is the one I usually have stocked as I'm frequently down that way and I always stop in the Barbican to buy a bottle direct from the distillery - which has been operational since 1739*. One of the newbies I recommend is the Lakes Gin, which is made up on the shores of Bassenthwaite Lake. I take gin with an unflavoured Fever Tree tonic, but the Lakes' elderflower infused gin is one of the few flavoured gins I will happily quaff. * I wasn't a customer until a few years later....

Too right it is. And we won the Somerset Premier Cup a few years ago!