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They are a very strange breed indeed...

They were commenting on how Southampton's style can quieten down grounds when they are away, and you can see that, the way they just stand with the ball in defence and try to draw teams onto them

"He doesn't know" was referring to a poster who was asked why he thinks Southgate is a puppet. It was not a reference to Southgate himself

Think you might have got the wrong end of the stick there

All this stream searching online - has anyone actually tried ITV4?

No, you just need a funded account so far as I know. I've watched matches there before

Just logged into Paramout+ Australia via a VPN and can confirm only Villa v Chelsea is listed as upcoming. Might take a look just before kickoff though. Watched the highlights from the 0-0 draw while I was there and they do a much better job of it re. analysis etc than any of the other channels I've seen! Not trying to pretend they are commentating live or anything, just talking about what you can see on the screen.

Tom Thumb didn't have words, you probably remember it as the dooby dooby doo song with the extended woooooaaaaaaaaahhhhh intro. My favourite football song ever, though completely nonsensical. Was it unique to us or a more general thing around the grounds?

If it's not a daft question how did that rip/hole in his shirt happen? It's not apparent in the picture of him heading the goal, but it's there by the time of the celebration?

What might not be apparent to people in that corner is there are always a few empty seats at the bottom of the area. Because people can go where they like they tend to drift to the higher up rows meaning there will always be somewhere for him to sit near the front if the standing becomes too much.

This place has been like an alternative universe ever since Pearson went. Away from OTIB, so far as I could tell the main response to Pearson leaving was "That's a shame, I quite liked him. However, he's had a fair crack of the whip and we don't really look like going anywhere so why not try something new?" among City supporting friends and people around me in the stadiumat least. On here it was akin to people thinking the Lansdowns had cackled evilly as their 25 year plan to deny City certain promotion to the Premier League came to fruition. The next thing that happened was people took everything said by the club hierarchy in the aftermath seriously! People in football bullshit all the time, but when the people here said we had a squad capable of challenging for promotion it was suddenly all deliberately made up lies to be used against them for years to come when in reality don't most clubs hope they have a squad capable of challenging? What would be the point otherwise unless you are a seriously small fish in a big pond? Somehow this then dragged Brian Tinnion into the axis of evil at the head of our club. It is still a rare thread on here that doesn't include people complaining still about Pearson leaving, or cynically referring to our team as a 'top 6 squad'. It's tedious and unfortunately shows no signs of diminishing as the groupthink still holds sway in here.

My daughter regularly asks me what the score was as we are walking back to the car! She really isn't that interested in the football but loves the experience!

:laugh:,merge it then. No mensa for me

BBC News - Football comes first for Devon boy, 12, who scored IQ of 162 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-68103402

Much as you might like to believe otherwise, it was a minority thing back them too, especially by the time of the Forest incident you all seem so fond of, which was fairly recent compared to a lot of it. I couldn't give a monkeys if it still goes on away from the grounds, at least it's no longer a part of the matchday experience and is no longer ruining watching football like it used to for the majority of fans. P.S. pretty sure I'm not a millennial, I grew up watching City in the late seventies and early eighties.

Is there any possibility of a 'reminiscing about how football was better with violence involved' subforum where people can boast about how hard they used to be without the rest of us having to put up with this brainless mush?

They are looking for some to elevate their financial systems to Championship levels, it won't be just the sprinklers for long!

I had momentarily forgotten the hilarity that was meeting the Matty Taylor clause!

There is talk on there of them making a bid the doesn't meet the release clause in some lower leasgue players contract and have missed signing him as a result Apparently the release clause was less than a Tilson. Is it normal for players below the Premier League to have a release clause? If so, might some of our players have release clauses?

The person I was replying to suggested pricing the U12 tickets in the SS at £99 - that is what I was referring to.

That certainly needs clamping down on, when my daughter was U12 I would giver her my adult ticket and use hers for myself almost every game and nobody batted an eyelid!

Yes, but without the free shirt offer those tickets in the SS would be less likely to be bought as 'placeholders' or to keep an empty seat and more likely to be used each match. Doubling the price of a true U12 supporter in the SS would not be very fair.

I would keep the £50 tickets but limit the free shirt part of the offer to the Family Stand only

on the pitch I can get it, but do you really believe that being intimidating to away fans outside of the ground is going to have any effect on the result at all?

Do you ever go to the areas outside AG? There's loads of them!