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If you can talk to astronauts on the space station can you ask them to retrieve the ball from Tomlin's penalty miss a few years back? Cheers.

The wife of Stan Bowles had left him in the week and it was in the tabloids. QPR were at Ashton Gate that Saturday. The East End kept singing 'Where's your wife gone, Where's your wife gone, Where's your wife gone Stanley Bowles?' He came up for a QPR corner at the East End and it was sung at him again. Bowles looked at the East End and shrugged his shoulders in response. Brilliant.

There's a lot of white, and different shades of blue, on show in the kits tonight. It seems to have got really lax clamping down on colour clashes now.

Actually, seeing that a certain Stephen Cottrell failed as a Forest manager before being appointed at Ashton Gate, Chris Hughton's stock should therefore increase.

We dodged a bullet there thank God we went for Dean Holden ?

I also think it is unfair that the penalty kick was first introduced in 1891. Our club was formed in 1894 so there are quite a few clubs out there who have had three years extra practice.

I wonder if this social separation biz will impact upon football when it returns. Will there be extra instances of players being given too much room on the pitch and when it comes to the communal bath will players keep two litres apart?

Actually I can reduce mine to four. I didn't really want the bride there anyway. She's always guaranteed to spoil my fun.

What I don't get about all of this is we are constantly being told that the best way to protect ourselves (apart from self isolation) from catching this coronavirus is to wash our hands after we've touched things and especially before then touching our faces or eating. If we cannot wash our hands - due to the unavailability of sinks and running water in everyday situations - then hand gel is just as good. Now that is something we can all carry around and get into the habit of using. After all, it will be a lifesaver. Now this is the bit I don't get. In the last war, it seemed likely that the home front would be subjected to poison gas attacks. Gas masks were thus quickly issued to everyone in the country and everyone carried them around in the supplied cases. Gas masks cost a fair bit of dosh to produce for a nation that in the late-1930s was still in the midst of the Great Depression. Yet it was done. It was seen as a necessity to protect our population. Now in 2020 we are a far richer country than our 1939 former selves. Yet, there has been no talk of providing everyone in the country with hand gel. Hand gel being significantly less expensive than a gas mask to produce. Instead we are just told about how hand gel can be a lifesaver and when one looks to purchase a bottle at the supermarket, there's none there because someone has bought 59 years worth of supply. I can imagine back in 1939 a Public Information Film telling us that gas masks were essential but it was your task to find one on the empty shelves of the local stores. Surely it isn't beyond the Government to impose emergency powers upon the alcohol sanitising gel manufacturers and get them to produce enough to provide everyone in the nation with a bottle or two a week.

I have heard the suggestion that matches should be played behind closed doors and televised live on public service TV. But surely, it will be more profitable to state that spectators can only attend matches if they HAVE coronavirus. As they have nothing to lose as they already have it. The matches can then be broadcast live to those who don't have it, then we can all see who has it and stay the F away from them.

I've got a feeling that they'll cancel the season and make all results during it null and void when we are 3-0 up in the 64th minute of the Championship Play Off Final at Wembley.

Good on Ben Stokes. Why should any spectator have the right to shout abuse at a player then turn in to a snowflake when he gets some of it back.

I can't believe that's really you BBSB....surely their greatest player was Bob Taylor!!!!

Plus the M6 is a longer road to find a parking space than Muller Road.

This is a throwback to the early days when men used to go to football on a Saturday afternoon and then the women would play up afterwards when they got home.

If my memory serves me correct, I think this was done in the Dean Horrix case. City paid the full fee of £55,000 and Millwall donated a significant proportion of it to the Horrix family.

I don't know if the £15M fee quoted included add ons which obviously would now mean that the fee Cardiff have to pay is less than that, but still a substantial sum. As others have stated, he is Cardiff's player, if contracts were signed etc then it doesn't matter if he plays for them for 1 match, 100 matches, 20 minutes, 1 minute or no minutes whatsoever. Cardiff bought his contract. Cardiff are losing face with this 'check the paperwork' stance. There were emotional scenes at their stadium at the last home game. Thus, they have identified Sala as being their player. Had Sala died on his way to signing the contract and was still a Nantes player at the time of passing, Cardiff would have passed on heartfelt condolences but the grief would all have been at Nantes end. We paid £55,000 to Millwall for Dean Horrix which was a fair bit for us back in 1990, but at no stage did I hear anything from our end hinting that we would like a chunk of it back due to him only playing 3 games for us.

The one relatively famous death similar to Sala's in which bodies were located (Glenn Miller's was obviously even more similar as it was in the same stretch of water, but his body/plane was never found) was that of Otis Redding in 1967. As soon as his body was winched to the surface photographs were taken and even a film. These photographs are easily googled. There are even pictures of his body in the morgue still strapped to his seat. I'm glad we have greater sensitivity today. It is bad enough the poor lad has died. Images of him in death would compound the shock and make his family feel that his death had become a source of entertainment.

Unfortunately, machismo kicks in. With the Munich Air Crash it was stated afterwards that many on board were apprehensive about boarding the plane a third time after two aborted takeoffs in the snow, yet nobody said that they refuse to get on board. Had someone done so there's a good chance others would've followed the lead. Sometimes the bravest thing of all is to be the first to admit that you are too scared to do something and thus refuse to do it. Similar machismo kicked in with the deaths in plane crashes of music stars Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens in 1959 and Otis Redding and the Barkays in 1967. In the latter case, they boarded Redding's private aircraft and, according to the only survivor, were apprehensive when the pilot said that the battery was low but hoped there was enough juice in it (in freezing cold weather) to get them from Cleveland, Ohio to Madison, Wisconsin! Indeed, the heating in the plane couldnt be turned on for this reason. Yet, they all boarded without a whimper.

Our thoughts are with you. When we lost a player in a car crash just three games after we signed him in the 1989-90 season it seemed to galvanize the players who continued with their promotion push and ultimately achieved it. Cardiff can honour what, sadly, seems to be the passing of this player, after a period of reflection, by achieving safety in the Premier League. Thoughts also go to his family, his football family at Nantes and to the pilot's family.

It isn't looking good for Sala and everyone else on board. In this social media age of swift communication if he was not on board he would have been located and the minds of his friends and family set at ease by now. My thoughts are with everyone on board and their families and friends.

What a relief. When we signed GON we were told he was brilliant at protecting a scoreline. I can't recall him ever doing that for City. So on he comes for Bolton to protect their lead and fails to do so again. Thank goodness for that. Had it worked I would've been extremely miffed seeing he never achieved that for us.

The ref in the Frampton fight looks like Gareth Southgate will in 6 months time.

That's because Ipswich had won 6-0 and not 5-0. It would depress me if City beat a team at or near the top of the table 6-0 and the visiting fans thought it was 5-0.

What do the initials DNA stand for? The National Dyslexic Association.