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Dunno, mate. A lot of competition for that award at Elland Road

One way of looking at this (club) could be asking: If they did not exist would they be missed (other than by blokes that like "edge" when they go to football)? If Millwall had never existed would English football and its history be diminished?

Option 3 for me, 10th to 6th. Although I wouldn’t call 11th or 12th "failure." Mind, if they Green 'Uns come up and storm into 5th or 6th I will be fuming

Really? I don't think @Mr Popodopolous would

It is what it is, Dave, it just is

You don't remember any other City manager thanking us for our support?

You don't think so?

What's the Swede for "proper," mate?

Absolutely furious about Brighton's capitulation this evening, and absolutely delighted we (probably) won't be seeing Everton here or going there.

Top half the league, at a guess?

They had their "We won L1" parade today. It rained.

Staying at Everton on wages they cannot afford running down their contract, refusing to budge, a large Winston Bogarde, while Everton burn and fold, will be like no other example. Their lives, and those of their nearest and dearest, will not be worth living. Not going to happen. The level of anger will be off the scale. Can't see it happening.

It’s not 1985, I feel obliged to point out here

Thing is though, with them gone, who now are the blandest (southern) club in the Championship?

They play Leeds, next

He was driving a Daimler

I can now see, on the last day of the PL season, at about 4.50pm, Everton conceding the goal that condemns them to relegation and a visit from our good selves next season, whilst, simultaneously, Haaland scores two in a minute to first equal, then break, Dixie Dean's goal scoring record held since 1928.

Well, there's also a wider trend across the country with attendances high at all levels, including sub L2. People are just going to football in numbers everywhere currently. Whisper it, but Rovers are getting as many, or more, at third tier level than we got under Osman in the second tier. Which tells you something (but not necessarily what a Fewer might tell you)

Immediately turn off or over now upon hearing "Wrexham" on the radio.

First we take Gloucestershire, then we t .... move on to the rest of the wider Avon area

Chelsea: minus Abramovich (x Mourinho) = Micky Droy.

I just wish Everton were playing Leeds on the last day, with the loser going down. It would be the angriest game in the history of English football. Although, for the women and children, and assorted minorities, of them two places, it's probably good they're not.

Yes. Or, as SO'D would have it, in his Black Country mumble: decision making. Decision making on the field, decision making off the field.

No, but they will loan him back to us for the rest of the season now he has scored

Lots of people did say just that, Dave, particularly in LJ's time, when they were looking to counter the "why are we trailing behind Preston/Huddersfield/some other minnow doing very well" or seeking to excuse the lost opportunity of the time of plenty under Ashton and Lee. They said exactly this. I would say, let's see how we do when we fly that near the sun and then have the wax melt on our, er, wings, as it were, and we drop back down to the Championship. Then we can compare ourselves to yer Wigans, yer Wednesdays, yer Cardiff and yer other ones. Let's see how well Steve shepherds us through the "relegated but parachute payments" thing. Remembering, of course, how we fared last time we dropped out of the top level. And isn't it right and proper to measure ourselves against clubs doing well than clubs in a pickle? Set the bar higher rather than rock bottom? If we had beaten Hull at Wembley, I slightly tremble at the thought of where we would have ended up under Steve as we inevitably failed at the highest level. It doesn't bear thinking about. No, let's compare, best as we can, like with like, and there isn't anyone much more "like" us in this Championship run than Preston.