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Were we not better v them in 2018? Did the media not go a bit ott about us then too? Has KDB perhaps not mellowed/grown up a bit himself?

We don't follow our lot Everywhere. Can we tweak the words a bit?

He's very good in England, he's in the groove in club games. Cruising almost. In Europe, and for Belgium? I don't see much CL, has he really done enough at that level?

Noel, I can just about tolerate. As long as I don't have to look at 'is face. Or listen to his records.

Yeah. And/or Crystal Palace. And perhaps Celtic or Burnley. And England.

That's official, then?

Tell them, we don't plough these days. No-till. Hold the carbon. Ploughing is so 20th century.

Correct. He would've had one of his staff do that.

Just to help everyone a bit more with this: Last night: we were never ahead, behind from 7th minute, rarely had the ball, one shot, didn't score, lost. Man City 18: bit more of the ball, closer tie, scored twice. Man Utd 18: 45% possession! Scored twice. Never behind. Injury time winner = atmosphere!

Last night: 29% of the ball; 1 shot on target; no goals. Jan 2018: 32% possession; 4 shots on target; 2 goals.

29% possession mate. One shot on target. No goals.

Guardiola had no need to mention the City fans at all. He was obviously genuinely impressed with the City fans and the atmosphere created. Interesting. He didn't know our players. But he knew about Marlon Pack in 2018.

How did you find it in the Boisterous Section - did you join in?

What about a penalty? I'm anticipating one in the first ten minutes, should we make it that far up the pitch early doors.

A lack of wit and imagination, I would think

Don't know, mate. But bottom left, slightly blurred, that is Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, or Gladys Wilson, Harold's missus.

Yes, including Leicester in that list ignores the fact that Nige's team went on to achieve the most improbable success in decades (but who would be carved in stone: Nige, Ranieri, the owner, Jamie Vardy?) I just have Leicester amongst those clubs that bob up and down to and from the top division like we do between the second and third.

As contemporary football managers/head coaches go, Nige is a bit leftfield, quirky; he's not your average football obsessive (he doesn't watch every match on tv). As football clubs go, we are a bit, what shall we say, quirky? We're a bit soft/daft, a bit odd. Soft/daft but with 27,000 seats and 20,000 crowds. Steve Lansdown is also not your typical club owner (not trigger-happy). These things take time, and Steve gives you time. Unless you're .... but let's not get into all that now. Nige is also a bit of an adventurer, a wanderer and a rambler (a Rambling Man), and managing Bristol City, or attempting to knock Bristol City into a serious promotion contender from this level of English football, is like going somewhere only two blokes have ever been before, and not for quite some time. Wild dogs are guaranteed along the way. Get Burnley/Watford/Leicester/Forest promoted to the top division, and it's all been done before, probably only two years ago. Not exactly "meh," but you'll just be one in a long line of many, and there won't be a statue. Get Bristol City promoted to the top division, that is a bit different. Who's done that before? Who outside of Bristol, under 50 years of age, can name them? Alan who? At this point, Nige is John Cabot: John Cabot with his boat booked, the backing of a local merchant, and just his crew to finalise.

Do you have snow chains and a shovel in the boot?

Is there a roof over the away end yet?

"Nige Fever, Nige Fever, We know how to do it. Gimme that Nige Fever, Nige Fever ......"

Are you suggesting Elton John's "(No)Passengers" as a song we won't ever sing?

And Theresa May at her Tory conference

Recreate the conditions of Manchester City's FA Cup defeats to Halifax at the Shay in January 1980 (the day we were whipping Derby 6:2) by instructing the Bristol rugby lot to train on it Sunday and Monday and then having a sprinkler "problem" similar to the floodlights v Liverpool '94 only "we can't seem to bloody turn 'em off, Pep" rather than switching them on being the problem.

Al, do yerself a favour, pop on the Rovers thread every now and then, call Joey Barton a ****, get yerself some likes and laughs, then give the old Avon(t)-garde stuff another run out, see how it goes down then