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Thanks for being quite honest.

Bloke booked someone three times at a World Cup, GrahamP wasn't it?

You don't need "data," mate, you just need to know which one is "the first in in the morning, and the last to leave," and the one that stays out on the training pitch to practice a few more dead balls after all the others have gone inside.

Running towards adversity, remember? That was (one of) the (many) vacuous sentiments plastered about the place (because Eddie Howe did this at Bournemouth so it must work). So we ran toward the inevitable let-down of signing Lee Tomlin. Because Lee had been to that Michelin starred cafe run by the SAS to observe people working under pressure.

It's preferable to have one manager at a time, yes

To be shot?

Nice. I saw Everton at Ashton Gate, midweek February half-term, 1980. And we won. I'd imagine Mick Lyons was playing that night, maybe John Bailey? John Bailey v Howard Pritchard: 50p in the Schoolboys Enclosure. What about Asa Harford - think he played, with a hole in his heart. I don't think anyone called "Asa" has played at AG since (although GrahamC might know otherwise .... )

10,500. They daydream about getting 11,000 plus ...

I think we should at least try a few seasons in the middle of the Prem not winning any thing (but on MOTD every Saturday night being overlooked by Danny thingy and Alan Geordie) before we decide we'd rather be in L1 aiming to add to our glorious tally of League One cups and promotions and titles

You're watching Sky?

Yes, 10,500 you play in front of down there. In the Prem. They have only averaged 13,000 or more over a season three times in their history, and the last time they managed this was 1950. Small club, Bournemouth, but they "found a way" to get to the top with L1 support.

Sit down then, in the seats.

At work, occasionally, one would hope

Dunno. But he wasn’t a bleedin spud, spur

I liked Martin Chivers, Micky Hazzard, Ossie Ardiles. Gary Mabbutt. Pochettino. Harry Kane, I like him. Chas n Dave. You?

I loved TC, game was different then but he seemed to be a very decent man. And not just because when I wrote to him about Paul Stevens wrangling over a new contract he wrote back saying (pretty much), "don't worry, I've got this." And responded with hand written letters of reassurance on embossed club note paper to other anxieties and naive nonsense I peppered him with. I've still got some of his letters, I wonder of he kept mine?

Football makes morons of us all, well, most of us.

Can you be a "bit" marmite? I wouldn't say I was in the know like yer @kid in his riot van about these things, but surely marmite "doesn't work like that (mate)," does it?

That's one type of atmosphere, not "atmosphere" end of. At the recent World Cup, free of alcohol and "groups of lads" drinking, a WC where women were, ironically in that country, heard to say on the radio that they felt safer and enjoyed watching football far more (because of the absence of "groups of young lads" drinking and the inevitable resulting toxic male behaviour), there was "atmosphere," plenty of it. Just a different one to the 'two sets of blokes close to each other making manual manipulator signs and saying "cmon then" across a section of empty seating' type atmosphere we're so used to at football by now. One of the problems in life in general and at football in particular over the decades is that young "lads" are prone to thinking they are the centre of the world and little else matters than what they want and what is important to them. When we play Wigan or Barnsley there's nothing to stop the groups of young lads diverting their full attention to the pitch and the football and getting fully behind the team and encouraging them come what may. But I would suggest that's not really what motivates and excites them.

John Parrot, off the telly: bitter, angry bloke.

I taught that @EnclosureSurge every bloody song/chant he ever started - well, the good/popular ones. I got loads, mate: If Mo Eisa'd been any good, I had Nat King Cole's "Mo-na Lisa" ready to go, but he was crap. I've still got high hopes for Duncan Idehen, when he breaks into the team, I got the B-52's "Private Idaho" ready to belt out: "Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh We're playing with our own Duncan Idehen Our own Duncan Idehen" No other **** ers are ever singing that, are they? And neither are S82/A Block .....

Britain's angriest fans, most angry/disillusioned fans. Remember, Joey Barton is an Evertonian, so these blokes start out pretty angry from before getting school, then just go along getting angrier and angrier.

Why? Because other teams sing it, so we follow what other fans sing.

50p, for 1st division football. And really quick getting out after the game. Did get wet in there, mind (when it rained).

No, no. Otib (Oldish, tired, irritable, blokes) demands to be told what exactly this protest is for, and will not give its approval unless or until more detail is forthcoming, than hitherto thus far ...