Red-Robbo

Most of the tools were undergraduates...

I'd have got the train from Bath. Quick and not vastly expensive. How I used to get home from uni.

And doesn't seem to have any foundation of truth In other words, it's an urban myth.

Thank you. I lived there for three and a bit years. It has some nice points. It's a tad dull. As an industrial port town it has its grim areas, as does Bristol, but it's leafy - more urban parkland per acre than any other UK city over 100.000 - and it's considerably nicer than Portsmouth which, Southsea sea front excepted, is a concrete nightmate with a distinctly threatening vibe at night. Occasionally attended the Dell as a student and found Saints fans very friendly and also quite well-disposed towards Bristol City. They are proud of their club's record - a small city punching above its weight - but not, in my experience, "arrogant".

You can stay on the A34. Past Winchester, all bypassed these days, then you're there in no time. A34 these days is the way to go - an underused triple then dual carriageway.

So few Otib members like this particular sub-forum that I think this will continue to be an issue until it is discontinued.

?? Direct train service from Bristol. Or A36 running all the way there - or M4-A34.

Actually that isn’t what Wikipedia says at all. It says that one (British) author has suggested it was named after the New York World but the claim is disputed. If you follow the link from that comment you get to an article which shows historians can find no evidence of a link between the NY World and the World Series. As I said, I'm inclined to believe this is just a case of someone making something up and it getting repeated - sports events weren't named after companies in 1903. That sort of marketing just hadn't been invented. See also "Port Out, Starboard Home" as the origin of the word posh - another invention accepted by many as a fact.

It wasn't sponsored by a newspaper called the New York World - or anyone else. In fact, when you think about it, the concept of sporting events (or anything else) being sponsored by commercial entities in return for naming rights wasn't really around back then.

That's an urban myth.

I've always found it a bit of a bewildering term. Bands bracketed under the Krautrock umbrella include ones playing psychedelic prog rock, freak-folk and what we'd now define as electronica. There isn't much of a common thread other than them being based in West Germany in the early 70s. Same applies of course to "Britpop". Not a musical movement at all, just a collection of bands, mainly playing guitars, that happened to be current in the UK in the 90s. None of them sounded like each other. Incidentally, Germans today use the word 'kraut' to mean herbal marijuana, so maybe "krautrock" is appropriate!

Bear and bare are two other homonyms that are frequently confused on Otib, as well as NTTDS favourite hoards rather than hordes.

They know the difference in meaning, they just can't spell. In my experience, the most common misspelling - other than there/their/they're - is loose instead of lose.

It was the perfect storm: facing very good players and a team on a winning streak. You could just see how they oozed confidence. At the same time, a number of our players had their worst games in a City shirt. Yesterday we faced a decent side but one whose form has been as variable as ours. This time we saw some of the best performances from some of our players. Manning has been known to make mistakes - a few unnecessary and baffling substitutions, for example - but so did Pearson. Generally speaking I think he's had a fairly beneficial presence at the club and has got a team that is fairly average in ability, playing competently, working hard and gelling well. That's what you ask from any manager. Once the game begins, it's the individual players who must take the praise or blame for their performance.

He's also from Lancashire, not Bristol.

He mostly had his head in his hands

Good game to be watching with your Boro-supporting brother-in-law.

Damo Suzuki of Can. 74.

It's incredibly unlikely that we could face relegation this season, but certainly not impossible that we could finish lower than 14th, which would represent going backwards, zero progression, on behalf of the club and call into question once again the decision to sack Pearson.

Try and gloss it anyway they like, but boasting that a crowd they had 70 years ago is better than some of our seasons' averages since is total ****. English football attendances everywhere peaked in the 15 years after WW2 then mainly declined for the next 30 years, before mounting a comeback in the 90s onwards. The sad fact for the Blue Few is our average attendance is now two-and-a-half time theirs - and we aren't even enjoying a particularly exciting season.

What Mehmeti provides is someone who carries the ball forward out of our half (and danger) into potential scoring positions. On Friday, he came nearer than any City player to actually getting an equaliser. Sure, he needs lots of polishing but only Pring is better at carrying the ball out of our half and up the field. Better decision making will come. He's facing much faster, better defenders than he did at Wycombe. You can't really compare what Anis does to Sam as the latter is (usually) played as an out-and-out striker and, as has been said, picks up goals from set pieces and goalie spills and crosses, from central positions. Where both are weak is in the ability to withstand a challenge.

This will always be the issue while we remain a consistent midtable side.

To be fair, all clubs do that. Even successful ones.

I don't think it was that quiet, but away supporters always sing more than home ones - we do - and Leeds had something to sing for; all we had was attempts to inspire an inept display and the prospect of getting soaked on the walk home. Despite the numbers, Leeds were not the loudest away support we've hosted. In fact, they seemed to spend half their time obsessing about some fat bloke rather than singing about the match. The location of respective singers isn't helpful, I'll agree.

Ditto last night for my group. We used to give our season cards to an old fellow from the village when one of us couldn't show, but he hasn't got a smart phone so there isn't an easy option for passing on your seat to him, particularly if it's last-minute.