Red-Robbo

We're you on the Pisa? ?

I'd have thought the main hazard if the stadium had to be evacuated in an emergency would not be a few seats flush to the concourse wall (which would be appreciated by older fans and those with leg injuries etc), but the fact that the Dolman has far fewer exits from the terracing than newer stands and a crush might develop there in a panic situation. People joke about Dolman early leavers, but anyone who sits there knows many don't stay until the final whistle because it takes a while to get back to the concourse then. It's not unusual to still be queueing to exit the Dolman at a time other stands have totally emptied.

A guy on their English language Twitter feed simply says Tomas was injured when he arrived which is why he isn't playing. No suggestion of what the injury was, but if he travelled with the team it obviously couldn't be that bad.

I wish we'd taken 7 points from our last 5 games, but that said the Exeter embarrassment shows how fragile the side is and - to me - suggests they are nowhere near genuine promotion contenders. Were something to upset the management of the club, who knows what might happen...

The "abyss" of being 40 places above them in the league pyramid.

I'm not sure how it'll work, but if it got me off a £9 charge then I'd send them the proof if I did earn under that amount.

They never have to worry about getting kicked in the nuts if matters get tasty...

It'll be a hostile atmosphere there now for the cider-drinking serpent. He might escape Sid and Doris Bonkers in the stands, but will he get past the 20,000 locked outside??

Gonna be complicated!!!

You are exempt if you earn £26k pa or less, so it isn't the poorest it will hit but some middle-income motorists who have little choice but to regularly drive through the zone will undoubtedly feel the pinch? Anyone know where the revenue from the charges is going? I expect Serco or whoever is implementing the enforcement will take a huge bite, but is the rest kept by BCC or hoovered up by national government. If the revenue went at improving the Bristol public transport network - more routes, more times etc - it would be something I suppose. I'm still against these sort of schemes though. They just don't seem to work.

What was the f/t score?

Aren't you not recommended to charge them to 100%, AIS?

Very weak. I don't think they even had an academy any more.

Well, a bit, but the way things are weighted also reflect the relative interest in the sport: South Americans are football-mad, south Asians and those from Oceania, less so. It also reflects the relative strengths of national teams. All the cup winners have come from Europe or South America. That may change, but it's still a way away in my opinion.

I can almost hear the chant: "6-0, and you ****** it up..."

I think it wasn't in-ept. It was far from ept.

Senegal, which of course is in West Africa, like Ghana... South Africa however is very distant to either.

"To inform, educate and entertain" Lord Reith

I half agree with you, Gray, but the corollary is he's never had any long-lasting health and fitness worries before. If it's a choice between leaving the game entirely (before he turns 60) or taking a more hands-off, executive-style role, he might prefer the latter. Pure speculation, I admit.

Great band Wet Leg.

I found Dotty the Ring-tailed Lemur in a cupboard at Broadcasting House in Whiteladies Road. Beat that!

Really one of the most cruel diseases out there. There is some hope however that treatments to significantly lessen the condition's progress or even reverse it, might be on the horizon: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-55718363

Yes and we need to remember that he wasn't an alcoholic at the time of his greatest footballing triumphs, it all came later. The Damned United is an entertaining film and Michael Sheen does a terrific turn as Clough, but it disappointed family and friends by suggesting BC was roaring drunk for much of the 70s. It shifted his problems with alcohol a decade too early.

I think even that story acknowledges that Clough could be difficult and judgemental. There's a longer version of it that was posted here from The Guardian, where Craig - the bloke who has written the book about how the Clough family "adopted" him unofficially - says he "loved Brian except when he was being a ****". I think in Cloughie's latter years, alcohol probably made him harder to love. Still a fascinating character though. I can't think of a bigger personality within British football.

Certainly our record points haul, but we've had long unbeaten stretches under other managers. Even Lee managed nine wins on the trot in 18/19 and one loss in 13 games in 17/18. Seems like halcyon days compared to now...