Red-Robbo

Because when he did play he looked rubbish. Probably moved too far up the ladder too young. He's 26 now and two seasons further on then when we had him last. Has developed as a player.

According to Wikipedia, Liam is eligible to play for either England or Italy. Surprised the Azzurri haven't snapped him up. ?

Keep watching from above and rest easy, John. My condolences to his family and friends.

Erm, I'm not trying to "be little" you. I actually agree with your original point that although we could do worse than Stephen Lansdown as an owner, we could do better as well. You seem to have missed my point though, which is that the owners of the clubs you've listed were wealthy fans of those clubs, before they took them over. I wasn't suggesting that those clubs were run by the collective fanbase. I was differentiating them from Burnley, which is owned by an investment group from America who probably couldn't even find Burnley on a map. They are out to make money from a lower PL club based in a declining Lancashire town, where a high percentage of the population are Asians with little interest in football. It'll end in tears for the investors or for Burnley fans - or both.

That's the git.

Yet you've cited Norwich, Brighton and Brentford as well-run clubs - each run by fans. Mae your mind up!!

Not very popular at Pompey either, Gray, It's worth noting that he did the same during his first stint at Stoke as he did with us: sack off all their foreign signings, bring in a number of unfit journeyman and play Route One hoofball. It was only during his second stint there that he decided to play slightly more nuanced football. Still his many clubs, did at least mean a varied career bench-warming for his talent-free son Anthony Pulis Jr. Plus it was good news for the makers of brown envelopes.

Burnley are owned by an American investment company that owns dozens of different sports teams and absolutely want to make money on the transaction. None of the directors are fans of Burnley. The club was bought with a high-interest loan secured against the equity of the value of the team and club assets. I don't think it'll end well for The Clarets. https://www.sportico.com/business/sales/2021/alk-capital-burnley-debt-1234621513/ Haven't got time to write more. Just off to se the bank to secure a loan to buy Man U using the value of the club's assets as security....

Your stag weekend was versus Stuttgart?! Mine was just versus a bunch of chavs in a kebab shop in Herne Bay. We'll call that one a no score draw....

I vote no. The two members of the Dolman Weak Bladders club who sit in front of me already get up a minimum of three times a match, usually during penalty box action. If they could drink while the match was active, they'd be popping to the loo more often than Geoff Twentyman says "Top Man" during a phone in!

I may be wrong, but I think they renamed it "Stan's".

L is short, but his genetic inheritance is hardly his fault.

Or this one, who is only an assistant manager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taylor_(soccer)

I personally love @Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan's unbridled hatred of all things Gas. I just have a sort of dislike and distaste for the Blue Few - in fact I'm quite friendly with a number of their fans and even have had a few beers with one of their directors. However, POHH's posts about them not only shows a great memory for all their hilarious naffness, hideousness and failure, but are also very funny. More power to his elbow!

The Football League's bollocks rather than Radio Bristol's.

All to do with rights issues.

You can listen to Radio Bristol on a Freeview telly providing it is tuned correctly. I think it's somewhere up in the 700s in the channel list. It's how Old Mother Robbo follows City away games, whereas chez moi we either watch or use the old-fashioned radio.

I'd endorse @Kid in the Riot's selections. Plymouth is the one I usually have stocked as I'm frequently down that way and I always stop in the Barbican to buy a bottle direct from the distillery - which has been operational since 1739*. One of the newbies I recommend is the Lakes Gin, which is made up on the shores of Bassenthwaite Lake. I take gin with an unflavoured Fever Tree tonic, but the Lakes' elderflower infused gin is one of the few flavoured gins I will happily quaff. * I wasn't a customer until a few years later....

Too right it is. And we won the Somerset Premier Cup a few years ago!

I've been there on-and-off over the years, before it even was Sam Smiths. It used to be quite lively back then. Last time I was there was after the recent Friday night game. A drink in King Street me and my buds did agree, but by the time we got there everywhere was jam-packed with stewwwwdents and other shouty types and only the King Bill offered the opportunity to sit down without queueing. It's a bit lacking in atmosphere and I don't like the bitter they brew, but the Pilsner and the Organic Lager they brew is acceptable. A word of warning though, the Organic Lager is £6.35 a pint. ?

Sounds like someone forgot to turn off the online feed for the game, which they do not have the rights to broadcast in that medium.

If you're talking about the motivated Diedhiou then I agree, but the unmotivated, demoralised Diedhiou we saw last season would have less effect on results than the girl at the pasty stall has. One of the great things about motivated Fam was he was so excellent at heading away our opponents' corners and free kicks. His scoring rate of just under one in three was reasonable, but adding in his defensive work is what made him central to what we were doing at the time. His problem was his immobility and lack of first touch meant things had to be presented to him on a plate, meaning when he played the team had to all be focused on him, robbing us of other outlets.

It became clear in the last third of 20/21 season that something radical had to be done. Nige carried out that root-and-branch surgery - a quite astounding number of releases - and it's clear that this leaner, fitter squad is better than the bloated Mark Ashton selection that we had back then. Pearson did talk about wanting a new striker, but because of money and availability, one did not manifest. That has prevented us being the team he really wants. Just that one player. At City, we've had some really good strikers in the past in what have been mediocre teams. Now it is a case of a decent team missing a quality, in-form striker. Pearson will know this. He's talked of it being a three- year project here. I have faith that watching the teams he selects will only improve as time goes by.

Bakinson has never really convinced me. Along with COD, the two weak links left at the club.