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Interested in that claim? What's its basis? I thought the NHS was originally posited by a Liverpool-based pressure group before WW1, a sort of mini-NHS ran in the South Wales valleys from the 1920s, the Labour Party made it a policy aim nationwide in 1934 and it was popularised by a book by Scottish author AJ Cronin.

I was thinking that. They sound like a particularly shit drum'n'bass outfit.

If it makes you feel any better, Andy Partridge was born in Malta.

26 games since 2014. All for Colchester. He doesn't seem to have been first-choice keeper at any of the 10 clubs that signed him during a 16-year professional career.

Bedminster was in Somerset until 1832 when it became part of the city and county of Bristol. The Ashton area, which hadn't been built on in the 1830s, was still in Somerset until the 1890s and Bower Ashton was in Somerset until 1951.

200 hours of community service to be carried out on every Saturday afternoon during the season, would be funny.

Signing Matty Taylor = "akin to terrorism"

I thought having to manage The Gash WAS community service?

How many will be sitting in "Row M"?

"Big Bristol Rovers" playing at a level below Morecambe, Cheltenham, Accrington, Cambridge, Burton etc etc....

In the city centre, I like the Sky Hong Kong - mainly for their Korean food. That's been a passion of mine since I lived in South Wimbledon, London's "Koreatown". From our old office, Rosemarino in York Place was a favoured brunch/lunch spot. If I want to take someone for a gurt posh meal - cuz I da like gurt posh sometimes, n'all - then the Ethicurean in Wrington would be my destination. Not sure it's re-opened though...

Lots of Baggies fans come from the wider Black Country area. Places like Stourbridge, Halesowen, Redditch and Amblecote and also parts of the West Midlands conurbation that are identifiably Black Country, like Wednesbury, Oldbury and even Smethwick. They reckon the Black Country has a population of 1,2 million, so it's not surprising it can support two big clubs in Wolves and WBA as well as one smaller one in Walsall. They all pick up fans from Worcestershire and parts of Staffordshire as well, where there are no professional clubs. All teams draw lots of support from the hinterland areas surrounding the towns, cities and suburbs they are named after, as well as "exiles" from that home region. Sunderland always struck me as a very well-supported club, given the size of the town they are based in. However, you have to factor in that they pick up the vast majority of support across Wearside, something that doubles their potential fanbase.

Sports teams are singular in American English, but in British English the emphasis is on whether you are talking about the collective body together (in which case it's singular) or as a group of individuals (it takes plural). Sports teams, pop groups and the police are classic plural group verb forms in UK English, but there are others. "A committee has been appointed to look into corruption...." has a group emphasis so is singular, but "the committee were unable to make a recommendation" is a partial sentence where individuals in the group are obviously highlighted, so we go plural. If you wonder why I give a **** about all this, it's because I sat on the humorously named "style council" of our national broadcaster and drew up its grammatical rules in conjunction with a team of sub-editors from the main national broadsheets and the former editor of the OED. One thing you learn when you delve into grammar is that half of what you think is established English, has no formal basis, but is just someone's opinion that has become taught as established grammar. Split infinitives are a good example. We were all told at school to avoid these, but there has never been an agreed grammatical prohibition of them and classic English literature is full of them. They're just a bad English teacher's definition of what bad English looks like. Anyway, not sure why I'm discussing this on a thread about the Blue Few. They're prowed of their bad English.

The general consensus among writers is that sports clubs, like pop groups, are outside the usual collective singular used by organisations. Thus: Bristol City are preparing for a summer of recruitment. Bristol Sport is calculating how much money will be available.

1-5 total myths. 6 totally true

Back in the old days I only had to be within 10 yards of the front door of Merton Kebabs for Faisal to start preparing a large lamb shish with all the salad and hot chilli Source, for me. These days I'm less of a connoisseur, but if you're down my way I recommend Rams Kebabs of Street (shop) and Wells and Shepton Mallet (vans).

Different accent altogether. Hereford - country. Shrewsbury - northern. There may be some interplay in the extreme north of Herefordshire, south of Shropshire, but I doubt many Hereford-born men consider supporting Shrewsbury on the basis that they share the same police force. Hereford fans hate Shrewsbury with a vengeance. The Shrews do have a sizeable contingent of fans from the Welsh border area though. People for whom Wrexham is too far away.

The likelihood of anyone from Worcestershire or Herefordshire deciding to support Shrewsbury is as remote as the Gas ever reaching the top-flight. People from the Worcestershire towns tend to support one of the much nearer, much more successful Black Country clubs, if the don't support their local non-league contenders. Herefordshire folk have no affinity with the north Midlands whatsoever.

They thought they were a big club in L1! They speak of the Championship being their natural home, despite the fact they haven't played at this level for yonkers. What they are is a declining club. Sort of a Notts County. Last time the Gas could even be considered medium-sized, Russ Conway was in the charts.

My point was, Gray, how could they do worse than ending the season in last place? What's amusing is that they assume they'll bounce back instantly. Every division they play in they assume they are a 'big club' at that level. They made the same assumption last time they dropped to the basement. That didn't end too well....

They finished 24th out of 24: How could it possibly have got "got even worse next season"?!! The Gas Logic is strong in this one.

Take the money. The assessment that he might improve to score more than one goal in every 10 appearances is too uncertain. He might. He might not. Take the money.

1 game, 1 goal. Pretty tasty stats.

Well, he is Mo Eisa the 2nd. Eisa also scored 16 goals for Peterborough in the season we released him. What we don't know is how Szmodics performed off pitch. Maybe Johnson and Holden didn't really think he was all that there. Should we have kept him? Dunno. He didn't really show much promise in his 4 appearances. It's a steep learning curve and even having one player who is off the pace will knacker teams. My sole point is that assuming someone who has a decent scoring record in L1 will also have a decent scoring record in the Championship is a leap of faith. The level is very different. Szmodics scored a goal every three games for Colchester. But that was in L2

No and you obviously didn't read my post. To recap: Whether he should have had more time is a moot point. That he didn't impress when he was on the pitch is not. He was a young player and he may well have developed to be a lot sharper than he was in 2019. PS: 2 starts and 2 sub appearances