Red-Robbo

He certainly seems attracted to hounds...

It'd be bloody hot, surely?

Controversially, I think football fans - with their pantheon of black and mixed-race heroes - are less likely to be racist than many non-fans. Not always the case, of course, but I think the isolated incidents of racist language you might hear at football are treated as unacceptable by the vast majority of the crowd, as they are by clubs. I am talking about football in the UK, of course: There are more backward areas when it comes to this behaviour.

Yep, maybe it would be the case at many Scottish clubs.

I guess Celtic, Catholic teams from Northern Ireland, and potentially Liverpool, were the worry for the various authorities. The answer would have been to keep mandated behaviour to a minimum, eg: black armbands for all teams in Great Britain, but not NI unless they want to, individual clubs can decide whether they are going to hold a two-minute silence and/or play the National Anthem. I imagine the overwhelming majority would.

I'm going to a barbecue. I will chew my burgers solemnly, out of respect...

As soon as we saw Lita not involved myself and the minibus of supporters I'd gone up with, knew what would happen. Had a good sup in Cardiff mind.

Sean O'Driscoll's ideal club...

Hope you get fixed up again very soon, T.

It's just as well they dropped that one! Mind you, the Gas have never stopped being Bristol Bell Ends.

Has anyone actually called the Queen "just another old person"? Did anyone suggest the City game be called off because of Stoney's death? Answer to both questions is no, by the way. Most if not all the posts I've read here have been very respectful to Her Majesty's memory. I am not surprised the football was called off, and in the grand scheme of things it means little, but I can still have my opinion that it shouldn't have been. It isn't 'disrespectful' to watch live sport three days after a monarch's death, any more than it's disrespectful to do any other ordinary things. My mum's about the biggest Royalist you can meet, but she's still departed for her annual bowls tour. There was no question that the oldies would cancel it. The only football games that should be cancelled are those on the day of the funeral IMO.

I'm missing the local facts. I've never been to Preston, but can supply a few: The UK's first motorway - the Lancashire stretch of the M6 - was previously the Preston bypass. Butch Cassidy (of Sundance Kid fame) had parents from Preston and reportedly grew up with a Lancashire accent. The Bash Street Kids in the Beano were based on the artist's memories of growing up in Preston. Tallest church spire in UK. Birthplace of Freddie Flintoff and John Inman. UK's first KFC was in Preston. First ladies football team.

I'm sadder at the sudden death of our local postman, someone I knew well, yesterday. I can't imagine he'd want ordinary life to halt because of his untimely passing and if I've understood the late Queen's personality at all, neither would she. I couldn't attend tomorrow anyway, but that's beside the point. If matches had gone ahead, it might've been a great opportunity to bring our divided nation together in shows of respect for her. I think whatever your politics, the vast majority of Brits respected her.

The official opening of our local playground has been postponed "out of respect". I can't imagine the Queen would've wanted this sort of fuss.

I guess the gist is blaming the Queen for being the figurehead at the top of an edifice that included colonialism in the early part of her reign - most black 'subjects' had no self-government and in some cases no right to vote until the 1960s - and having wealth derived from past Royals involvement in the slave trade and exploitation of Africa and the West Indies. It's a nonsense argument in my view, quite why he makes it I don't know. However, I'm with @The Batman about people's right to make themselves look stupid on Twitter.

The BBC's scripts seem to have been written by Private Eye journalists Phil Space and Polly Filler...

Awful news. I hope recent advances in treatment for some MNDs - they are not all the same - might help him.

They all dislike him apparently, as do his colleagues. Never sure why Witchell has managed stayed in a job he apparently doesn't like for so long.

We've done better than I expected - and I suspect than most expected. It's very early days to start getting carried away, but there is a system, a group morale, and a sense we really are a 'team' now as opposed to just 20-odd wealthy sportsman going through the motions. Oh, and we've seen the emergence of a new talent in Conway, and Semenyo's injury has been shorter-lived than some expected and he's returned as good as he was last season. At the same time, Bristol City are a delicate thing. a couple of key players injured, some bad luck, and, yes, we could easily plunge down the table. What's good this term is you can see Pearson's plan unfolding and improving us. We're a different prospect than we were in the past two seasons.

They are at either end of the A23/M23. It's a proximity thing (although London clubs are obviously nearer to Palace).

Earnie Shavers, one of the hardest hitting heavyweights of all time.

To be honest, he did what you want from refs, you didn't notice him that much. Well apart from the fact that as a silver fox, he looked quite old compared to many refs and at his age, he should really get that hair cut.

Just a nice feeling, walking down Raynes Road - Ashton Road last game - having watched an entertaining game of football and we've won. Regardless of whether he gets us to the Prem, Nigel Pearson has created a side that is entertaining to watch. And he's done it with nuppence.

We'll agree to disagree on that, because that wasn't what I saw. I saw Rhodes being passed to and, on one occasion, Vyner simply bypassed. All this before their sub intercepted his back pass and hit the inside post in a shot that seemed to defy physics to spin around and out.

I think James had a pretty good game last night, but he just hasn't 90 intense minutes in him anymore. Odd to think, we had Wilbs doing it for us at this level aged 37, whereas Andy King looks like a pensioner at 33, James seems to blow after 70 minutes and Danny Simpson ran slower than I do now, at 34. Maybe they all burned themselves out at Leicester?