steveybadger

Certainly no worse than many male refs, and given the pressure she may have been under from those thinking it was a tick box exercise, perhaps above average.

Well said

It’ll be interesting to see what happens. I’m guessing all opponents will be crushed but also Newcastle might win more.

Me too

Nobby Stiles!

Think you could compare peak Tomlin with Jacki but Jet and Noble were below that level. Though in terms of the effect on performances you could perhaps argue the opposite. Anyway, I enjoyed watching them all.

5 good games - maybe. But we still remember them. Sometimes football, like life, is about memories. He gave us a lot.

Yep but it’s Rovers, that’s a bit different!

It certainly is up to them but he’s gone now, so just don’t see the point of keeping him in the spotlight really. Anyway each to their own.

Certainly not defending MA and fully understand people have (strong) opinions on him. But 22 pages and counting? They ain’t even in the Championship. Time to move on? Respectfully from a fellow red.

Bingo card is ready - now got ‘what do we pay our licence fee for’. Just need ‘political correctness / elf and safety gone mad’ for house.

El skintico?

I had to look it up - where the old Walls factory near Walls roundabout but on t’other side of the road. Not technically Longlevens to my mind, but there you go.

Was going to make a similar point re attendances, and add that they’ve already gone down in the last 2 games. That said, clearly still mitigating COVID factors.

Oh I agree it cost us. Looked to me (without the benefit of a replay) that he was trying to let it run out to waste time, but got caught.

Agree re Bentley but without him we’d have lost by half time. Point was the least Luton deserved.

Gutted, was hoping the web game would be the true El Glosico. Not Cheltenham v FGR but Longlevens vGloucester City!

Spot on; the odd interesting article but a lot of dirge. I won’t be going full whack when my£1 deal ends. Shame as I really liked Daniel Taylor when he wrote for the Guardian.

As an aside are the Beeb still choosing a game each round to show online? If so must be a chance this is the one?

Used to boot a ball around there as a kid, now the tale will be that I’ve played at a famous FA cup ground! Edit - no I didn’t - it’s in Barnwood! Thought the rugby and football clubs played at Longford Lane

Amazing draw here: Longlevens v Gloucester City. For those non Glos folk Longlevens is a suburb of Gloucester (my old stomping ground as it happens); a local league side playing the City’s main (National League North) football team. This is I believe by far the furthest Longlevens have ever got. A Bristol comparison might be Rovers drawing City ?

That was a thing of beauty

I suspect up until the last 20 years or so countries like Italy (where the big cash was) saw our players as ‘strong / physical’ but technically not very good. I was watching a repeat of the ‘Gazzeta Football Italia’ story last night and they said much the same. Now I’m not saying there wasn’t the odd good player e.g. Gaza, just that they weren’t the norm. I’d also throw in the general ‘inability’ / desire in this country to try and learn a different language, as perhaps an additional barrier? Since, say, 2000 the money even journeymen can earn here is probably more than almost anywhere else, even if this coincided with production of more desirable technical players. Plus as you say transfer fees from English clubs made those players too expensive. However it has probably got to the point now with competition for places at top clubs in particular, that players like Tammy / Sancho are looking abroad for game time.

Always pleased when British players get out of their comfort zone and try and widen their horizons. Seems to be becoming more of a option these days.

Gawd bless Simon Harmer!