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  3. Jobi McAnuff

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    Just now, GrahamC said:

    One of the best pundits, intelligent comments always.

    I enjoyed his analysis here in Venice - where I am unquestionably the only person celebrating in this hotel. Hope it was as good an evening as it looked from a distance!

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  9. West Ham Replay: Sold Out 🎟️/Live on BBC 📺

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    All sorted 2x members. Paid a booking fee - which as everyone else suggests is almost incomprehensible for a print at home online ticket. Surely more transparent to simply up the price. But hey. Better than expected experience done in seconds.

    EDIT: But that was just my experience. And I did get online just before 10.00.

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  11. Safe standing

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    I normally sit - fairly quietly - in the Dolman. Sat there for years. Yesterday I was up in the gods at one of the safe standing/standing rail seats - I stood the whole match. It was fine, I enjoyed it.

    But to @Davefevs point I'd propose that a 'good business' wouldn't start from where we are. Indeed wouldn't have found itself where we are. It would be assessing the demand for standing rails like we experienced yesterday, and if it was believed that there was sufficient demand for these to be an attractive offer to enough fans it would then deciding where to place them. It would have a strategy that could be explained. Let's say that that there was believed to be demand, and that the best place to place these facilities was in Block Z (I'll make one up) - it wouldn't be deflected from implementing the strategy by the fact that people already sitting there might not like it. It would be offering them seats somewhere else in the belief that in the long run this was a better bet for the 'business'.

    What we have had down the years of the AG development is a mess - where groups of fans get shuffled around with no obvious long term plan. In my view it's hard to believe that any football club would have developed a strategy in which what was for generations the standing room only club 'end' is full of people who only want to sit and the people who want to stand and sing are tucked in a corner out of the way! What's needed is a bit of leadership. Paint a picture and sell it to people.

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  16. URGENT info for those travelling to West Ham by train

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    On a 4 car train that the train manager assured me is running through to Paddington. Boarded at Didcot. Just left Reading. Despite the GWR advice being that nothing is running on this line. Not many other trains around though! Years of commuting on this route have left me sceptical about announcements. Good luck to those stuck elsewhere. 

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  18. West Ham : Posted tickets and collections

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    16 minutes ago, MelksRed said:

    Right, been on to BS (aptly shortened) - They are going to ring me back between 1600-1700hrs today- Likely have to collect from Window 20 at the ticket Office at West Ham.  Guy said that the tickets were only sent out "late last week" - didn't think to ask when they received them! 🙄

    The postie has now visited today - but not bearing football tickets...so I've done the same thing myself, called supporter services and had the same - very professional - response.  Looks like I'll be joining you in the queue at Window 20!

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  19. West Ham : Posted tickets and collections

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    1 hour ago, alexukhc said:

    Mine came out to Basingstoke on Wednesday, I bought them on 29/12 off our website

    I hope yours get to you. I know Royal Mail are prioritising signed for and parcels other regular post as well

    Still waiting for today's postal delivery. I bought mine on 15th December.

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  21. Guardiola Ball is NOT the Way

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    My take - having liked the amusingly OTT OP. I make TV programmes for a living. Shows with big audiences. Have done for the best part of 40 years. I work with large teams of people who know exactly how TV programmes are made, all the technical detail, all the creative jargon.

    A handful of people who watch these programmes understand how they are made - or give two hoots. The overwhelming majority watch them to be entertained. It's all about entertainment. Back in the day I worked on Football Focus. The highlights of the previous week's matches were all about what the then editor called 'busters' - cracking goal of the month candidates - not walking the ball into the net. 

    I don't know a lot about how footballers are coached, or organised, never really played the game. I have Jonathan Wilson on my shelf - interesting read. I appreciate the insights offered by obviously well informed folk on here. But the pleasure I have got from watching football relates to its capacity to get me out of my seat. Yesterday was a bore fest.

     

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  23. earliest radio commentary of a Bristol City match?

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    I study broadcasting history - a really useful source is the Radio Times archive which you can browse here:

    https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk

    @Never to the dark side

    The earliest record I can find of a City match being broadcast is here:

    https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/ea8daa29fa954c9aa17d8c34468d57fc

    13th January 1934 - City v Derby in the Cup. The BBC was the only broadcaster in Britain at the time and the FA were much happier to have matches broadcast than the Football League - hence the FA Cup being such a big deal in the 30s.

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