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Faggots are made from pork and pork liver, so not connected to BSE at all, I guess they are just ‘old fashioned’ food.

Some good suggestions here, thanks, though sadly nothing too close to me. I love a nice faggot, the best ones were from Spring Farm in Winford, not sure if he still makes them,

There are a few foodies on here, so who has a decent butcher they use, not many left now and the supermarkets just don’t carry anything but the popular joints and cuts.

All the teams agreed on the format of a minor and major breach, so they can’t complain about the outcome.

I just went to do your survey, but I feel I couldn’t answer it accurately, I have zero interest in the womens game, so some of the questions have responses that I feel don’t reflect my feelings. I have no interest in women's professional football except for big tournaments like Euros or World Cup. My answer isn’t covered by the selections, I have no interest in the womens game full stop, I didn’t see any of the womens Euros, nor would I watch a womens World Cup.

Listen to the first minute of this, Derek Robinson had this sussed many years ago.

The drinking culture in the club at that time was inexcusable, it must have had a detrimental effect on quite a few of the players careers.

Does he explain the team selection in the play-off final………

Not been for quite a few years since I moved out of BS3, but was a regular when I did live there, shame to see it going, might have to try and get in for a nostalgic meal.

Paul Sartin from Bellowhead https://www.nme.com/news/music/bellowheads-paul-sartin-has-died-aged-51-3311667

Going to be an interesting race with 6 so far starting at the back of the grid, including Max and Charles

As interesting and useful as the best restaurant thread is, is there a place for a thread that covers not so glowing reviews. For probably 40 years I have occasionally been to the Raj in King St. and always found it OK, haven’t been for several years. Had a colleague down from London the last couple of days and we had a few beers in the Cornubia (great pub), then round to King St, Old Duke and we wanted to round off with a curry. Went down the stairs to the Raj and should probably have realised, it’s quite looking quite tired now and could do with a bit of a refurb. The menus were not plastic coated or in a folder, so they were a bit worn and didn’t present a great impression. The food on offer was pretty bog standard Bangladeshi ‘Indian’ restaurant menu and whilst my mate thought his was OK, mine was just sharp with heat, rather than a nice spicing (and I like it pretty hot, but hot with flavour, not just heaped with chilli powder). I won’t be rushing back. No draught beer either, so bottled Kingfisher was the main option. I will say, it was cheap, so maybe that’s it’s market now?

Not really sure how Shane is outlasting them………..

Darryl Hunt, The Pogues Bass Player, 72

Yep, plenty of smoke. Personally I like to see flares and smoke at a game, but I get the clubs position if their safety licence is at risk, or if they will be faced with fines and/or other sanctions.

Bloody optimists, the downs far outweigh the ups, following City has certainly meant my consumption of alcohol has far exceeded government guidelines….. on occasion a very rare celebration, but more often sorrow drowning…..

Why do we as supporters keep putting ourselves through this, it’s Groundhog Day……..

And why not, if the clients are rich and dumb enough to proceed…… it’s not like it’s taxpayer money.

I wouldn’t risk it, train services will be liable to be cancelled at very short notice.

Sad news indeed, my first experience of Stoney would be 40 or so years ago, when he compered a Gentleman’s evening in The Raymend Hotel, near Victoria Park. Our paths crossed many times since then, at football and in various watering holes in Bristol, often had a chat with him as I bumped into him around Whitchurch. I recall the Black Lion (Maesknoll Toby Carvery) had many pictures of Stoney’s film appearances and TV clips, a huge character who has touched many peoples hearts and will be sadly missed. Condolences to Stoney’s family.

Quite an entertaining evening, wasn’t expecting that result.

No, the thread has somewhat gone off on a tangent.

I can’t believe no one has added Beki Bondage to our local hall of fame….

It’s just like landing in India and stepping off the plane…. Lovely. Give it 3 or 4 months and all those moaning it’s too hot will be moaning it’s too cold and they can’t afford to put the heating on. The weather takes up an inordinate amount of this countries time.

Not a fan of either rap or the PSB, but wanted to watch the last night, so stuck with the PSB, great set. Reminds me of a festival I went to where UB40 headlined the Thursday night, again wasn’t interested to start with, but they were brilliant, festivals definitely introduce to music you wouldn’t normally listen too.