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Big John would've gone down though, wouldn't he? When the keeper took a swipe?

Don’t be silly

"Give us a twirl Twine"

Fork handles, anyone got fork handles? (Martin Tyler), as the floodlights fail, and we all have to re-assemble in two weeks time, and all buy another £10 ticket.......

SO'D was keen on all that. I remember sitting in the Atyeo, about 11 years ago now, watching as JET and two others tried to take a throw in and keep the ball and making a complete and utterly tortuous mess of it. Against someone or other probably in National League South now. As L2 beckoned. Nobody told Cotts this. I remember about a year or so later, sitting in the Williams, watching Cotts fully animated on the touchline as we took another throw in, against some other L1 dullards, the list of instructions and information flowing fully and openly from Cotts mouth. A torrent of instruction. He left no stone un-turnt, Cotts; he won't die thinking: if only I'd told them how to take throw ins rather than work it out for their-selves, won't Stevie Cotts.

We were losing money hand-over-fist when SL took the reins, I don't think the wealthy/successful think like that/you and me. When Steve took over I fancy he thought to himself "I can do a lot better than the last bloke/blokes" meaning every previous owner in our history.

Bristol City highest placed finish in English football: 2nd in 1st division West 'am highest placed finish in English football: 3rd in 1st division

What was it he said to Jack Taylor in '74, as he awarded the Dutch a first minute penalty in the final in Munich? "You are English, ja? " Franz was very much an "influencer" within the game for a long time ...

We are blinkin' Massive, just not every week. Every once in a while.

Liverpool v Bristol Rovers 1992 attendance: 30,142. Liverpool v Bristol City 1994 attendance: 36,720.

Anfield 94 wasn't that many but what I do remember very clearly, even now three decades on, rather pathetically perhaps on my part, was that we took more than Rovers who went there about 2 years before, and the evidence for this, apart from Evening Post reports of tickets sold (I think they sold seven thousand and something, whereas we sold over eight thousand), is that we had about one third of the stand opposite the cameras (where I was sat) along the side as well as the Anfield Road end. And you can clearly see that their following wasn't as many as we took. And what I also remember is that they lost at Anfield, and we won at Anfield.

Otib will de-boggle yer mind for you, mate. Keep browsing

It was 10,000 mate. We took 10,000 to West Ham. If everyone just says 10,000 over and over, then it becomes the case that we took 10,000 to West Ham. Which is what happened today.

Ok, offer him a "Weimann"

Muggy? Anyone fluent in cockernee/essex rhymin' slang?

Few v Norwich? That could be "policed" by the Girl Guides, well, maybe some parking attendants, with a little help from the Jockey Club. The coppers can do us v West 'am. Play the same evening.

Dare we ask/say it but did we have the country's biggest most massive away following this weekend?

A lot can happen in 30 minutes, mind. As Cloughie famously said: It only takes half an hour to muster one shot on target .....

And, a day more after Christmas so by rights we should be shifting another 700 at least ...

81 mins, Sunderland fans not "out of the blocks" like the Dolman would be ....

Nicknamed "J G" by the lads ....

It’s delusional. To try and "play through the thirds" against your peers is one thing, to attempt it against demonstrably superior opponents is idiocy.

Done ok with the All Blacks, I spose, but expect @kiwicolin can tell us more?

Can't stop talking about us ....

If, then, we are caught/stuck, in an impossible vicious circle - best players want to be in PL so are sold/we can't reach the PL without best players - one wonders how "the likes of" Swansea, Luton, Huddersfield, Cardiff, Brentford et al managed a similar predicament.