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After 3 games last season, we literally had 1 point.

If Max was much better than average, we'd only be selling him and then have to find another keeper, who would likely be "average" himself ....

Women can be brutal, mate. They have the capacity for brutality, same as you and me. They can be ruthless. They have the killer instinct. There's a female SAF out there, for sure. Men have coached women, why not have equal opportunity, if they want it. Let them say if it's too brutal.

But not interesting from a television company's, or neutrals', point of view. Sky need viewers, Sky need drama and spectacle, and Leeds provide it whether they are doing well or falling apart.

Fascinating era, and tantalisingly out of reach to us now with just these few fragments of memories, pictures, memorabilia etc. How Bristol City that our greatest team/era was before television, before radio, and so little to remember it by.

That'll be doing the perfectly striped lawns of Prem and Championship (but not L1) footballers and other proper wealthy sorts, you would think, whilst Bakes does their investments. Gardens that you see in magazines whilst waiting at the dentist. I don't suppose he'll be mowing in the suburbs for £20 an hour. My Mountfield (I call it "Derek") is playing up at the moment, struggle to get the thing started.

Chelsea get around all this, I believe, because they have or employ the sharpest, cutest financial bods in the land (as important now as your management or recruitment). If only we had someone that knew a thing or two about money and finance and creative accounting. Oh well, we can't have it all ....

I wonder what the longest run in the Championship or Second Division is that ends with promotion rather than relegation? Forest went 14 seasons following promotion from L1 to getting promoted, that is unusual I would think? Is it not the case that most second tier clubs that go as long as we have at this level exit via relegation not promotion? Most that go up, without PPs, do so fairly swiftly, I think? The owner either has what it takes (be that luck or whatever), or he doesn't. If we go upto the top under SL now, it will be going against the grain, I think I'm right in saying.

Yes, go in the Central Library, and read the archive of old local papers, @Merrick's Marvels has probably done as much of this as most on here. Plenty went on trains. I remember reading something about us playing a cup game - then as now, we had a "big day out/up fer the Cup" following for a big cup game - at QPR and an account of fellas arriving by train in London and getting something to eat, and likely getting ripped off by some cockernee wide boys. Wonderful to step back in time, in the Central library, especially to that era when we were one of the most happening/dazzling clubs in the country, for a short while.

Yes, just what I've been thinking. England have conceded 3 goals in this tournament, I think (?), two of them sailing over Mary's head, neither of which are beating Max. Earpsie's great, if she can get a hand or foot to it. But at 5'8" (according to wiki) there's a lot of goal to aim at. It's worth some folks going down to their nearest pitch to remind themselves how big a goal is.

I would like to see England "getting more shots off" and not allowing Spain any shots from 20 yards, although hopefully they will refuse to shoot unless they are on 80% possession and have completed a thousand passes (yawn) and end up failing to "walk it" into Earpsie's net. I'd also like to see a national search for six foot girls willing to go in goal and that we have a six footer between the sticks next tournament, although having said that, if Earpsie can get to it she's pretty bloomin good. No offence, Earpsie. It's that old Ronnie Sinclair thing.

As semi finals go, that was about as straightforward as you could hope for. No pens, no extra-time, no one goal lead approaching 90 and clinging on, no red card, no tearful midfield maestro given a yellow which means he/she misses the final, no Germans, no nothing.

We were wildly popular in Japan in 2002, our piazza square plastic-chair throwing "football lads" are reviled, of course, but the majority of us that are not triumphalist or thick jingoistic tossers are mostly well received. I was when I went abroad with Ing-ger-lund

Australians are so quick to shout that England rugby/cricket/tiddlywinks team are hated by everyone, indeed England itself is hated universally, around the globe (like, in the parts of Northern Europe liberated by our Tommy's and allies in WW2, duh!), whilst seemingly oblivious to the widespread dislike of some of their sports teams.

If, if, if. We just scored 3, in the 90 mins, in a WC semi, v the hosts. Three different scorers, Aussie got just one.

She's 5'8" Supe, as I said before

And of Portsmouth, Bolton, Derby and Bristol City, which one of these is going to return to the top division next/first? And which one is best placed to do so at this moment?

Jesus also spoketh unto his disciples in parables, and was scorned by the all-knowing forum Sadducees, and he was spat at, and mocked, and they called him: King of the Hibbees. Deeply misunderstood, our Lee (s'what you get, talking in riddles, instead of telling it like it is).

Pivot is a position in basketball, or it used to be when I was at school and played a bit. I played pivot/centre.

3 pillars?

Not this week, no. But any week where we lose, or don't win, perhaps the only exception being a draw away from home somewhere miles away where we rescue a point with an equaliser (late on) rather than "throw away two plints" from being ahead, he definitely likes the rugby more than us.

Parachute Payments. I'd like to see Vince manage Rotherham, or even us, in the Championship, then talk about money in the Championship. With respect

Is that with PP or without?

Kraftwerk wrote a song about him, shimmering Leon Knight