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Thanks. Hadn't thought of that (fitting in with or around the blokes' games), you are good at this. Keep postin'

Any idea whether these games will be played Sundays, or moved to other days/midweek? And also, when are the fixtures for next season released? Thanking you in advance

Oil is, er, good (as it were) bc ?

I prefer the bits with kestrels innit

I like to buy these sort of things old school, in person, from a weather-beaten and be-draggled, and ever-so-slightly desperate for a sale, looking mid-life bloke somewhere around the Duckmoor Road area, so I can get the cut of his jib and see the whites of his eyes before deciding whether to hand over me hard-earned. Will you be selling outside AG in 40° heat in August?

Or, not bothering and the somewhat deflating and demotivating atmosphere of a club run by people who don't quite know what they are doing/ain't all they’re cracked up to be (by their own self-cracking). A club having a January transfer window such as ours in Jan 18, for example.

Interesting, thanks. What we need to know, then, is: is he using South Bristol scaffolders? Can you find that out? Because if he isn't .....

Dunno. Probably. Can't remember now. It wasn't comic sans, I can confirm that.

Just watching 'Who Killed the KLF' documentary on Sky Arts, and they get to the bit on Jura, and photos of lots of bemused people standing around looking bemused, and - did I see this right? - a Hireite van. Any one help here, am I seeing things?

Between the wars there was economic crisis and huge unemployment, after WW2 unemployment fell dramatically and wages increased. Football was affordable for more of society than today, at the most affordable it had ever been in 1950. There was austerity but little in the way of alternatives if you wanted to get out and cheer yerself up. Simply put, it was cheap, everyone had a job, and there weren't any "live streams." By 1960, it had become less affordable.

Milanese in no rush to get home ....

Shite WC. Means absolutely nothing to me.

Never mind all that. Is he any good? Got anything on that?

How (very) dare you .... tell Danny Dyer not to ..... celebrate .... Fiorentina beat Roma this season ....

Micky Droy, when Chelsea were Chelsea (ie like this season, kids).

It's not wholly surprising that, all these years later, you remember a strip club Ruud

It’s pretty sobering when the outstanding kids you played with/against end up as professionals but "only" defenders.

What about an Anglo-European Cup competition for second tier sides around the continent not in the happy position of receiving Parachute Payments and probably not going to make the play-offs? Once upon a time, Bristol City was run by the sort of visionary, outward-looking, Euro-scentric people sadly lacking by today's tax-dodging little Ingerlunder football administrators .....

Argentina '78, proper World Cup, fer me. Exotic. Miles away, commentary over crackly lines, ticker-tape, military junta, no Ingerlund (no cry), Archie Gemmill, Mario Kempes, tons of players you'd never heard of (Teofilo Cubillas) and never would again (they just disappeared). Dodgy goings-on, path to the final "smoothed" for the hosts, Willie Johnston, Big Ron waiting at the airport, Adidas Tango balls, the ITV theme tune, the ball wobbling all over the shop from long shots, that Dutch team, Ubaldo Fillol. The Scots making an absolute tit of theirselves. Rene Van der Kick-off, bandages, delayed star. Dodgy. Same old Argies (we'd never do anything of the sort). It's always 78 for me, but everyone's different. Always found Argentina fascinating from June 1978. Still hoping to get there before @GrahamC and @EnclosureSurge.

Terrible football, great tournament/times

Moyesie going full on "David Pleat, Maine Road" here, his orgasmic, joyous abandon explained by the fact that despite a very respectable managerial record at the top level, he'd never actually won anything. You can't do this (above) not even when steering Everton in to 4th place and the CL qualifying rounds in mid July.

Tbh, Premier League teams should be winning - or at the very least going deep in - these cups in Europe more often. West Ham v Alkmaar in budget terms must be chalk n cheese, Dave and Goliath?

It's the "Cup Winners Cup" but they've won it (again). They can get a "progressive" manager now, play some lovely, more "progressive" football, and not winning anything again for thirty or forty years.

They get a place in the Europa League, I think?

Great moment for Moyesie.