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Chelsea: minus Abramovich (x Mourinho) = Micky Droy.

I just wish Everton were playing Leeds on the last day, with the loser going down. It would be the angriest game in the history of English football. Although, for the women and children, and assorted minorities, of them two places, it's probably good they're not.

Yes. Or, as SO'D would have it, in his Black Country mumble: decision making. Decision making on the field, decision making off the field.

No, but they will loan him back to us for the rest of the season now he has scored

Lots of people did say just that, Dave, particularly in LJ's time, when they were looking to counter the "why are we trailing behind Preston/Huddersfield/some other minnow doing very well" or seeking to excuse the lost opportunity of the time of plenty under Ashton and Lee. They said exactly this. I would say, let's see how we do when we fly that near the sun and then have the wax melt on our, er, wings, as it were, and we drop back down to the Championship. Then we can compare ourselves to yer Wigans, yer Wednesdays, yer Cardiff and yer other ones. Let's see how well Steve shepherds us through the "relegated but parachute payments" thing. Remembering, of course, how we fared last time we dropped out of the top level. And isn't it right and proper to measure ourselves against clubs doing well than clubs in a pickle? Set the bar higher rather than rock bottom? If we had beaten Hull at Wembley, I slightly tremble at the thought of where we would have ended up under Steve as we inevitably failed at the highest level. It doesn't bear thinking about. No, let's compare, best as we can, like with like, and there isn't anyone much more "like" us in this Championship run than Preston.

You sound like you need cheering up a bit. Why don't you try extracting some pleasure and delight from other (obnoxious, vile) teams' struggles and misery - I think the Germans have a word for this? I have just watched Wolves humbled six nothing at Brighton, glorious! Joyful. Check out the sixth goal, and the miserable West Midlanders filing out of the away end before the end. If that doesn't do it, how about Everton deep in the **** and staring down the barrell? I've just watched the goals again from their home thrashing by Newcastle midweek, and more bitterly upset fans leaving early in their droves; lifts the spirits no end to see this. Or even sh***y little northern clubs dropping out of the Championship - pity it isn't Cardiff, but one take's one's pleasure where one can find it, in these midtable mediocrity meh seasons.

Anyone on here actually still eat gammon?

"He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. At the end of the day." Ancient Chinese Adverb.

The players cannot be aware he he, er, is running (around) a lot. Unlike ourselves

Someone in Bermuda, I've heard mate

Tbf, we've been pretty good at the former, if not the latter too.

Rovers were better then, weren't they, late 50s - very early 60s? Better than us. That was their one time, one team, in with any sort of chance of promotion to the top division, and they weren’t good enough. They have never been anything like as good before or since that era.

If we can loan him back to them for 6 months, then yes.

Missing the point there, Soup

They're missing their centre half, at the business-end of the season. Man City have struggled without their first choice cbs in the past, and Liverpool are mediocre now Van Dijk is merely average. What is they say about defences and League titles?

Let's start with 1980 - 1983, no-one's suffered more than that

Do yer own research.

Ok. Chas or Dave?

You're playing RWB next time

Yeah, and both left early, so proper Dolmen the pair of them.

Have we ever played QPR the same day/time Brechin are playing Queen's Park?

Well done, Leyton Orient. The other night.

It's probably just me but: Ships on club badges and whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, Brown paper envelopes tied up with string, Etc, etc.

It only takes a second to score a goal (Source: B. Clough, 1978), so that's 50 seconds - less than one minute - scoring goals, in 193 matches (193 x 90 minutes = hours and hours. Days, probably). Therefore, we can conclude: Andi spends most of his time, when he's not pointing, running around. Hours and hours, of just running around.