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44/46? In 82/3? Not bad, I must say. So, you managed to miss Northampton away (1:7), what was the other one?

Because, perhaps: 1. There were only two seasons of Div 4, and 2. One of those two seasons ended in promotion, and possibly also 3. You was young back then. If I may be so bald ....

Rochdale, straight up the M5/6, on a weekend? Luxury. This was a Saturday, so one for the fair-weather/glory hunters, of 1982. Halifax away, midweek, now those were the diehards (you 'ad to get on Coach One half an hour before it arrived at AG to get to 'alifax midweek in 1982 ....) But, you know, we were happy in those days, though we were shite (probably because we were 40 years younger than we are now)

Should've listened to Neil Kinnock in 1987, he warned us not to be old, or shit. And poor. Or something.

Good shout!

Vicente del Bosque - it’s Peter Sellers, isn't it?

You put it miles over though, so doesn't matter

Before you go go?

Many of us will have

We'd've been better off in 2016/17 with GO'N as Head Coach, and LJ getting his boots on and being the experienced/past-it midfielder

Too far north, then east a bit. Southampton?

I think the short answer, to the brazen Fewer's question: where has all the money spent got us in terms of league position? might be: higher/better than you lot have ever finished. Pal. Something like that

That 4th place in 2008 put us 24/92 in English football that season. And we've finished higher in the "92" or the pyramid in our history than that, more than ten times. Their highest ever finish in the 92/pyramid was in 1956 and 1959 when they managed 6th in the old Second Division, but that was when there were 22 in the top division meaning the Few's highest 92/pyramid finish is 28/92. Same as we managed under LJ in 2019.

Football dun't work like that, mate

Social media for you, mate. The plight of their people was Mandela and MLK's reason for getting up in the morning, their primary focus. It's not the primary focus of Harry Kane, he's a footballer, that's what gets him up in the morning. He's doing his, or a, bit, but he's a footballer, first and foremost. Just like you're a hod carrier, and I'm a milkman, and that's what pays the bills. And gets us up in the morning.

Beating the crowd/traffic beats, er, well beats anything football can give us/the good people of the Dolman.

I just think that, yes, we have improved "technically and tactically," but that we're still missing some thing, not quite sure what, it might be one truly great player (a Maradona '86, or a Zidane '98 say) or a canniness or whatever it is the Italians have, along with technique and tactics.

Very true. But we were undone in last year's final by the crafty Italians and those canny old three bastards at the back, we got no-one like them three.

Maybe that's why they produce the sort of talent we don’t? Because you have to survive and come through all that argie-bargy. Whereas all our children now emerge from organised, coached, safe practice on smooth all weather pitches

Poor from Leo. People say he’s better than Maradona, not at the World Cup he's not been.

If there'd been VAR in 1986 I'm not sure Fifa would've spotted/looked at/given everything that might've been given that year ....

Really? Not Sky TV a couple of years later? I'd say Gazza's tears and England getting to the semis and coming back heroes and Gazza with his tits oot on top the bus turnt England at summer tournaments into a big event here. I know a few people (well, our old mum and her friend) who saw Pavarotti in 1990 on the telly and then went to see, er, Pavarotti and his two pals singing in London, but they weren’t tempted down AG.

Newsnight, just now: an anonymous Iranian woman protester asks that England fans boo the national anthem of the murderous Iranian regime on Monday. I think we might just manage that.

I think it's a cost of living/inflation thing but I keep seeing Aldi Weimann when I see his name. Maybe it's because we've got him for half what we were initially paying him. It's not heating or eating for me (eating, every time), so much as Asda or Andi

"It makes you wonder, it makes you prowed To play for England, and hear the crow-ed As we're marching on towards victory ...... This time, we'll get it right (repeat until fade/Harry Maguire is replaced)"