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The Tinnion 2:1 I remember well, the 0:4 I have very diligently moved to less accessible parts of my mind.

Streaky Nige.

Can't remember now. Merrick wouldn't have been there for the 0:4, not after that 0:3! Looking back at the stats/numbers (!) just now, the 0:4 was in the season they were relegated, something lost to me now through the mists of time. Funny old game

This will be the Roundheads argument, and it's difficult to argue with. Mind, I think I'm right in saying that it took them spending a record amount of money on a player to achieve this. And who remembers that player? They also finished above us in 89/90, it's worth saying (from a Cavalier point of view).

It’s Roundheads and Cavaliers, mate. People with their heads in the clouds (Cavaliers), and people with their numbers. Some people - Round heads - are obsessed with stats, and facts, and figures, and heat maps, and financial fair bloody play, and formations and tactics, and the plain blinking truth of things, while some of us go, or went, to football to be excited and thrilled and to escape dull, mundane reality for a while, perchance to dream. In football, it helps to be a dreamer. Being a Bristol City fan, a lively imagination to disappear off into is essential. For about ten minutes, Jacki was our Best, Law and Charlton rolled in to one. True, that ten minutes wasn't at Trumpton in 1992. That's where us dreamers were able to survive by escaping into delusion, while the Round heads were shouting: "Dziekanowski you **** it's 0:4, run around you Polish .....

Notts Co are "more historic" than Man City, I'd liked to have seen him somewhere like that too.

Were you at Whitefield school with any of the Knibbs?

Well, fancy that. @GrahamC, any thoughts?

I think you said: the grass isn't always greener, Dave. And I recall you went on to add: least of all Watford.

He drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink, then he picks the team ..... allegedly

Would you say football, or football clubs, is/are good at communicating reality though? Up until very recently?

Very sad news. Fair play to you for ploughing through three of her tomes, I am a mere philistine in this I am afraid and only know her via the visual arts and the fine BBC dramatisation of Wolf Hall with Mark Rylance, which I found absolutely captivating and have watched a few times, and consequently often think about buying the trilogy (then get put off by the sheer number of pages. And all the hours on Otib trying to read this would deny me). I might go and see it at the theatre, mind, that's a bit more Cotterill than watching it on the telly, isn't it?

Apparently, today, 19th September, is: "International Talk Like A Pirate Day." No, really. It's a thing. What do pirates talk like, OTIB?

My advice @yardy would be not to try and do it in a day, maybe stay overnight or better still, make a weekend of it.

Bit harsh, mate. Who of us can say we haven't been to one of them sexist race orgies from time to time?

No. Henry's winding you up.

That Derby 4:1 might've been the best of the lot. Team were applauded off at half-time, losing 0:1! It was a brilliant three to four months that sadly didn't last. That Derby 4:1 might've been the best of the lot. Team were applauded off at half-time, losing 0:1! It was a brilliant three to four months that sadly didn't last. That Derby 4:1 might've been the best of the lot. Team were applauded off at half-time, losing 0:1! It was a brilliant three to four months that sadly didn't last.

Do.

Argue on here

They were so looking forward to doing this at Anfield .....

Send adults?

Stop all the clocks, call off the matches, give Scott and Weimann a much needed rest; play Preston and Norwich when Kalas and Klose are fit.

I don't think I can manage ten days of mourning, although Preston home, Norwich and Burnley away ..... ?

Forest semi, second leg 89?

Doubt we'll get "3 singing," not at AG, although if we can just beat bloody Preston ....