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Have long thought: Working for Steve Lansdown had some potential terrace anthem about it (if only Stormzy or Adele or someone 2022 would cover it): "They put up a bedsheet saying: Get yer Johnson Out Working for .... " "The kingdom is ransacked, the jewels all taken back .... what are we going to do now?" is a fairly apt opening line too. I'll try it on the "No chance Chants" thread and let you know how it goes down ....

If Jane Austen was alive today, she'd be writing about this type of domestic carry on (from the - eldest - sisters' perspective, not Han's lack of "goals and assists"), with Mark Ashton as a dashing if misunderstood Mr Darcy perhaps ....

They didn't manage to finish top half of the old Second Division once in their 75-81 effort - best was 15th. Didn't manage top half in 91, 92, 93 either (best was 13th). Last time Rovers managed top half of the second tier of English football was before sexual intercourse began,1960.

No Lester Shapter, Dave? Disappointed with that ....

"We call ourselves a Premier League club in training" Lee Johnson, January 2018.

He went to Sunderland, mate. Then he went from there to Hibs, they're in Scotland. Where does he go from there? Further north again, I reckon

Beginning of the end for poor TC around then. Tony Caldwell signed the same year and only 17 games. A few months in to '88 and TC was gone. A year or so later JJ brings in Gary Shelton in midfield and Bob Taylor up front. Bit more like it. Someone should start a football programme: Recruitment, Recruitment, Recruitment.

And so is Michael Fish

Not in this heat

Wasn't thinking of that, Never, but I am considering a move to Memphis

Come on, old fella! That first goal was like Whitehead swinging it over in to the mixer, Cheese getting up above the centre back - and getting a little elbow in the cb's mush to boot - and nodding it down to Tom timing his run perfect who knocks it in the old onion bag (or: Gavin, Turner, Taylor). Proper old school football. Only difference - beyond the reproductive parts - between then and now was the whiging about the elbow in the mush, but we can't have it all

Sunderland finished somewhere in L1 last season. As did the other two promoted clubs. I'm basing this assertion on years of following the game.

Humans have "survived" inclement weather in the past by, er, migrating. So, one day, in the future, people going by the name "Farage" will be alighting aboard ferries and other floating vessels and sailing from the north of these islands and rocking up in Ice or Green land or somewhere north of here saying: can we stay? It's much cooler here.

Indeed. No need for any "levelling up" in that part of the North.

Depends how far north and east you go. Go far enough in the right direction and you'll find things more to your liking. Mind, then you'll have to get up and set off earlier, and get back later, and spend so much longer on the roads and railways, you'll find you just can't be arsed.

I got as far as when he wrote he "couldn’t be arsed" and .... kept reading. This lad is truly one of us. He couldn't be arsed watching us anymore. Good lad! Only thing that puzzled me was him seeing replica shirts everywhere as I have always thought that compared to other clubs' more enthusiastic fans when it comes to sporting our colours, we, generally, er, can't be arsed.

Interestingly, Margaret Thatcher, who studied Chemistry at Oxford, was the first prominent world leader to make speeches on the threat of "man made climate change" in the late 1980s. I don't know if @Nogbad the Bad is familiar with this? Her motivation might well have been the increase of the Green vote in Europe and then here but according to Jonathan Porritt she raised the environment from a fringe, tree-hugging thing to part of the national agenda. Pity her actions didn't match the words. But anyway, the fact of man-made climate change has been known about for decades - hence why the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions confusing and mis-informing everyone, including poor Nog watching Newsround - even if doubt remains still to this day amongst those that perhaps ought to be more curious and cautious and sceptical about the messanger than the now unanimous message.

The 'New Scientist' magazine reports that: "a survey of the Scientific literature has found that between 1965 and 1979, 44 scientific papers predicted warming, 20 were neutral and just 7 predicted cooling. So while predictions of cooling got more media attention, the majority of scientists were predicting warming even then."

And "Twerton Park, under Francis" remember

.... crikey, if we go there/here, this thread might go on .... longer than the Dustbin one ....

....picked it up again, after you mentioned it t'other day. Fast-forwarded, though, to the late 60s, fascinating on the 70s, and all the political shenanigans. What a country (but, you sure about actually going there?)

Imagine that in another 45 years, when many of us are gone but our children and their children are still - you'd like to think - around. Concerning.

Hope that turns out benign, but keep a look out (whilst trying not to over worry. Easier said than done).

Frank McAvennie's memoir: "Birds, Booze, Blondes, Bubbly, Breasts, Birds" or whatever it was called.

I agree with @spudski, things are getting worse: I'm currently watching 'The Railway Children,' a charming depiction of Edwardian life. I look forward to seeing the sequel at the pictures any day soon. Now, where I concur with spud is that when they come to make 'The Railway Children III' in 2070, they'll set it in 1977 or 1983 and the little ****ers will be lobbing bricks at the High Speed 125 and making vulgar hand signals to the yuppies on board in business class.