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Just looked, and it got to No.2! And in 1979 too, which if I'm not mistaken was the peak for singles sales in this country. They must've sold lorry loads.

Racey ("Some Girls"), from Weston-Semenyo-Martin. I believe they were Sags, actually ....

"Skin cancer death rates for men have tripled since 1970s, research reveals" I read the other day. Worth knowing about, before you spend the day on the beach at Weston in yer speedos, I would say

He might not be the Greatest Dancer you've ever seen (just my opinion)?

I'm only thinking about what plans Nigel is making (doo doo-doo, doo!)

Eastville, in winter, had all the ingredients for a cup upset, quagmire of a pitch, rubble strewn about the place, freezing and uninviting changing rooms (no doubt), peculiar locals watching on ....

You lot have had yer moments of fortune over the years too - you should've been back in the Southern League in 1939/40, for one

The dog's?

Can't see that it being that turgid. Mind, Semenyo goes and .....

What was yer opinion of Chic?

The coming season will be better than last courtesy of us being harder to beat and shipping fewer goals. That'll be Nigel's plan, I reckons

I think you've been whooshed there, Geoff. Unless you've double whooshed me?

Yeah, spose so. I'd call me dog "Norman," probably.

Amazed you're still amazed, after all this time on here.

It must be the heat

Why dew call yer dog royally, mate?

What will happen is Steve will sell to some appalling, deviant, vainglorious foreign fellow from overseas, who will promise the earth and deliver three (injured) forwards when we need a centre back, and who will rebuild the Dolman (after heatwaves and drought reveal cracks under the Dolman flats and severe subsidence condemning said structure to the knacker's yard thus freeing up the land which said dodgy foreign chappy snaps up with an equally dodgy deal with cash-strapped BCC as inflation soars to 27% and 2022 is seen as the "good old days") so that it towers over the Lansdown and name it after himself (Steve having inserted a clause forbidding the re-naming of his Lansdown stand for the next 99 years), and naming AG itself after his human-rights shredding not-worth-the-paper-it's-written-on international fossil fuelled anti-woke minority-exploitation business empire, paying for it all by putting the club into even greater and more perilous debt a la Burnley, Man Utd etc whilst fobbing @Davefevs and co off with some accountancy jiggery-pokery not even they can get their spreadsheets around, eventually leaving us in 17th in L1 financially crippled and close to liquidation, so financially strapped that we are forced into reserecting the Glos Cup for the 7,800 pay-on-the-day crowd pre-season, in which we are gubbed 1:3 before a baying crowd of 6,500 Fewers in the South Stand. After taking an early lead. And OTIB will say: we told you so.

Leicester City have sought permission to extend their ground by 8,000 seats. I think Wolfs are looking to increase their capacity to 50,000. Bournemouth want to build a new stand at one end. West Ham and Tottenham have a lot more seats than ten years ago. Liverpool have developed Anfield, adding capacity. The idea that TV money in the Prem pays for everything is fanciful. If Ashton Gate stays at 26,000 for football (which it probably will) that might one day be seen as standing still. If we somehow made it to the Prem, games v Liverpool and one or two others could attract 40,000, I would say.

Winter of 78/79 was worse, the coldest since 62/3.

Well, he's not going to walk home, is he?

One thinks of Bryan Robson, in a World Cup. And then Terry Butcher, bloodied and bandaged. Bert Trautmann, etc etc

Leader of the Conservative party, think you'll find it is, Dave

Charge Cardiff £20? Don't think so. How about charge Cardiff £100 a ticket, plus booking fee, then depending on how they manage their disappointment either reimburse them 70% or so (minus admin fee) or use the 70% extra to refurbish. It doesn't work like that (mate), you say? More's the pity, says I

It’s like Nige can't decide if he wants to be Leonard Cohen, or in Erasure

Today's "snowflake" kids are physically cosseted perhaps - central heating, don't go/hang around outside in winter, driven everywhere, not being cheerfully thrashed by teachers/peers - compared to us boomers, but they are psychologically thrashed and beaten and got at, 24/7, 365 days a year, in ways we never were and don't really understand or appreciate. Always worth bearing in mind!