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1500 × 30 = Kasey's wages for this fortnight. Cheers Derby.

Not if goes back the scenic route; the M4/A34/M27 maybe ....

Give him a chance. We can't all cycle home in ten minutes

Good win. On yer Big Day Out.

I'm happy this evening

Pet hate : "ignorant people" is the one I always remember.

It's not about that, it's nothing to do with fighting, or idiots, it's nothing to do with Hillsbrough and the togetherness from that, it's about being usurped on the field and no longer being what your club used to be, and not being able to let go of the idea that Everton are best, nothing but the best, and not being able or prepared to see their club for what they are now even while they're spending hundreds of millions, which is some way short of "equal." And the peculiar bitterness that stems from this. Everton fans, I don't doubt, impressed upon you how "equal" they are. Like I say, they still cannot accept the reality - a reality that repeats year upon year. They think they should be doing much better than they are. But why? They don't even get near Liverpool in derby games never mind over a full season - it’s one of the more lopsided cross city derbies in the country. We're more likely to struggle v Rovers than Liverpool v Everton. Everton fans might not be the angriest but they are the angriest/bitterest. An angry bitterness that consumes them like no other fanbase. Because of how far they've fallen whilst Liverpool simultaneously have soared. As Merrick was saying. Everton are now mediocre PL fodder, having been English football royalty. While Liverpool are global giants. This is a unique about-turn in cross-city fortunes and a unique bitterness is the result.

I've got an original copy of "Foul: the book of football 72-75" a 'best of' of the first football fanzine or "alternative paper" from the early to mid 70s, produced by some Cambridge uni clever clogs. They had to snip a part of one page out of every copy to avoid being sued by the Sunday People. Cynical chaps, they called their magazine "Foul" as opposed to things like "Shoot!" or "Goal!" or "Box-entry!" because they thought the game was going downhill from the BestLawCharlton ideal of the 1960s and all the greats before that. They were not impressed by teams like Leeds, or the increasingly "professional" and increasingly coached game with fewer goals.

Britain's angriest support. Angry and bitter. Bitter beyond words.

"Numerous" g4s? You sure??

But if the "client" was g4s? Or something to do with Preston/Cardiff? Or unfamiliar with the work of Andy Partridge? Or an iffy Championship ref/lino recently abused at Ashton Gate struggling with his feelings?? What if Tony Pulis himself approached GrahamC, therapist, with some traumatic difficulty seeking empathy and containment?

Anyone on here make it to Hull in 90/91? I think meself and @77 punk did. The snow and ice lay roundabout that day, deep and crisp and Stephen Lansdown as I recall. Took some getting to that one. And standing in an icy, uncovered and treachorous away end, with locals - such as there were at Hull in them days - chucking balls of snow and ice at us (probably). We were "super fans" back then, of course, me and @77 punk. Not so much nowadays, though. The ravages of middle age have put paid to that. Oh to be fit young fellas like @Never to the dark side and that Ole and @RedM again, taking off around the country to follow the boys in red. Sigh....

I disagree with you there, mate. At the Man Utd game it was clear to me that LJ thought he was Christopher Dean, whereas in fact he struck me more as Jane Torvill

Steve Lansdown? Or a shell-suited, false-breasted Gazza doing "Fog On The Tyne, Like" ? I know which I care to wallow in, today ....

My only criticism of it would be that they might've given more critical attention to Gazza's 1990 re-working of "Fog on the Tyne, like" especially the video, which I love to this day. Imagine Alan Hull in a 90s shiny shellsuit (suckin sickly sausage rolls) .....

Did you see the Lindisfarne /Alan Hull documentary Friday night? Don't know if it was a repeat but I'd not seen it before. Enjoyed it. And we need some of that, at the moment.....

Not knowingly, no.

Miaow!

Geoff can't put this to Ashton now, but he might care to quiz SL on Ashton and all that, next time Steve's over and fancies a grilling

I much preferred your "he needs to get his finger out 'is ass" the other week about SL, but each to their own

It's what's known as ireny

Give us a minute while I go back through the old threads, and I'll get back to you on that ....

Yes, but .... you might get £15,000 a week for three years at Ashton Gate. So, if yer mentality's shit, not all hope is lost: wait until Nige has gone from BS3 and then get yer agent down the M5/along the M5 to Bristol.