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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.

Wish Steve would make his mind up - does he love the rugby/hate the City, or as this week suggests love the City/hate the rugby?

If football is only about the two teams and the 22 chaps on the pitch being paid to run around.

Yes, but ..... .... Nige is doing it in the Championship. And keeping us Championship. McInnes and then SO'D were charged with starting this in the Championship, and took us down (sans une whimper), then SO'D continued everything (cutting the wages, losing games, taking us down) in League One.

There's no is you is, or is you ain't? with you mate, with this is there is? You ain't and that's the end of it. Or is it is?

Just a reminder, folks, it's "Bristol City Football Club," not Food Club. And have you tried the football of late/last 120 seasons?

But we won! That not 'nough?

Yeah, Gary Neville's levels are, er, another level, but I hear his father's levels were something else again. Mind, nothing to your Somerset Levels ....

KC & The Shunshine Band?