italian dave

In fairness, if they keep taking down stands tents and then not being able to replace them then pretty soon they will be selling out. And, to be even more fair, 'redevelopment' implies improvement, so they're already 25% there with what they've taken down so far.

An interesting paper……but has it been peer reviewed?

Thick cotton shirts was more ‘50s, wasn’t it? You’d never have caught Kevin Mabbutt in a thick cotton shirt. ‘70s was more about tight shorts and mullets!

I bet those who've bought season tickets there will be a bit more interested come August!

I still reckon that evening, and another one with J Geils Band, probably explains more than anything else the current state of my hearing! What with the Colston Hall and Ashton Gate it sounds like you and I were living parallel lives at the time! Some great gigs at the Colston Hall in those days though - the best of all being Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust tour. I spent the whole night on the pavement outside the Colston Hall to get tickets for that one!

I don’t remember either, to be honest. Although it was a long time ago! I think I saw Suzy Quatro play there around about the same time, supporting Slade (along with Thin Lizzy). Did you go to that one too?

I’ve seen lots of memorable gigs over the years, but probably my biggest regret is not seeing Queen live in their prime, at a big venue. Although weirdly I did actually see them at the Colston Hall in 1973 when they were support band for Mott the Hoople!

Just watching on BBC2 an old ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ Kinks concert from 1977.

6 Inch…….Beyoncé

Lost me mate. Who's performed sexual acts with someone who's 17? Who's said that's fine?

It's getting harder though. I've not been signed up to either Twitter or Facebook for ages, and the past few weeks/months they've made changes to restrict access to those like me who don't want to give them my personal details and the OK to deluge me with crap I don't want. Twitter particularly is all but inaccessible now. Take the second point though. Very often it's on here!!

Thank you for the tribute, Fordy. RIP. And thoughts with his family.

Same answer as above, I guess........ ?

To be fair, Houghton had an all but impossible task. Disastrous tenure, to be sure, but that was 99% circumstances and 1% him!

Noooo....he was just a pain in the arse!

The rules require it to be “equivalent” don’t they? One of the issues with Leeds is that they house (last time I went anyway) away fans on one of the sides - which makes the prices that much higher. If we were behind a goal then it would be £34. I’m not defending the prices for a moment, but just highlighting that the position makes a difference. Which is why, if anything, Sheff Wed is even more outrageous….that’s behind the goal!

Couldn’t have put it better. ?

By the time we face Preston is irrelevant; the milestone is 100 pages! ?

Pay a premium….? Its a dump of a ground. And don’t they realise it also means they pay a premium to visit their own ground?

OTIB at its finest!

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap……AC/DC

I have a theory…..and I’m afraid it puts West Ham at a significant disadvantage. Look at where our outgoing £10m plus transfers have ended up. Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Burnley, Brighton, Cardiff. We clearly invite bids, put them on a table in alphabetical order, and pick the top one.

Not the first or the last time we’ve done that, is it? Benny Lennartson was a decent coach (and in his own way tried to some significant and much needed changes to the clubs culture) … but we stick him in the manager/DoF role. I guess the old square pegs round holes adage applies off the pitch as well as on it.

Something tells me you’d probably take Joey Barton assisted by Ian Holloway over SOD ?

We actually played quite well, and it was a decent game, as I recall. But I think you’re right. Nothing more than a win was going to be good enough. As I mentioned earlier, we’d put together a couple of wins and a draw which probably did just enough to put off his demise after a dreadful start. But we followed that up with the awful Sheff U game, and I think that at least one win from the Sheff U and Orient games was the absolute bottom line.