Leveller

For me, Yeovil away would be easier than a home game.

Bit of a prat - but then he still seems to have outwitted our stewards.

Odd possession stats, as we’ve been far the better side. Their only threat is down the right wing.

The most intriguing thing there is Bramall Lane’s duel use for cricket and football. I can remember that - it had stands on three sides until 1973 and Yorkshire played matches there up to that point. Then they built a fourth stand on the cricket square and reverted to football only. Apparently (thanks Wikipedia) there was even an England v Australia test there, over a hundred years ago.

I think it’s already been established that we are now Red Leicester under NP.

I think the club should do more for those of us who make lame jokes.

Noted. I think we all see things differently based on our age and the eras we have experienced, but that’s not necessarily objective. In historical terms Man Utd and Liverpool are actually quite latecomers as glamour clubs, in my view, compared with say Arsenal or Villa, but have been up there since 1958 with a few dips.

That’s a bit of an odd historical perspective, perhaps based on your age? Were you around in the 1960s? Granted they were not a glamour club before Busby in the 1950s, but the Busby Babes era, the Munich air crash, the Best/Charlton/Law combo, the first European Cup win in 1968 meant they were THE glamour club well before Liverpool’s emergence in the 1970s. So the Ferguson era was a re-emergence from a period in the doldrums, and I’m sure they had plenty of glory seeking fans nationwide, well before the Beckham/Giggs/ Scholes etc team came along. There were football and gloryhunters before the Premier League.

Perhaps Kalas could slow things down a bit more by donning a dressing gown too, before he picks up the towel?

Clearly he put his hand up to appeal for something and desperately tried to get it out of the way.

Robbie Savage is far from my favourite pundit (very far) but this warts and all portrayal has shown him in a good light overall. Fair play.

I didn’t need the package explaining to me thanks. But you missed out the bit about an owner who still has the well-being of the club/city/region at heart. Do you want a Chinese or American owner who is just after the bucks? Because I’m sure a lot of us don’t. Maybe that’s all the Lansdowns ever wanted too; I don’t know that bit.

Good luck finding a new owner who can afford to buy the clubs/Bristol Sport, can afford the ongoing financing, has the best interests of the city/region at heart, and has the good faith not to treat the whole shooting match as an asset stripping exercise.

This is exactly it. Fans are free to be hypocritical and shred people who took decisions they agreed with at the time. Many of the “useless” players that are getting slammed now were hailed as good signings at the the time, and some of the unsuccessful managers likewise.

I think you’ll find he said Frank Lampard would like to manage us!

His experience in getting relegated from the top flight would clearly be very useful!

If our front six were all like Weimann I don’t think we’d be struggling.

Couldn’t do any worse than the current lot.

Your first point is spot on. And most of the people blaming Lansdown would probably have agreed with the unsuccessful appointments and disagreed with the successful ones. If I had two billion quid, I’d probably be no good at choosing football managers either. Let’s hope Mr Gould is better at it.

Completely disagree. Almost everybody has been discussing his tweet in a balanced manner, while a few have added that they don’t rate his presenting. Nothing else to see.

I must admit that over the last fifty years I don’t recall feeling that Bristol City was generally a bigger club than Cardiff or Swansea. Similar, and all with fluctuating fortunes, I would have said, though I don’t have stats to prove it!

I didn’t see it as a stick to beat the equality cause - quite the opposite. Seems more like a complaint about hypocrisy, ie the attitudes that straight men have been rightly condemned for, now seem fair game from women and gay men. We should all be judged by the same criteria, surely, in the name of equality?

Australia smashed by a bloke born in Taunton. Perfect.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10140003/Chelsea-loanee-Ethan-Ampadu-sent-inch-perfect-tackle-loan-spell-Venezia.html This has been much debated on Twitter and in the press but I haven't seen it mentioned here, so perhaps people haven't seen it? A few people have defended the ref, but not many. I'm old school and see it as a perfect tackle, even if Ribery was tripped (not hurt) by the follow through. What do others think? is a tackle illegal now if there is any contact with the tackled player?

I'd have to disagree there. The point is that the word holocaust has only very recently been appropriated solely to the Nazi concentration camps, and those of us from an older generation (I'm 65) are used to using it in a wider context. The etymology is actually from Greek (via Latin) meaning "wholly burnt" and if you'd asked me ten years ago for an example of a holocaust I would have mentioned "nuclear holocaust" (as some have) in reference to Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the firebombing of Dresden - all Allied actions. The Nazi death camps have been discussed for 75 years or more, but I'm sure "The Holocaust" in reference to them is relatively recent. Language changes, but holocaust remains a valid word to use to describe a firestorm. Now I'm not suggesting that Joey Barton had all this in his mind (or anything much at all) when speaking, but I doubt he was consciously referencing Nazi atrocities. It is possible he was familiar with the wider and more correct usage.