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Not only that, but he's lived abroad for years, hasn't watched a game in the flesh for years and provides his analysis courtesy of listening to radio commentaries. I have great respect for expats who use OTIB to follow their club, but not when they presume to explain what is going on to those of us who are actually in the ground!

It's not tactical, it's nerves and individual poor performances all round.

And it's Taunton 2 Yate Primrose Perils 0.

Stayed local today, where it's currently Taunton 1 Somebody Else 0.

It's about time the players, not just the manager, took the blame for the very poor display. It wasn't about tactics it was about atrocious control, inaccurate short passes etc. Some of our most reliable players were dreadful today. And the crowd sang "you don't know what you're doing" as he made the substitutions that won the game, taking off the underperformers. Ironic.

Isn't it Inverness Caledonian Thistle? 26 letters to HA's 18?

Exactly. He was a popular hero who helped unify Italy. One of the most widely admired characters in European history. And Forest's kit was designed based on his followers' red shirts. He was very popular amongst the English working class.

And Warnock losing at home to Wigan. Bliss.

They obviously heard ......

What on earth is happening to Huddersfield at Fulham? 5-0 down now.

Yeah. I love my new seat in the Lansdown stand, but not my grumbling octogenarian neighbour. Can I get the club to exchange him for someone else?

I like the Trump comparison. Very apt.

No he's a lexicographer

You're on a train from China to Iraq? You may miss the match.

I think at one point, the Russians invited a Viking to rule them.

Yes indeed, it's another Wessex v Danelaw fixture today. Our Swedish fans presumably joined us as they're anti Dane.

My take on this history lesson is that it's a bit weird to hark back to 500 AD (or CE). its obviously more relevant to look at the 9th century after the Vikings invaded. That was when the North South divide started in England in my view. I think the difference in accents etc all dates back to the Wessex / Danelaw split. So I regard all these games as Wessex v Danelaw. Dragging the Welsh into it! I hope you're feeling a bit sheepish.

Come on Brighton, come on Wolves.

And "snuck". Yuck.

Yet we ARE currently looking up at Barnsley! Fair play to them.

But we booked King Lear tickets months before the fixtures came out!

Here in Stratford on Avon the thunderstorm has abated and the sun is out ... exactly following the OTIB mood.

You did rightly feature brewing quite heavily! Just thought I'd highlight how huge Bass was historically. And I've always loved the Tennyson quote, so needed a reason to put it in.

An excellent post as always but I think it underplayed the brewery side a bit, especially Bass. In the nineteenth century, Bass was probably the best known English name around the world. It's red triangle trademark was the first in Britain and known worldwide. Visiting the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851, the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson's recorded reaction was "can one get a decent bottle of Bass here?"

We're 1-0 down in case anybody had missed that.