Eddie Hitler

Well done him. He is a very talented footballer but there are many of these and out of these he is the one who has done everything possy to nurture, prolong and improve that talent. He reminds me of an old story of someone seeing Stanley Matthews doing a long run on a beach on Christmas Day and then asking why he was doing that, Stanley replied "it's my job". Such people are to be admired rather than the ones who are pissed up bankrupts at forty. There is an uncharitable steak in people which likes to see successful people come a cropper. It is meat and drink to the tabloid press.

I thought it was Leeds fans who were notorious for that one and for throwing paper planes. Maybe that was twenty years ago.

I'm right. But do enjoy your rewriting of history.

Liverpool fans absolutely revelled in their reputation as the worst of the worst in the late eighties. Maybe you aren't old enough to remember that.

Gazza offers the corrective to "what if your boyhood dream came true and not only did you play for England but you were England's best player for half a dozen years"? Similar to Kurt Cobain - if you're unhappy then becoming the world's biggest rock star won''t change that. He has always been a very troubled man, success and wealth won't change that.

I'm not. I dislike the view of Liverpool fans as being poor victims when from 1985 - 89 they were generally viewed as being murderous scum.

It's sack your decent managers month!

Fair point, deleted. If you coudl do the same in your quote please.

Henbury Gas is the Bill Gates of Bristol Rovers.

In the years after the Heysel Stadium disaster in May 1985 when 39 Juventus fans were killed when a wall collapsed after they were trying to get away from the Liverpool thugs there were Liverpool fans, of course not all, wearing t-shirts reading "Liverpool 39 - Juventus 0". Memories of Liverpool fans' abhorrent behaviour, at Heysel and after it, were still fresh when Hillsborough happened in April 1989. This is why the police lie that "drunk Liverpool fans did it" was believed so widely; they had shown themselves to be animals both at Heysel and after it so no one was surprised. It's a great shame that there weren't similalr prosecutions of Liverpool fans in the period 1985 - 1989 before, with the Hillsborough disaster, they realised that people being killed for watching a football match wasn't so funny when it happened to them.

No, the link in the OP of the thread is to a then, 2019, current product in the city shop, as they don't have it now it's a dead link. The comments in the thread are so unflattering that I'd suggest trying to hunt one down on eBay might be both difficult and then disappointing if you do manage to find one.

This was it, there was one available but unsurprisingly it was slated.

Yes, some coup. From the bare facts Plymouth were happy to keep him on as a reserve defender for another year but were offering lower wages than a mid-table L1 club was prepared to pay. I doubt that Plymouth's manager will be crying himself to sleep tonight as the "second major piece" of his team departs. The 34-year-old is out of contract at Home Park this summer and the Gas have presented him with a longer and more financially appealing contract than the one offered to him by Plymouth who could now lose the second major piece of their title-winning side after Niall Ennis joined Blackburn Rovers last month.

A mate had similar, Newcastle fan living in Newcastle, there were late extended highlights on of a big game, either Newcastle or England, I don't recall, and he had been out for the evening avoiding hearing the score. When he returned to watch it he said to his mum "Don't tell me the score" And she said... "It's alright, nobody scored."

There was a thread years back where people looking to share transport would post where they lived and whether they wanted to alternate driving or were happy to drive and give a lift for petrol money. I don't recall it being that successful but as fuel prices are a lot higher these days it might be a runner now.

The Fortescue on Mutley Plain is easily the best pub in Plymouth IMHO and this story concurs. It's in easy walking distance of the ground. https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink/fortescue-mutley-plain-plymouth-opening-1903078

I would say to anyone reading to avoid The Britannia, the Wetherspoons over the road from Home Park. I am a fan of Wetherspoons generally but that one is so small that as soon as it becomes busy the staff, and particularly the kitchen staff, can't cope and you will find yourself waiting up to an hour for food. I've waited over half an hour on a quiet weekday lunchtime. I'm sure that it's fine when it's really quiet but I have been there three or four times and am yet to experience "really quiet".

I worked with someone who used to moan all through the football season because she lived near Selhurst Park when both Palace and Wimbledon were playing there meaning that cars were parked everywhere and the traffic was terrible before and after the game. She must have know that there was a football stadium nearby when she bought it; I had just assumed that anyone buying a house or flat near a football ground is doing so because they intend going to watch it and it must be great to be able to walk there in a few minutes and turn out for every youth and reserve game.

I heard a clip with I think Michael Palin and John Cleese chatting and they said that they partly adlibbed that scene with the aim of making the extras corpse because they hadn't heard the new lines previously. They were successful.

True but as with JET it's up to the manager who signs a player, knowing what they are like with their strengths and limitations, that they then play them in a position which will bring out their strengths. Which doesn't mean playing Soren Andersen as a winger. Lee was revelling in that game, hanging around the penalty area waiting for the ball at his feet whereupon you just watch him go.

Playing for Wrexham vs US Women's Team:

And up front for Ireland we have

It is genuinely irritating though, in the way of one of those QI type questions which hang upon a technicality: "When did WWII end?" 1990 when Germany reunified and so was able to sign the peace treaty. The Premiership is just a new name for the first division, the Championship for the second. Records and questions shouldn't be differentiating purely because of such renames, like the Premeirship all time top scorer tables which slice out of history anyone scoring loads of goals before the rebrand. Alan Smith was the top scorer in the top division in 1990/91 with 22 goals. If only he had waited for a few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990–91_Football_League_First_Division

Slightly bigger maybe. The statement, and I appreciate that it isn't the OP's, would be far less irritating if, instead of delineating this against the beginning of a commercial enterprise and the root of all evil in English football, it was: Which current League clubs have not appeared in the top division this century?