Eddie Hitler

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:

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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?

Andy Cook who they had originally signed from Mansfield who has been there on loan, I haven't heard of him but then again why would I have heard of a Mansfield or Bradford player as I don't support either team and they're not in the same league as us. He has a pretty good record for them. League Two leading scorer Andy Cook has signed a new three-year contract with Bradford City. The 31-year-old netted 28 goals to top of the fourth division's scoring chart and hit the back of the net 31 times in all competitions last season. Cook, who initially joined the Bantams on loan from Mansfield in January 2021, has scored 51 goals in 115 appearances for the club. "I did have options elsewhere, but I wanted to stay here," Cook said. "I want to finish the business we started last season, and pick up where I left off on a personal note." Bradford finished sixth in the League Two table and went out of the play-offs at the semi-final stage against Carlisle. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65746806

W12 8QT I still use it for any site requiring my postcode when it's none of their business.

Yes, I have a piece of advice for anyone considering paying extra for somewhere with a swimming pool or hot tub in Devon and Cornwall this summer: don't. Restrictions are already in place banning private ones being filled and the next step, per SWW rather than my personal opinion, is to stop commercial ones like lesiure centres and holiday parks. https://www.southwestwater.co.uk/environment/water-resources/hosepipeban/

Maybe have your gardeners create one as a big flower bed like the ones at Weymouth? Congrats on the purchase, though I bet your gas bill will be rather high.

Phwoooar!!!

HNM wanting to be here and to play for the team would be a decent proposition.

I wonder how much you would have to drink the night before to set them off by breathing on them!

I knew someone who was active in Truro Supporters' Club and also used to drive their minibus to all the away games. He is also a bit of a, shall we say, "numbers man". He had worked out the total season mileage for Truro and then compared it with what it would have been if they were in the Northern League. It was fewer miles in the Northern League. People don't realise that Truro, 284 miles, is further from London than is Durham, 280 miles. Or that Yeovil is pretty much halfway between London and Truro. In the Southern the marathon trips were to Kent and East Anglia, there weren't many short trips west of Bristol. In the Northern there were a lot of relatively short trips to the Midlands. Edit: this was when Truro was playing in Truro at Treyew Road, they are currently homeless and playing at Plymouth Parkway, just off the A38.

Certainly not the poor sod minimum wagers who write it given the pressure they are under to churn out their daily quota whilst not being allowed to leave the office except to try a new burger and hang a story off it. In one byline the other week I saw "casualties", presumably mis-spelt and autocorrected, as "causalaties".

I'm sure it would put you off. I remember an evening game at the Goldstone, Brighton's old ground, where it was crumbling. Seal scored. Whole sections of the terraces were cordoned off for safety reasons and the toilets were literally half an inch deep in piss. Even had they not knocked it down I would never have gone back. These things do matter, I've mentioned having a season one time at Fulham standing on the great terrace behind the goal with its roof and looking at the unroofed away terrace. That just seemed rude. In a later season, 1998 maybe, I watched City play there in the rain but decided to watch from the dry comfort of the home terrace.

I worked with a long time Plymouth season ticket holder who went with his mates to one away game every year to make a weekend of it. I can't remember who was promoted or relegated but one season Rovers and Plymouth were in the same division for the first time in a few years so I asked if that was going to be their choice this season given its proximity. He said that it was actually the first one they had ruled out because of the terrible facilities for away fans. Having a poor ground does actually cost the club money, I do wonder if that's a reason for their relatively high away attendances as compared to their home attendances: the ground's stands and facilities are so poor that even a chunk of their own fans avoid it.

Since Wael took sole ownership the limit for the revolving credit facility being based upon the £10m charge held has gone away. It did indeed look like a hard limit, such that the credit limit would be hit and that meant no more money, when there was family ownership of Dwane Sports but that's no longer the case, the loan has exceeded it by a large amount in the past. Taking out a commercial loan for the stand is a good way of bringing some proper financial rigour to the organisation, I thought similar when the Lansdowns financed the stadium construction with a third party loan so making the stadium pay for itself by its revenues paying the interest on and repaying those capital loans. It is then easy to see whether it is a genuine commercial success or just another "Steve, send us another cheque, mate, we've spent the last one" venture reminiscent of the Gary Johnson and Mark Ashton days. Financially they are very similar to us, albeit on a much smaller scale, they have a wealthy owner who spent loads of money but hasn;t advanced teh league position much and is now trying to bring the club into better financial shape. I'm not waving a flag for them because I cannot see how any club can have such a dreadful person as their manager, but financially they are in no worse a position than we are.

It's the way all over, as video killed the radio star the internet killed local journalism. There's no money to fund it as so few peopel buy their local papers as they used to. The below was built for the offices of the Western Morning News and Plymouth Herald in 1992 in the form of a ship. Now they're relegated to some small office space in Millbay. This probably marked the high water point of local journalism.

Having been to most grounds in London I picked Fulham to go and watch though this was back when they were in Div 4, shortly before Al Fayed took over, and I watched them mostly in Div 3 with a season ticket bought for the princely sum of £160. I was still travelling to City games once a month or so but that season ticket was so cheap that I couldn't say no. My primary reason for picking Fulham, cheap tickets being second in line, was that I could stand on a terrace again. The home terrace behind the goal was huge, rarely crowded, and, unlike the away terrace at the other end, had a roof on it. Plus you had a great view of the tidal Thames, the sea birds flying up, the barges where people lived, and on winter afternoons the river turning orange from the sunset. I haven't been back since they rebuilt the ground to an all seater for the Premiership, I'd rather have the memories.

Tbh as a neutral with a nostalgia for the old football experience I'd be down the Rovers for the old style ground and general air of being ramshackle. That's how I like my football. I'm not however a neutral when it comes to Bristol football.

Oh come on, surely anyone can make a mistake mistake mistake mistake mistake every once in a while.