Eddie Hitler

To answer this question I have consulted the Prophesies of Nostradamus and it appears that we will be winning the Champions League in the very near future against a team which also plays in red. 19 To support the great troubled Cappe; the reds will march in order to clarify it; a family will be almost overcome by death, the red, red ones will knock down the red one. Or the Europa Cup in five years anyway. Interpret your own prophesy here

Yes, I agree with that. I like the Bristol coat of arms but I prefer having an instantly recognisable logo on the shirt.

Making it simpler and more recognisable is good, IMO the best badge is Nottingham Forest - bold, distinctive and instantly recognisable. The worst would be something like Barnsley's which is ridiculously complicated and blurs into one at a distance.

Which is why he was given his own subforum where he and @Robbored pursue their virtual romance.

I don't know @CodeRed, I have also been unable to get in for a couple of months despite having been bumped up to Admin because "there appears to be an error with the database". Being Admin just means that I can do more when I can get in, but I can't get in. I can assure you that we're not all in there and slagging you off having changed your password! Cider Head has been clear for a while that he was finding running it a struggle given what else he had on (I don't know precisely what that was and it wouldn't be fair to discuss it). @phantom may know or be able to revive it, I'm not assuming that he will take it on.

He's building the "character" persona which the media tends to love, think of all the gushing praise for Holloway with his "getting a bird in a taxi" simile. I expect that the "An evening with Joey Barton" tour is already in the planning. It's a bit rough on the people into whom he is putting the boot but the press just loves controversy in what is a bland world these days where even saccharine Harry Styles is viewed as "edgy".

Yes. The false comparison however is with an adult score, and at least nine times out of ten it's with Einstein. Just search: child with higher iq than einstein And you will see pages of the same story being wheeled out again and again. All these people supposedly cleverer than Einstein but never heard from again.

These are filler stories. Whilst he is probably a clever kid, IQ is essentially mental age / actual age and so effectively falls off a cliff as you get older. A very bright five year old can have a mental age of ten so an IQ at genius level 200. Maintaining that same age differential at age ten gives him an IQ of only 150. They haven't become thicker though, quite the reverse. If someone is bright then the younger you test them the higher will be their apparent IQ. Though a lifetime of disappointment stretches out before them as their IQ will fall steadily with every year that they age. Wiki: Historically, IQ was a score obtained by dividing a person's mental age score, obtained by administering an intelligence test, by the person's chronological age, both expressed in terms of years and months. The resulting fraction (quotient) was multiplied by 100 to obtain the IQ score.[3] For modern IQ tests, the raw score is transformed to a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15.[4] This results in approximately two-thirds of the population scoring between IQ 85 and IQ 115 and about 2 percent each above 130 and below 70.[5][6]

There was a big old fuss on Radio Bristol maybe ten years ago when it was revealed that the Rovers' academy was making their trainees buy their own kit. I think their Board was so embarrassed by that revelation that they stopped that happening. And now it seems not only are they back to doing this again, and this time openly, but are even charging for the training. Any local parents who had any doubt about which club's academy they want their talented son to join must no longer be in doubt.

Surely this highly desirable slice of real estate would be sufficient security for a £10m revolving credit facility from any reputable bank.

Michael Mifsud https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mifsud Wiki glosses over it but if I recall correctly GJ almost physically ejected Mifsud's agent from his office. And of course...

I'll cross that off my list then. h=Here's a trivia question for you all: Which North West England seaside resort built a similar tower a few years after the Blackpool Tower was completed, which was taller than the Blackpool Tower and the tallest building in the country at the time? It had a theatre and a ballroom where a thousand couples could dance and at which The Beatles played no fewer than 27 times.

I would doubt that there are any bars to entry. I suspect it's because referees receive abuse and ethnic referees probably receive more so a higher number drop out and fewer start in the first place. My take on this story is that the FA wants more referees so if they can increase participation by any group then they will release a PR story to do it, and on the quiet news day that is Boxing Day the press will run with it. I have never wanted to do this, I have only ever known one person who has, to my mind it's a thankless task.

I could only find a record of actual appearances for Chippenham Town. He played for England schoolboys so it looks like he moved around as a youth prospect but didn't make the league grade, hence going into refereeing to keep up his participation in football.

Possibly it's just semantics but I would say that those, despite being mistakes, were not body blows to the club. Ashton's tenure was. Maybe it isn't a common word but this is why I am labelling his time at the club as being egregious. It was outstandingly bad, it was shocking. egregious /ɪˈɡriːdʒəs/ adjective 1. outstandingly bad; shocking.

Yes, I don't like that. Though I have no interest in either, there is some logic in having the rugby and women's football team playing at AG to increase ground revenues but it made zero sense to buy a basketball team, there's no synergy there. Why not add a pickle factory under the Bristol Sport banner while we're buying up random entities?

I like their ownership and would say that it has clearly been of overall benefit to the football club. This isn't my saying "there are worse owners out there", rather that I think that they are good owners and I would like them to continue. That said I am not a happy clapper with the blinkers on. They have made mistakes but for me the only fully egregious one was appointing Mark Ashton despite his dire track record and allowing him to pour money away on far too high wages for years and years. He has finally gone, though it is annoying that he was allowed to choose when to leave rather than being booted out of the door when the desperate financial consequences of his player purchasing became starkly clear to all concerned. As a nod in Ashton's favour though he was genuinely excellent in obtaining top dollar values on player sales when for thirty years it has seemed to be official club policy to sell 'em off cheap as chips. That doesn't however make up for the poor track record on purchases and wages.

This may help.

@Ghost Rider is our Pol Pot and with him we celebrate Bristol City's Year Zero where we will only ever look forward and never back. No more Freight Rover Trophy reminiscing please, we are into a new era.

Sport and humour have rarely made good bedfellows. The only genuinely funny, as opposed to humorous, mixing was Fantasy Football League IMO.

Well on that basis they ought to put in the rugby players as well so that you have four of the men's football team, four of the women's team and four of the rugby team. And that way for most purchases you will end up with a calendar where you know four of the people featured and the rest being all "whothey?". I detect the cold dead hand of the Birstol Sport marketing team at work here, "leveraging up" the support for the men's football team in order to boost the support of the other two teams. By force if necessary.

Back in the day TV had a lot of money sloshing about before the internet came along and stole much of the advertising revenue. Channel 4, dazzled by the popularity of Countdown, kept giving its presenters rises so that they wouldn't leave as the show was its most popular output. When they realised that the money was drying up, and that friendly Richard Whiteley had popped his clogs, questions were asked about how much Carol Vordermann was being paid for doing some mental arithmetic and putting letters into a frame. I don't know the exact amount but she says about a 90% pay cut on her offered new contract so she left. It's not unreasonable to suggest that Rachel Riley is on £100k which would have meant that Carol was on £1m. Lineker's pay looks excessive now but would not have done so in 2000. That said I find the cuts to BBC local radio have mostly ruined it and I would prefer that the money went to that rather than to one replaceable individual.

Bit like 606 then. I used to listen to it with Dannys Baker and Kelly whne it was excellent, humorous but not clownish. Then I listened to it on the Sunday after Nigel had been sacked, expecting it to be covered and at least one call taken, and it was quite astoundingly bad. Robbie Savage and Chris Suttion sounded like two old drunks making each other laugh at a corner table of a pub without realising that they were actually meant to be presenting a show. I couldn't believe quite how far it had fallen.