Eddie Hitler

And the ticket collectors and stewards, it's nepotism run rife there. Clear them all out, bring over the match day staff that Oxford use.

Surely JJT has a point. When you have a popular employee who is good at his job, cheers people up, and gives a great deal of his free time to helping various local causes then...

No, @Coombsy is spot on there. A football club is a single corporate body. People however so often make the mistake of treating them as a plural that it is widely regarded as being the correct form. I gave him a like for his grammatical excellence.

Oi, stop eavesdropping on our forum! I'm not claiming that you have but with Ashton's penchant for shovelling vast amounts of cash into a furnace I think it likely that you will do so in the future, unless your Board comes to its senses in time.

Je suis desole

Actually one to watch much further west, in Cornwall is Mousehole, which will seem bizarre to anyone who has ever visited the seaside village. They have a professional set up and are going up the leagues. Though tbh I couldn't even guess where their ground is given that Mousehole is all on land sloping down to the harbour.

Them, Rovers, Torquay, Plymouth, Taunton Town, Weymouth, Weston, Cheltenham, Forest Green, Truro City, Swindon Supermarine (not town), Yeovil, Plymouth Parkway, Mangotsfield and Bristol Manor Farm. Every game a derby game.

I quite like Everton but am all for there being big penalties for breaching FFP, either deliberately or by being reckless. <cough>Ipswich</cough>

This was late 90s so beer generally wasn't something for which you asked the price because it wasn't going to be much. Wetherspoons' clientele depends very much upon the pub, I am a regular at several very pleasant ones but tbf have been to two (Wimbledon and Mutley Plain, Plymouth) where I didn't even bother to sit down, let alone have a pint.

I have seen such and find it unbelievable. I want to be there watching it and in the moment, I remember my best gigs very well without the need of recording. Bands should have a "no filming" policy, I think Placebo does for one, with anyone breaching that ejected. I also see this at reports of street protests, maybe 20% protesting and 80% filming. It's bonkers: try living in the moment people. It's life and not a documentary.

I went to an ice hockey game in Aviemore when you there skiing decades ago, I enjoyed it as I have the sports I've watched in the US. If it's got a good atmosphere and the players move about a lot then most sports are decent if you're actually there rather than watching it on the telly. The prime example for me is horse racing, it's a fantastic day out but full as ditchwater when watching it on the telly unless you have a bet on as for the Grand National sweepstakes.

Whenever you have loads leaving early from a sewn on nil-nil draw the scoreboard operators should wait until they have mostly gone and then put a big message "Everyone please give a huge cheer in 10, 9, 8...." in order to wind them.up.

When I lived in central London I was a member of Middlesex Cricket Club; this is very different from the MCC, it is open to anyone and us really cheap. I think £75 back then for the whole season of county games. My main reason was that it was an oasis of quiet and greenery in a busy city and it was lovely to sit in the mostly empty stands on a warm sunny day sipping a beer. I knew who Mike Gatting and Phil Tufnell were but couldn't have named another player, though did cheer or clap as appropriate. The cricket was an excuse for spending the day drinking beer somewhere nice in the sunshine.

I'd say that we no longer have a proper rivalry with any club, the days when the Bristol derby featured in listings of the top ten derbies in Britain are long gone. The others you list may have some edge through localness and history but I would say that a key aspect of a rivalry is always looking out for the rival team's result and the only teams I now take notice of, other than Rovers, are teams in which I have an interest because they are, or were local to me, so it doesn't derive from rivalry. I look out for the Plymouth, Exeter and Torquay results but don't see them in any way as being rivals. I suppose that if we have to name a rival then it's Rovers but that's only because they used to be proper rivals, it's been at least a decade since they were even close to being that. "Coming for us" indeed.

QPR sacked Gareth Aisnworth and appointed a new European manager the next day who has them playing in a different style; they drew away to Rotherham in his first game. I wouldn't be counting any chickens here. Marti Cifuentes: QPR appoint Hammarby boss as new head coach Last updated on 30 October 2023 Queens Park Rangers have appointed Hammarby boss Marti Cifuentes as their new head coach. The 41-year-old replaces Gareth Ainsworth who was sacked on Saturday after a sixth straight Championship loss left them 23rd in the table. Spaniard Cifuentes was in charge of the Swedish top-flight side for two years. "Marti is an exciting appointment and we look forward to seeing the impact he can have," QPR chief executive Lee Hoos told the club website. "Having a succession plan in place is a necessary part of football, irrespective of how the team are performing. "Marti is someone we have been aware of so we are really pleased to have been able to secure his services." Cifuentes has spent almost a decade in management and coached in the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. He arrives at a side with two wins in 14 league games and they are six points behind Huddersfield Town who are just outside the drop zone. His first game in charge will be at fellow strugglers Rotherham United on Saturday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67269077

This one. Henbury Gas is Leatherface.

Yes, Parson Street is this forum's Mornington Crescent, it just keeps coming up.

What a "character" he is; all the homespun charm and good humour of Fred West.

I'm fine with the colour blue because I am very nearly a mature adult. That way I can look down on an ignorant petty child like Ian Holloway who says he would never buy a red car, won't sit in a red chair, banned red cars from Bristol Rovers' training ground. What an utter prat he is. "I remember meeting him years ago, when he'd just taken over as manager at Bristol Rovers," says Steve Tongue, this newspaper's football correspondent. "I was early and I sat down to wait for him in his office. When he arrived, he made me exchange chairs with him because mine was blue and his was red [the colour of loathed rivals Bristol City]." Holloway also banned red vehicles from the training ground. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ian-holloway-in-a-league-of-his-own-324844.html

Yes, actually that would have been a great USP for the Bristol edition - a separate set of small green tents and a big red wigwam for just that property.

I suppose that it's down to all the pie in the sky their owners keep coming out with about a new stadium which the Monopoly panel has believed and don't want a non-existent landmark sitting on the board for forty years. They have this problem with the original one where in the "law and order" orange set you have Marlborough Street (well known magistrates' court), Bow Street (original police base - Bow Street runners) and Vine Street which is a small service road for a hotel. Back in the day when the London board was put together Vine Street was the site of the biggest police station in London.

There's always one.

What a great name, he was clearly the inspiration for Pat Mustard. And can he please resolve the huge unknown on his wiki page: How many appearances did he make for Gloucester City ("Yellows")? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Mountain

You are all BRAINDEAD!! BRAINDEAD PLAYERS BRAINDEAD REFEREE. Bring me my spare bottle Jon, it's time for the second half now. BRAINDEAD BRISTOL. Go out there and enjoy your football.

@Davefevs to motor them to the Premiership one spreadsheet at a time.