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Surprised Hughton couldn’t do better at Forest. 
Not surprised he was sacked though with them at the bottom of the league and 6 defeats in 7 games - and Forest don’t stick with their managers for long. I know LJ had more defeats with us during ‘that’ streak of his, but we weren’t in the relegation zone at that time whereas Forest are. 

The Preston North End stadium in Deepdale is the oldest continuously running football club in the world.

That’s strange. I thought that the oldest football club in the world was Notts County and the oldest football ground still in use as a football ground today is Bramall Lane (Sheffield United’s ground)???

On 10/08/2021 at 12:34, MarcusX said:

Surprised there wasn't a thread already (that I could see)

Tammy going to Roma for £34m https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12377667/tammy-abraham-roma-agree-34m-deal-to-sign-chelsea-striker

Feels like great business by Chelsea as their fans don't seem to rate him at all at that top level.

Sounds like a lot of money to me, but maybe that's the going rate these days. Ings was reportedly £30m

Good move for him or not? Will it see him push to be considered again for England? He's got a better goal record than DCL for example, albeit half of that in the Championship

I just hope for him he gets regular football, we know he's a great finisher perhaps Chelsea just isn't the place for him

It'll be interesting how this works - He will have to come back home after 3 months due to the post-Brexit 90 day rule......

I loved JET and the best of luck to him. 
Can’t say I’d bother watching an Aberdeen game just to see him, but hey ho - loved the guy and wish him well. 

9 minutes ago, Sweeneys Penalties said:

as STFC havent paid their players for June, and now Council taking Swindon Town to court after County Ground rent not paid for months | Swindon Advertiser

That's strange - I thought that STFC had actually BOUGHT the County Ground. Obviously not....

1 hour ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

Aneurin Bevan launched the NHS from Park Hospital, Manchester. 

BBC - Wiltshire - History - The NHS: Born in Swindon

Take it up with these guys if you disagree..........

55 minutes ago, 42nite said:

 

 

I guess we all have our cross to bear.... I'll make an exception just for you.  

 

 

... and I'm not FROM Swindon - I've just lived here for 24 years!!

I'm from Dundry actually - then Bishopsworth when I got married - then Swindon for work.

4 minutes ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

Aneurin Bevan launched the NHS from Park Hospital, Manchester. 

see my reply to Red Robbo above. 
The blueprint came from Swindon and is recognised by historians 
 

3 minutes ago, 42nite said:

 

I hate Swindon and everything about it!

Not much more to add really.

Surely you don’t hate me - I’m a City fan 

26 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Interested in that claim?  What's its basis?

I thought the NHS was originally posited by a Liverpool-based pressure group before WW1, a sort of mini-NHS ran in the South Wales valleys  from the 1920s, the Labour Party made it a policy aim nationwide in 1934 and it was popularised by a book by Scottish author AJ Cronin. 

Here you go:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-44506181.amp

15 hours ago, 77 punk said:

xtc were from swindon, andy partridge is a musical genius

I used to enjoy a drink or two with Andy Partridge before Covid, up at our local Spanish Tapas bar here in Old town - he was a regular in there - as I was too! 

Other musical artists from Swindon include Gilbert O'Sullivan and Justin Hayward (Moody Blues). I think I read somewhere that Supertramp also have a Swindon connection, but I may be wrong....

- Nick Hewer (Countdown) is from here.

- The Lord Chancellor is our local MP (not proud of that one!)
- The Supermarine Spitfire was built here
- The NHS - Swindon was the birthplace of that rather critical service
- Mondex - sadly way ahead of it's time - but today we pay for almost everything electronically.
- The UK Space Agency HQ is here

Yes, but apart from all that what did the Romans ever do for us...............? 

3 hours ago, Shaun Taylor said:

But still a fantastic achievement and can never be taken away 

It was indeed a fantastic achievement - and the FA had to rush through some emergency rules to prevent you lot from playing in Europe to allow Arsenal to play instead. 
The Italians thought that was unfair and launched the Anglo-Italian cup as a result - which the Italians took seriously but the English didn’t. 
If I remember correctly, in one game Swindon were beating Napoli 3-0 and the game had to be abandoned because the Italians rioted and destroyed their own stadium…?!!!

Their club is being ruined by a shit owner who doesn't seem to give a flying **** about the club or the fans. 

It makes me doubly grateful that we have a decent owner in charge of us at BS3.

LJ is doing well with Sunderland and I'm pleased for him.
He tried his best for us and gave everything he had. It was right that he went when he did and I wouldn't swop him for Nigel, but he did deliver us 4 years of top-half championship football and an amazing cup run during his tenure, for which I thank him.

42 minutes ago, NOTBLUE said:

Oh! I don’t know RRH,my mate was so pissed one Saturday night,he unbuttoned his waistcoat,pulled out his tie,and pissed himself,tucked his tie back inside,did his buttons up and walked on like nothing was wrong.

He was probably the scumbag that puked all over me whilst I was having a little doze on a bench opposite the Flying Fox after a stag night back in 1999. 
disgusting. 
I woke from my innocent post 10-pint nap to find diced carrots and other forms of stinking slurry over my nice jacket and shirt. 
Mrs R&W and I cursed him for the rest of the weekend. 

We need WW2 style rationing NOW 

hopefully, unlike in the 1940s, it will only need to be in place for 3-6 months. 

2 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

He is on a Yemeni island where the flights do not go into Yemen but via Cairo so he may well have had flights booked from there. But even so, schoolboy error going anywhere if he departed in the last few days.

 

It wasn't a challenge, just interested.

Others have also replied - its an important topic.

Sorry - I meant challenge in a positive way. I made a statement and it’s right and proper to back it up 

it DOES say that it’s rare to catch it twice - but it can happen. 

11 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

First time I've seen that other than the false report about a lady in China (?).

Where did you see this - be interested to read about it.

 

Tbh I read it some time ago but in reaction to your challenge I found this via google:

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1256023/coronavirus-repeat-infection-can-you-get-coronavirus-twice-covid-19
 

17 minutes ago, Super said:

Just keep it for how it's affecting football. The politics point scoring should be on another thread.

It’s affecting football because it’s stopped it. 
I can’t see any football matches taking place until 2021 to be honest. Apparently this virus can be caught again, so as long as there is someone on the planet with it, it will just cycle around and around until the boffins find a cure. 

24 minutes ago, Super said:

Mods can we ditch all the political stuff to the other thread and just keep it to football related?

Er - there isn’t any football happening at the moment - or for the foreseeable future. Might as well shut the entire forum 

Just seen BJs latest ‘advice’ that people shouldn’t travel unless ‘absolutely necessary’

I can see all the families cancelling their £5k holidays now, at their own expense ...... NOT. 

He needs to make it LAW or people will stay travelling - and I can understand why when it’s one of the most expensive and anticipated purchases a family has every year. 

I must admit that when I saw Boris’s press conference my first thought was for the poor pub and restaurant owners and the low paid workers on zero hours contracts that depend on them. The government has told us to stay away from them but not told them to close. 
this is an unprecedented situation and this is exactly what governments are employed to deal with. All non-essential businesses should close but with guarantee of income that enables them to survive. Yes it will cost £billions but not as much as having no economy and millions of jobless and homeless when this thing finally blows over. 
It’s not normal for a Tory government to subsidise businesses, but what is happening isn’t normal either and if we want our economy to recover we need those businesses to be able to pick up from where they left off. 

1 hour ago, Show Me The Money! said:

Be surprised if there are anymore games this season.

Be interesting what the implications of that would be on next season. Do we just start the season all over again?

My disappointment of missing out on the playoffs would be wiped out by the enjoyment of watching all the local ‘plastic’ Liverpool fans crying into their beer 

WTF is with this bog roll bulk buying?

here in Swindle the shelves are empty. I’m lucky enough to have a Booker account so I went there today - they had a bloke guarding the bog roll section ensuring that business owners were restricted to buying only 2 cases each. 

There really isn’t any need for this - the bog roll factories are still operational. 

If the stadiums can’t source any bog rolls then they would have to close I assume. 

If they ban gatherings of more than 5000 people in one place then that’s us finished. 
Rovers could continue though - and finally claim with some truth to be the biggest team in Bristol - at last!!!!