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Early in the AMEX era I definitely set off for a game 48 hours early. Was very close to the station before I got suspicious. I also got a friend's wedding day wrong which I discovered almost exactly two hours before the wedding which was over two hours away. Pre sat nav and I had to invent my...

Well I see Steele to Arsenal making sense to them. Plays the way they want, doesn't make waves, good around the place. As I believe CH said when giving Casper another year "third goalkeeper is in it's own way a very specialist position". 70% Bart 30% Carl next season might not be ideal but...

The dream team is Sean Dyche AND Graham Potter. Dyche clears out the dead wood and scares them. Potter comforts them and builds them up. Potter teaches them to build from the back. Dyche tells them when they need to lump it. Potter sets them up for pretty football without any goals, Dyche makes...

I see this interpretation quite a lot. I don't see how other Arab nations not wanting a western backed army on their doorstep detracts from 10,000 unarmed civilians being "disappeared" by Israel. It's a massive war crime that doesn't merit "diddums". The idea that 1967 was a defensive war...

I've just remembered when an old acquaintance of mine got caught. First offence and I think blew under 70. Acted all contrite, pleaded guilty and thought that superpower many of us share of being white and middle class would keep the still inevitable ban to a minimum. Judge was not impressed...

I always pick a side for any match but I'm struggling a little with this one. On the one hand Crawley knocked out the Dongs which engenders much goodwill. On the other hand Crewe's goalie launching his direct opponents water bottle that had a penalty crib sheet on it into the crowd was...

From today's Groß piece on the official site: Pascal has another year on his contract and is planning for a coaching career to come, with the help of Albion Head Coach Roberto De Zerbi. “I passed my UEFA B Licence,” he said. “At the moment I’m learning every day from my coach and we’re lucky...

On the extremely rare occasions I use such a service I do top up the deliverers wages with cash for this very reason.

Yes and after Spastic became such a common insult The Spastic Society changed it's name to SCOPE . Took a New York second for scoper to become an insult. Similarly I love worked with children with complex needs and among the more verbal the insult of choice was "Life Skills" because that was...

That's the same Martin McGuiness who was one of the architects of the good Friday agreement that finally brought a decent measure of peace. I think it's fine for anybody to faintly praise that on his death and particularly understandable for an Irishman. Bringing that as a criticism into a...

I expect the Saudis think it's a bit rich the West complaining about them doing that when Israel has been doing it since 1948.

Doing a levels is sort of work. Spent a quiet lunchtime cutting out snippets from a hardcore jazz mag and placing them into a few other peoples textbooks. The thin shiny bongo mag material turns out to have great holding power placed close to the spine and is undetectable unless you're on the...

My apologies, I was doing that condescendingly nice thing that's British for 'you total ****s'. It's never as clear in type as in person.

I hope for Hull's sake that their plan is something better than "let's get a manager a bit better than Liam", because one of the managers a bit better than 23/24 Liam is 24/25 Liam and he'd have slotted in seamlessly.

Worked with a "chilli wanker" for a while who kept going on about eating nagas and generally made up bullshit. A small investment in chilli extract and a light coating on some wings in the pub put that to the test. Fair play he wasn't quite as full of shit as I thought though we all enjoyed...

It's the arrogance to not even consider spending a quiet morning familiarizing themselves with the laws of the have that gets me.

So how long until he gets appointed a third time? Could be the Hodgson of Ham for another decade.

Crawley? - no interest League 2 play offs? - no interest Against MK Dons? - I'm fully invested in Crawley keeping that stain on football down in the lower reaches and shall be watching, now the games moved I'll even be looking out for a ticket.

If the lines had been different and the goal had been awarded, they wouldn't have gone back to check the penalty claims and there would have been no red card.

Yes, though that in itself is part of our history. In the introduction to his Dictionary of Sussex Dialect (1875) the Rev Parish describes the inhabitants of Sussex as uniquely tuneless.