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No, what he/she is saying is that if clubs do pay for the alterations that the fans are protesting for (i.e. to meet the clear demand) the increase in capacity that this gives will enable them to make their money back with profits within a short time-scale. So it's worth doing on financial...

Exactly, and very surprising, too. The whole point of a trial like this is to see if/how safe-standing works and whether it does attract hooligans or reduces the number of kids/women going/short people going to games. It's a properly managed evidence-gathering exercise so that the perceptions...

It's a pretty lazy generalisation - completely unsupported by any statistics - that standing areas attract trouble-makers, which is what the last part is saying. It also completely ignores that fact that safe-standing would not be compulsory for all - it would be available for those who do want...

This from the Guardian is a fascinating account of how the Daily Mirror got exactly the same information from the same police at the same time and decided not to take the same angle on it : http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/sep/12/hillsborough-disaster-daily-mirror

is it the council or a private operator. If the latter you're probably OK to ignore it. I have many times and had no comeback - a lot of the private operators rely on threats and don't follow them up because they have no strong legal rights.

They're just the same as ordinary loans, but ordinary loans would break the transfer window rules. But the Football League told FIFA that they needed loans in cases of "emergency" and FIFA allowed them! So the word "emergency" is only there to fool FIFA. Incredible, but true!

Anything and everything by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournellle - great sci-fi writer and serious scientist team up to write gripping stories that actually have serious basis in science. Particularly like Lucifer's Hammer, The Mote in God's Eye, Oath of Fealty & Footfall.

Did this last year with Alamo - pre-paid for a voucher over t'interweb after checking that they came out cheapest, and it all worked perfectly. Turned up at LAX with the voucher and was away quickly - after turning down the desperate attempts to get me to upgrade to a SUV by the salesman (I...

After the WC in Germany, Panorama did make a programme about "how bad" English troublemakers were there. It actually consisted of nothing but rumour and inuendo, and it also transpired that TV film crews were in Germany buying multiple rounds of drinks for group on English who they...

Because Blackpool have sold *some" tickets in all the blocks they had tickets for, which means that the spare seats in those blocks can't now be sold to West Ham, where there is still high demand for tickets.

Blackpool have been to Wembley a few times in recent years, as well, which tends to lower demand. FWIW, last year Swansea and Reading sold out every single possible ticket they could have, including the Club Wembley returns. Albion would sell out with no problems - if only because of the...

Yes, although Walkabout was the *real* formative experience.

Agree with ROSM, and I feel pretty certain that Yvette Cooper will be the next Labour party leader - and maybe in the not too distant future.

When you have absolutely no idea whatsoever who Kelly Kapowski is : http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?241824-Who-was-your-first-celebrity-crush

Jenny Agutter

Heard some rumours he's off to Reading if Cardiff fail in the play-offs.

Perhaps it's the sheer weight of simplistic generalisations that will drag us all under.

I thought of this thread last night, when sitting waiting for the gig to start at Brixton Academy and thinking to myself "this looks such a lovely old venue, I wish they hadn't used so much dry ice because it's stopping me seeing the internal architecture" ....

The problem is that so many kids who are talented at football are brought up through academies constantly being told how wonderful they are and how much they're going to earn, and they grow up believing it. They're cosseted and kept away from real life, so all they know is football. And the...

Quite apart from the obvious "plastics" who don't attend matches but still profess to "support" their team, there's a whole other breed of them who only turn up for big games or when the team are doing well. They're not in it for the long haul, through thick and thin, they're just there for the...