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This made for interesting reading https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44243021 It did make me wonder about the quality of BBC sports journalism though - how could any journalist who "covers the Championship regularly" think Cardiff would go down. Is there a manager who knows that division...

Anyone got any recommendations for a gardener who can tame our jungle? We don't want a landscape gardener who does anything fancy. We need someone with a strimmer/mower who can clear our overly long grass and help cut some shrubs back.

Complete shutdown around Munich while police search for one man https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/07/drunk-man-trapped-on-train-disrupts-german-rail-services It couldn't happen in Ger ..... Oh

... currently 41-3 to the Loughbrough kids were loose

Just checking: I am right in thinking that the last game of the season has a kick-off set in stone? It's 3.00 on Sunday and can't be moved for TV?

By coincidence, I was listening to his Miners' Hymns just today, not knowing that he'd died. A composer I only discovered last year and was just discovering his work. Sad loss at an early age

Sussex have signed their first ever Afghan cricketer for the T20s this season. He's an effective T20 bowler but I wish they'd signed another batsman - we're really light in the top order.

Joy Neville becomes the first woman to ref a European rugby club fixture when she reffed Bordeaux v Enisei in the Challenge Cup. How long will it be before we see a woman ref in the Champions League- or even the PL? She's a good ref - she did the World Cup final. Interestingly, she's an...

I love this, somehow feels typically British. Someone has taken the trouble to compile a list of all the post boxes stamped with Edward VIII's insignia. The trouble is, he's only found 57 of them - and there are supposedly 130. What a life mission though, to spend one's time on something so...

Bizarre, I posted this earlier and it didn't appear. Here goes again. I'm trying to do something in Excel and the help pages don't tell me what I want. I have a column of salaries and I want to order them £1 to £24,999, £25,000 to £34,999, £35,000 to £45,000 etc right up to £100k + Say I have...

I'm coming to the Liverpool game with a scouse mate so we want a chance to have a drink beforehand. It's the first time I've been with an away supporter so I'm trying to work out what's best to do. As I live near the Amex, I don't really want to come into town but need to know what the options...

This is an odd request but we're a bit stuck. My son's cricket team, Lewes Priory, plays in a 6-a-side indoor league. We have a league match this Saturday ... which happens to coincide with a bit of a celebration in Lewes. We have 19 registered players so we have no trouble getting a side...

This will mean nothing to 99% of NSC readers but I'm writing a piece for The Register on the decision by Oracle to move Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation. I'd like to speak to a couple of Java users about how they feel about this, the future of Java in an open source foundation and how they...

We've lost a giant of British theatre. No, make that THE giant of British theatre: founder of the Royal Shakespeare Co, the guy who took the national theatre to pre-eminence, the director who brought Glyndebourne into the 20th century, the great champion of Beckett ... what a life, what a...

In the America thread Stato raised the interesting point that there are some books to read when young, in particular, citing Catcher in the Rye and On the Road. I read both of those in my teens and have not returned to them since. I loved them at 16/17, I'm not sure I'd like them now, Got my...

There's an interesting question on one of the Newcastle fans sites: would the top four in the Premier League be the top four in the Championship? We talk about how Brighton would do in the PL but what about the other way round? Could they cope with the greater physicality and the greater number...

Looking through Monday's programme, I note that the Liverpool game in 1958/59 kicked off at 5.30, This was, of course, pre-floodlights so what was it like watching a game with no lights. This match was in late September so would have been decidedly gloomy by the end of the game - could fans...

Birmingham Mail thinks we won 3-0 "This is what Gianfranco Zola put Birmingham City's defeat at Brighton down to A 3-0 loss at the Amex Stadium ended a run of three draws for Blues"

I though Australia were going through a tough spell, being beaten by everyone. They've just absolutely pulverised India, winning by 333 runs. It's the first time that India have been beaten at home since 2012. Seeing that this Indian team beat us 4-0 just a few months ago, it doesn't augur well...

Reading the thread on 13-0 defeat got me thinking about the team I help coach. My daughter's rugby team lost by more than 100 points yesterday and. not surprisingly, the girls looked very down. It's a new team, only formed this season, and about three-quarters of the team hadn't played rugby...