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A columnist in the Mail on Sunday has called for football to be made illegal in the same way that a hunting ban has been proposed, "to get rid of this disgusting game". It could be exciting: to watch the Albion we'd all have to log on to a website and drive along the A23 waiting for a signal...

Something else to debate, besides the fallout from SC and Reading: the Guardian's list of the top 40 British bands (ill-named surely, some are solo artists) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/page/0,10607,1053415,00.html An oldie like me is delighted to see Robert Wyatt on the list (pity there was...

With all the stuff about SC flying about this has been missed (unless it appeared under a different name). That final list has been released and to no-one's surprise Hull has won it. However, Brighton makes it as number 22, close behind Bexhill-on-Sea at 9 and Portsmouth at 11, but ahead of...

We're having a work discussion on who we could least imagine recording together. Names we've come up with so far include: Captain Beefheart and Celine Dion Marilyn Manson and Val Doonican John Lydon and Vera Lynn Merle Haggard and Billy Bragg. Any others? Still, we'd have laughed at the idea...

That's what I look like according to my work colleagues - they're objecting to my 1940s Fiorentina top (courtesy of TOFFS). It's a good job I didn't buy that gay-looking red, white and blue Brighton shirt then.

I've seen it all now. The bloke behind me had one of those mini tellies and had his eyes glued to the Man Utd game. Why bother coming to the match if you're more interested in bunch of prima donnas prancing about? And why were there so few people last night? I sit in area that's pretty much...

Just received an invite from Virgin Mobile to have sherry and mince pies with them to see what's under their Christmas tree. I know what Branson can do with his mince pies...particularly as it's on the same day as the Cheaterfield game. Anyone else seen any Christmas stuff? I know it gets...

Went to AFC Wimbledon yesterday (couldn't afford to travel to Plymouth) and saw something that I'd never seen before. The match sponsors, when picking the man of the match, picked a Wimbledon player and then picked an opposition player as well (the Greenford goalie who had played a blinder)...

OK, disappointing result at Barnsley but top goings-on at Grace Road. Leicestershire 349-2 against Surrey. Another couple of sessions like that and Sussex will be top of the league in their own right. :clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

One of the blokes at work has just said that the only reason men are into football is because it's the male equivalent of a soap opera and gives men something to talk about down the pub. He also says that women who say they like football only do so because they want to sleep with men who like...

Has there ever been a better couple of days for Sussex sport? A fine win by Sussex over a good team, leaving them five points off the top. Six wickets by a Sussex player (a Sussex-born one at that) to win a test match - against a tough team too. And a win by the Albion against one of the best...

It's raining in sarf London at the moment - is it raining down there as well? I'm really looking forward to a day at the cricket so it had better stop. Mrs Gwylan has changed her mind and is coming to the cricket with me - so I don't think I'll be able to sit with the rest of the NSCers :(...

This is from the BBC site. Clock the shirt the geezer at the back is wearing... I'm not 100% positive but could it be? http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_3143000/3143837.stm

Just got the latest TOFFS football shirt catalogue. They've got a very strange Brighton shirt from the 20s that's white, blue and red stripes. The Carder/Harris book doesn't mention it - anyone know anything about it? It's a relief to see that the catalgue doesn't have that sweet-wrapper strip...

Why is there no thread about tonight's game. Anyone hear the commentary? Did we deserve to win? What was Jonesy sent off for?

Any NSCers going to see Patti Smith at Shepherd's Bush tonight. I've been looking forward to this for months. More to the point was anyone else there at her debut UK gig in 1976, still one of the best concerts I've ever seen? And she was one of the sexiest women ever.

Gloomy outlook for football finance Just one quarter of football clubs are expecting to make a profit in 2003/04, a survey has found. According to the survey, from business advisors Pannell Kerr Forster (PKF), 24% of Premiership, English First Division and Scottish Premier League (SPL) clubs...

Sounds like those with Welsh blood have a head start on the rest of the UK. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3120083.stm (Don't know who this bard Llywellyn is though - I think that it refers to the last prince of Wales rather than a poet). Is this why Wales are so much better than football...

I was cycling into work this morning when I was cut up by a car turning left across my path, with (as is usual in London these days) no sign of an indicator. But what really got my goat was that this was a learner driver, complete with instructor. What sort of bad habits do they teach at BSM...

From today's Guardian. Mystery this week surrounds the future of Nathan Barley, the obnoxious Hoxton-dwelling trustafarian created by satirical TV listings site TVGoHome.com. Like a Loadsamoney for the late 90s, the new media-obsessed fashion whore ironically became an anti-hero for the very...