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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c70ll21rk79o

My 'peppercorn' doesn't normally 'talk' to me unless I've consumed too much red before eating . If you mean 'source' then not the same.

That’s why we then need the actual number in the ground from the police via the freedom of information request. The club will look (even) more ridiculous if there’s a discrepancy of circa 5,000 people.

Fair play to Andy Procter, that’s some recovery 👏🏻

To be fair, AI probably does do sub-editing/proof reading at papers these days…

watford ar`nt on a great run but have some decent players,they`ll have to much for a dispirited rovers team,0-2 to watford,mcloughlin with his usual mistake and then a breakaway goal when we are pushing for a leveler to send the 15000 in attendance(yeah right!!) home miserable

Yeah, Ismael said that like 4-5 days ago. Baffling.

He might want to start doing a bit of proof reading then.

Anyone worrying over the attendance given out by the club needn't worry at all. You'll have BBC news/radio, Sky and commercial radio and Tv people at the game, they won't be lied to, their own eyes will tell them the gate is down, up or similar as ever week. It was obvious at Hillsborough the boycotts were a massive success after the first few got the football community chattering, we’ll need a few more after this to keep ramming the message home.

Gudjohnsen is due back next week just confirmed by Andy Bayes. Hopefully that’s the case

Hope it's not the same 'sauce' claiming someone has bid for the club @Mercer

Seems, and hope, someone has been a tad mischievous. You will note, I caveated with question mark and 'if correct'. Let's see where we are next week then. Surprised Montgomery might be back - weren't we advised 4 to 6 weeks?

Yeah, in a week's time (if the presser is correct) we'll only have 5 of the "13" out so no excuses whatsoever. Well "officials" etc but not on injuries anyway.

Then he’ll make the excuse they need time to build up fitness bla bla bla.

Ha one of the Mail’s senior sports journos won’t appreciate that, tomphil!

So that would be 5 back, absoluyely no excuses if we get spanked in the next two games then. As he said, it's only down to injuries.

Miller, Mori, Cantwell & Alebiosu all back for this

So did the Merciah get it wrong??

i remember a league cup 2nd leg game vs wigan in the 80`s not sure of the crowd but it can`t have been more than a couple of thousand,my dad and i among the disinterested few and that was only because him and my mum had a blazing row😂

… and if we had gone into administration as there was no Wharton with ‘buy me’ stamped on his forehead who knows where would be now.

Great that it's in the media finally but obviously another shocking piece of AI created content.

VI just confirmed Gudjohnsen is likely to be back next week....

Very good article on the whole - disagree on a few points though 1) Whilst I want Venky's out I wouldn't be happy with well meaning but skint local owners who took us down 2 divisions either 2) Suhail didn't arrive in 2024. He's been around forever and for example was (I was led to believe) solely involved with the hire of Lambert. 3) The Mowbray era was most definitively NOT a golden period - saw the stagnation and inertia whist the owners still retained the last vestiges of any interest that is a large cause of the problems we face today.

Most clubs only announce the tickets sold, and not the numbers that go through the turnstile. I think only a handful announce the actual number. Technically, there could be zero people in the stadium, but a "Thank you for your continued support" to an attendance of "11,000". If it needs changing to be more transparent, then it is up to the EFL to enforce it. It is a bizarre thing if you ask me.