GHR

Not to worry, thanks. Not too bad ordinarily, but when it happens to the likes of the busier threads it can be a trek trying to find where you left off.

Probably not the apporiate forum, but whilst I remember, is it possible, or has it been resolved in v2.0, that when a topic is retitled, it doesn't knock the entire topic to unread when you click on it next?

That's him, thanks. Reading that post from one of the ghosts of marketing past remimded me of the comments but not the commenter!

Who was the lad who said his son was an Arsenal fan and other such things?

Superb finish from Giles

Unless you are one of the nameless bods employed by a football club to sift through Excel, Access and whatever else for 37 hours a week, then you really shoupdn't be using all the jargon that they do. The greatest communicators and finest minds have always been the ones who can turn the exceptionally difficult into something everyone can understand. Now we just have no-mark imbeciles spouting gibberish in a dull attempt to appear intellectually superior to us everymen, who, despite sharing the same interest, will just never understand it like they do.

Corrected now. Only did it to confuse you specifically, honest!

Customary mention of Perugia in the 1978-79 Serie A. Went unbeaten but only won 11, to finish second to Milan who lost 3!

Norwich fans can take heart during their 5am alarms (earlier if they aren't driving themselves) that this is the modern game now and their own club wanted it. I forget the other reasons it's OK.

See Leeds in League 1. Average gate 25,000! I will always say this when this point is made - the most insulting thing you can do to anything you care about is not to have standards for it.

Fair enough, I don't pay them much attention to be fair. Thought he would have had goodwill for what he has achieved there but I suppose the PO final loss last year and not being a mainstay in the top quarter this year has put paid to all that.

Ian Evatt sacked at Bolton. Didn't see that one coming but apparently there has been a touch of discontent of late?

Anyone in the bottom corner of our stand probably could have - I was bang in the middle of that bit and had pretty much a prime view of that and Buckley's attempted rocket into the same corner in the first half. Didn't clock at the time it was because Beck turned his back on it but was very obvious that unless Branigan had the same ability as Roberto Carlos it had taken a deflection.

I was at a ninth tier match whilst on holiday in Devon during the summer just gone and in the programme notes (imagine!) the manager apologised for last time out, where, in order to stop a slide in their form, he had not played the way they usually do. They had actually won said match, yet it still needed to be justified...

I am sure there was a very short, very muted 'We don't care about Venky's...' on Saturday. Overheard some old boys - who would have been around in the pre-Jack Walker era - on the way back who were in agreement about Venky's 'making mistakes at the start but put money in now and without them we'd be fucked' angle - so it isn't just from the kids who come from the post-2010 era who are impassive about it all. Join me in weeping.

Wonderful isn't it?

One takeaway from yesterday was that describing the Kassam Stadium as Oxford should be done under the Trades Descriptions Act.

I lived in said ugly dump (by and large a fair description) for eight years and West Brom were by a mile the most tolerable of the five 'big' clubs in the area. Thoroughly decent club and fans, always look forward to the annual Hawthorns trip. Hope Mowbray does well but not too well!

You mock, but all the kids in Windhoek and Bishkek who grew up dreaming of Robbie Earnshaw and Paddy Kenny will have had a night to remember. That's the real Magic of the Cup right there.

I meant the perpetual one horse race at the top overshadowing what everyone else is doing.

Ligue 1 with worse weather. Shame as positions 3-12 in the Scottish Prem are usually a constantly changing entity year by year, but well overshadowed by the 'Oxford won the boat race because Cambridge sank' above them.

Good. Media-induced mawkish horseshit. Posh were in that to the last breath and rightfully Ferguson treated it as a professional competitive fixture.

I remember when we didn't have to be in a Cup to get Chelsea away...

I unknowingly went into one where the no technology thing is strictly enforced - the Brown Bear in Sheffield. The entire experience was thoroughly drab, including the beer, though I was in company so at least I didn't have to stare blankly into the distance. Thankfully Sheffield is one of the best cities I have been to for pubs, so I have no reason to darken its door again if I am ever passing! Speaking of policies from another time, is Rishton WMC still no females?

I don't know about the PL but I would wager they all produce one. As for not issuing programmes, according to a topic on Non League Matters forum, in the EFL it is 4 in the Championship (us, Bristol City, Millwall and Swansea), 8 in L1 and 12 in L2. I recall at Bristol City last season there were unofficial sellers (for free?!) who had physically printed the pdf copies. Others loitering we selling their fanzine. Leeds, as much as it pains me to praise anything to do with them, had a very good programme on NYD, £4 mind. I wonder how many of the 24 above do monthly magazines in lieu, like Rovers attempted for the minimum amount of time they could...