There’s an interesting article on Damian Duff and his new career managing Shelbourne in today’s “ Guardian “.

Dave Berry and the Cruisers. He had a brilliant guitarist in his band, a guy called Frank White.

Some great stories there. Most guys had a pint at dinner time back in my apprenticeship days I remember a guy sneaking out of the fire door for a quick pint in the local boozer at our 3-00 to 3-15 tea break. The works manager had me change the crash bar on the door to one of those little hammers and glass tubes so the guy couldn’t sneak out !

When we’ve had a significant break in the past we’ve usually played like we’d never seen a football before.

A workmate of mine made it be known he needed a car years ago. Just to get him the few miles to work each day. I had another pal who was selling one of the old Skoda’s. So I put the two of them together and the deal was done for £300. About a fortnight later a lady driver ran into the back of the Skoda whilst it was parked up outside my workmates house. It was obviously declared a write off and the insurance paid him £450 for the car. “ Best car I ever had “ he said - “ Only car I ever made money on “. A week or two later he was promoted to service engineer and he got a company vehicle. Some guys have all the luck.

If you look at it one way they are right. It needed a pitch inspection before going ahead. They did the inspection and the pitch failed, so the game didn’t go ahead. I hope I’ve not started the debate off again.

I must be getting old !

I remember going over there once on business about 30 years ago and in the middle of this huge empty area that had obviously been the site of an enormous factory there was this little pub stood on it’s own. The guy I was with said that it kept different opening hours to the rest of the country so the steel workers coming off shift could get a drink. Was that right ?

Before Buckley has a go for sure.

I get the “ Observer “ I’ll have a look.

That’d be my team I think.

I was browsing the racks in TK Maxx a few years back, what should I see but a modern copy of that very shirt that Pele is wearing in that photograph. I just had to buy it. The colour is green. It was the “ away “ shirt. A few weeks later I came across the white “ home “ shirt. I got that as well.

How many games did he play for Rovers and how many good games did he have ? A deeply average player.

We’ve nearly had as many pages on a non event as we sometimes do on an actual game. Give it up lads, in tomorrow’s paper it’ll tell you the match was postponed.

He’s a number 9 type lump who can’t really play as a number 9. I thought maybe he could at one time but I was wrong.

He might be able to get his head up and pick out a pass.

The skipper.

Not much of a bounce there.

We signed two players who can play in our current system. That’s after signing Khadra and Poveda who are best suited to that system. We already have Dolan who is a similar player. All our eggs in that same basket. If we can’t make that system work again we have no plan B. I’d have signed a more conventional type of striker just to give us options.

Edun’s looked bad at the time. The Luton player really filled him in, and he got away with it.

Burns got subbed off just after half time at Scunthorpe. They lost 1-2 to Rochdale . Nuttall came on in his place.

Yeah. If you’d have told me the result was going to be a 3-0 I’d have said Brighton win. Maybe they were over confident.

Swansea, who recently beat us with ten men got dicked 4-0 today.

So the girl is there in a football shirt and Ben is wrapped up like a mummy !

I would have made it just in time for the kick off - but I had to go back for my sunglasses.