Good memory https://youtu.be/fELb7VvjBRk Skip to the 7:15 mark, you’ll see Sherwood sticking up for Le Saux, and he has a word with the ref just before Perez is sent off. Hodgson signed Blake, Kidd signed Ward.

Do you know if there's any footage of that game around? I could only find the home leg on Youtube:

I think he was by trade but he mostly played right-wing for us.

I knew it was 6th or 7th, just couldn't be assed to check ? I remember a lot of players going missing that season. Maybe it was Woy's training methods, maybe it was just bad luck, but I suspect there was more going on behind the scenes. Wouldn't be surprised if egotists like Sherwood and Sutton (rightly or wrongly) were undermining the manager. Do you think we let go of Ripley too soon? I don't remember him tearing up many trees at Southampton. Perez was meant to be his replacement that summer. In hindsight, we should've kept Beattie and spent that £7m for Davies on a defender or two.

Was it sacking Hodgson or Kidd that prompted Uncle Jack to bawl out the players? I'm sure I've read stories about both.

Yesterday marked 21 years since we were first relegated from the Premier League. What exactly went wrong that season? Hodgson's a steady manager who's had a respectable career elsewhere, never flopping quite as catastrophically as he did with Rovers in 98/99. We still had of players that got us to 7th the previous season. The likes of Flowers, Kenna, Sherwood, Flitcroft, McKinlay, Sutton, Gallacher etc. Not to mention the players Kidd brought in later on: McAteer, Gillespie and Carsley, who were all solid PL players. We had some young stars in Dunn, Duff, Johnson, and Jansen, who had a lot of untapped potential. There's no way on paper that squad should have been relegated. Sure, we signed our fair share of dollopers. Neither Darren Peacock or Christian Dailly were fit to lace Hendry's boots. Kevin Davies was an expensive flop who needed better man-management. Sebastian Perez looked an astute signing but failed to settle up norf. I never forget when he got sent-off against Chelsea for putting his face in the way of Le Saux's fist. ? Stephane Henchoz tried to keep us up single-handedly but his efforts weren't enough. I think if we had signed a decent centre-back and a left-back, we would've avoided the drop that year. Marlon Broomes and Callum Davidson were far from PL quality. However, in a way, relegation was a blessing in disguise. The club needed to learn it wasn't too good to go down, and that we couldn't keep throwing good money after bad. Without relegation, we probably wouldn't have had that renaissance under Souness and won the League Cup. It's a damn shame Uncle Jack never lived long enough to see us get back to the Premier League and lift silverware.

To be fair, it's not the Middle Ages anymore. I don't think anyone should be obligated to honour those titles, especially when knighthoods like Savile's make a mockery of the whole system.

Even Sir James Savile? ?

Is that the football or more the social side of things?

Has anyone really missed football that much? If anything, this pandemic has put into perspective how pointless multi-billion sports industries really are.

Absolutely. Rochina gets referred to derisively here as a "Carlos Kickaball" but there's no doubt the guy had talent. When he had a run in the Championship. his output was decent, and teams would double-mark him, freeing up space for other players. Think he suffered from playing under too many conservative managers.

Do me a favour. He was a complete spiv. Swearing, overacting on matchday, and always being seen with a pint in his hand to endear himself to the common folk. Bullying the marketing staff, who admittedly were on easy street, but he still came across as a knob. Not surprised he pulled the wool over your eyes. Series 2 was okay, not as enjoyable as last season's car crash. I was shocked that they bet everything on signing Will Grigg. I know January is a ballache to buy players but they didn't have Plan B and ended up getting ripped off because of it. Shambolic.

Kevin Davies. Pressure of the record signing fee, injuries and playing on Woy's sinking ship, scuppered his potential here. If you watch these highlights, you see the makings of the player he'd become at Bolton.

Savage? ? Good player for us but all-time greatest DM? Even Nzonzi and Jermaine Jones were better players.

Blasphemy.

How dare you diss the Italian Stallion.

Gets boring seeing the same old names. And Shearer & co. were before my time. Jansen and Roque would complement each other beautifully imo. Perez was quality, just didn't settle here. I'd argue Henchoz was a better centre-back than Hendry, Samba etc. His medals would back that up. He just had the misfortune of playing in Hodgson's relegation side. Don't think we've been blessed with many great left-backs in recent history. Everyone else is going to pick Le Saux. Amoruso is a legend. Simple as.

Not objectively the best or most balanced but: Friedel Seb Perez - Amoruso - Henchoz- Unsal Thompson - Dunn - Tugay - Duff Jansen - Santa Cruz

Looking at the cast, it must have killed Netflix to make this.

It's incredible how durable the human body can be on one hand, whilst extremely fragile on the other. People have survived all kinds of crazy shit, but you hit your head the wrong way and you're a goner. Had a coworker who was a little worse for wear after a night out. She was climbing the stairs at home, only got to the second step but fell backwards. She went into a coma and died not long after. RIP

Always fascinating to see the reverence Fulham fans have for Danny Murphy.

Won't stop @chaddyrovers attending!

Do you think we should look at what was said by the chief scientific advisor? ?

An unconvincing win to keep us "in the mix".

What does that have to do with the original post?