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edison wrote:I wonder if Sir Alex will be in attendance, and if so, will there be a shot of him sitting in the crowd?

I think they just use "archive footage" now at every Utd game and most of the time he's actually on the beach somewhere warm.

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I actually don't THINK that was Tottenham's only foray into the second division around that time. Rather like Chelsea back then, they were very much also rans among the big boys, who got fairly large crowds based on past glories, but were generally a soft touch, especially on the road. They flirted ...

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Wonder if there will be any crowd disturbances. (Cue: Lock thread!

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I stand corrected CT. I've always believed it was his debut, but I must have remembered it wrongly.

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My mum is 85 and shakes a lot. I'm not sure if it's constantly heading leather footballs or the gin.

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Grimsby were a decent outfit at one time and we got a few drubbings there both on and off the field after we fell from grace. But back when we played that cup tie we had an excellent team and we negotiated a potential banana skin very well to set up the Oldham game which is being talked about elsewh...

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It IS possible that we may have been too cautious and are gambling with our PL future and I suppose we'll know the answer to that in the next 3 months, but as the Swansea story shows, there isn't always a correlation between spending big and staying up and Swansea aren't the only club to bet the ran...

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Like a lot of people I can get pretty frustrated with our board's policies at times, especially deep in to a transfer window when nowt's happening, but when you read stuff like that article, it does put your feet back on the floor to some extent.

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I definitely remember the home game we lost 3-2 after being 3-0 down and there were some Rovers fans who thought standing on the Bee Hole was a good idea when it most definitely wasn't. My feeling is that they were doing pretty well at the time and we weren't and they did bring a lot as a 26,000 cro...

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Shows clear as day why we have to be extremely careful with every single penny and every single signing, despite appearing to have zillions of pounds flowing in as well as stashed in the bank. Looks like they're heading the way of Pompey, Brum, Bolton and several others by betting the ranch on stayi...

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The only person suggesting that was Jack Holden I think.....I was at that game and TC's goal was an absolute beauty. One of my big regrets is that there doesn't seem to be any video footage of it at all. I was there too and totally agree. He scored down at the other end (Blackburn End) so it wasn't...

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I remember that game on the Easter Monday. We went on the fairground, I think it was after the match. What's the ride called that's like a spin drier? Remember going on that ride. I also remember Ewood in 1976 - as I was driving an Austin 1100 that I only had that year. I remember my car being surr...

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Exeter away. 1994. Last game of season before play offs. 4 1 defeat I think. Cracking weekend in Torquay. However remember being near Rocky and he inexplicably had a slash where he was standing on the terrace Went to that Exeter match too and stayed over in Exeter. Got absolutely ratted later and w...

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Dummigan was (apparently) a great prospect when he was with us and should/would have been playing at a much higher level than Oldham's bench and Dundalk, but I suspect his several bad injuries have blunted his potential and that seems very unfortunate and a great shame.

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Maidstone was always a weird one because they actually played in Dartford! Went about 3 or 4 times and seemed to be a happy hunting ground for us I recall.
I once went to Barnet for a night match and we scored a last gasp equaliser (Heath?). The ground was awful, but a good day out.

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That day when Cochrane won it for us at Ewood was absolute mayhem, inside and outside the ground. Rovers fans were allowed to stand right up to the corner fencing in the Riverside (it was terracing then) so were really close to us in the Darwen End. Bricks, bottles and goodness knows what were raini...

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How close was he to scoring on his debut? Ball just nicked off his toe as he was about to shoot, really close to the end of the game. Would have been the icing on the cake!

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Torquay (not the play off semi). It poured down just before kick off and we managed to lose 2-0 I think. Chris Pearce was sat beside us in the stand, but not sure who was in the nets in that case. We were garbage in those days and I can't even remember what was going through my mind when we set off ...

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The attractions of a NHS midwife suddenly seem very appealing it would seem, but as others have said, maybe somebody should have thought about that in the first place. Oh, and I think we all know the old story of the Trojan horse......Not sure what made me think of that tbh...?

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Took my my mum to Skegness a couple of years ago for a few days. Really liked it! (Surprisingly!)

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Very positive Dave and nice to see, but 10th???? Probably not!

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Chelsea were to some extent a yo-yo club before all the cash rolled in and my perception is that it was thought fashionable to be a Chelsea fan and they seemed to have lots of them because they had the Cockney wide boy, "sharp" image. That wasn't matched by success on the field which was v...

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Thats negative thinking and that means we dont have any expectation to beat Tottenham up next I see it as winnable a long with every game Chelsea away Liverpool away City at home are the most difficult but the longer this run goes on the stronger we will get UTC. I do agree and you may not have not...

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As stated above, many people tend only to remember him post injury when he really did struggle and wasn't worth his place. Pre injury he was excellent for us bearing in mind where we were as a club. Whether he could have made a full on PL career I'm not sure and we'll never know, but it would have b...

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And in fairness our star, a bit like Cardiff's, is rising when some others is falling. (Soton and Brighton) We need Newcastle to revert to type and lose at Wolves tomorrow, because next up they've Udders at home and even I expect them to win that.

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Our problem is that we can't afford any blips or "off days" now because we had more than our share before the New Year. Of course we expect nothing from Chelsea, City, Liverpool and Arsenal, but we have to be 100% at it when we play the rest and don't give them any freebies, otherwise we m...

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We could have won at Old Trafford so we pick up points anywhere. That's absolutely true and tbh, we SHOULD have won at Old Trafford, but when making predictions we have to assume games like those will give us nowt and then consider anything we manage to scrape as a huge bonus. Also, as someone else...

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It's reasonable to suggest we'll get nothing from Chelsea, Liverpool, City or Arsenal, but the way we're playing we can expect "something" from all the others, including Spurs, IF we keep everyone fit and we keep playing like we have been doing. Big IF!!

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Wish we could play the Everton home match again tomorrow! Scoreline would probably be totally reversed!!!

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Tricky Trevor wrote:Went down like Dunk for the Oxford equaliser.

Maybe it was slippery!!!?

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Probably best if he stays out of our penalty box from now on though. Today was his second aberration in less than 2 weeks! Clown!!!

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The way they're shaping up lately, it's definitely Everton in danger!

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It's not "must win", but imo it's "must not lose".

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Plenty of defenders on the bench! (Oh, and Spijed makes a good point!)

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MACCA wrote:For every Dunne and McNeil there's a Renny Smith and a Luke Hendrie...

That's absolutely true Macca and always will be. There will always be some (in truth the majority) who will never be good enough, but we're in a position where we can keep working with them and wait and see which they are.

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Man U bagged him off, like they did with McNeil because either they didn't see the full potential, or they couldn't be bothered working with him and waiting for that potential to fully develop. We're picking up quite a lot of these young lads who are being discarded by top clubs who can't be assed w...

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Is it possible that Cardiff could sue Mckay (or whoever) if proved that he KNOWINGLY put Sala on a plane that either wasn't air worthy, was not flying a safe distance or on a safe route for that type of aircraft or even had a pilot who shouldn't have been flying it? That wouldn't have been Sal's fau...

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Surely Sala didn’t need Cardiff to sanction his private travel plans. I fail to see how Cardiff have any case here and it seems like they should be paying up. That said, the solicitor’s request for payment could probably have waited a couple of weeks. I do agree Nantes seem pretty heartless right n...

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I just wonder whether Cardiff are stalling because they see a potential get out by suing whoever set up the flight. According to the report in the Mail they offered Sala a ticket on a commercial flight, but someone else (McKay?) got him the seat the ill fated plane. Cardiff might claim they would ne...

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jrgbfc wrote:Don't think it really matters this season tbh. No trouble getting away tickets for anyone who wants one.

That is pretty much true just at present, but the OP is dead right, some of the start of sale times are a bit daft. (Like Newcastle for example!)

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It's ridiculous when (as I've mentioned on here before) I read a piece not that long ago that showed the percentage of its income a PL club gets via gate money and that percentage is extremely small. The article was actually saying they could pretty much let all fans in for free as it's such a small...

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Yes ....but the article shows that many people had their snouts in an apparently highly profitable trough ....while the principal actor in all this finished up being shunted onto a single engined piston powered plane with a part-time pilot - and there seems to be some doubt as to whether the pilot ...

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I agree that players (of any age) probably do need representation as unscrupulous chairmen (persons?) could well get them to sign crappy deals, but what appears to have become the norm in football is clubs paying the agent's fee on top of any transfer money, when in actual fact the agent is working ...

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Even after reading the article I'm still unsure why it needs 5 different "agents" to sort a transfer which then inevitably means 5 cuts of money. What are they all actually doing? If we accept that players need an agent as they're busy people and not necessarily very business savvy, why do...

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The away games against Brighton and Newcastle are more "mustn't lose" whereas the home games against Cardiff, Leicester and Palace become "must win. If we then get a couple of points from Bournemouth, Wolves and maybe Everton, we'll probably be ok. I accept Palace and Leicester are mo...

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Yes, I think anyone under 21 should probably have a responsible adult in there with them, just in case any over enthusiastic charimen try to have their trousers down!! But most other people could probably manage alone!!!

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Rileybobs wrote:If you're a 17 year old kid negotiating a contract with a seasoned chairman you're going to have your pants pulled down.

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You are right, Cricketfield, but it still makes very interesting reading and gives us an insight into how football must be absolutely awash with what are basically leeches sucking money out of the game and using talented, but very impressionable lads as a cash cow. They are only looking after their ...

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Which makes next week's game ANOTHER huge match for both teams.

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