In my opinion Naples is the most misunderstood city in Italy: yes, be careful in some areas, but generally it's astonishing - absolutely worth a walk through the central, touristy areas. Most parts of the Amalfi coast are stunning - but it does take ages by car or bus - three hours from end to end i...

Believe what you want of this... A friend of mine met the WHL project manager on holiday this summer. The project manager reckons there's 10% chance of WHL being ready for season 2018-19, and claimed that Wembley only take bookings for the entire season - so Spurs will have to years away from home. ...

Top thread. From a slightly different angle: I was brought up in Pendle, but my Dad wouldn't take me to football and so I had to wait until I was old enough to go on myself. That first time, a late-summer night match on the longside, left me hooked (and like many other on this thread, 'hooked' is ex...

I was lucky enough to live in Rome for a couple of years and I still visit regularly. If it helps, here's where I always go (and where I send visitors who ask for tips): Historic Centre: - Hostaria Farnese (via Baullari, 109) between Campo dei Fiori and Piazza Farnese. Classic Old School pastas, but...

That third at Newcastle, when it looked like the game was over...

A good thread; it reminds us to enjoy these glorious days! As mentioned by others above, for me it was always between: Burnley 0-1 Rochdale (with 9 men at the end), about 1990, and that 3-2 cup defeat at the Riverside (with a few minutes left, and Payton sent off right in front of us by the goalie m...

Here's a story to scare the youngsters. Back in the mid-1990s, when email was a new invention, and there was very little footie on TV (and we were very poor, so on TV very, very rarely) one of the earliest email lists for clarets would organise for a video cassette of one of these rare games to be s...