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Your paragraph about Reading’s uncertain future reminded me all over again about Robert Maxwell’s ungodly plan to merge Reading and Oxford United into a bastardised, miscegenated entity called Thames Valley Royals. Possibly only prevented by the timely happenstance of him falling off his yacht...

Proton VPN for me too. The free version is fine, pretty reliable and works with TTV, but doesn’t let you choose the remote server, i.e. which country, and mine defaults to the Netherlands. Sometimes that connection can be reluctant to come up, I guess at busy times, and like everything IT-wise...

Many years ago before they moved to the Kassam, my train to Oxford for a 3pm ko was delayed, so I arrived late. Took the rare decision to jump in a taxi, and said to the driver “football ground please mate”. Paid him off, jumped out, only to discover he’d taken me to Oxford CITY - (who didn’t...

Um stating the obvious here, but any chance of posting the list with points? think we’d all like to see it?

According to this link off the BBC’s gossip page https://www.calciomercato.it/2022/11/15/calciomercato-patino-arsenal-blackpool-iniesta-barcellona/ Not a shred of attribution so no idea what the sources are, but Google translates as follows: “The school is the noble school of Hale End, the...

Southend away May 1988 last game of the season. Car broke down on A13 on the way in pouring rain. Finally got it going but only arrived covered in oil and grease in time for second half, parked up in some local side street. Lost 4-0, uncovered away end. When I returned to the car, some local...

and had their only shot on target, they only scored with a lucky o.g. Good luck to him but we move on…

Undefeated in qualifying, 70 goals scored, none conceded… but can they do it on a Tuesday night in Stoke (v Luxembourg) ? 😊

Watched it about a dozen times now on Sky, and no way is it serious foul play, it’s a deliberate trip, so a yellow. The response was serious foul play, just watch the side angle, and is a red. Surprised nobody has mentioned how Jimmy and Marv bossed the melee (as Sky call it) - great to see our...

Sadly this was only too true.

Ballard went off injured after 9 minutes. He’s susceptible to injuries. And Sunderland managed to snatch a draw from the jaws of victory in the last 5 minutes. Yes, not sure that’s a flyer.

I took flexi-retirement in the months leading up to normal retirement age - redundancy was never an option, my role wasn’t redundant (I helped recruit my successor). I loved it, 5 days down to 3, Thursdays became the new Friday, that Sunday night/ Monday morning feeling vanished overnight. One...

- ‘Dad, dad, there‘s man at the door with a bill’ - ‘Don’t be silly son - it must be a duck with a hat on’ (the late, great, Al Read)

…and when we got promoted to the prem I will never forget how some lazy, ignorant, smart-arse hacks in the football press suggested we might get even fewer points - “are Blackpool the worst team ever to be promoted?…” etc. etc. And then we won 4-0 away on the first day. Soon shut that crap up!

Hi Jane, just to say congratulations on your article on Blackpool pubs in the new edition of Camra’s BEER magazine - a pleasant surprise to see you in there as guest contributor. 180,000 Camra members will read that, plus it’s very good timing, as this edition will be available to thousands of...