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The answer to this question lies with how many matches Crawley would have to play there to win. If you think they would win once every 20 matches, then these are good odds. If you think they would win once every 27+ matches, then these are poor odds.

Those increases are both 120%. Your calculation was also inflationary :)

Victorian and Edwardian halfpennies also turned up, but they must have been much scarcer as I don't have much of a collection of them. As for the silver coins, pre-1947 examples were fairly rare as their silver content exceeded their face value. The same thing happened with the current 1p and 2p...

They were called 'threpenny bits', not joeys! They were small, thick, twelve sided coins with a brass like appearance. The joeywas a nickname for the groat (4d piece), although it may have (incorrectly?) been used for the silver threepenny piece. This was about the diameter of the current 5p...

Call me a pedant, but that's not strictly true! Bits of France are on other continents, such as Martinique in the West Indies. Uniquely, the nation includes these colonies as France proper, which means we have bits of the EU that are nowhere near Europe.

In one month during 1975 or 1976 the annual rate of inflation hit 26.9%.

I think you are mixing your metaphors there, Marc!

Well spotted, I'm sure LondonBlue has always thought that 1p = 7d.

Snowlee you have been reported again and will be banned within minutes. So, do us all a favour and f*** off now.

You should have put on an Italian accent! Thanks for restoring that thread title BTW.

You mean lower than £sd prices? Reported as spam.

That looks like spin for 'over two years ago'. That's an awful long time in football management terms.

Indeed, it was a rip off. In 1968-69 admission was only 4/- (East Terrace, adult).

There's no need for the sarcasm. In fact, there were only ten posts to glance through before yours, and three of them mentioned the error.

As you haven't even stated the current goal difference (let alone the table), I really can't be arsed to look it up.

Indeed, these people wouldn't dream of saying "one thousand nine hundred and eleven". Although people at that time referred to years up to 1909 as "nineteen hundred and (1-9)", I'm sure they switched to "nineteen eleven" at the start of that decade.

I have XP Home but not MS Word, and cannot find the clipboard. How do I access older copied text that I have not yet pasted?

I was twelve at the time and adept at converting the new prices back to the old ones. I, also, remember the cynical profiteering by retailers, and to this day I believe this kick started a surge in the demand for higher wages and was the catalyst for the massive inflation of the mid-1970s...

Incorrect on two counts. Firstly, the old copper coins lost their legal tender status immediately on that day, although the banks were obviously obliged to exchange them for new pence for some time thereafter. The silver coins, however, took years to integrate , actually commencing in 1968 when...

Oi!