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There was a bit of a furore when Shankly left Liverpool. He used to turn up at the training ground until he was banned. There was a big row in the press about how badly a loyal servant had been treated and Everton made it clear that he was welcome there. In retrospect, Liverpool did the right...

I've seen very few references to this but I think it was a factor in the second yellow. The first foul was a borderline red but the ref didn't give it. Having seen him kick the ball away, the ref was in no mood to give him the benefit of the doubt again. I'm not a football ref but I am a rugby...

As mentioned earlier, my trans son is perfectly happy playing in male sport. No-one has complained. There's another trans male in the same rugby team - it is the Brighton LGBT team after all (no Ls in it though)

The Munich factor was huge. It was before my time but it was still being talked about 10 years later. My dad wasn't a Utd fan but spoke in reverent terms of that team. I think there was also the Manchester factor. Liverpool had become the cultural capital of England and Manchester could be...

There is one already TRUK Utd. There's also a TRUK Utd made up of trans men - they lost to Dulwich Hamlet in an inaugural match last season. There's also a trans men rugby team that my son is involved in but it's only just getting off the ground. BTW, for those people who say that it doesn't...

Veltman - a clear favourite. I said that last week, before his antics on Saturday. Even before his shithousery with Rice, he was playing superbly - kept Trossard pretty quiet

Surely Lamptey would have been a better option at LB? Hinshelwood looks lost

Hinshelwood already looking shaky

Not sure I understand the caution by some. We've already seen three of the players in PL action (albeit Rutter only briefly) and none looked overwhelmed. It's hard for a player to adjust to English football and we've seen several players struggle at first, so although Wieffer and Minteh had a...

Yeah, people can develop later. I know someone who played with Gary Lineker as a kid and said that he wasn't the best player in the team. And I've mentioned before that I have a mate who was in the school team with Andy Kennedy. He said that Mad Dog wasn't even in the best four or five players...

I've had a look - to answer my own question - and he doesn't seem to be related to Pernille. Perhaps Harder is a particularly common Danish name. Pity though, Pernille is some player

Pernille's brother?

On a good batting pitch against the county equivalent of the Dog and Duck 3rd XI? 37 is just about the same FC average as Carter - I wonder how much he'd have got

If you're looking for people who have gone off the scale since their football career, you could add Le Tissier to the list

Because there are three people in our department and the other two are away - they booked months ago. Grrr

I can't believe that Clark is being given yet another chance ... poor Oli Carter I'm a bit pissed off this week. I was going to book a couple of days off work to watch this but, for the first time in my working life, a holiday request was refused

I'd have put Henry Hughton above Zaha - I don't really dislike Mr Tumble, he's actually a decent player. I think McGleish is more of a pantomime villain too, all knockabout stuff. Barton is a really nasty piece of work, clear winner here

I remember seeing The Clash there in 1978. Don't think I've seen so much violence at a gig, the support act were attacked on stage and there were blokes going through the audience just randomly twatting people. Bloke standing near me, who was just minding his own business, got a Glasgow kiss for...

I had the reverse. I had an excursion into West Lower, quite near the dugout - so I had a good view of Fab going mental. I liked being close to the pitch but I missed the atmosphere of the North.

I thought the only players who were decent were Webster and Igor - even Verbruggen looked shaky. Baleba had his moments, but his decision making is poor. I do wonder whether Ferguson and ACD were due to get on the pitch but Fab decided that he wasn't going to risk them against that team of...