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Jeez. I never had you down as such a reactionary little wannabe dictator.

Maybe for some, but there's nothing stopping people from just idling away their Sundays if that's what they want to do - just don't try and force it on the rest of us. If anything I'd say there isn't enough activity on Sundays. The big supermarkets shut early (4:00pm), and as I mentioned...

Yes! B&Q especially. Well quite, and one of the ways we access it is by going out. Ideally by public transport, which is one area that has stayed a resolute supporter of the 'Keep Sunday Special' campaign

As a slight aside I realised my star rating system was not the same as others so I've tried to change it. If everything was ok and how I expected it I'd give three stars. A bit better, four. A bit worse, two. Very rarely gave one or five stars as it would have to be exceptional (at either...

I got to 66 some time back in the early/mid 80s. Nearly all with Brighton as we'd gone from the 3rd to the 1st divisions so there were a lot of new grounds almost every season. I got to the stage where I was picking and choosing matches based on whether I could tick the ground off or not...

I'm with you. I can't believe the number of people who think we should go back to the 'Good Old Days'. Sundays weren't 'chilled' they were unbeliveably and unremittingly boring.

*Holds up hand* ...and I carried on thinking it until your post made me read the thread title more closely! At first I thought the OP was getting a bit of unwarranted stick, but yes, I'm going to join in now ... Who gives a shit? Stupid load of corporate bollocks designed by FIFA just...

Yes. I always found him a warm and engaging presenter, and as a young girl my daughter loved him. Ok, like a lot of famous people it turns out he was a complete arsehole in real life, and he does now appear to have gone completely 'Prince Andrew', but he was good at what he did.

Indeed. There is absolutely nothing said on NSC that in earlier days wouldn't have been said on the bus, train, pub, workplace, etc. And of course at the match itself. And a lot of it is heat-of-the-moment bollocks which after a cooling-off period the poster might even slightly regret. (The...

I knew it was Welsh for seagull, but I've always wondered how you pronounce it? Is it Gw-eye-lan? (Which is how I always say it to myself when I see it).

Back in the 1950s (the decade I was born) Brighton and Hove Albion didn't have a proper nickname. You can argue about the use of Shrimps or Seasiders but there was no fixed, definitive, universally-agreed name like 'Seagulls' now. To try and rectify this the Supporters' Club had a competition...

Correct. And whilst I appreciate that economic arguments don't cut much ice with a lot of Greens who only every look at problems from an environmental point of view it is worth pointing out that not only is it a billion-pound industry that employs (full and part-time) several thousand people...

Well thanks for that! :lolol: Yeah, still a lot wrong. And talking of Joe Flacco I see he was still good enough to beat the Steelers, wish we'd stuck with him. The only crumb of comfort I'm getting is that at least our Faustian pact is backfiring, thus bringing the happy day when Watson...

Don't know anything about the Cleveland game other than we lost to the Raiders. I don't think I want to know anything either. Suffice to say my prediction that the Browns won't win the Superbowl is looking pretty good.

.... and 'talking funny'

Blimey, I think I agree with every one of those! (Especially Barry Davies who I always preferred to John 'ha ha' Motson). EDIT: Just realised I've replied to a post over ELEVEN years old! Fell for a Crodo bounce.

Was that at Horsfall? I went there in an Albion beanie hat and a bloke bought me a pint! (I was writing the occasional article for their fanzine at the time about the similarities between the clubs - exile and then home but in an athletics stadium)

I'm with you 100%. We had a similar discussion last year about the Northern Soul prom. In the old days you could pick any Prom and you knew you'd get 'proper' music. Nowadays it's the disco prom, the film music prom, the Dr Who(!) prom etc etc - and I hate it! Yes yes I'm a grumpy old man but I...

To balance it up I've just voted for Stoke!

Yeah, everyone's saying that. No one has yet given a good reason as to why he won't pick him for the League Cup games.