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Of course the Pistols were overrated. They took all the plaudits, but as the music press has since confirmed, punk, like blues, country, soul, hip hop, jungle, funk, metal, electro, disco, reggae, opera, folk, chamber music and cavemen bashing stretched animal skins with bones, was all the...

Dawkins is an excellent writer on evolutionary biology. I've read a few of his books having no background in the field and he writes with clarity and passion on his subject. I should have been an easy audience for his book on religion, as I'd lapped up Hitchens' book and my views are similar...

A lot of these tactical analysis articles miss out a big grey flappy eared fella trunking down buns in front of them. Burnley and Southampton had amongst the most expensive and best squads of players in the Championship. They had/have amongst the least expensive and worst squads in the EPL...

I love a lot of Scorcese's films, but Raging Bull? Nope. I'm sure the performances are great, but it's flabby and too pleased with it's own profundity. Stick with 'Rocky'. The first one's great.

You can say it. You just did.

The Beatles . 😉

Less I'd imagine. 72p for a pint of Toby Bitter when I started drinking in pubs a few years after that. (Of course you may have been drinking something less crap). Some of my happiest memories are of lunchtime sessions. There's something Proustian about sunlight coming through the window and...

If Jenrick is the turd sandwich, I guess he'll be removing the olive in case it's too welcoming.

It seems the quiz setter has either asked a trick question, or just looked it up on something like Transfermarkt. They record the fee as the total including sell on fees. We did end up paying about £25m, after selling him to Chelsea for such a huge profit, but the initial fee was £4.5m...

Interesting combination of the two things. McKenzie's analysis talks of the tactical approach forcing Spurs into more 1 v 1 duels. In the first half, as evidenced by our failure to get out often, we weren't winning these duels. In the second half, after the riling up from the old heads, we...

Interesting comment from Glenn Murray at 2.40 on this video. He says that Rutter's datasheet numbers were so off the chart that we felt strongly that he was worth the record fee.

Not so sure about that. Phil Stant was a Falklands veteran who I seem to remember had served in the SAS.

Surely Veltman to centre back, Kadioglu, Lamptey, or Hinshelwood to right back would be Plan B, if either Dunk or Igor got hurt.

Brighton have, but Transfermarkt has a lot of them listed as on loan from the first team and I was counting only those listed as being on loan from the U21s, so that it was a like for like comparison. Beadle, BBB, O'Mahony, Choucane, Jackson, Barrington, Nilsson & Doyle. Palace also have...

Someone asked how Palace crumbled and James responded: "2 or 3 with the first team squad and a lot out on loans. Doesn’t defend the 10 goals held but definitely not our strongest U21 squad" One player from Palace's first eleven from the win against Forest in their last game was in the first...

Welbeck's form is Evan's problem. You can't drop him at the moment. Four goals and an assist in 7 EPL games this season. Palmer's the only Englishman who has more EPL goals so far this year. If he keeps that up for the whole year, he's going to break the 20 a season mark. :ROFLMAO...

All of those except Milner have been called up to International duty. I haven't seen whether any have withdrawn. Although, in the cases of Gruda, Wieffer and Ferguson, they are probably at the stage where some game time for their countries would be useful.

He's only made two starts, so hasn't had much of a chance to get used to the pace of the EPL. He will have been used to having more space in Holland, so will have to adapt and playing regularly will be an important part of that. After the summer signings, I expected him and O'Reilly to be our...

Interesting that it was Baleba rather than Hinshelwood who came off for Wieffer. He's now started in every game this season except the Crawley match and played 90 minutes in all but one. He's only started a few games in the midfield and will need more time to embed himself, but that needs to...

His record on tap-ins is not flawless.