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I agree on Catch 22 and Candide; really surprised to see them mentioned. Dickens is also one of my favourites, but I can see why modern readers might find him a bit heavy going. However maybe there's another possible thread: "Books you think you should read but haven't even started" All of...

I must admit every time I see this thread I read it as 'Booing Starliner'. At first I thought he played for Arsenal ...

Never got to the appendix! I was young and it was back in the 1970s, and I wanted to be the only Marxist I knew who had actually, shock horror, read Marx. (I did manage The Communist Manifesto)

My prediction: The Cleveland Browns will NOT win the Superbowl. (In fact judging by pre-season we'll be lucky to assemble a winning season).

Lord of the Rings. (Boring) Gormenghast. (Maybe I should have read Titus Groan first?) Das Kapital. (Volume 1. Never even got onto the other volumes)

As my go-to local chippy, the Model Fish Fryer in Preston Drove, seems to be permanently closed I've got to give a big shout-out to J & E Fish Bar, aka 'The chippy in The Dip'. Absolutely excellent. Quite slow service though if you just turn up, so I've taken to ordering in advance. And on a...

They would have been, they really would. Frankly though you could probably have called them if someone had suggested it after our first couple of seasons in the Prem. Remember those first couple of transfer windows when we were desparate for a striker? NSC once had a meltdown because we hadn't...

Yeah, Currys mikky ovs are bussin'. Well dank.

Regularly pay £500+ for two tickets to Glyndebourne. It's our one big treat of the year and we go for the best seats. (Saw Carmen this year).

Just to be slightly facetious re the empty seats - I thought the Hundred was supposed to be turning 'women and children' into cricket fans? I put it to you ladies and gentlemen of the jury that all it's done is perhaps turn them into Hundred fans, and they have much interest in Test cricket now...

End of thread! :lolol: Yes the fee is low, but I'd like to think it's out of respect to WBG. Look at those names! When (IF!) they're all fit can you see WBG being a regular starter? He's a good player, a popular player, and when it became obvious that he wasn't going to be the first name on...

This is the sensible and correct answer. If the club genuinely feel that there is a job somewhere in our setup that he can do and that no one else reasonably can, then yes, he can come back tomorrow. We'll let bygones be bygones, and he can play his role in helping to take us forward. As in...

Ha! I was going to start a similar thread as to whether Jay Williams has now taken over from Scott McGelish as our biggest wanker opponent. I'm going to say 'yes'. The McGleish stuff was more pantomime and I never really bore him any real ill-will. Hopefully when O'Riley has just played a...

Ha! No, not even we English consider 23c to be 'extremely hot', and certainly not in this era. Not sure why the organisers think that. Perhaps they're worried that the forecast is wrong and it will be 33c. Better to be safe than sorry and all that, and the dogs' welfare must come first (which...

Blimey, it's become gentrified! I grew up in Lancing (1966 to 1990) and whilst it didn't happen every week there were often fights in/outside the pubs: Farmers, Merry Monk, Britannia, Crabtree and Balltree (Sompting) being the main offenders. Usually not big ones, often just a couple of blokes...

Booked. I hear the premiere went well - sold out!

Obviously, incredibly sad, but it's not 'our' Izquierdo. https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/aug/28/juan-izquierdo-uruguay-footballer-death-aged-27-collapse

Indeed. Also if Williams didn't even get booked can he get a retrospective red card? I know that yellows can't be upgraded as the ref is deemed to have 'seen' the incident and thought a yellow sufficient punishment. But if this was unpunished on the pitch can the FA/League get involved?

Actually I don't think it's bizarre at all. He was a top-rated coach. Looking at it from our modern perspective he would have been ideal, but obviously the thinking at the time was that in order to be a successful England manager you should have been a successful club manager first. (We now...

Exactly. Initially because of the poor grammar no one could understand it. Where they saying "Well done!" to us for getting from near-oblivion to a lovely new ground? Or were they having a snide dig because the stadium name was sponsored? Eventually I think we decided they were having a dig -...