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The 701 has just started service. I just love the idea of new services, but I just don’t get it. It goes hourly from Brighton to Eastbourne (shame we’ve not got a service that already does that) but decides to go via Falmer, Lewes (bypass), Beddingham (but doesn’t stop there), Newhaven, and then...

What a great weekend away (and I’m still here). I wore my colours all day in the city centre with not a murmur from anyone, except from weirdos in mufti who whispered “sea-siders” to me as they walked by. Dunno why they were in disguise. Nattered to various Geordies in various Spoons. The...

I thought it brave to take off Enciso when they did (he was by far our best player): maybe the management is learning about preventing injuries.

I was there, and they were on to us from the moment we scored for time-wasting. I don’t like us doing it, but while all the other teams do it, and aren’t penalised, we have to do the same. Bart is becoming an expert at it.

I wasn’t able to do my “lucky” short-cut through a muddy gap between the fence and and a column when coming off the west-bound railway platform, because they’ve put a temporary fence there. So it was me that really swung it.

Instead of the usual people next to me I had some newbies, one of whom clearly, by all his shouting, knew more about football than RDZ. Every time we had the ball he knew exactly the pass that should have been made even if didn’t have a clue who the players were, with comments like “pass it to...

So all we need today is for Bart to run out for a ball that Dunk is about to chest back to him, and then them to clatter together in a horrifying mixture of gore, blood and exposed bones and you’d have a full Crocks Eleven?

There’s nothing longer than 4 carriages (and most are three) going through Falmer at the moment and they rarely lay-on extra carriages after the start of the day (maybe @jackalbion could say whether any additional coaches are ever put on within a day), so getting home after an evening game will...

Yup, I was there in Burnley. I had a 5% local ale at £2.63 a pint.

The coldest people today will be the young ladies I saw on Preston station, getting the train to Aintree dressed in not much at all.

It’s frighteningly cold here, with a wind that’d cut through steel.

I could be wrong here, but in my experience if you buy hospitality you tend to be put into either a specific corralled area of the East (top of the lower) or in amongst the 1901 West Middle where they’re used to away supporters (who are allowed). I don’t think hospitality customers are ever put...

But they’ve put on a load of long trains going through Falmer today apart from one four-carriage set on the Ore route.

Yup, my Dad told me and my brothers not to listen to it or we’d be arrested. In Seaford we got better reception from Radio London (same system: boat in the Thames estuary). The BBC were so late catching-up, with minimal transmission of pop music on the Light programme. While we’re at it, you...

I wish everyone would shut-up about Lisbon and thereby stop it becoming the next Prague. But, OK then, I’ll chip-in. What I love most is the cityscape. Hills and contours make a city and you have that everywhere in Lisbon with winding steps, public lifts, and funicular railways. In parts the...

Leave him alone.

I wouldn’t want to get through that defensive line.

From the picture you can see some delays but there are some (but there still could be more) nice, long trains on the tracks today.

Around this time of year we get claims that our points rally should be enough to keep us up. I hope my stats are right, but since there have been 20 teams in the league the range of points achieved by the 17th team is 34-42. We’re on 35 so near the bottom end of that range.

I left at full time and did a brisk walk (ten minutes) to Northumberland Park station. I walked straight onto the platform and onto a train that went to Liverpool Street with only one stop. I wish the Amex were that easy.