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I rather like mickey-taking in football: it helps all of us take the game less seriously. Maddison is fairly good at it himself. I recall him taking a corner at the Amex in front of the North Stand purposely placing the ball outside the quadrant. The North Stand predictably went apoplectic and...

I’m going to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for the first time. I’m travelling by train up from Sussex. What’s the best public transport option from which mainline rail station, please? I’m happy to walk reasonable distances if it makes life easier with fewer queues. Thanks.

“Nick some profit off the market”? Otherwise known as what is earning or paying people their pension. Insider trading is nicking money off you and me.

Does anyone know of a pub with one of these? Played it a lot in the seventies. It’s a great game for beginners and experts alike with the chance of jeopardy always hanging over you. And it took up a quarter of the footprint of a pool table.

I use splitmyfare.co.uk. It seems to do the job and is very transparent. It shows you exactly what it’s going to do before you buy, even trusting you don’t go away and buy the split tickets yourself and take all the savings. They take a small (and publicised) cut of the savings. There are a...

I agree. I’m a 1901er that sees seats around me at the Amex that have different inhabitants at each home game (so presumably corporate) but I also see the vast majority that are just ordinary fans. I’d been a season ticket holder in West Upper from Championship days. In my late sixties I got fed...

Take a piece of paper. Write down your view of how much each asset is worth based on how much you paid for it, and how you perceive that value has gone up or down, using trade practices and wet fingers. Add it all up and write that figure at the bottom of the piece of paper. Screw-up the piece...

Presumably people go to games (home or away) for enjoyment. Nobody forces you. If the enjoyment of attending is more than offset by the pain of attending (rail fares etc) then presumably you don’t go. Everyone has a different equation there but it all follows the same rules: if you attend it’s...

Out of interest, are PL clubs allowed to have contracts with players preventing, or hindering, them playing for their country?

I've just got Spurs and Sheffield as required. Hundreds left for both.

I’m still a bit new to this away games thingy (went to my first five last year) but want to try for Spurs and Sheffield United tomorrow morning. I got caught out in a “dry” area at one of my games last year and don’t want to repeat that. Will there be choices for areas for these grounds or will...

Why is it that the exponential increase in number of celebrity chefs over the decades is inversely proportionate to the amount of real cooking done in the country?

1901 members, like me, might be feeling a little left out here, and they tend to have a nervous disposition that really shouldn’t be disturbed. I’ve spotted that our window opens tomorrow (Thursday) at 9 rather than today. In the same manner as for the group stages, they have to pick their seat...

I take your point, but I just think if it were a little more balanced, we’d have stronger clubs all the way down the leagues.

If we pay to see the players we’d more likely all go to see Man C. We don’t, we go to see BHAFC. They’re the ones who should get a bigger cut of the income rather than the players. But I’m a believer in the market and that dictates salaries so we have to suck it up.

Most of which slithers through the club into the pockets of the players.

His “more natural position” seems to be “anywhere”.

There was utter rebellion in 1901 after the goal. There seemed to be a concerted effort to stay standing until the end. Well, that felt like the start of the October revolution. Luckily, for the sake of stable society, a few old dodgers couldn’t stand-up for that long, sat down, and yelled at...

If we didn’t repeatedly give the opposition goals after our total domination we wouldn’t have to whistle at goalies wasting time or blame referees for our failings.

If there are four eight carriage trains an hour going through Falmer it’d be better than the usual service with short trains. Is that “insider” information or can anyone find out how many carriages will be put on? It’d really help planning my departure from the ground.