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I had no idea that Stoolball was unique to Sussex until I went away to university and mentioned it to my very confused northern housemates. I just assumed everyone played it at primary school like I did.

Honestly not bothered about Welbeck not scoring. This is a bit of an oversimplification, but only a bit: Maupay failed to score because he was fluffing chances, Welbeck fails to score because he's creating chances.

Apparently Juventus are interested in Roberto De Zerbi as a replacement for Allegri. Can't see us beating them to him, if that's true. Though at the moment I suspect it might just be social media chatter (apparently their fans on social media want Allegri out and De Zerbi in, which I can imagine...

I wonder what poor Bodø did to warrant this snub! :)

I'm starting to feel like this is becoming almost a straight contest between Knutsen and De Zerbi tbh. But I'm often wrong about this kind of thing. Of those two, I think I like the cut of Knutsen's gib more, he seems like a closer fit for the way the team and club is set up. But De Zerbi has...

Worth noting that by the standards of the modern game, his tenure hasn't been a "brief time". Isn't he like the 6th-longest serving manager in the division right now (at least, until the Chelsea move is confirmed)? The timing sucks, but if it wasn't happening now, I suspect it'd be happening...

Honestly think that Bloom has known for a while who the next Brighton manager will be. There's no way he hasn't had a list of 3-4 names for ages.

I'm sure Bloom has had a list for ages, there's no way he's not prepared for this.

Not totally on-topic, but I send a bit of money to my brother in London every month to help him get by, and it's notable that even though the Czech crown is weak at the moment, the amount of pounds my brother is getting for the same amount of crowns I send each month keeps going up and up. As...

I'm not sure Leicester's owners really do the whole "credit in the bank" thing - remember they sacked Ranieri nine months after he won the Premier League with them

I met Paul, Linda and James McCartney on Brighton Marina as a kid. My dad, whose name was John, was very surprised when Paul McCartney said "hello John, what are you doing here?" to him like they were friends. Turned out he mistook my dad for John Thaw, to whom Dad bore some resemblance at the time.

Whoops, cheers, will edit. I was born in 79 so don't have first-hand memories of it

Yeah, I get that, but by definition your heyday is your period of greatest success, i.e. you only really get one. So, by describing the mid 90s as Forest's heyday, that fan is saying their success in the mid-90s was better than their success in the 80s, which is objectively not true.

Bit confused to see the Forest fan refer to their "mid-90s heyday". Surely their heyday was when they were winning league titles and European cups in the 80s. [Edit - 1978-80 apparently]

If she did, she'd end up "committing suicide" like Epstein (although I suspect that's going to happen anyway)

Liam got the gig. At least, temporarily. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/derby-wayne-rooney-derbyshire-american-league-one-b2109765.html

Like everyone else (I think), I'd prefer us to keep Cucu if possible. The news of his likely departure was a bit upsetting - but then I remembered feeling upset when we lost Elliot Bennett to Norwich and Leonardo Ulloa to Leicester. The fact that it's Champions League teams coming after our...

I have some theoretical sympathy with the "we'd vote for a terrible head of state" view. But this supposes that we get better heads of state from the Windsor family. And to answer that, I feel like I need to point to the existence of Prince Charles. Our next head of state is guaranteed to be a...

He most definitely doesn't perceive himself as a communist. His whole politics is anti-communist! He launched this war with a speech condemning Lenin ffs! My god, does nobody care what words mean anymore?

This is so ill-informed it makes my head hurt. Putin is a right-wing, capitalist, nationalist dictator, not a communist one. The west helped him into power partly because they feared a resurgence of communism in Russia after the disastrous Yeltsin years, and trusted him to do whatever it took to...