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Yep. First Palace, then Utd, then everybody else a long way behind. I suspect those numbers are broadly reflected across the support.

No jacket required. I think that's excellent. (One point of order, peeps - can we stop using the word 'crescendo' to describe the big explosive end of this process, please? This, here, this 400-page thread, the medical, all that stuff, this is the crescendo. A crescendo is the slow build to a...

Leicester just paid £12.5 million for a fourth-choice goalkeeper. This kind of fee will barely register these days, as absurd as that is. We're not United, City, Spurs, Arsenal, Liverpool or Chelsea, so while it's not exactly under the radar, nor is it setting off any seismological alarms.

Me too. This still has some way to go to beat the greatest of them all, that of Vicente Rodriguez. (World goes sepia...) I got very little work done that day. *sigh*

Dundee United. Broke the Old Firm hegemony back in the 80s, at least for a couple of seasons, and beat Barcelona on their own patch. Epic run to the UEFA Cup final in '84. None of those things will happen again but what can you do? And, of course, the mighty East Stirlingshire. Out of the...

I think Rowett's experience at Birmingham has probably given him a pretty clear view of 'loyalty' in football these days. And I understand the earlier point about fans' irrational ire for players who want to leave, but since when as football support been about rational, logical thinking? If...

According to this article in La Voz de Galicia, not only are we likely to be back in pretty promptly, but it's Hughton specifically who's keen on him. I have no idea how well informed a Galego regional is going to be about the goings-on inside English clubs, but it's clear that it's not just the...

It's rare indeed that a Man U goal brings me any happiness, but they can have that one with our compliments. I think the apposite term is 'marvellous scenes'.

Dedicating the comeback to the fans who stayed is indeed fine - but he could have left it at that. He didn't have to have a pop at supporters who have turned up to see a side not exactly setting the division on fire. As we've seen, though, there's nothing he won't try to use as a motivational tool.

Living abroad now, and only getting back for occasional games having kept my season ticket. This is one, frankly, I'm not unhappy to miss. They're just awful experiences - the shit going on in town, the appalling nervousness leading up to it, the feeling of terror at any prospect of losing. And...

Indeed, but no amount of money can buy the feeling of what games like this mean, particularly to the old hands. You simply couldn't replace that with something else. With anything else.Even if I could see the future, and knew we'd lose this 0-4, I still wouldn't miss it. Result regardless...

Ditto. I went - I lived near Blackheath at the time so a mate drove down to all the games - but the idea of needing a season ticket was laughable.How things have changed.

Despite having moved abroad I've kept my season ticket, with no guarantee of seeing more than three or four games this season, and flown back from Spain for this game. I believe that answers that question. No chance I'm missing this one - opponents were irrelevant.This is the best expression of...

Got mine this morning, but the plastic tat which was supposed to be under the lift-up thingy was all absent - no wallet, for example. If I cared, I'd be FURIOUS.

"As a club, we are keen to ensure our fans receive the correct information and facts rather than read misinformation from outside sources." If that were true, one possible way to ensure it happened would be to, ooh, I don't know, publish said information yourselves in the first place? Most...

Just look at the examples from Scotland on the Beeb's website of players who were punished retrospectively for what is, to give it its proper name, cheating. If it helps get rid of that, then I don't see how it can be anything but a good thing. Even if it doesn't get rid of it, it at least metes...

At Mattersburg in Austria, but hasn't played since March. Oddly, they were bottom of the league when he was featuring reasonably regularly, but recovered to comfortably stay up once he dropped out of the side. Coincidence or not good enough for that level? Edit - I've been slightly unfair on...

Congratulations to Huddersfield and best of luck in the final. I think you'll go with most people's best wishes - be nice to see two sides up there who haven't yet supped of the milk and honey. Actually, thinking about it, I'm going to watch this again. It makes me smile, for some reason...

Chortle. Memories of gloating, barely coherent Wednesday fans at Falmer station last year spring to mind. Marvellous scenes.

This is bloody tense even when you're not involved! So happy not to have to go through the play-offs again. Anybody but Wednesday, for me. So I'm happy with how this is going.