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I share your sense of delusion with the club's current marketing approach, Gritty, but have always been able to keep that completely separate from my own expectations of on-field performance. While I regard this forthcoming season with some trepidation, fearing a long, desperate slog with little...

How long have they had to get that 'ing thing working properly? As soon as there's any demand, usually at the point where tickets first go on sale to season ticket holders, it throws its digital hands up in the air and basically gives up. We need some kind of regular antonym for 'Marvellous...

Can't share your views - won't let me log in at all. Usual shambles in my case - telling me 'an error occurred' each time I try to log in.

It was fun baiting him, but at the end of the day he was a superb cricketer and a good captain. I saw his last Ashes innings in England, at the Oval in 2009, the day we took the urn. The genuine sense of respect the England fans felt for him was shown when he came out to bat and when he walked...

The Kanchelskis one must have run it fairly close?

The opposite side of that coin is employers taking advantage of their legal rights to 'employ' people on zero-hours contracts, for example. There's rarely a nice, happy middle ground because the motivations of the two sides are diametrically opposed. The strike is a monumental pain for those...

I've done e/w Lucky 15s on the four divisions with Ladbrokes before, so I believe it can be done.

Its future, if it's to have one, is online. Unfortunately, the online version is such a shambles that it bodes pretty poorly for its longer-term prospects. They simply don't bother with sub-editing any more, instead leaving it to the comments section to point out the constant stream of mistakes...

Indeed, Napper, but no commercially aware club is going to turn down Sky's 30 pieces of silver – most clubs quite literally can't afford to. The exigencies of Mammon basically have all clubs by the balls.

Now all but guaranteed to miss it. Opening f@$#ing day. Thanks very much, Sky.

It's all about one's own response to these things, Boz. Personally, no matter how good the source, how often it's repeated, how firmly it's believed, I choose to accept a signing as happening when I see it on the official site, the player photographed with the shirt. It'd be foolish to then be...

All the London ones as usual. Hull – been to the city but never the ground and have friends up there. Hopefully that'll remain on the Saturday. Certainly won't go to MK – f@#k them.

Downgraded within five minutes of receiving the email. They pay zillions for Champions' League, a competition I don't give a damn about, then expect me to pay for something I won't watch anyway. Only upset is I suspect, with the 'Lite' service, I'll see a lot less baseball. About to ditch Sky...

Cheers, Boz. Wasn't for that - I've no plans to bet on his destination - but if you go to Ladbrokes site right now, for example, there are books running on dozens of other players regardless of the hour. Couldn't get a quote on him, though.

Can't currently find any open betting markets on Zamora's next club. This has not been the case for the last few days. Significant?

Valladolid are my Spanish team - I saw Perez play for them just a couple of weeks back against Osasuna. Picked up a yellow card, and I can't say he stood out particularly, though to be fair it was a dismal performance from the whole team and you can't judge on one performance.

Been there - nice place. Missus Herne Hill drove 140km out of our way so I could visit! As for the man himself, for me, you have to think about everything he brings, not just whether he'd cut it on the field or not. I think he'd lift the place, after a dismal season that I was glad to see the...

Positive sign. If the club is sufficiently aware of the depth of feeling against it that they'll use it as an April Fools' joke, it suggests we're still a very long way from it ever happening.

I entirely understand and share much of the sentiment on this thread, but regard football - the game itself - as innocent of all these charges. It's not the game's fault, all this. I still love the game - I go to watch Barnet, I go to watch Dulwich Hamlet etc, and it's much more like it always...

Boleyn Ground?