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The astonishing thing is that the previous contractor (the NHS South East Coast Ambulance Service) didn't even submit a tender for the contract. The only option was a private contractor.

If we win it, it would be at our last game of the season. It's not the fact that the presentation would be at an away ground that troubles me, it is the insensitivity of awarding a trophy in front of 30,000 home supporters who had turned up with the sole intention of them being the fans who...

I have this funny feeling that, if we win the game, they are not going to present us with the runners up trophy at the Riverside. Where will we be given it? Or maybe they'll just get Yodel to deliver it in a white van?

Let's think this through. You get a trophy for winning the Championship. You get a trophy for winning the Playoffs. But you get no trophy for coming second, even though this is better than coming third, like the trophy-winning Playoff winners. Where's the logic or fairness in that?

Someone will soon be claiming that Posh Spice is a respectable young lady who only has thoughts for her husband.

I remember that version of Sussex By The Sea being sung at Brighton Labour Club about 35 years ago. Ernie Trory was not just a lefty firebrand. He was a professional wrestler.

... And I saw a field mouse steal the entire contents of the bird feeder that we have hanging outside our kitchen window. It's not just humanity that is out of control.

I think you just have.

I saw him clapping the chant. I doubt that he hears it very often, since it would most likely only occur to fans for whom "Albion ... Albion ..." is a commonplace chant in its own right.

At Hereford, of course, the draw was all we needed (along with the good luck of it being one of the seasons where goals scored trumped goal difference). Middlesbrough get the benefit of being able to play for a draw this time, despite us having scored more goals than them.

My view from the North Stand (right in front of me) ... definitely not a penalty.

There can't be many opposition players who get Albion fans to make up a special song for them.

Yes.

The Coca Cola Kid might lift the Scottish version first.

There's only so much disappointment an Albion fan can take at the end of the season. Let's hope that this marks the end of it.

I'm waiting for someone on this thread to claim that "it's not sexism, because Hitler had an opinion about the role of women in society".

Not quite. When there was a multi-member Police Authority, decisions were made by majority vote. Under the new system, the single Commissioner takes all the decisions, regardless of any disagreements there might be.

It's a form of proportional representation that means that scraping together 30 per cent of the votes isn't enough on its own to get you elected.

As far as I can see, the ONLY point of having an elected Police Commissioner is that it prevents a repetition of David Bellotti (or some other desperate, talentless local politician) getting to be Chair of the Police Authority. Or maybe not.

I see that the complete collapse of the banking industry led to the total abolition of bonuses in that sector. I guess football must be much the same.