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It's the pricing structure that is wrong. The premium that has to be paid to travel first class is huge [compare Spanish Railways] and what you get is ... nothing [on Southern at least]. When I worked for ESCC as a public transport planner, bits of my job included travelling to meetings with...

And the Orient Express? That was just a regular train when I last travelled on it. Calais to Belgrade, where it split, sending half the train to Istanbul and the other half (the bit that I was on) to Athens. My principal recollections are the toilets running out of water to flush the contents...

It was 2s6d the last time I travelled on the proper Pullman between Brighton and Victoria. Fine cuisine? Nah. Just the opportunity to order a plate of kippers, if you fancied one. I don't recall ever having more than a cup of coffee.

Aren't you confusing him with Lenny Rider?

I've only driven past it on one day - when I volunteered to drive the support minibus on the day of the celebratory bike ride from Gillingham to the Amex, via Withdean. I had to go there, because the cyclists chose to gather in Hove Park. I tried to avoid looking at the place when I was...

I wonder how much of an effect Tony Bloom will feel of Cameron's proposal to require the beneficial owners of property to be declared.

You are understating the role of Dick Knight in achieving the outcome of the planning process. Martin Perry undoubtedly led on the technical stuff, but Dick Knight's contribution to the political stuff was immense. Even the Blooms acknowledge that.

In the early years at Withdean, Tony Bloom was paying bills to keep the Club afloat. The family was biding its time, though, until it looked right to spunk loads on taking the Club forward. That time only came when planning permission had been given for Falmer. Once that happened (and the...

I've always assumed that Guernsey FC was part of some dodgy money-laundering scam.

Do any of us listen to 606?

Denis Compton ... a legend in TWO sports.

One individual speaks for EVERY Ipswich supporter? How does that work? Can we nominate someone from NSC to say something outrageous and encourage everyone in Ipswich to imagine that we all think like that? Step forward HB&B.

Looking forward to another top two clash? I'm not sure I can take it.

Let's not complain, eh?

At long last, the penny has dropped and the TV schedulers have realised that the big issue that all football fans are following is:- WHO IS GOING TO END THE DAY IN TENTH PLACE? Things are looking good for Leeds at the moment. Derby 1 Leeds 2 in added time.

Perhaps I should re-phrase my post. This is what happens when you get rid of competent, experienced managers and administrators, and replace them with staff who are told that there is no future in working in the public sector.

This is what happens if you get rid of managers and admin staff.

That arrangement is new and seems to have come about as the result of Roger French's retirement as Managing Director of the bus company and his replacement by Martin Harris. Roger French always took the view that offering advertising space to external organisations was to give up the...

Been there, done that. It was daytime TV that forced me to be serious about returning to work.

No you didn't.