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Not sure of the point that you are trying to make. Botham played under the same conditions as Anderson..i.e covered wickets. Are you suggesting that there was more ' doctoring ' of wickets in Botham's era, than now?

For example....BHA...08/09....No hope at Easter....stuck on 39 points with only six to play....written off by almost everybody....last six games = 16 points! Or Sunderland last season...all the big clubs to play...no hope...except they started beating all of them. Millwall could win 3 of their...

1) Hardest working player in the squad. 2) Provides only moments of genuine class amongst rest of dross. ( e.g volley v Huddersfld ) 3) Underused and wrongly used in his time with us. 4) Confidence player and suffered under Poyet, due to managers' inability to support him. Has struggled since...

Stockdale made two saves that every pro keeper in the country would expect to make. They were both on his left side ( strongest ) and he wasn't tested at all on his weaker right side. I agree he did nothing wrong, apart from distributing the ball poorly on about three occasions. It was an...

I know the feeling. As you get older, you work things out and realise that nothing is going to change. We trust the stewardship of this country to uninspiring public servants whose last intent is to represent us. They are puppets of the state, tinkering at the edges, powerless to reform. They...

Keep the positivity going.

That ' perma-shithouse ' you refer to produced the only moment of real quality all night on friday. But then you are obviously a football genius and know what you are talking about.

Two inebriates talking in the pub..... 1) " I'm going home to have a spliff with the wife " 2) " Blimey....How do you think she'll take it " 1) " Eh?....In the mouth of course " 2 ) " Bloody hell...you've got some bottle...getting a ' you know what ' and then telling her its all over " 1) " What...

1) I also hope Kayal is fit. He is our best player by a country mile., 2) It is too much to hope that Stockdale doesn't err again. Every game, he is a mistake waiting to happen. He is so painfully one-sided that the opposition now realise that scoring past his right hand is easy. At free-kicks...

I'm amazed we get as many as we do. The prices are high and the football is dire. The fans are not getting value for money and at present, are still showing remarkable loyalty.

...and I remember sitting at Withdean, midweek, barely half full, to watch a goalless draw v Tranmere. A lot of BHA fans have very short memories or is it that they have no experience pre-Amex?

It would appear that the Blackburn win convinced the players that we were safe ( and indeed, a lot of fans ) Pro footballers are a pampered lot and will switch off at the slightest opportunity. I never believe that anyone is safe until mathmatics prove it. Football history is littered with...

Quite. There is much to be learned from each generation growing up. Its just the attitude that everyone 40-50 years ago was neolithic, in thinking and doing, that upsets me. There are elements in our society today that are far more crass, boorish and ugly than anything that went before. We seem...

Pathetic and undeserved response to a man who has championed women's rights in golf. Perhaps you should do your research a bit more thoroughly next time, rather than troll out this modernist claptrap that men of his generation were sexist, racist and homophobic. Open your eyes and take a look...

This is the point for me. So many disappointing away performances, so close together. Most of Hughton's nine away games in charge have ranged from the very ordinary to the pitiful. Blackburn was an exception but fans who have been to all nine will struggle to think of another game that gave them...

The four points that NJ gained whilst in temporary charge, could be decisive in ensuring that we stay up. We may only gain one more point this season ( possibly Huddrsfld at home ). 46 points may be enough. 42 would have been very tight. Just a thought.

I gave up after Reading. I admire any fans still going away because, quite frankly, you know what you are going to get. Since Hughton took over, there seems to have been a complete absence of interest in away games. He sets out to try and eke out draws and if the opposition score, we lose the...

This is the crux of the problem in football. Why is there this tacit acceptance that wages have to keep going up? Are these players actually achieving more? My evidence is that the PL is declining in quality not improving. The very best players don't play here and we cram our football with...

Perhaps if we had had a different manager. One who didn't fall back on caution all the time. One who wasn't so happy to see the ball rolled tediously up and down the backline, boring everyone to death. One who would have recognised, that within the ranks, was a matchwinner, who, unleashed a...

As you get older in life ( 50+ ) you start to wise up and realise that no matter what you think or do, you won't change anything. When I was in my teens and early 20's, we all wanted to change the world, rip it up and start again. But gradually life takes over, relationships develop, family life...