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Got a feeling this could be one of those games. Expectations sky high from the home fans, away fans loud and boisterous, new players desperate to make an impression but not yet up to speed, an opposition coach who's done his homework ... it's feeling like a draw to me, Clive. I'll probably...

I remember Reading! Weren't they a really big club once? Must admit I'd completely forgotten about them.

Well that was all very straightfoward. Three tickets for all three games. Another "well done" to the club from me.

Impressed with several individual performances today but it's just a friendly and there's no point reading too much into any of what we saw. Pedro, Igor, Milner, Van Hecke and Gross should be feeling pleased about the way they played, in whatever time they were given.

I was there too and it was good to see the new players and coach welcomed by a crowd that size. I’ll try and get down there a bit more this season I think. Very impressed with the intensity of that first half performance even if Boro didn’t threaten much in the second half.

I don't really get the point about having to be local. People move all around the world to do jobs and can be excellent at them when they get there. If my MP comes to live in the constituency and goes to great lengths to embed himself/herself in the community that's good enough for me. As for...

When I first became aware of these things Alan Hansen at Liverpool was a number 6 and he was very definitely a centre back. So there you go.

Fair points. Can't disagree. (Only one minor niggle, which is that very few people talk about themselves as being "woke". As others have said, it's a rather meaningless tabloid culture-war buzzword and more often used as a term of ridicule.)

In most Mail-type rants about anything "woke", you can normally substitute the word with "kind". That's really all it boils down to. People trying to be nice, compassionate, and fair-minded. Traits that seem to boil the piss of that malevolent, cynical, hatemongering rag.

If some of our new players are as good as we dare to think they are, if Caicedo stays, and if we don't make too many silly mistakes at the back (we will always make some), I reckon we're going to be an incredibly exciting team and I can see us picking up a lot of points, especially away from...

It was something along the lines of "I didn't want him to have the pressure of being the first £1m footballer, so we made sure I paid £1 less."

Was thinking about him only yesterday, for reasons I'm not really sure about. I was wondering (a) how good he really was, given the status that went with that transfer, and (b) why we don't really hear from him these days. Sad to lose him and his place in English football history is secure. RIP

Always seemed like a great professional and decent human being. RIP

Brighton by Stanley Brinks and the Wave Pictures.

As we all used to chant in the North Stand: Bill Oddie Out!

Spot on. I doubt we'll ever be rid of the more moronic fringe of social media who specialise in abuse and hate talk. But the rest of us need to be careful that we don't contribute to the corrosion. So many people are ready to believe the worst about anybody who finds themselves in the public eye...

Yes, I find the same, but I don't know if that's to do with the plastic glass, or the background aromas of he concourse, my imagination, or something else. Very glad we're sticking with Harveys though.

Looks like they’re aiming for automatic promotion given the calibre of signings and this time they wouldn’t be certs for relegation if they do make the National League. It’s been a few years since I watched National South football but there normally seems to be a bunch of teams that are pretty...

I remember watching an interview with Warren Mitchell in which he talked about people in the street congratulating him "for having a go at the [expletive deleted]s last night". He said his response to such people was that the show wasn't actually having a go at ethnic minorities. It was having...

Like many others, I'm not sorry to see "Community" being dropped. It's a word that can be meaningful and even admirable when applied in the correct context, but when an organisation as big as a Premier League club deploys it in any part of its branding, all meaning is lost and there's a risk of...