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Can I just second Cheaterfield, proper horrible club that consistently finds inventive new ways to be horrible. If they’re not molesting their back room staff they’re attempting to murder the opposition in the club car park. Their fans embody everything their club stands for.

Well, I don’t normally engage in Albion threads on here as it’s not my place to do so, but having found myself in Hartlepool this afternoon, which is depressing enough in itself, having capitulated to a 2-1 defeat against the worst team in the football league, your result today genuinely raised...

That’s f***ing great news, thanks (although I’ve been writing on forums that way for so long my phone actually autocorrects it to the diacritic version, so it’s not quite the liberation it should be). On watching the World Cup, my thought process did genuinely shift as I was writing that post...

The absurdity of this World Cup has only just begun in my opinion. It was awarded in 2010, which whilst only 12 years ago, is almost light years away from where we are culturally, in the western world at least, now. Yesterday we had foreign secretary James Cleverley not very cleverly advising...

That’s the narrative you get from afar, but it’s nothing more than a veneer. He almost destroyed Grimsby Town FC, having been part of a scheme involving a serially convicted criminal. Not something you’ll see reported much outside the boundaries of North East Lincs, but a “good guy” he lost...

Some pretty grim comments from Biden in this BBC report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63167947 In particular, these quotes: "For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons, if in fact things continue down the path they'd...

Cheers, wasn’t sure how well regarded he was by the powers that be at the Amex. Luton have just nabbed our best player and appear to have an open dialogue with our owners; could do without them pinching our manager at this moment in time.

This is quite an interesting one from the slightly detached perspective of a fan of a lower league club, in terms of the knock-on effect it could have through the divisions. Should Potter go, do you think Nathan Jones would be a viable replacement, or would his time at Stoke put paid to any...

Possibly one for Bozza. We’re going to Orlando for 18 nights on Thursday, and whilst I’ve steeled myself for the horrendous expense I’m in for while out there, how much cold, hard cash should I be taking? Was in New York a couple of weeks ago and didn’t really need cash, but is it worth taking...

I visited New York for the first time a couple of weeks ago on a work trip and what surprised me was just how compact the city is and how close most of the major landmarks are. I was staying just off Broadway and having arrived on the Monday evening I went for a walk and was able to see Times...

I've never seen the opening ceremony (nor much of the Olympics themselves) as it was the night before my wedding and I instead found myself nervously drinking in the pub, getting far more píssed than I would liked to have been when I awoke, much later than planned, the following day. Lord knows...

Spoiler: series 1 doesn’t end well for them… :blush:

Now forecast to hit 40 in Leeds tomorrow. I remember experiencing that kind of temperature in Dubai a few years back; it was too hot to even sun bathe and I recall thinking at the time how fortunate I was to live in a country where those kind of temperatures weren’t possible. No way can this be...

This is what lays in store for me in the next couple of days, up in the chilly north. I can’t say I’m looking forward to it. Even tonight, when it’s been pushing 30 for much of the day I’m quite comfortably sat in the garden at nearly 11pm. Can’t remember another time I’ve done that. It’s not...

Bolton still play at the Reebok don't they? I couldn't even tell you the current sponsor of the ground. The first commercial name for a stadium will always be the one which sticks. Middlesbrough famously fúcked up over this, though. The original name of their 'new' ground was the Cellnet...

Amazing, thank you mate! Much easier trying to get this kind of information from the oracle that is NSC than it is the official sources. :)

Thanks Bozza - appreciate you taking the time. Can I just double check that my ESTA will be valid even though my US contact will be different?

Not holiday plans per se, but I’m travelling to New York on Monday on business. Some questions: 1. I have completed an ESTA for a separate family holiday to Orlando in August. Presumably I need another ESTA for this? 2. It’s a little while since I’ve been to the States so I’m not 100% on...

Horrible news this. I have numerous friends and colleagues in Copenhagen. Hoping they are all safe.

I’ve often seen football as a ‘vice’, in so much that it is highly addictive and that people engage in it because of the way it makes you feel. Generally speaking, vices like drinking and gambling do well in times of financial hardship as people, rightly or wrongly, use them as an escape from...