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Oh great. Another FA Cup final featuring Chelsea or Liverpool or Man Utd or Man City or Arsenal. I am so excited. More seriously, it's depressing the way these 5 clubs have come to have an almost complete stranglehold on the cup these last 20 or 30 years. We have had finals featuring every...

Perhaps you could link to some evidence as to the above, in particular the claims about pollution and delays to emergency services. I don't think you will be able to. I counted 93 duplicate names on this petition yesterday. Pretty sad that people are resorting to this. Sooner we get a...

Anyone else following Oryx on twitter? The amount of hardware being destroyed in this war is incredible. Russian assets are being taken out at a ratio of around 3.5:1 compared to Ukraine. https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html Russia - 2449, of...

So far the club have, publicly at least, kept their counsel on the problems with the trains. However, behind the scenes they surely must be immensely frustrated. It's driving people away and impacting their business. But what can they really do other than voice their annoyance to Southern? From...

Drivers have to be trained on and then sign for routes before they are able to drive any services over them, so it's certainly possible in theory that a driver could have signed for Victoria to Eastbourne, but not Brighton to Lewes. I am sure there must be some drivers on here who could expand...

The train I saw in Hove sidings was two 3 car 313 units coupled together which clearly can work the Coastway lines. So when I heard that single 3 car units were working the East Coastway it was puzzling and frustrating given they seemingly had idle stock at Hove that could have been used to...

Pre-pandemic there were 6 trains per hour between Brighton and Lewes all day Monday to Saturday and the infrastructure could cope fine with that. They have cut 50% of services, so we are down to 3 trains an hour, which is effectively a Sunday service even though passenger numbers are up to...

If so then the RMT has some explaining to do to its members: 7 April 2016 RMT Press Office: TRANSPORT UNION RMT today set out six key reasons why it will be advising members to vote to the leave the EU in the forthcoming referendum: 1. Leave the EU to end attacks on rail workers New EU...

I don't think this statement is accurate. There are currently offices where the concourse was planned to go. The planning application was required to get approval for the change of use for this space, not to cover the internal structural changes.

I am a little puzzled by Paul Barber's comments. They had plans approved for a small second tier in the North stand with the offices behind converted to a hospitality lounge and two boxes. This wasn't social media speculation.

Breaking news. 2 extra trains pre-match and 2 extra trains post match just added to the timetable: An improvement thankfully, but still well short of the service we had in 2019.

That would be the hope, but it's pretty late in the day. It's starting to look like this will be unfortunately be it. The clubs travel info wasn't exactly encouraging: "Trains: For supporters travelling by rail, please check Southern Rail’s website prior to travelling." Normally it's something...

Case in point: Here are the currently timetabled trains for tonight: In effect a Sunday service. Pre-covid the standard timetable Monday to Saturday was 6 trains per hour all day. Tonight it looks like we could have half that. Even if they are lengthened there will be horrendous queues at...

Wow. Who was the last person to score over 40 in the second tier? Roger Hunt maybe? George Camsell is the record holder at this level with 59. But that was after the offside law was changed and defences were still adjusting.

I have changed my mind on this. At first I thought there was no way you could be sure whether Webster or Elanga would get to the ball first, but having watched it a few times it takes Webster around 1.6-1.8 seconds to get to the ball from almost a standing start. I don't think he could have got...

Timed it: Watford vs BHA Highlights 7:42 Interviews 1:16 "Analysis" 2:43 Total 11:41 Man Utd vs Southampton Highlights 9:25 (+22%) Interviews 2:16 (+79%) Analysis 7:10 (+164% !!) Total 18:51 (+61%)

Nope. I think this is down to ignorance amongst drivers (rather than impatience) and pedestrians. I'm not sure I was aware of this for several years after passing my test. I fully approve of the changes. Pedestrians should be treated with a lot more consideration.

You are already supposed to give way to pedestrians when turning left or right into a road if they have started to cross.

This was the previous wording in the highway code (Rule 170): "watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way" So it only applied if a pedestrian was already in the road and just to vehicles turning into a...

I agree. How are clubs supposed to be able to gauge demand? Having to choose between 5700 and 9000 is ridiculous. Rules aside, was there any physical reason we couldn't have sold the upper tier block by block and returned any unsold blocks? I was surprised we sold 5700 so quickly given the...