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Thanks, Cheeky Monkey. I thought so too!

"There has long been a feeling that he decided enough was enough when he saw how Mark Lawrenson was sidelined, the BBC deciding that the former Brighton defender’s mixture of lounge-lizard shirts and golf-club gags didn’t really constitute detailed analysis of football, removing him from a...

Henry Olonga - I've been lucky enough to meet him a couple of times. One of the world's good guys.

I remember watching one of his big hitting innings at Hastings, early in his career. Amazing power. His courage in taking on the authorities and shaking up cricket had a huge impact on the pay and conditions of county cricketers. Those who treated him as a pariah really didn't understand how...

[/I] "After he was alleged to have killed the nanny" would be fairer. He has never been tried and his lawyers were not allowed to represent him at the coroners' court hearing at which the coroner pronounced him to be the killer. As a direct result of that, the law was changed and coroners no...

I've often wondered if four linesmen wouldn't be more helpful to the referee than a "4th official". Stupid name, anyway.

I shouldn't worry too much. I was at the Emirates on Saturday and the crowd was streaming out five minutes before the end of the 90, with a clear 3-4 minutes of extra time to come and QPR, 1-0 down, on the attack...

Lua Lua seems to have his confidence back now he has the security of a contract. Not on long today, but the impishness seems to have returned.

A fagot in Spanish is a bassoon player. Endless fun spotting them in Spanish concert halls...

It's not the poppy which counts. It's the donation you make to the Royal British Legion. Wear one and it may remind someone else to donate too...

What's worse: being called "gay" or being called a "sheep shagger"?

Strange - I always thought it was a particularly evil, career-ending tackle on Gerry Ryan in a Palace game in the mid-80s that started it all off?

How many people regularly train it from London for the evening games? If there are enough of us, what about hiring a bus/minibus to pick us up say 45 minutes after the final whistle and take us to Brighton station? The fear of being stuck in the Falmer station queue as the last London train...

I would be interested to know how long it took to clear the train queue last night as there is an issue for those of us who come down from London. For the Sunderland game, I left after 15 minutes of extra time and got to the head of the train queue and home by a sensible time. Last night I got...

You can't buy CUC (the Cuban convertible currency) outside Cuba - nor can you convert it back into any other currency after you've left Cuba. So tell your friends not to convert too much! Whatever they do, don't take US dollars - the Cubans impose a 10% penalty for converting them into CUC...

Palatino Linotype looks good in Clapham

I was there too. But I arrived a bit late and left a bit early - and so missed both our goals. Been mentally scarred ever since...

Ajax in the mid-90s? I saw them run rings round a decent Real Madrid side at the Bernabeu about then. As for the Camp Nou, if you can get one of the leather arm chairs next to the directors' area you can marvel in comfort at the stadium, the football and the prodigious strings of pearls worn...

seriously though .... aren't they called the Addicks because they used to be given free fish by a supporter when they won?

He appeared out of the blue in the directors' board/tea/school room place after the evening game against Hull City just after we thought John Prescott had given us planning permission for Falmer. Everyone was fawning around Prescott who'd turned up to take the plaudits. Suddenly Sir Norman...