A fair way to go in this match of course, but I cannot get my head around how different the football is from Spurs this season. Chalk and cheese. Not even ten games into Postecoglou's reign Interesting segment on MNF, Gary O'Neil made the point that what is difficult about playing against Spurs thi...

Don't think I have ever seen a photo of Kevin Girdler. https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C5603AQE7iLreSH3jXQ/profile-displayphoto-shrink_800_800/0/1564142168605?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=QrVAuY3rHZI_u2rs6-2ElkOQlxIbb_42dr8sizAu-N8 You wouldn't kick him out of bed would you. You certainly wouldn...

YorkshireRoyal99 Are Red Bird the one's who only own AC Milan at the moment? No other clubs or?

11% of Liverpool
85% of Toulouse

59/92 PL – 19 Championship – 22 L1 – 12 missing Bristol R, Cambridge, Carlisle, Exeter, Fleetwood Town, Leyton O, Lincoln, Northampton, Peterborough, Port Vale, Shrewsbury, Wigan L2 – 6 :oops: Hoping to knock off most of L1 this season. Up to 63/92. Cambridge, Leyton O, Northampton and Port Vale ti...

Good day out though - prematch refreshments at the Pride o'Spitalfields, The Kings Arms, The Camel, The Palm Tree then Leyton Star and The Birkbeck after. Good pubs, some great, 5km walk in total. Went to the Palm Tree post-match. Properly interesting pub that. Also went to the Morgan Arms and Lord...

SJM interview on BBCRB: - Changed his tune; no longer defending Dai, - Sounds pretty desperate about the situation, fears receivership - Howe is out trying to sell the club and there is interest - Thinks club could be a bargain and £20m could be enough. Obviously his figure well below that of the A...

Northampton is not a gem of the UK countryside. There's a huge tower and light industrial estates going west from the station. It all opens out into a quite enormous retail park. The huge Wagamamas overlooking the ground looked a safer bet for a solid evening out (until I got told it hadn't opened ...

Now officially confirmed:

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2023/september/30/oxford-united-home-postponed/

Norfolk Royal Surely Microsoft which has it’s HQ in Reading would be interested in a goodwill gesture of some sort.

May still be in Reading, but it's hardly used. Flogged off half their campus ages ago and most staff, even Reading-based, prefer the Paddington office.

Would agree with all that. The frustration came when there were glimpses of a decent attacking side. Fourth game of last season, Blackburn at home is one of my favourite games in recent years. By the time we played them away in March near the end of his reign, the bulk of the team was the same (Forn...

Indeed. Could see Al-Ittihad upping their bid, especially if the stories about Jota and Benzema are true.

150m has got to have been very tempting. If only there was young right-sided attacker, ideally based in the NW, available?

Europa League Draw Group A: West Ham , Olympiacos, Freiburg, TSC Backa Topola Group B: Ajax, Marseille, Brighton , AEK Athens Group C: Rangers , Real Betis, Sparta Praha, Aris Limassol Group D: Atalanta, Sporting CP, Sturm, Rakow Group E: Liverpool , LASK, Union SG, Toulouse Group F: Villarreal, Ren...

CountryRoyal Anyone know good places to park for this? Least amount of walking possible (no I’m not lazy)

Road Trip Heroes are always a good starting point.

3points Interesting to note Southend's 10 point deduction (albeit from the National League not the EFL) for repeated non-payment of HMRC liabilities.

Thank god they got city status rather than us, or we'd be four points below the bottom four.

Buckingham Group, who built the Bearwood training ground, and currently working on the Liverpool's Anfield Road stand and Northampton's East Stand, have gone into administration. They were already a couple of months behind on the Anfield schedule.

Think it was a 2 carriager. Surprisingly large numbers of fans exited through Green Park and I did think it might get tight on the train, but quite a few of those looked to have parked in the construction site car park just before the station. In the end, there was plenty of room on the train. Bough...

Up top, losing Smith was a massive blow. Ehibhatiomhan has started pretty well I’d say, some encouraging performances. Knibbs has been solid. Azeez poor so far. Vickers good but very inexperienced Feels to me there is less there to ‘fix’ than the defence. Confident Carroll and Ehib will score given...

Decent prematch in the Queens Head, the Titanic Steerage was lovely. I'm quite bemused by the other pubs being home fans only and largely empty, whereas that Queens Head was packed and they were racking it in. The game was entirely forgettable, we looked the better team and Vale looked poor, but we...

Barcelona playing at the 49k capacity Olympic Stadium this season https://estadiolimpic.barcelona/sites/default/files/2023-07/Estadi_0.jpg Saw Espanyol v Las Palmas there. Not a great stadium for football TBH. Vinny Samways was playing for Las Palmas and had Madonna's soundcheck in the background a...