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Stuart Pearce did that to Kevin Gallagher in the first minute of the League Cup semi-final. I think he did get booked. Dogs/foxes on the pitch. Straining to hear the results on the transistor radio of the guy next to you walking home after the game. Cigar smoke, yeah. Wooden seats...

Exactly. Only about six people in the world ever will. Gyokeres is not a chattel slave, he's a human being with a contract of employment. The club can't "sell" him, they can either accept an offer to let him out of his contract, or hold him to it. Harry Kane is one very arguable example when...

Andy Mutch, yeah, that was the guy I had in mind. Stand corrected on his being a winger, and I'm sure you're right about Bull scoring loads of goals anyway. Got to be one of the better strike forces outside the top flight ever, I'd think. Sad that, like Celtic winning the European Cup with a...

Even Le Tissier: maybe liked being a big fish in a small pond, brilliant player obvs, but didn't exactly break his neck when playing for England, suggesting he wasn't too arsed about it. Steve Bull might be another example. Sure he could have got a big money move, but preferred it where he was...

And if we turn down an offer as too low from a club Vik wants to go to, we have a sulky, disgruntled player on our hands. (And all of this applies to Hamer just as much as Vik.) I think we struggle next season.

Not sure I get this bidding war business. For sure, we get a bit more for Vik if there are six or seven teams after him than if there are two or three, but he's not like a Van Gogh painting, where there are hardly any to start with, there are never going to be any more, and they come up for sale...

He did: my old man taught him. Nice kid, apparently, well-mannered, well-behaved, no entitlement, big I-am, etc.

Have studied this a bit, and if you google "prisoner's dilemma" and "cigarette advertising" you'll find a lot of interesting stuff. In a nutshell, when it was proposed that cigarette advertising be made illegal, all the major companies didn't make much of a fuss, and when it happened their...

Here's me 31 years ago. If we could win 5-2 with Wayne Turner in the team, we can win tonight.

Last time we played Oxford at home midweek, I was mascot and we won 5-2. Goal down after about half a minute, mind.

Another vote for Spurs 4-3. 0-1, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3. Quite weird portents of the cup final, e.g. fantastic header from Houchen (who in all honesty wasn't much good) for the first equaliser. Dave Bennett by miles my favourite ever player, feel about him the way my old man does about...

Ta. We won 5-2. The old man said, They'll want you back on Saturday ... Not a bad side we had, Ogrizovic, Borrows, Downs, Turner (erm, all right, but he was very nice to me), Kilcline, Peake, Bennett, Hibbitt, Regis, Gibson, Gynn. What we'd do for a Bennett or a Gynn these days! Just dug out the...

When I was nine, I wrote in to the club, asking if I could be mascot. They replied, saying, erm, bit unusual, but OK, how about Oxford United Tuesday fortnight? Turn up at King Richard Street seven-ish with your old man and there'll be a couple of tickets for you. You'll need to wear the home...

August 1984 Coventry 0, Norwich 0. Second was Coventry 0, Manchester United 3. Kilcline sent off Not an atypical introduction ...

Born in 1976. Saw a lot of both. Regis was a wonderfully whole-hearted player, and no goal, even Houchen's, has made me happier than Cyrille's last minute one at home to Tottenham. But he really wasn't much of a centre-forward IMHO. In my thirty years of watching the Sky Blues, we've had two...