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I’ve only skimmed through this thread and may have not have been concentrating. There’s a Mrs. McGiven who has been sleeping on Otis’s settee, spilt some sauce on it but has confidentially offered him 8 quid for it, if she can pick it up in February when she’s sold the bottom of her cycle to...

Thanks for the statistic G - I couldn't be bothered to work it out myself, but it's even worse than I thought. It's staggeringly bad when you consider the level we're playing at. It seems to me that regardless of which manager or players we have, the "leadership" from the top of the club...

This road from Stoneleigh towards the NEC will make a big difference to the prospects for development on the west side of the city, including the Uni area. Although it sounds like it won't be in public use for 10 years, maybe developments could start ahead of that ... Major new road linking...

Is that who it hit?

Glad I’m not the only nostalgic one. Printing within the hour wasn’t always foolproof mind you – I remember in the early 70’s a match report on the front page said something like “ … and in the 56th minute, David Cross hooked a shit just over the bar” :)

Ah, for the days when you got home from the match and then went up to the newsagents to get the Pink. Somehow it was even better if you had to wait a few minutes in the dark for the black CET van to pull up, and for a bundle of Pinks tied up with string to be chucked on the pavement with a...

Me too. Either something good will happen one day or it won’t. We probably can’t influence it either way, but trying to force information out into the open could conceivably spook a genuine investor who wanted to do things on the quiet. Thanks to you, I can’t get Kylie out of my head ...

Premier League takeover would be enormous stupidity - Red Bull founder "That's not even idle speculation. It moreover would be an enormous stupidity to think about an addition in England after a successful involvement at Leipzig. That would be wrong from a sporting perspective. To mix...

I definitely understand those sentiments ISB, but we have been little more than an embarrassment for far too many years, and I’d be happy if somebody started a totally new chapter. In the 1960’s when Jimmy Hill got the whole city on the Sky Blue bandwagon, was anyone seriously saying “I can’t...

Of course Zack, that’s the point. If you think most people hate SISU for moral or philosophical reasons you’re mistaken. It’s because they have don’t have the competence, ambition or resources to run a football team worthy of the city. Their dubious integrity is only the final straw.

At the end of the day we all support CCFC, and we’re all as frustrated as hell that we can’t do anything about the situation. I guess it’s not surprising that we shout at each other. I mean look at this thread, it starts off about the Butts, and ends up with arguments about Wasps and whistles :)

Duffer, you’ve taken a principled stance and said some pretty harsh things about those who disagree - stupid, immoral, lazy idiocy etc. The Council flogged the stadium business to Wasps, who moved from the London area to Coventry, and as a result Coventry City lost any chance to have a stake in...

Up to now I’ve always thought he had decent ability, but lacked physical presence. I was amazed and delighted by his never-say-die performance against Bolton in a role I didn’t think he could play. When someone buzzes around like that all match, I'm always drawn into the game more as a...

Dennis Mortimer, with an honourale mention for Gerry Daly.

Memory plays tricks, and I might be getting games mixed up, but I recall beating Ipswich 5-0 at home in quite deep white stuff, where they had to clear the snow off all the line markings. It was the promotion season from Div 2. Bobby Gould scored a hat-trick so the scoreboard showed 999 I...

Sorry it upset you Rev. Yes, of course everyone’s got an opinion, and the fact that we disagree about Bigi isn’t a problem. Who said anything about it all being rosy? That’s the opposite of what I think. Many things about the club are fair game for public slagging, but I wouldn’t include our...

Starting by listing all his alleged faults on a public forum and saying you hope he won’t be here next season? I think he’s a good player. Not a world beater, but a good player, and I hope he is here next season.

Surprised at the lukewarm comments about Reilly - I thought he looked a great midfielder at this level, both with and without the ball. Time will tell.

Just got back, haven’t read the thread, but just to say that I enjoyed the way we played today. Not exactly pretty a lot of the time, but massive effort from every player. The sort of committed performance that actually had me looking forward to going again, for the first time in ages...

I remember having the exact same feeling when Fergie pulled a goal back that day - we had so much attacking threat that even coming back from four goals down didn’t seem unrealistic. I’ve tried in vain to find any references to the 3-3-4 formation, but it can probably only be found in old...