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Larry Lloyd. Bought for a huge fee, fat and lazy and useless. Until Cloughie got hold of him. Honourable mentions to Gary Collier, Dave Jones and Keith O’Neil but worst I have seen by a mile was John Gayle.

Every other team when they score against us. Totally irrational I know and I’m not 6 any more but in my 50s. I just instantly develop the desire to machine gun the players hugging each other and the fans celebrating. I know they are all just like us and we do it but somehow it is different...

Any group of people is going to contain a spectrum of intelligence, personality, aggression etc. They are no different, nor are we. Not all Leeds fans are violent, racist scum and not all Norwich or Swindon fans are inbred village idiots. This Sunderland thing is a bit weird though. I was at...

I wouldn’t have cared if he’d scored 80 goals in a season for us, his actions in leaving the scene of a fatal crash to avoid being done for drink driving were those of a complete scumbag - instant end of any hero status.

We replaced Robbie Kean with Bellamy. A big reason why we went down as he was next to useless. Missed no end of one on ones. Couldn’t believe it when we offloaded him to Newcastle for about what we paid for him. His subsequent career showed we were just unlucky (that makes a change!)...

My mother-in-law has just taken up the announcing. She holds the phone upside down when she calls us so I’m used to it. She was telling the Luton fans “you’re in the top two so make some shagging noise you sad bastards” - nothing to do with aisles.

Maybe he filmed two videos the same night and couldn’t be arsed to change it!

Adversity binds people together and I really think a special sense of being a Cov fan is developing, particularly the away support.

[ Never mind weeing, I pride myself on ‘being regular’. Put it down to Guiness. You could set your watch by me. 7 am every day. I don’t get up till 8 though.

Respect to you and the other 701 who braved that weather on a Tuesday night. You all deserve some sort of medal. It must help the players to come out and see a decent away crowd in those circumstances.

My dad went regularly and I’d devour the programme, the old ‘Sky Blue’ priced 1/-. I pestered and pestered him to take me and the Burnley game was the first. I was 2 months short of my 7th birthday. We won 4-1 and that was it. Dads last game before cancer took him was the last ever at HR. That...

Remember hearing some pillock on a radio phone in a few years ago. Said he and his mrs were both ‘gooners’ (a word that instantly makes you sound a massive nob) and had met through Arsenal (this was around their invincible stage) and had been through thick and thin with Arsenal since. Choked on...

Heard my stepson scream at the Xbox last night “you dicksucker”. Never heard that as a term of abuse before and resolved to use it. Steve Evans is the first recipient.

It’s a father and son thing as Otis says. First game v Burnley in 1969. Loved everything, the crowd, the tobacco smell. In the 70s graduated to the West End where my intense dislike of away fans was fuelled by weekly aggro. Privileged to watch Tommy Hutchison tear every single full back apart...

Shame the Market Tavern is no more, class joint.

Who’ll be the first?

The £10-a-game poker player who won $2.6m

Perhaps a touch too much of Gary Breen but a good reflection of the atmosphere in the concourse before the match. Like you I was proud of our semi comeback at the end, could so easily have been 5 or 6 nil, instead it could really have been 3-2. JCH immense. Hopefully they learned from...

They don’t work hard enough. As Nick has identified our throw-ins aren’t an advantage they’re a liability. Nobody seems to want the ball, nobody moves to make space and the opposition often get it straight away. Same with goal kicks. Same with the passing. Our man on the ball gets closed down by...

Thread hits the nail squarely on the head. I am sick and tired of watching men v boys year in year out. We have been brittle for as long as I can remember. How often do we come back from behind to draw let alone win? Yet it seems that every time we go two goals ahead the next goal is almost...