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In 'The Dog' it's about £2.80 for a pint of Guinness, Dale. I've booked tickets for the Pogues Xmas tour this morning. Including booking fee (a staggering £5.65 per ticket!) and postage it is costing me over £37 for the Manchester gig, slightly less for Birmingham. It will be almost 22 years to the day since The Pogues played Central Park in Burton (Dec '86). Ticket price that day was £5.50. For comparison purposes Derby v Latics (Aug '86) cost £5 for an adult ticket (seated).

It actually shows Mrs Sideburns sending a text message. I like to get the news as soon as possible after a goal is scored but I don't mind in future if Mrs S waits until the celebrations have finished!

You could just Sky Plus that though - that is one sporting event that wouldn't be ruined by knowing the result in advance!

I used to go to a sixties garage / psychedelic night in a club called either 'Euston Rails' or 'Rails' in the mid nineties. They used to have go-go dancers in cages and psychedelic light shows - very odd but a cracking night out. When I was last in the area my hazy memory was telling me that 'Rails' was on the site of what is now The Doric Arch. I could be wrong though. What was / is the pub inside Euston Station called (upstairs to the right as you go in IIRC)?

My Norton Internet Security Subscription expires next week. I've never really had any problems with it but was wondering if anyone could recommend a cheaper system which would do the same job? Thanks.

They weren't actually that bad in the end - I couldn't have complained if I'd been thrown out for what I said to the steward. To be fair to him he listened to my rant about them only telling us to sit down cos we were outsinging the home fans then let me get on with it.

There were a couple of Leeds fans closest to the Latics fans that were clearly complaining to a steward that a Latics fan had been running his finger across his neck in a "I'll slit your throat" type gesture. The area they were pointing to was the area that the man was taken ill. Even so, I still find it very hard to believe that the stewards let Leeds fans through with the sole purpose of attacking a specific Latics fan, who then just happened to be in the toilets at the same time. Surely there is no reason why the stewards wouldn't have just thrown out any Latics fan who was making gestures. If it did happen in this way then the likelihood is that the two Leeds fans I mentioned were involved - surely CCTV would identify them.

Thanks for that exile - It was certainly noose to me! Noose.....news - see what I did there???? Oh, forget it!

You missed two when you were highlighting

Liverpool

He would certainly play with Pride and Desire. If we still haven't found what we're looking for by New Years Day then we should give him a chance In God's Country

I was working in a Student bar in Salford at the time. When anyone came in wearing the grey shirt I just stood behind the bar and blanked them. When the inevitable "Are you serving?" question was asked I replied "Sorry mate, didn't see you there!" Worked every time

I'm sure it was - the correct spelling of jug-ears' name changed to Linacre somewhere around the Summer of '86.

Quite a few on here criticised that chant when directed at Rochdale. Seems it is ok when directed at Leeds.

I wouldn't have given it, if I'd been the ref.

We all hate Leedsscum

Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh Wheennnnnnnnnnnn theeeeeeee Bluuuuuuuuuueeeeeessssssss

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Gayest song ever sung at a match, but it worked!!!!!!!!

Aston Villa

I don't think you can blame him for that - Leeds fans have always had a bad name

Due to financial and other circumstances, for the last couple of seasons I have attended an average of one game a month, more or less. As someone for whom the atmosphere is an integral part of my enjoyment of the game you can probably guess how many of these games have been at BP, very few. It's not a boycott, I simply choose to spend the limited amount of money I have for leisure pastimes on things that I enjoy more i.e.away games. I wonder how many others don't attend BP because its just not as much fun as it once was. Certainly there has been nothing in the last few seasons atmosphere-wise that would hook a young first timer. I wasn't at the game on Saturday but texts I received and posts on here with comments like "best atmosphere for 15 years" and "like a really good away game" were music to my ears and I couldn't wait to get back to BP. Now I'm not so sure. I understand the clubs point of view. Persistant standing and swearing are both against ground regulations and if the club have complaints from fans or the police they have to act. I feel the press release could have been worded better but I agree that it was probably necessary. However, for a while I have seen two very different camps emerging within Latics fans i.e. those who want to create an atmosphere and those that don't. Those that don't seem progressively trying to actively stop an atmosphere from being created. Twice last season I was told to be quiet by someone sat in front of me, v Leeds in the Chaddy and at Everton. In both cases I wasn't swearing, just singing. In my opinion there's something wrong if you can't get behind the team in games like those! I feel that the club need to be aware that fans will have been lost due to a lack of atmosphere. These fans won't write to the club to complain, they simply won't turn up. I think a singing section is long overdue. I want a singing section, and I'm pretty sure the two blokes in front of me v Leeds and at Goodison want a singing section as well!!

I don't particularly care about numbers. Some of my favourite away trips have been when there's only been a few of us. The noise generated by 1,000 won't be any less than that generated by 3,000 plus on Tuesday.