MalcolmW

When I was a Christmas Casual on the post in 1968 I was riding shotgun to a parcel delivery driver. The round included Walkers Brewery. The commissionaire gave tokens to visitors entitling the bearer to a pint of mild or a half of bitter in the canteen.

That's for the World Championships later this month, and there has been some sort of temporary repair.

More frequent than you might imagine.

Cameron again! Not only did he hold a referendum totally unprepared for the result going against his wishes, but he also introduced the Fixed Term Parliament Act so that the PM of the day was no longer free to call a general election. His book is coming out soon, too.

Started today in Glasgow. Finishes with a stage from Altrincham to Manchester next Saturday (14th). Basically it loops anticlockwise around Greater Manchester, with the final sprint point in Horwich around 2pm, finishing on Deansgate an hour later (maybe they are using bus lanes?).

Smith caught off a fair ball.

Our two draws this season have been those played without our senior players.

Impact sub?

Linford Christie was a grandad at 35.

Any club failing to fulfil its fixture obligations …. shall be deemed guilty of misconduct …. Section 8 then refers to Investigations & Disciplinary Proceedings. So it's all suitably vague because it is dealing with a range of possibilities. The Brentford match disappeared into a Disciplinary Commission, and it is obvious that it really should have reported long before the season started. The circumstances were unusual, not least that the outcome of the match did not affect Brentford's position or our status (already relegated), but it needs to prevent such circumstances arising in future. The Doncaster one was unilateral action without reference to the opponents or the league, so a recurrence must be avoided, Maybe a suspended deduction of 6 points to be implemented if a further misconduct arose this season could be appropriate?

See Section 5 - Fixtures, Rule 31 - Penalty for Non-Fulfilment of Fixture Obligations.

On the 1st of each month I re-read "World Sports" from 50 years ago. It refers to a joint FA/FL commission which had revealed financial irregularities at 3 clubs during the 1967-68 season, and quotes their punishments for essentially similar breaches. 4th Division Port Vale: expelled from the league (but gained re-election anyway). 3rd Division Peterborough United: 19 pt deduction, which took them to 24th place and relegation. 1st Division Manchester United: barred from paying friendlies against foreign opponents for a season (but they were allowed to defend a European trophy).

It could certainly expose the flaw in the current system.

Read today that the first game Gareth Southgate attended (aged 4) was Bury v Watford. He was born in Watford, but briefly lived in/around Bury before the family moved back south to Crawley.

Quite possible that some other clubs will achieve a -12 during the season.

Europa League draw coming up. Wolfsburg, Wolverhampton and Wolfsberger are in separate pots, so Celtic (or nine other clubs) could meet all three.

I had the Take Over page open and it suddenly had updates in rapid succession, saw the screen shot and confirmed it on the club website.

It's worth reading through (only just over 3 pages) to see early comments from some others!

MUFC came very close to the brink in 1903 and again in the early 1930s.

How can a teenage player with a couple of England caps now be valued at more than 3 times the cost of BWFC?

Captain - N Danns.

Typically delusionists take over minor non-league clubs, buy a couple of years success and then either run out of funds, lose interest, or switch to a higher club. North Ferriby is such an example but there are plenty others.

Today programme said the deal fell through on Saturday because one party wanted £250k to sign the deal. No names, no pack drill.

Abandoned. I remember that waterpolo match.