No-one would have a problem with targeting a single group of people - but I fail to see how any intelligence can suggest that ALL identifiable football supporters can be a legitimate target for S&S. In fact, it was different to that - it was actually ALL people who were wearing football shirts ...

That is presumably Jimmy Quinn in the top left photo being massively outjumped by Martin Hicks.

Any progress? And now for my normal contribution to this topic. Remembered to look out the train window this morning and there is no sign of station-building or approach work on either side of the line. Actually, I take that back. There does look like there has been some clearance on the east side ...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 586067.ece
Referring to Glen Little:

A right winger with pace and guile...

Half-correct, anyway.

Rhys The Royal Any progress?

And now for my normal contribution to this topic. Remembered to look out the train window this morning and there is no sign of station-building or approach work on either side of the line.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7284959.stm Shane Long looks a it different in that photograph :roll: sure does http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44494000/jpg/_44494888_liverreading203.jpg Shane Long and Xabi Alonso get to grips with each other Bet that wasn't given as a foul?...

Are derby having "1st Season " syndrome ? As was pointed out by others back in August, first season syndrome is the real problem, with about half of Premier League relegations being by clubs in their first season. Allied to that Derby Couty have play-off winner syndrome, which appears to ...

Doyle – no goals in last 12 appearances dating back to 8th December Long – no goals in last 17 appearances (27th October) Kitson – no goals in last 7 appearances (29th December) This is not the time to be loaning out our only other striking option, not least one who has scored 6 goals in 3 weeks fo...

BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7260392.stm and Ceefax:

Downing was booked late on for trying to win a penalty for the visitors.

Presumably also a sacking offence? (For Downing, I mean. The BBC are clearly happy with that level of incompetence.)

`We've only got 330,000 attending fans … we have to weigh that in the balance against other stakeholders…' That's presumably an average weekend's attendance. So really you need to double it for the other 10 teams, and take off something rather less than 10% for away fans, which makes it over 600,00...

Looks like it's all over bar the recriminations (which I hope will be long-lasting and hard-hitting). Don't you believe it for a minute. Many people think that the initial, highly convenient "leak" was one where the PL were happy to announce something ludicrous, so that they can later sca...

A Spanish judge has today re-opened the Operacion Puerto doping investigation. This related to blood doping and administering of EPO up to May 2006 by a Doctor Eufemiano Fuentes in Spain. To date, only cyclists have been named as being involved, and only one of those has received a suspension (altho...

Looks like it's all over bar the recriminations (which I hope will be long-lasting and hard-hitting).

When last at Leicester, and obviously whilst thinking mostly of other things, I noticed that they had a small enclosed memorial garden for both fans and former players. I thought this was a very good idea and planned to suggest it at some stage but never got round to it. I think Stoke have something...

Since joining this on Friday night and adding my name to the petition I have only received replies from Birmingham and Manchester United. I also had West Ham and the Prem. I received the same four as Platypuss. When I first posted about it I just assumed the others were on the way. But anyway, the ...

Having signed it, I've started getting e-mails from clubs, all of which are (not unreasonably) generic replies.

Winners of the e-mail race were Birmingham. Everyone else getting the same?

percy freeman fanclub I was thare at Oxford when we went down

No, you weren't.

There can't be many players out there that started at a non-league club and went on to win England Caps, can there? Ian Wright and Stuart Pearce are two that immediately spring to mind. Les Ferdinand as well I think. Cyrille Regis ? There have been quite a few in the not-too-distant past. Apart fro...

Woodcote Royal Shorey was lucky to get selected for Reading in the first 3 months of the season (would have prefered DLC at the time) when his head was still at Upton Park.

You'd think that a medical where the player had forgotten to bring his body would be over pretty quickly, wouldn't you?

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readingbedding There's only been 3 class strikers for England since 1986.

Dixon, Webb and Upson.

(ahem)... Shorey?

Never got past the halfway line so I thought it would be stretching a point to call him a striker.