CountryRoyal I'd honestly rather get Akpan back and play him up front.

Hope springs eternal...

Pat Earles or Richie Bowman for me.

Although not strictly speaking as a spectator, I did turn my ankle on the pitch at the Mad Stad following the Brentford match. I was demonstrating Cureton´s technique to some youngsters and the balance/half volley/tight angle combination didn´t quite come off.
Drink, suffice to say, had been take.

But it's also true that he was sacked this season after 13 games having only managed to get 9 pts .... Yep, quite true. He either overachieved last season or was missing something this. We´ll never know which. But my point was that he wasn´t (and isn´t) unpopular, and that Espanyol are never going ...

He wasn't highly thought of in Barcelona. Espanyol have never managed to catch up with Barca in any way. They used to play in the Olympic Stadium but because the crowds were so small they moved to a Reading-sized stadium built near the airport. In the recent derby Barca beat them easily. All true o...

For some reason I only just noticed this. I saw this kid play a few months ago and thought he was fantastic. My team - Rayo Vallecano, since you ask - won that day but as a lone striker he ran the socks off of our defence, was controlled with his aggression, has an eye for goal and bagged two in twe...

Thought we looked okay in the second half after allowing a better managed, higher spending team with one fantastic player, four or five very good players and three or four not so bad players completely bossed the first half. The Disallowed goal was fair enough, as was the yellow. We still give the b...

Strachan? di Matteo? WTF is everyone going on about Di-Matteo? The bloke has achieved F'All. He took over AVB's team, and told them to "do what they want" - he destroyed WBA. The fact that he was named "Coach of the year" yesterday - is an absolute joke! Gordon Strachan. You do ...

Strachan?
di Matteo?

I Will Survive
Things Can Only Get Better
I Beleive in Miracles - Jackson Sisters
Move On Up
Don't Go Breaking my Heart

etc.

It's not how big it is, it's what you do with it that counts.

Two words. Ollie and Kearns.

Perspective, purlease!

BBC says that Football League clubs now owe £700,000,000 with "over 80%" owed by Championship clubs So that's 560,000,000 minimum owed by 24 clubs, an AVERAGE of £23,333,333 owed by every club an AVERAGE of £23,333,333 owed by every club Gates were down 6% overall last season TV money is ...

Anything 'masterminded' by Terry Bullivant was pretty bad.

Me neither, will be ensconced in a bar Madrid. Will start on the cokes and proceed rapidly to Guinness.

I saw the 1991 play-off final against FC Albanie at the Stade Melodramatique in Cannes. They were selling Simmonds bitter in champagne flutes at the Boules Bar. Reading lost 4-1 and I picked up eighty grand in Swiss francs from the fixed-odds donkey sellers round the back by the Citroen dealers. An...

My uncle - a Royal since the 30's - passed away at around the time Shane Long put the consolation cracker in at QPR in November. From being hunched over the same crush barrier on the South Bank week-in, week-out whilst bedecked in a brown car coat and frantically chewing 'givin up the fags' gum duri...

SIR Howard Webb, surely?

Quite liked Brisbane Road for some reason and - despite NEVER winning there - The Abbey Stadium.

Negative Jeff

I live in Madrid. You'll never know the joy of watching the R's live on TV where the commentators can't pronounce the name of the teams, let alone the players.
It's one of the few things I'm eternally grateful to Mssrs. Berlusconi and Murdoch for.