My brother can't make it on Thursday, so I've got a ticket going spare if anyone is looking for one. Should stress it's not a particularly good ticket (North Upper, pretty far back) but all the same I thought I'd ask. Equally if someone has one ticket elsewhere in the ground and would like two, happ...

They are born out of the club that in the UK at least has had the biggest advantage of the globalisation and commercialisation of football. Manchester United. Condemning one of their own for taking a bell to the game is hardly giving the middle finger to the fatcats is it. I also find it hard to sq...

This video. This. Video. http://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2015/sep/30/reading-fc-club-song-video?CMP=EMCFTBEML853 As I saw a Reading fan put on twitter earlier: "Leeds have MOT, Liverpool have YNWA, West Ham have Bubbles. We've got a song worthy of finishing Eurovision with 0 points.&q...

A Daily Mail blog, written by Peter Hitchens, on Jeremy Corbyn.

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/ ... orbyn.html

I doubt this is said very often about Peter Hitchens' blogs, but I think it's probably quite hard to find much to disagree with in this one.

If anyone is having a really slow day, this is an interesting article on football in the Czech Republic. A subject of which I know nothing. And if I'm honest a country of which I know next to nothing. If you make it through the article, I'd advise you to spare a further five minutes and watch the em...

Why do people expect so much, so quickly? The team really needs time to get to know each other, to recognise what sort of runs their team-mates make, to know when to attempt through-balls, to learn how to cope with stubborn opposition. Why are people so impatient? I can't help but agree entirely wi...

While we're on the subject of the refugee crisis and since this is a football forum, this is interesting.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... me-banners

Agree with everyone else, great report Pompey Penguin. Did anyone else listen to the Football Hour today? Brief interview with Paul Cook at the start (presumably recorded post-game) where he said he got a lovely text off Paul Robinson on Saturday morning to wish him luck - a real touch of class from...

Hard to tell. I think I only saw him play about five minutes.

Never even worked out how to pronounce his name...

Turns out he's now the assistant coach at FC Midtylland (although I doubt anyone on this board was actually wondering about him). http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/27/how-fc-midtjylland-analytical-route-champions-league-brentford-matthew-benham The article is actually far more interesting...

Pompey Dave wrote:Seen reds on the Isle of Wight and up in Scotland.

But have you witnessed them drinking and indulging in anti-social behaviour?

bl**dy immigrants.

You'd never catch a good honest British red squirrel behaving in such a loutish manner.

Chuka is all style, no substance. I would have despaired had he got the leadership. Agree with that. He's far too Blairite for my liking. It was his girlfriend's 102 years old grandmother being doorstepped that push him to withdraw. Really? He saw everything the press through at Ed Miliband through...

Pompey1985 wrote:Source?

BBC Radio Sheffield.

Selsey Bill wrote:My vote goes to Paul Cook

Mine too, for what it's worth. Brings results and nice football.