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The railways are now privatised into dozens of companies. They have to pay the network shedloads of money to run extra trains so it just isn't worth their while. They are there to make a profit now, not provide a service like they would have done in 1987.

It's apparently £11.50 to go within the C-zone at the relevant times. If you did get charged but didn't pay on the day, you get a penalty charge in the post for £130. This is halved if you pay within 14 days. Absolute robbery, the whole thing, and one reason I never go anywhere near the...

The Former Players' Association were given an allocation of tickets for both full and associate members. They were £28 tickets, (£14 concessions) in block 548 and everyone could buy two. They are also putting on coaches from the BPA at a special rate. So it seems to be right that the club...

And the other 20k queueing for the bog, stood ankle deep in recycled £5-a-bottle Carlsberg.

Ernie is a brilliant guy. He used to run a pub in Ledbury called the Full Pitcher. We would call in when in the area, usually on the way back from Bristol City. He would hold court all night with his stories and gags, often wearing an outrageous Beatle-style wig. He loved reminiscing with...

Not a chance. I couldn't name one from the last 10 years if I'm honest.

That's true enough, some of the former players who turn up played only a handful of games for the club. The FPA is one of the best supported throughout the leagues, although that is don to the people that run it, not CCFC itself. I would say that even those who are not 'legends' still care far...

I would hate it to be the Peterborough game on 8th April. It's Legends Day - imagine how embarrassing it would be to plummet into Division 4 in front of a few dozen of the club's greatest players in history. It's supposed to be a celebration of 30 years since winning the FA Cup and 50 years of...

Just thinking about this issue of when relegation will be mathematically confirmed. I do think it is quite possible we could be down before the final. It could even be the day before through other results when we don't play. Appropriately that is April Fools' Day. It would mean a strange...

On Tuesday he did say in the second half that "The Bolton fans may have thought he was offside....."

If we are to have a decent chance, they may need to play their U13s.

I think he is right. One major problem is that players regard it as just a job, and their club as simply their current employer. They never have the one-club commitment that fans have, and I suppose that is down to the fact that they have never actually been fans if they have been in the...

My wife was a season ticket holder from 1990 until we went to Northampton and never missed a home game in all that time. She didn't go in 1987 but is like me in that we have just had enough of the current madness.

The Wembley trip means nothing to me either. I think it's a sick joke that we are there, even though it is in a tinpot competition. We have the worst team in our history and will almost certainly be relegated before the big day. I am fortunate enough to have been at Wembley for both games in...

I remember speaking to Bill Glazier a few years later about it when we were staying in his hotel. He was actually injured rather than ill, and watched from the stand in Munich. As he tells it, he said he could have done better on one leg and saved four of them. Through its history the club...

The problem there is that it won't even occur to those running the club to do anything like that. Fisher &Co will be thinking that we had 9000+ on Saturday, there's a Wembley payday coming up, so everything is rosy. So we get more of the same in the summer on a reduced budget, then repeat the...

We have only finished bottom of the league once since we joined in 1919. That was in 1924-25, when we finished 3 points adrift of Crystal Palace, and 4 adrift of Stoke who stayed up. That season we did win 10 home games, it was a dire away record that did for us. As poor as we were in...

I guess I must be older than most people on here. How can we have got this far into discussing CCFC's worst goalkeepers without a single mention of the hapless Eric McManus? He was the one who let in 6 in Munich, playing for the first 20 minutes like he was blindfolded. He had other memorable...

He certainly is a glutton for punishment. Sisu then Venky's! He must have a masochistic streak. Where next for him - Blackpool?

Or it can be 'Alacant'. That's the Valencian version, both are on many of the road signs. Love that area and been to the Jose Rico Perez several times. The local derby between Hercules and Elche was quite a day a few years back. Also saw the old Alicante CF play there but I believe they are...