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All you can say with certainty is they didn't want to sell him for £5.5m, or whatever it was we bid. I'd imagine if we went up, we'd bid significantly more.

Birmingham threw money at it and hoped something stuck. Why I wasn't gnashing my teeth at the close of the window; yes, we could have done with one or two to boost the squad, but I only want us to sign the right players.

All the Welsh clubs in the pyramid have played in it since their inception, though. The Welsh league is comparatively new, and for years all Welsh clubs played in the English league system. I would not want the two big Glasgow clubs in English football; they come with too much baggage.

They were genuinely talking about us as title contenders until about Easter. We won an evening game against Arsenal 1-0 in about March that I'm sure put us third. We just fell apart a bit at the end. Probably my favourite season, and the first one where I attended regularly.

By the instructions that they had been given, I think the officials probably made the right decision. I think what you describe would be preferable to what we have now, but I am anti tech in football generally; it is a human game, and I can accept errors from officials. When the same officials...

Don't think so. That was in a home game, and then Killer missed a penalty against his tiny, outfield replacement.

What happened to David Smith? He was such a tricky, skilful player when he broke through.

This is it, isn't it. If you have to bring it down to studying millimetres between imaginary lines on the ground, then the things that you are looking for don't matter. No advantage has been gained. Football is worse for doing this. It puts me in mind of zealous letting agencies; you leave a...

He was terrible. I'll never forget that game at Barnsley where our forward line consisted of him and Kyle Lightbourne. If there was a 'games that really annoyed you and still rankle decades later' thread, that would be right in there.

Ballard goal was an absolute sickener at the time, but I didn't think we were good enough over the season for promotion, so I got over it reasonably quickly and don't dwell on it now. I was more annoyed that we lost our unbeaten streak in home games against Sunderland than anything else.

There may be intentional irony in that post, there may not. Let's give you the benefit of the doubt.

Got to be getting close, though, surely.

Midwich Cuckoos also is a masterpiece (my favourite other than Triffids, and a pretty good film adaptation too, to be fair). Also the lesser know Trouble with Lichen is well worth a read.

Don't they have reduced capacity due to redevelopment, too?

Runners up in their league last season, apparently. Nearly The Strongest Domestically FC.

There's a team named Tractor at no. 400. Ploughing a lone furrow for the Iranian top-flight, by the looks of things.

Clueless owners holding back clubs.

Their goalie sounds like bollocks.

American sport has a totally different culture, based on a franchise model and with there being a history of teams moving from city to city. European football clubs are rooted in their local communities with histories that go back 150+ years. It is not the same. That said, if there are NFL...

Is everything alright at home?