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Source?

Whilst it's obviously one of our more trivial concerns in the general scheme of things the OS is actually completely wrong.....someone travelling from Southampton wouldn't touch the M4 (other than driving over it on the A33, having left the M3 at Basingstoke) http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=reading&countryCode=GB#map=51.45499,-0.96926|10|4&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:51.45499:-0.96926:14|reading|Reading, Berkshire, England, RG1 2

I'd have thought the whereabouts of Schneiderlin would have been a more newsworthy OS article....not a dickie bird....

Cheers - yep, apologies for my somewhat facetious post. I was just doing my usual sums (i.e. 2+2=5) born out of the usual frustration one gets on here as an innocent bystander. You're right....I don't think anyone has said they weren't actually at the game. Just people reading between the lines I guess. Back to chasing my own tail.....

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Perhaps they're too busy working on the delayed end of year finances.....3 weeks late and counting....

Is that from the same 'fact factory' that had us believe Salz and Crouch would be at the game on Saturday, or is this a different type of "fact" ? The usual apologies ion advance for my cynicism.....

It's ok, I've worked it out.... Weston Saint..........Long Shot..........Morph

I wouldn't start counting these yet if I were you:-

Wasn't very thick wool....it was 'common knowledge' on here at the time that there was a strong likelihood that Arsenal had a finger in this particular pie from the beginning.

Hope "he" uses his last post wisely....

Does that 11,800 include everyone in the ground? (i.e. including non-paying staff etc) or is that a 'fans only' figure? Anyway, take away the 1,169 away fans and that leave 10,631...which brings us back to the title of the thread I guess....

Quite possibly/probably. Doesn't make it right though. IMHO

True. I usually cite 'sloppy journalism' as a potential explanation candidate but neglected to do so on this occasion!

There you go. Simple, isn't? Now, why wouldn't SFC want to be as transparent as that?

If his omission from the team on Saturday was down to a fitness doubt I would have expected the OS to have mentioned this. The OS saying nothing simply adds fuel to the rumour fire, which is surely the opposite effect that the club wanted....?

I was going to ask why he didn't play but then assumed I'd missed a report about him being injured or suchlike. Even the OS match-day article doesn't mention why he was left out when they nearly always (if not always) give this sort of team change info. I'm getting fed up with all this subterfuge about player availability (the lack of tangible news about Skacel last month being another case in point).

True. Excuse my poor analogy!

Another game without Schneiderlin....another defeat....an update on these stats might be telling....?

How can any club get away with and/or justify quoting an untrue attendance figure? What's the point of quoting an attendance figure if it doesn't actually reflect the number of people in the stadium? If this was any other industry the local trading standards office would be down on us like a shot. Maybe we should start counting shots that nearly went in as goals? Unbelievable.

At the speed at which Crouch, Salz and Fulthorpe operate, I shall henceforth be ordering some bunting for April 2011....

Can't think who came up with that observation originally..... :cool:

No I heard that too....but I'm still mental having heard it....the two aren;t mutually exclusive in my case!