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I used to have a Danish customer who was aircraft mad. I gave him a small book that I had about the Lancaster and he couldn’t believe that we had undertaken such an operation. He had never even heard of it. He told me that when he was a small boy there was a crashed Lancaster in the woods near his house and that he used to play inside it. Brave men indeed. After the raid Guy Gibson was sent on a publicity tour of America and Canada. At a press conference in New York he was asked how many operations he had been on. There was a stunned silence when he said 174. American airmen were considered worn out at 25. Brave and selfless men all of them..

The JPT was a final

There are hundreds of altwernative views. Most of them think that Claude Puel is not a very good manager. Do you (or anybody else) really think that if Puel had been here for nother season that he would have repeated his 'outstanding' achievement of getting 46 points, let alone getting to Wembley again?

Indeed it is. It's an alternative point of view.

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Because he isn't Russian of course.

Same number of rounds albeit one is two-legged but in terms of the achievement of actually getting there.

As they say at school, please explain your reasoning.

And Ralph got us to an FA Cup semi final which is equivalent. 8th on 46 points is a fluke and if anybody wants to look at what the 8th placed team has achieved over the last twenty years it would be a useful comparison. Last season it would have given us 13th position. We were on a downward heading. This does not mean that I am in favour of Ralph staying.

We wouldn’t have finished anywhere near 8th in the next season and if the end of season trend had continued we might well have been relegated. Analysis from the BBC, “They only scored 17 goals in 19 home games and didn't score in six of their last seven home matches.“

Yep. Idiotic isn’t it.

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The sound of a Merlin engine. Better still, the sound of four Merlins on a Lancaster. I have just watched the 1950s film The Dam Busters one more time and the combination of the sound of the engines and the music of the Dambusters March just have me welling up every time.

No footballer should ever be just ‘standing’

How racist of you.

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Fonte had signed and was playing for West Ham for half the season, but we've discussed this further above.

It’s a lot easier for four defenders to mark one player than it is to mark two.

Second time. The previous season we were under Koeman.

You have never been so wrong. You will never understand ‘The Beautiful Game, El Rey de los Deportes’. All football clubs are businesses. Only a few can make money by winning trophies. The rest make money by selling something that people want to pay money to watch. Not supporters who watch their games on Teletext, or it’s modern equivalent.

Not at all. Fonte was effectively forced out. Puel obviously didn’t want him. That much is clear. But there again, Puel is not a very good manager as his subsequent career has shown.

Do you actually pay to go to our games?