Sheaf Saint

We were looking the better team but didn't look like scoring. Chelsea have players all across the park who can create something out of nothing, which we most certainly don't. We might well have held on for a draw, but like you say we'll never know.

More than that, we ended up losing a game we would probably have lost anyway (yeah we were playing ok up to the card but Chelsea have the kind of quality to create goals out of nothing that we lack), we got two wins and a draw during his 3 game suspension, and he got an enforced rest and came back looking fitter and sharper having been a bit off form after missing the pre-season friendlies. I thought it was harsh at the time, but in hindsight I think the ref actually did us a favour.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/19716029.report-southampton-one-three-teams-keen-jesse-lingard/ I doubt we'd be able to match his wage demands. He'll probably go to Newcastle in January I reckon.

I have a few mates in Leeds and they all tell me the best place for live music these days is the Brudenell social club. Keep meaning to get up there for a gig but not managed it yet.

I was at the Sheff Utd game, and although he understandably looked a bit rusty, given it was his first game in English football, it was obvious he had something about him. He was let down quite badly by Valery having a mare at RB and constantly leaving him exposed. When I read the comments on here the next day, I was pretty amazed really. There were a number of people saying he looked awful and hopelessly out of his depth, but he really wasn't. Weirdly, the most negative comments of all seemed to be from people who weren't even there. And there weren't even any streams for that game! I get the sense that some people were desperate for him to fail so they could use that to justify their criticisms of the club's recruitment over the summer.

Not sure what it became / is now. I lived and worked in Reading only briefly in the 90s and haven't been back there since. I remember it was next to the Purple Turtle, which was a well known indie bar that a few of my work mates liked to frequent. It was a decent venue, on two floors IIRC. Love the Leadmill though. Been to quite a few gigs and club nights there since I moved up here in 2004. Best live music venue in South Yorkshire hands down.

Story I heard was that when they refused to pack up and leave, the police charged the party with batons.

Went to see them at the Alleycat in Reading around 1996. They were nearly 2 hours late coming on, apparently because they had overdone it a bit with the drugs backstage and needed to come down a bit before they could play! Never went to any Megadog events. Me and some mates did once drive all the way to Taunton for a Spiral Tribe free party, only to turn around immediately when we saw a police riot van parked on the lane and a group of lads coming down the hill with blood everywhere!

Living up to his nickname of Fourpast then.

That could be sooner rather than later. Bednarek dropped out of the Poland squad for reasons unknown, and Jack won't be fit enough to slot right in and play 90 mins next week against Norwich if he is indeed available. No better game to give him his chance than against a potentially still managerless bottom of the table team.

For me, the best album of the 90s wasn't even an album, it was a compilation

I was spared from watching our 9-0 defeat to Leicester because I was watching Lamb play at the Leadmill in Sheffield that night. I definitely made the right choice!

I knew the name but never really explored their music. I was excited by what was going on with electronic music in the 90s, and thought guitar/indie music was too limited and had run its course. Loved stuff like Leftfield, Eat Static, Squarepusher, Zion Train, FSOL, Aphex Twin etc..

I was never really a fan of most of the indie bands already mentioned in the 90s. I was a fully signed up member of the rave revolution in the early 90s and got into DJing, so pretty much all of my music budget in the 90s was spent on dance vinyl. When I did buy albums on CD it was from the likes of Orbital, Chemical Bros, Prodigy etc.. but I also liked the Bristol trip hop sound so got into Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Lamb etc... I liked the first couple of albums from Jamiroquai, but he disappeared up his own arse when he got really famous and everything after Space Cowboy was shite.

Went to a festival in Lisbon in 2012 and was extremely happy to discover Morcheeba had been drafted in as a last minute replacement for headliners Florence and the Machine, who had to pull out because Flo had a throat infection.

Out with a muscle injury.

How the hell was this nearly 3 years ago!!!??? 😳

If he takes it, I wonder if this will be the first time a manager's first game at a new club is against the same team that he only just got sacked from another club for losing to in his last game? And if they win, how pissed would you be as a Villa fan if he could beat us with Norwich but not with them!

Lampard has ruled himself out of the Norwich job then. Could he be on his way to Rangers to replace Stevie G?

Doesn't look like it, according to this hilariously biased article in the Liverpool Echo (the same publication that was spreading the false rumours about him refusing to train). https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/everton-southampton-thierry-small-transfer-21792529 They want £5m, we've offered £1.5m, and we seem happy to let it go to tribunal.

Worth noting that Small is already listed in the first team squad on the OS, rather than the B team. He'll be in the Matchday 20 sooner rather than later.

Jeff Johnson. The name you know.

It's not out of the question I guess, but it would have to be an eye-watering offer we couldn't refuse for us to sell after one year. Man U paid us £30m for Luke Shaw when he was about the same age, and IMO Tino is a more complete player already than Shaw was at that point.

Without checking, I'm guessing that's when Villa play Liverpool, yeah? Christ, I really don't want to listen to Carragher on Sky when that happens. Think I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon.