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I've heard this before, though it was dubbed over a video montage of images of war and suffering. It's as pertinent today as it was in the 1930s, if not more so. Does anybody know what film this is from?

How? What makes you so sure?

Another local-ish away game for me would be nice (as I got my wish for Barnsley away in the last round ). Leeds or Huddersfield would be good. Derby isn't far and it would be good to exorcise the ghost of the 2007 play-offs at Pride Park. Rotherham would be great but I can't see them beating Villa tonight.

Well I did notice that the fans singing the song were mis-pronouncing his name as well. He comes from Latin America and they pronounce 'CH' in the same way we would pronounce 'CK'. It's quite embarrassing that we can't even pronounce our own manager's name correctly when singing it.

You are missing the point entirely here. The OP simply wanted to start a discussion about the fact that the quality of the food available has dropped dramatically while the price of it has increased. I bought a burger at Barnsley last night and it was bloody awful. Nobody forced me to buy it either, I simply chose to because it was easier than driving around for ages before the game trying to find somewhere else to get some hot food. I imagine many people are in the same situation. The other point here though, is that if the club actually offered good quality food in the concourse then perhaps more people would be inclined to buy it and thus increase the revenue stream to the club. If you know the food is rubbish then you will try to find alternatives before going to the game, but if you know the pies/pasties/burgers are all decent quality then you will be more inclined to buy them there. It's a perfectly valid discussion.

It's not often you will find me defending Alpine, but he has a valid point. An 'OK' 2nd-half performance against a team bottom of the Championship is the absolute minimum we should be expecting from a £12m Uruguayan international.

Dear lord, how hard can it be to get our manager's name right?

All of the rhetoric on the radio this morning is eerily reminiscent of the events running up to the invasion of Iraq 10 years ago, and it seems that Cameron has already made up his mind that we need to intervene, with or without a UN mandate. The British public will have learned the lesson from last time (I hope). If the government intend to commit out armed forces to operations in Syria we need to be shown concrete evidence that Assad's army was responsible for the chemical attack, not dodgy dossiers and sexed-up intelligence that will be proven false in years to come. The humanitarian disaster that is happening in Syria is shocking and saddening, but I fear that if we and the rest of the UN countries get involved it will just be another Iraq/Afghanistan. Rather than making Syria a safer place for the people that live there, the country will descend into turmoil and years of civil war. I also have grave concerns about the fact that we appear to be supporting Al-Qaida who are the main proponents of the opposition forces. If so then what exactly was the point of the the billions of pounds spent and the hundreds of lives sacrificed in Afghanistan over the last 12 years?

The one to the tune of the Inspiral Carpets you mean? I couldn't make out all the words, but you would think wish our fans would learn how to pronounce our manager's name properly.

I'm not sure what wavelength Maya was on tonight though... seems like he is still a little jet-lagged. Got caught napping two or three times in the first half and just stood off and let Dawson have a crack for their goal. He was well off the pace and on tonight's performances I would much rather have Fonte lining up alongside Lovren at Norwich on saturday.

Gaston wasn't that good tonight - he was very pedestrian in the first half and still gave the ball away too cheaply at times. Mayuka made some great runs and deserved his goal, he took it really well. Cracking finish from Jay-Rod as well. Should be a big confidence booster for him. I thought Isgrove had a very good game. Switched to the left for the second half and he got in behind their defence two or three times and caused problems. Rowe looked very lively when he came on but didn't really see enough of the ball. He had a great chance to score when the ball ricocheted to him after a strong run into the box from Mayuka, but he hit it a little too close to the keeper who saved well.

Wasn't in the game at all in the first half tonight, but same alive a little more when he moved to the centre of the 3 in the 2nd. Didn't see his goal (I left to beat the traffic after Davis put the penalty away). He played some neat stuff but he still gets harassed off the ball too easily. He needs to be more determined to get past his man instead of just waiting to get fouled. Overall he was effective tonight, but let's remember this Barnsley team had leaked 12 goals in 3 games prior to today.

Isgrove having a really good game. Has switched to the left at HT and causing real problems for the Barnsley defence.

Half time thoughts from Oakwell... A poor half of football which sees us deservedly leading. Not much to cheer or get excited about so far. Kelvin not had anything to do so far. Fonte his usual composed self but Yoshi must still be jetlagged. He looked half asleep for the first 20 mins or so and got caught napping 2 or 3 times. Clyne looks sharp and eager to get forward which will benefit us when he returns to the PL team. Isgrove has made a nuisance of himself down the right but looks very lightweight. Cork and Davis doing well in the middle but Ramirez really not got into the game playing on the left. A few nice touches but he still gets bundled off it far too easily - it's as if he expects to get fouled and just waits for it. Ballooned the one shooting chance he got. Jay Rod and Mayuka both full of running up front but not had any decent service yet. Prob should have had a penalty when Isgrove went down in the box but Davis was on hand to rifle in the loose ball - really good finish.

Oh yeah, I know it. I briefly had a job in Tankersley a few years ago where everybody else in the office was from Barnsley. I've lived in Sheffield for the best part of ten years now, but I still have my southern accent (of sorts) and I now know what it is like to be the victim of racial discrimination!

Chapeltown?

They tend to direct all away supporters to the bar at the Metrodome leisure centre just up the hill from Oakwell. Barnsley is a very strange, insular little place where outside folk aren't really welcome. So much so that they even consider people from Sheffield as southerners!

You mean apart from him being a clone of Picard and needing his blood/DNA to prevent his premature and imminent death?

Does anybody know where I can get video highlights for games this season? It seems Yahoo no longer have the rights to show them as they did last year (though their video quality was really poor anyway) and I can't find anything anywhere else. I heard a rumour that BBC Sport website would be showing video highlights of each match this season, as they used to do when we were in the Championship, but that hasn't materialised. It seems that they still won't allow you to watch MOTD on iplayer either - although underneath it in the schedule it just says 'coming soon' instead of 'not available'.

Tim was a character that Pegg himself wrote. Given his very public admissions of sci-fi nerdness in the past, I think it is fair to assume that Tim's opinions were very much those of his creator. Pegg has sold out. I wonder just how defensive he would be about the two Abrams films had he not been paid handsomely to appear in them?

There was an ongoing theme in Spaced about Pegg's character Tim holding anger towards George Lucas for 'selling out' with The Phantom Menace, which led to him getting sacked from his job at the comic store for shouting abuse at a young kid who had come in wanting to buy a Jar-Jar Binks toy. His entire argument seemed to be that Lucas had totally ignored the apparent wishes of the die-hard fans of the original trilogy and made a film that was solely intended to make huge amounts of money at the box office. And now, fast-forward to 2013. The very same man is defending a sci-fi film he has appeared in based purely on the box-office takings, and issued a foul-mouthed insult to the die-hard fans of the franchise whose affinity for it made it possible for Abrams to make this blockbuster in the first place. Shame on you Simon. I used to have a lot of respect for you and your comedy writing, but the hypocrisy you have shown in this instance is quite unforgivable.

People who get to the top/bottom of an escalator and just stand there deciding where to go. What the f**k do they expect the people behind them on the escalator to do? Keep stepping backwards until they make their f**king minds up?

Wayne Bridge.

OOooh you little tease. You said don't expect sinclair only a couple of days ago. However, the release of JP to Palace would seem to make sense if we are bringing someone else in.

I don't doubt he was effective last season (at times anyway - he put in a few half-hearted performances as well as I remember) but he didn't even make the bench on saturday against WBA. This suggests to me that either we already have a new winger lined up, or there are non-footballing reasons behind this decision which, given his previous, isn't outside the realms of possibility.