stevegrant

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My renewal was £575 this season, I think... would expect a moderate rise to £600-625.

In terms of standard, it's not that high I would suggest that reasonable fitness is more important as we'll have 4 group games (15 minutes each), potentially followed by up to 2 knockout games (20 minutes each). Drop me a PM if you're interested

We're now up to 6, and one of them is a keeper!

This win takes us into 3rd place but now relying on Liverpool losing their remaining two games (away against Arsenal and Man United) for us to qualify for the final stage. If we do qualify, we'll play Man United in the semi-final. Spurs, having won the elite group, get to play the winners of the playoff between the winners of the two other groups (Everton and almost certainly Newcastle) in the other semi-final.

I've got a team entered in the aap3 charity 6-a-side tournament at AFC Totton on Sunday, but at the moment am slightly struggling for players (we can have a squad of 10 but only have 5 right now). It is an all-day event, starting from 10am. If you fancy playing, please let me know.

Also, Sheffield United would probably have stayed up at West Ham's expense that season had they not been allowed to get away with fielding an ineligible player (Carlos Tevez) all season.

He was decent for a young Championship centre-back learning his trade but I've seen nothing from him in the last year that suggests he's anything better than that. Brendan Rodgers obviously worked with him for a while when he was (briefly) Reading manager so knows him from there, but he's hardly the signing that's going to turn Liverpool into a genuine contender to qualify for the Champions League.

Watford away, June 8th

Just like Portpin was just Balram Chainrai's vehicle for loaning money to the football club?

Meet the new boss, the same as the old boss

When did you send it? I've got nothing in the inbox that's not automated going back more than a month

Couple of late withdrawals, if anyone else fancies a game, be at Fleming Park (football changing rooms are by the tennis courts) for 10am tomorrow

Just call him Big Nose, that'll work

What about those who spend the same amount getting to home games? Why should those who, for argument's sake, live nearer to half our away grounds than St Mary's reap the benefit of cheap tickets at the expense of others? Let's face it, if clubs are forced to reduce tickets for away fans, where do you reckon they'll make that money up from? Home fans.

This. The FSF campaigned for years to get the FA and the leagues to make it mandatory for clubs to charge away fans the same as home fans in comparable areas of the ground rather than blatantly ripping them off, and now they're happy to toss that away in order to piggy-back onto the fact that the league champions kicked up a fuss after they failed to sell their allocation for a game against one of their fellow "big 4" members. Empty seats at the biggest games (if Man City as a club were so concerned at the price their fans were being asked to pay, they should have bought the tickets they were going to hand back and just left them empty - not as if they couldn't afford the £60k-odd it would have cost them) is the only way the authorities and the clubs themselves will take notice, a petition harvests thousands of email addresses for the FSF and the clubs being emailed but won't force any sort of action.

OK cheers for the heads-up, squad amended

Right, these will be the two squads: HOME GK: Chris Summers DF: Kev Thornton, Adam Moore, Andy Porter, Scott Phillips MF: Chris Knight, Stu Holloway, Ben Coombes, Brad Smirk, Mark Black FW: Steve Grant, Scott Griffin AWAY GK: Andy (Kev's +1) DF: Lee Chamberlain, Mike Florit, Ali Kilford, Simon Goodwin MF: Andy Mintram, Mike Head, Tim Mumford, David Mansell, Mark Rossi, Sam Treadaway FW: "diggs", Stuart Shaw

There's a long-standing email list which other team managers are subscribed to, so that side of things is already sorted. This game would have been fine but for the fairly exceptional circumstances with their manager.

Very, most Germans speak English to a decent level. While all the attention is rightly on the terraces in German stadia, you'll find it very difficult (or expensive via the black market - ticket touting is legal in Germany) to get tickets in the standing areas as most are sold out to season ticket holders. You'd have more luck at second or even third division grounds, and there are some big sides in the second division at the moment - Cologne and Kaiserslautern regularly get 35k+.

Oh, and where's that text from, by the way?

I wonder what happens if they don't raise the funds to buy the stadium themselves in the next five years...

Two more than Ben Thatcher got for that challenge on Pedro Mendes. Also the same as David Prutton got for grabbing a referee's arm.

Hoping it'll be more regular next season, playing games against other fans teams.

On the flipside, Branfoot got us to a cup final and didn't get us relegated.