Sour Mash

Right, so you have no examples of "crazy stories" being run as a result of media talking to fans outside the ground before a game. I'd imagine, contractually, they could not tell Sky not to do the interviews - clearly health and safety wasn't a problem for them was it, so that was clearly a lie from Sibley.

Ah, forgot that, still easily do-able as long as you're away early enough to avoid the queues at the station.

You've got to be joking? You don't see a problem with the media being banned from talking to fans around the ground? And when, ever in the history of the world, has a "crazy story" been run from interviewing a fan outside a football ground?

Think we can assume it'll be for any game where the club think they might get bad press.

What train services are you proposing should be run to this station?

Still should be fine, just leave a minute or two early and get down to the tram or train stop as quick as you can to be sure. Doesn't take an hour to get back into town after games.

You'll make the 22.45 no problem, but if you really want to make sure leave the ground a minute or so before the end and jog down to either the rail or tram station.

100% not going to happen and not at all needed.

Ha, fair enough, takes all sorts I guess!

Not seen that at all. Most I know have an "anti-NC2 slant and are completely supportive of Guly.

HE probably wouldn't get the Villa job, but he's exactly what that club needs - a massive boost of positivity. No real guarantee that any of those jobs will become available any time soon, same as for a lot of the bigger Championship clubs after the recent merry-go-round, so it depends if Adkins fancies being out of football for 6 months or not.

Depends how long he wants to be out of football. Got the feeling Adkins doesn't do sat at home watching Soccer Saturday.

I've seen plenty of Villa fans saying they'd take him. You honestly don't think Norwich or Reading would? Could see Sunderland fans wanting a "big" name maybe. Which Prem jobs do you think will become available in the next few months?

If Norwich, Fulham, Reading, Villa, Wigan, Sunderland, had a vacancy now, I could see him ending up at any of them. Adkins has been unlucky in the respect that there has been loads of movement in managerial positions in the top two divisions in the last year, lots of job that might have been good opportunites might not become available gain for a while.

Do you honestly believe that Le Tiss is just unhappy because he wants free tickets? Really?

Manchester United got the biggest crowds in English football when they were in the 2nd tier in the 70s . Chelsea's record attendance is 83k, the third highest in English football. Man City have the highest ever record attendance of English football. Teams and clubs will have their dips, but being a big club, with nationwide, historical support, that doesn't come over night, it has roots going back many, many years, intertwined with the history of the English game.

How is he wrong?

Correct. Got a feeling these aren't a wind-up though, doubt anyone wanted to correct NC's grammar!

Probably not quite the same as the others you're right, but they've always been a high-profile club, with support and attention from across the country, even when their team was terrible and actual match day attendances were poor.

I think it was the other photo that was added after yours that people think is a wind-up?

What sort of ball park figures you think we'd be looking at there?

Why is what happened to United in the 90s a break from from their history? Also, you say support follows success and not vice versa - obviously true to an extent, but all the genuinely big clubs in this country have all been big for the last 50 years at least if not more - you can get the odd freak result of a Blackburn winning the League, but look who's up there now in the Prem, Man United, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs, Everton - all with a long, long history of big support and drawing support from all over the country that has built up since the 1960s.

"In the playground"? I think you'd be wondering what your "kid" that is nearly 18 would be doing in a playground. The FA should investigate Swansea anyway for creating the situation, instructing ball boys to hold onto the ball like that

Didn't realise NC had heald an open invite, no holds barred Q&A in the last couple of days?

You sort of contradict yourself though. Its not easily won or lost. Its why Liverpool still have massess that travel from London and Norway every home game. Why Man Utd still had mass support from across the country in the 70s. I'm sure Chelsea's worldwide support has grown massively in the last 10 years, but look what they've had to do to get that.