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This probably won't get much of a response, but I wonder if any on here have the “Oh, it's good for Lancashire” reflex, even if only mildly? I say this because I note that both Bolton and County are now positioned in the play-offs for League Two. Now I well know that there are those on here who...

Ok, because of the way this club has generally been run over the past fourteen years or so, I'm disinclined to believe that any of the four players we've acquired in this window were mere “panic buys” (despite my user name, I recognise that Paul Merson says many, many stupid things. He said one...

Sorry, guys, to create a thread on such a specialised subject, but I really couldn't find a thread that corresponded to what I need to know. I've been looking at the Revival range of Roberts radios. As a kid, I lusted over those radios — I'm a big radio listener, I have never owned a tv set in...

Was thinking about this. I remember seeing us beaten by Liverpool in the seventies. According to the forum archive, it must have been ‘76. It was strange, because the match was ebbing and flowing, with no-one clearly dominating. Then they brought on this ginger, Fairclough, whom some of you will...

Since ’tis the season, as it were… By the way, to be clear, I mean track and field. I suggest the date simply because nobody's seen Paavo Nurmi or Jesse Owens run, and the footage is extremely limited and of poor quality. I'll keep my powder dry on this one for the time being. Curious to see...

Just found out, by accident, that Trevor Griffiths died in March. This thread probably won't get much response, but for information, Griffiths, born in Ancoats, was a lifelong blue, but was known to the world as probably the finest political playwright that England's produced in the last sixty...

Something that's always bothered me. I am a huge fan of J.G. Ballard. I think he's an endlessly provocative and inventive writer. He was also something of a seer. He mainly writes about dystopian futures that are not very far away, i.e. The Drowned World, or that are already on us. But he also...

Often thought about this. In the days before internet, google, where you can look up everything, and more simply, lyrics printed on sleeves, which I think started very, very slowly in the sixties and still didn't really catch on till way into the seventies (was Pepper in fact the first? Seems to...

I'm serious. I've been thinking about this. Probably jumping the gun somewhat, in that we could still come an almighty cropper in the CL, and the thought of losing to the rags on the huge stage that is Wembley is a downright grisly one. Now you cannot be knighted, or proposed for a knighthood...

I'm well aware that there is currently a thread discussing the housing development on the old site, but this has a somewhat different orientation. Mods, feel free to merge if appropriate. Since it is now a century this year since we left, it seems worth marking it in some way (if only on here...

Buzzed over to UTC (Uptheclarets) to see how they'd reacted to Pep's comment about Vin. There is a thread. The comments are uniformly gracious — and realistic, by the way. But I noticed that they had a thread for Wayne Shorter. Now if supposedly backward, six-fingered Burnley can have a thread...

Did my nut on them all, of course, but for me, it was the Rodri goal. First Gundo goal went in, and I thought great, but we‘ve still got to get two more. Of course, Liverpool weren’t leading at that point, but I assumed they would, as everybody did. I still didn’t fully believe. It was better...

Wonder whether anyone else is excited about the Endurance having been located – and in ridiculously fine nick! – 3000 metres down at the bottom of the Weddell Sea after more than a century? For me, it means more than the Titanic. I'm a bit of a polar exploration buff. It's one of my private...

Obviously, the Centurions season, as I say. But apart from that, I'm having difficulty. As I remember it, we were eight points adrift last season after the West Brom game. I wasn't honestly too worried, even then, because if I also remember correctly, Spurs were top at that point, briefly, and...

This obviously excludes anything to do with City. We all know that 99% of posters would choose something from City's history, most probably 93:20. The reason why I'm starting this is that, for the umpteenth time, I've just watched Red Rum win his third at Aintree. Now I'm not even a racing fan...

Ok, I don't want to flog a horse that's probably long dead about who has been the greatest footballer of all time. It's good to debate, but impossible to resolve. Pitches have changed. Radically. Football has changed, radically. There's also a question of perception. Just about every one of...

O.K. As it stands, and as it has been applied this season, it has been a disaster. I'm a balanced enough individual not to have enjoyed it when a rank injustice has been done to another team on the pitch in our favour (there have been precious little of that sort, I know, but there have in fact...

Now come on, don't brag. You're not allowed to nominate yourself.

Don't know if this really merits its own thread, but we'll see if it touches a nerve. I've been skipping around on Youtube looking at snippets from talk shows. More than usual, for the obvious reason. I don't own a tv and have never in my life owned one (this feels a bit like the formal...

My personal all-timer: We think we can get a result…