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Nothing to do with North Eastern football clubs. It was a hot day in Bournemouth, but late afternoon it became overcast, and somewhat humid. A magpie decided to explore our sun lounge, flying at speed into every window and crapping every time it hit glass. It finally escaped. An hour later we...

If you had to pick any former player to play 007, who would you choose?

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/24899744.afc-bournemouth-owner-bill-foley-expanding-black-knight-group/ Another American owner.

Would it not be more fun to go back to two points for a win, but no points for a draw, and a point lost for a defeat? Get rid of VAR. Let the ref, for all their faults, make the decisions. Make shirt pulling a foul like it used to be, same as wresting defenders to the ground in dead ball...

As long as you discount President Beckham of Spiceland and Dan Roan as President of Wankerland.

The BBC announced the shortlist for the Sport of the Year event next week. No problem with some of the nominations, but Bellingham doesn’t play in England, whereas Phil Foden was voted player of the year, and no mention of Mark Cavendish? Why do we have to be forced to pay for this bias?

Look under every slimy rock in the World and you will never find anything so slimy and obnoxious as Gary Neville.

Look under every slimy rock and you will never find anything so slimy and obnoxious as Gary Neville

I go back a long way, nearly 70 now, so I enjoyed the wonderful commentary by the likes of Kenneth Wolstenhome and Motty, for example. These modern ‘commentators’ don’t actually commentate, they tend to chat with their colleague about stuff about football. I don’t mind this with cricket, because...

As a resident of Bournemouth, I don’t tend to follow the MEN, but after the last couple of weeks I was somewhat shocked how anti-City the local rag is these days. They seem to be so biased towards the Salford team. Do they really seem to want to alienate a huge proportion of their potential...

My first wife and I went to see the disaster at Maine Road (the one against QPR with the back header which led to relegation). Her work colleague told her that her husband was a City fan, so I agreed to give him a lift. We were regulars in those days. He was a senior lecturer at Hull University...

I live in Bournemouth these days so I rarely get to see City play except on TV. My stepdaughter has bought me a hospitality ticket to watch Bournemouth v City on Feb 24th as a birthday present, so I am delighted but obviously concerned that if we score I will be revealed as a City fan in the...

Trying hard to hold my nerves, but I think some of our older players might be thinking they have achieved all they can with City. Gundogan has left already, Walker, Mahrez, Bernado, Laporte, Cancelo also seem unsettled, if they all go I can’t see how we can establish new signings in the summer...

Current VAR rules will kill football, it is obvious from this week’s Champions League games that it is not fit for purpose, fans, players and refs all hate it. the fun of the game is being ruined by bureaucrats who have no understanding of entertainment, many of whom have never been football...

Come on, surely we should be doing better than this? Seventh? https://talksport.com/football/518805/premier-league-most-hated-club-chelsea-liverpool-manchester-united/amp/

In some ways I understand why Sanchez and Pogba chose Man U over Man City, they went for the money and thought that Mourinho would get United back up here. I bet they are both wondering if sacrificing their careers and reputation were worth the extra cash.

The BBC has allowed subscribers to rate players in each World Cup match. Have you noticed how the ratings show a strong pro-Liverpool bias? I suppose they have nothing better to do with their time, but it has become increasingly obvious. Well they may have all the best players in the World, but...