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We've all felt lonely at one time or another, so I wonder what are the songs that best express that feeling? My pick is still Francoise Hardy, 1964 or thereabouts, "Tous les Garcons et les Filles de mon age." There's a video on youtube of her singing it as she wanders forlorn and lovely by...

Not in terms of football skills or athleticism but in personal style and life story, which City player(s) do you see in yourself? Or in family & friends. For example who on here is a bullish Andy Morrison or a creative David Silva genius? Who's an impish Bernardo or a Mike Summerbee elder...

Brightened the day to read on the BBC website that a lioness rescued from a zoo in Ukraine and now in the Poznan Zoo In Poland will be moved to a better life in a Safari park in Yorkshire. (Her three cubs are coming too. One is called Santa, good name for a beast with claws.)

His 100th birthday, 22 October 1923. First hero many of us had. I thought MCFC were planning on sending representatives to Bremen to commemorate his century, did anything come of that?

Last resting place I mean, after we're gone, whether it's ashes being scattered or body in a box. Sometimes I've fancied the Lake District just for its beauty but i haven't spent long enough there for it to mean that much to me. So I'm thinking some of my ashes will be on the fields (still...

Even though I was there many times and kind of liked the place I'm wondering what the old Manchester Exchange Station was really for. You didn't actually change there for other lines, there was Manchester Victoria just 100 yards further on, so apart from boasting the longest platform in Europe...

Here's to Anzac Day for those who know it, 25 April. It's meant something special to me since my (too short) time in New Zealand long ago. If I get to Istanbul in June I intend taking a day or so to visit the war cemeteries at Gallipoli.

Been reading the talk on the Crystal Palace pre-match thread about awkward train times and on comes Simon & Garfunkel's "Homeward Bound", written on a dark and miserable Widnes station platform. Which makes me think, what are the loneliest, most God-forsaken and neglected places folk have got...

In recent matches the players have been going into a huddle right before kick-off. Is this a new thing or have they been doing it for some time and I haven't noticed? Either way I don't like it, it's what teams do when they think they're the plucky underdog likely to get beaten. Let the...

I was 9 when the 1958 World Cup was on in Sweden. Thanks to what they called "the miracle of Eurovision" some of the games were on tv, our little b & w 9" set. And the player that caught my eye, even more than the young Pele, was France's Just Fontaine. France v Paraguay (I had to look it up in...

In the pub or on long train journeys the topic has often come up "which of these local rivals do you prefer (or dislike least)?" With some it's easy to choose: Everton not L'pool, Sunderland not Newcastle, Sheffield Wednesday (blue) not Sheff Utd. But between Arsenal and Spurs it's a lot...

For example: After Vincent Kompany scored that goal for City against Leicester Kelechi Iheanacho was clean through with the chance to make it 1-1 and probably deny City the title. Did he put it high and wide on purpose for the sake of his former club? Or did he just bugger it up? There'd be...

Iran, that is. Just read on BBC about a 17 year old girl Mona Heydari who was beheaded by her husband in an "honour killing" because she ran away from him. He got 8 years, the legal sentence as her parents forgave him. Married at 12, a mother at 14, physically abused. Report adds that the...

I've long been fascinated in my odd way by the two matches City played on Christmas Day and Boxing Day against Plymouth Argyle in 1946. At home at Maine Road first, then at Plymouth the next day. Just before my time but i've read that the two teams traveled down together on the overnight train...

Cardiologist told me my artery is badly blocked and I need a stent put in next week. Now I know more about this I'm less worried than I was at first, seems a routine thing and the doctor doing it has done 5,000 of them. The missus is a bit frantic, though, and it will my first invasive...

Twenty years and more ago there was a smashing lady called Lorraine Firth who worked in supporter services at Maine Road. Anyone know is she still employed by the club? Lovely person, always sorted out tickets on trips back home, even for the last match at Maine Road. Once in Keegan's season...

The famous L.S. Lowry painting "Going to the match" is up for auction (from the Professional Footballers Association, I think), the one with crowds of his matchstick men at the old Burnden Park. There are fears it could go to a private buyer and leave England, so someone with a few bob to spare...

Uwe Seeler, Hamburg and West Germany, passed on at 85. Great player, one club all his career, from the Pele and Bobby Moore era of world football.

Help wanted - been bothering me for hours - which sports writer wrote about an England football manager after a particularly bad defeat that hastened his sacking "Last night may not have been his Waterloo but it is certainly his Clapham Junction"? From the '70s, so probably about Ramsey or...

We've had "best non-City football moments" but what are the most dramatic/moving things in sport away from football? Two for an FOC are: Wilson Whinneray scoring the last try of the NZ All Blacks tour at Cardiff Arms Park, early '60s maybe. Peter West commentating (remember him?) all excited...