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Had a great moment walking through the capital square in Zanzibar whilst wearing my Everton shirt a few years ago. A local lad just shouted "James Beattie" at me. He spoke no other English. I just gave him a big smile, took my shirt off and gave it to him and said "up the toffees". He did his...

I wouldn't want every tiny bit of sentimentality to be stripped out of the club, but I don't think any top clubs do that anyway. Liverpool (who you'd have to grudgingly admit are one of the best run clubs around) have their ex players floating about doing all kinds of PR stuff, stands named...

Hang on... The narrative is that De Rossi has been a nightmare to work with. Sacking him (after a pretty inauspicious start this season) isn't necessarily a mistake. You could argue that appointing him in the first place was a mistake or that giving him that contract in the summer was a...

17 years - my first one was, coincidentally, the first season which they take into account in the process for determining the length you've held one. Lived down south for a spell in the middle and gave it up, but moved back up here and held one again from 2012.

Different strokes for different folks, but the Spurs stadium is magnificent IMO. Inside is the best I've ever seen. The outside I prefer the look we've gone for, but I think Spurs is literally the standard in world football now.

Yep, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for lots of people to relocate next to/near friends and family which has been pretty difficult for years. We are in the same boat and between the dozen or so of us who would like to sit close together, we can either all wait or split into small...

Same - there some gaps in mine when I moved down south for a few years and was fully expecting them to have cocked up the period prior to this, but seems they've got it right by some miracle

The 23 years is about the data the club have. Whether they've made it public or not, I don't know, but they only have historical data about people going back a certain period of time, when it was digitized. I'll bet the club don't know you've had your ST 44 years, or if they do they aren't sure...

Going through the motions. This season has made it abundantly clear to me that he can't deal with an increase in the level of expectation in performance levels and results. We will stay up, but he cannot be the man to take us forward as he cannot and will not attempt to play to anything less...

As discussed many times, you are prepared to give Dyche the benefit of the doubt and point to extenuating circumstances with regard to the context we should evaluate his performance in. You aren't willing to do the same for Thelwell, and at that point your argument ceases to objective. End of...

Changes nothing for me at the minute. As a bare minimum he should be matching last season's points tally (points deductions notwithstanding) and league placing. If he underachieves those metrics, I don't see any rational argument to keep him beyond the end of the season. A win away at one of the...

Smaller networks seem to be better - I switched from O2 this year (never, ever got signal/data) to iD Mobile (yeah, I'd never heard of them either) and I can get data/signal more or less any time there now. Also switched my kids to Talkmobile and they get data fine as well. I've been with...

...this season as being better than anything Dyche has had before, yet the football is absolutely no different. I don't subscribe to the idea that we **have** to be playing the way we do now, and tbh it's working against him because I've gone from being a Dyche advocate on the basis of his...

I'm on the fence on this - McNeil, to his credit, has quality on that left foot of his and being in the number 10 area means that when he can get it on his left foot facing goal, you can get more from him - great. However, because he's the most one footed player in professional football, when...

That was a properly unconvincing win. It was must-win and we did, great, but we were abject for 45 mins then scored a worldy early in the 2nd half, got another not long after and then proceeded to not create anything after that. A win's a win, but he could barely have scraped the bare minimum...

In an ideal world, Dyche picks up some results and gets us clear of any problems for the season. Whatever happens, however, he can't be offered a new contract. I don't want him here, but ideally I'd rather make that change in the summer when we have time to plan properly and assess who the...

Hope they never darken our door ever again mate. Basically your footballing finance version of Wonga. Kenwright brought the wolf to the door and we've struggled to ever get rid of them since.

Have read some conflicting stuff on the R&MF one. Some say that's being paid off immediately, but some say it's only partially being paid off initially. It's late, so I'm probably forgetting something important, but something at the back of my mind says that it was R&MF who were the first ones...

If it was ever anything other than a negotiating tactic