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Do you realise that your Satnav has a trackable memory? It's why the Police sometimes take possession of Satnav after RTAs where criminality may be involved. I think (but don't know) the Satnav until has to be downloaded to access the data. I only know because my brother was involved in a very serious RTA and the Police impounded his Satnav and explained the reason why. I have often wondered how easy it is to hack into Satnav...

It does stink, but my God I would like to see our side full of strong characters and fearless youngsters having a crack at some of the aristocrats in a battle to prevent relegation. All is not lost, not by a long chalk.

Very well put, sgncfc. 'The science' is just an illusory empty cliche which has lost its credibility. In time, we will have the answers, but decisions have to be made almost daily. And therein lies the problem for Johnson and his team. Who to look after? The proletariat, who are extremely vulnerable and could die in swathes if controls are relaxed. Or the financial institutions, who are the Conservatives' natural allies and backers and who need the economy to start ticking over again or else they will lose multiple £billions. If the financiers keel over, the proletariat will feel the sharpest pain.

...but can you imagine the redtop headlines? 'Delia stirs the pot', 'Delia turns up the temperature', Delia is simmering', 'We are in the soup, says Delia', 'Delia curries favour with EPL' etc etc etc. and worse! How about 'Delia's recipe for salvation'? It would be unbearable and would be met with quite a lot of sexist derision. Stuart Webber would be a better club representative, but I am far from convinced that we are not playing our hand just right at present. What goes into the public domain is just lightweight quotes that do not really matter.

Hadn't really thought about this until seeing this post. I have paid £25 for away membership, the same for home membership next season, and £50 to go on the season ticket waiting list. And do you know what? I don't give a monkey's how long the club hang on to it as they must be struggling to put together any sort of survival budget for the next 12 months. If my very humble £100 helps then great. Not that I am wealthy, but demanding £100 back is certainly not going to change my life one iota. The Board and the fans want exactly the same things. Solvency and success. Let's remember we are all on the same side, us against the EPL world. Life is hard enough, without in-fighting!

We could safely accommodate 27,000 in full PPE 🙂

Why does your agenda appear to be so consistently anti-NCFC? Wimbledon have waged a generation-long campaign to get back into the Borough of Merton. The construction of the new stadium is the culmination of that campaign. These are extraordinary circumstances and hardly a parallel with any comparable with NCFC's situation now or 17 years ago.

Every single protagonist should be saying that player safety is the most important consideration. Of course it is - a couple of player deaths and football would be scarred forever, reputationally and financially. But they are not - in all cases all they seem interested in is self interest. And football without crowds is not football. We might as well play FIFA 20 - in fact it might be preferable as there would be no risk to health.

...and yet City still get criticised and trolled for managing their budget carefully and prudently. The truth is that City is the template for how clubs should be run. Owned by real fans, self-funding, caring for supporters, close to the community, communicating well with fans, correcting mistakes openly when they occur.

It's all about your perspective. Were it not for coronavirus, what would the big news organisations be plugging? Would they run stories about the terrorist threat, about health scares, about errant members of the Royal family, about Trump and the Chinese leader Xi? Would we think these were really big issues? They are not, of course. Unless they effect us directly, which they rarely do. I guess that's what makes coronavirus different; we are all effected. Between the wars (in the period you mention) people just got on with their daily lives as best they could. Much like now. Now, only the foolish take much notice of the front page of the tabloids. 'Horrific nightmares' are what happen to us in our own private lives. And we are all capable of controlling 90% of that. Watching City in the days of The Nest was clearly an exciting and life-enhancing experience. The team and the city must have felt as one, so much so that it doesn't even need to be said. The unity when entertaining teams London teams or one of the Northern giants was thrilling. There was an element of David vs Goliath, which added to the thrill. We need our Norwich City back in action as soon as possible, in front of live crowds, , as some things have changed, but others haven't.

Why??? If an effective vaccine is available in, say, October 2020 then I believe mass gatherings will be allowed, subject to evidence of vaccination.

I have just acquired this picture of The Nest in August 1908, immediately before City moved there. Quite recently I read somewhere that before a pitch could be prepared it was necessary to move some mounds of earth, and it appears that this is what is picture shows. Has this picture been seen before? I certainly haven't seen it. Also, how on earth did they prepare a grass pitch and get a game played within a month of clearing the ground.

Whoah! You may wish to re-think that assertion. No one is born a racist any more than they are born hating the family next door. It is taught / indoctrinated.

Will it take a player dying to stop this bl**dy nonsense?

I think you may have mis-read it Bill. It is the Bristol Rovers PFA rep reporting back to his team mates regarding their June and July pay packets So of course it's about money.

With respect, most cancer deaths are not avoidable. With coronavirus, every single death has been avoidable.

...but the lost revenue from six less games in League Two would be catastrophic for a number of clubs. That's 14% of their annual gate money gone at a stroke. Can't be done. Got to try to look after everyone, not just the elite.

Well.... on current form over last 6 games IN ALL COMPETITIONS we are comfortably clear on the bottom four, so let's not be too keen to knock ourselves.

The more the EPL prevaricates, the more damage it does to itself. Call if off NOW. Aim for resumption in September, with contingency plans for resumption in Oct, Nov etc. It's not even complicated. Good leadership needed, but sadly absent.

I thought then, and I think now, that someone from NCFC had spoken to Lambert and Culverhouse in the week leading up to the Colchester match, telling them how weak we were against any side who could really get at us. To me this is the only explanation of why Colchester went into the game with two up front, (Lisbie and Platt) two genuine attacking wide men (Hackney and Vincent), and two central midfielders who at the time preferred to be on the front foot. They left out their defensive midfielder (Izzett), which was an incredible decision for a humble League One side against a team just down from the Championship. Arguably, Colchester had six attacking players on the pitch. I remember hearing the team news an hour before the game and sending texts saying I couldn't believe the Colchester team. It was completely out of context. As conspiracy theories go, it's a bit of a brahmah. Possibly, only Culverhouse, Lambert, and (speculatively) McNally, know if there is any truth in it.

You are assuming an informed and intelligent electorate who are politically motivated and capable of effecting changes. The reality is that dominant swathes of society have fallen for Boris's floorshow. They are fond of the way in which he bimbles through life. They think he is sincere and they trust him. They will continue to forgive him his sins and will continue to allow the insidious Cummings and Patel to call the real shots. In terms of influencing opinion, Steve Bannon is still their guru. It's all well and good talking about the Sunday Times' exposé, the Panorama revelations, or the great investigative journalism of the Independent, but these are the information providers of choice for a very small minority of the population.

Yes, Piers is behaving just like a man who has discovered a social conscience. There is most certainly disharmony in the spheres, and no mistaking.

The worst thing about this is that it will cause the Government to re-double its efforts to reform the BBC, as it seeks to control the output of our only true liberal broadcasting outlet. Dominic and Boris will be referring to the Trump playbook and adding a few ideas of their own.

To my way of thinking, the only difference between 'cancellation as is' and 'null and void' is a matter of semantics. As far as the Canaries are concerned, voiding all results, appearance data, and goals scored would be totally undesirable. No one could want to see Teemu deprived of his Premier League goals, or Cantwell's six goals taken away from him. Having previously been hoping for 'null and void', UEFA's statement has helped to show that 'completion as is' is now the desirable outcome, with no promotion or relegation. It could become reality as early as the first week in June. Fingers crossed.

This makes me feel so old, but I have to admit having played football alongside Peter Gordon. I started work in the late 1970's for Willis Faber, a large insurance brokers in Ipswich. Peter worked in Aviation and was still holding down a place in the company football team which played in a local league and entered some (then) prestigious industry cup competitions. (There were a lot of semi-pro's and ex-pro's in insurance. Players from Enfield and Wimbledon and the like). Peter was also on the committee which ran the company's sports and social club. Peter was always happy to let others take the limelight. At that time he would have been well into his forties but on the pitch he could still deliver and possessed the best body-swerve I had ever seen. He could literally have everyone going with him in one direction, almost imperceptibly drop his shoulder and go the other way before anyone spotted it. I first time I saw it I just thought 'that is class exemplified'. I tried to emulate it, without any success. To him it was just natural and at that level of football it always worked. He still played in the attacking areas on the left of the pitch and trained as hard as anyone. Sadly, Peter died very early after living his last years in a village just off the A140, near Ipswich. I remember him as a quiet and modest man.