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I shall be there. hopefully sporting a tan and a look of contentment after spending the previous day on the beach and the Friday itself at the Lowestoft airshow!  Should be a good couple of days, weather permitting!

Bless you Kathy for your offer.  That would be great when you want to have a go!  The undies drawer assignment is yours then!  I''ll stick to the kitchen cupboards investigation!!!  To be honest I never get fed up with writing, it''s just hard to find the time some weeks when I''m working...but as I have seven weeks off now to make beach trips and do more undercover work (!) I probably don''t have much excuse. Thanks Gorleston Jim too.  Nice to be back - it really is!

Thanks guys for your kind words.  I feel like I''ve been through the mill in the past few weeks but am thankfully ok now.  Can''t wait for the new season to get started as I shall truly just be grateful to be a part of it all once again.  Any suggestions for topics you''d like to read about in the column would be gratefully received, but I draw the line at doing undercover work investigating players'' underwear drawers!!!

AJ - you must not start these dreadful rumours again!  It is well known that Carl Cort only shops at Asda.  To do anything else would be treason!!!

No worries Wiz...I shall be keeping that info to myself for everyone''s sake but mostly yours, until the first day of the season when some poor unsuspecting person parks his bottom on seat no...row...in the City Stand.  (Yes, I''m the one who makes the noise from that general direction, drawing hoots of derision and strange looks from many a punter, but care I do not!!!!) Gazza - enjoy your new found freedom without Meeky and the children to rein you in!  I guess they''ll be near me next season then.  Perhaps I''d better behave! 

I know there will be a seat next to me going spare next season because the lovely old gentleman who has occupied it for years suffered two bad falls down the concrete steps after the two post-Christmas games, and he''s decided he''s too frail to come to games any more.  I shall really miss his charm and his mints (!!!) and the hugs when we score, but it will be interesting to see who is in the seat next season.  If it''s you, be prepared for a crazed blonde nutter who never stops shouting/singing and who is likely to grab you for wild celebrations from time-to-time!!! Hope you''re on the mend now Wiz.  I have had a health scare myself recently so I can empathise a bit with what you''re going through. 

Shouldn''t this thread title be: Leon to Charlton''s for a slap up meal?!!!!!

Mine was ''we''ve got a supercook, you''ve got a Russian crook!'' against, who else, but Chelsea!  That was a really good memory. 

ZLF - thanks for remembering my somewhat feeble attempts to design a new away kit recently. I think the new home one has some decent design features, but I would not have shaped that swathe of green around the neck in quite the same way.  The asymmetry of it doesn''t look quite right.  That said, the rest of it is basically ok, I think...and the socks are really good.  (Could be Deano''s legs though!)  Might have to get a pair of those to wear this time around- socks I mean, not legs like Deano!!!

It seems as if the Binners are uncertain about trying to make Unsworth''s deal permanent for next season, perhaps because they don''t have the money to do so long-term if they remain in the Fizzy League.  Don''t think we need to be worrying about them having enough shirt buttons to buy any of our players in that case, well not any of the ones that we must seek to keep.  Breathe easy Francesco and listen to the wise words of Roger Munby yesterday.  Robert Chase he is not - thank goodness!!!

My nephew was the same until he reached the grand old age of six and decided that there was more fun to be had on his doorstep and more pride to be gained by laughing in the face of adversity...and that was five years ago!  He''s never wobbled since!!!  Keep working on him and you will succeed.  All the best.

Thanks westoncanary.  I''ve never really been away, but have been too busy to post much lately, apart from the odd brief sentence (nothing new there then!)  Hope you still have your souvenir papers tucked away in a safe place for your ancestors to read and marvel over in years to decades to come - although I hope there''ll be more to add to your collection in the near future!

I know you are joking, but Derby have pretty massive debts so I think Ipswich is more likely!

Oh my...I wasn''t the only one thinking that then?!  And there''s the U21 connection as well, so maybe there''s hope of Bents being here next season and I won''t have to chain myself to his car in the car park at Colney!!!  As for Deano, he will be here or there will be an awful mess to clear up in the boardroom...we will all see to that!

That''s why I had my tongue firmly planted in my cheek as I wrote it! Anyway, West Brom play Pompey and if Saints'' relegation depends on the former winning that one then it''ll be game over...if it''s even still on for us by then.