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Like that's appeared on their radar. We should have all accepted their contempt for us a long, long time ago.

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That'll be fun. Don't the Catalans and Madrillenos hate each other? Be good for us like but it seems a daft move.

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Says the voice of sanity but when did that commodity have any bearing at UEFA?

We could go round and round about this but it was Capello who started it by saying in the first instance that he didn't want his team playing in Madrid in the friendly the two FAs had organised. He didn't have to say that but chose to do so and it has embarrassed the Spanish FA and shown UEFA up for not taking sufficient action last time. Maybe it's reminded them their punishment of Atletico was overdue? Either way, it seems very odd, the timing of the announcement.

People on the son of this forum will be going postal over our draw against Colchester United while others will be appealing for calm saying they are the new powerhouse in the south now and if we are patient just one more season, we'll deffo bring home number 19 then.

I very much doubt we'll see violence on anything like the scale we did in 84 if Roma aren't involved in the final. I can't see them getting het up on behalf of the losing finalists and if Liverpool are involved, there'll be many more there than there was last time.

What was the Spanish FA? The protest about the venue wouldn't have come from Spain, surely? It came from our FA and the timing looks almost like a punishment for their temerity.

Anyone else think the timing is a bit, erm....suspicious coming as it does the day after England announced they would refuse to play an upcoming friendly against Spain in Madrid? How come there was nothing in the last couple of weeks but they suddenly change the venue causing most inconvenience to English people immediately after England's confrontational stance on the venue of their game?

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The six minutes against Arsenal. The successful boycott of Hillsborough when Wednesday were in the prem.

What about having SOS print loads and loads of cards with the following printed on them: Something along the lines of; "While Gillet and Hicks remain in charge, I pledge not to spend anything other than the price of the match/season ticket in this stadium" and then have people hand them over en-masse at the kiosks under the stands or in Fiverworld when it's your turn to pay? If a significant number of people did this, they couldn't ignore it. Takings would be down but there'd be a written, specified reason as to why. If lots of fans queued up at the kiosks and in the line at Fiverworld, it would decrease the numbers of people wanting to buy stuff so it would be bound to reduce takings. While people are in the queue we could promote the idea on a one-to-one basis amongst the people waiting to spend money there, get them to think twice about handing their money over.

All power to Anne's elbow. Let's hope this time justice falls on the side of the just.

Newcastle fans have never managed to do it and Manchester City fans boasted of the gates they had while their team slipped down to the third division (regardless of how it was dressed up at the time). The directors of Leeds rub their hands in glee at the numbers of loyal supporters who fill Elland Road every week regardless of where they are in the league. Both Sheffield clubs get big gates whatever division they are in. Human nature dictates this boycott idea will not work, however if any club could do it, ours could.

As part of my job I have to travel and I also speak about football with most people I meet and hatred for Manchester United goes back much further than the day Alex Ferguson became their manager. Even the most rabid Man Utd hater should be able to find some grudging respect for his and their achievements but that's about as far as it goes. As for liking him, words fail me.

Gubbing? To be fair, they should impose a "minimum required" score against Leichtenstein, San Marino and Andorra and any country who score fewer than say 7 should be deducted the difference in goals they haven't scored.

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Of course, no one wants to do battle with the Big C but if you have to have it, this is where you want it, as nasty as it sounds. Thanks to medical advances down the years, it's almost always cureable nowadays and sometimes you don't even need to lose a conker! Still and all, good luck to him and I hope he comes through it fit and well.

He does now but he once said coming to Anfield made him feel physically sick. I think the dignity and all-round niceness of first Gerard Houlier and now Rafa Benitez has a lot to do with his change of heart.

And Gordon West's rejoinder was? Only joking. Did he get binned off?