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An Elgood's Cambridge bitter with my roast yesterday. Hoppy enough to dance on the tongue, felt very East Anglian in flavour. Must get over that way again sometime. Rate Cambridge if you can avoid all the Hooray Henrys.

Couple of Old Originals at lunch. Now enjoying a Hannen Alt, which might be the closest German beer to an English ale going.

Bloody hell. Never thought I'd see the day for Harborough. Absolutely mad.

Genuinely felt less safe in Bath than I ever have walking around Leicester city centre. My missus would say the same thing.

If you can find a video of someone in SK1 waving a flag abnormally then fair play.

Never seen anyone do anything other than just wave it, but then I am about a hundred yards closer to anyone actually doing it than you are.

It's a flag, what else are they meant to do with it?

Yeah, it's "capo". Italian origin, naturally.

Sold out now. Mate's dad was reporting 20 minute queues to get tickets. I get there's financial backing involved, but it's still crazy to think how far that club's come in recent years given football in the town was a complete mess when I was a kid.

Will have to get out there some time. Deserve credit for trying to get the city centre's pub scene going again.

Paid a quick visit to the Real Ale Classroom yesterday after the game. Found it pleasant enough without being completely blown away.

That's the spirit!

Right, we need need some motivation today. What gets you going before a game? Give us your best pre-match playlist efforts! Pure 1990s Channel 4 banger to get me started this morning.

He looked like he might have worked on tempering his natural game earlier this season, but then seemed to revert to type as it went on. Hope his couple of recent Championship scores turn out to be an indicator of his trajectory, rather than anomalies. Probably the most frustrating player to watch in our current squad.

Feel for Evans. He's been poorly mismanaged this year and there were several junctures at which he could have been given a go. Just hope the club learn their lesson about handing down contracts based off sentiment if they've no intention of using that player. Hope he finds a gig elsewhere. He'd walk into Derbyshire's side in all formats.

Grieve as you would for anyone you did know. Don't for someone you didn't know. If every fan's death was commemorated consistently with in-game applauses then football grounds would just become non-stop memorial services every single weekend.

In-game minute's applauses are among the worst things about modern football.

Yeah, I'd seen that. Was hoping it was something more concrete!

Harborough drew more than 1,000 for games against Corby and North Shields in recent years. I'm sure all the fairweather fans (I might be among them) will turn up. Scumbags.

Had the best red cabbage I've ever eaten in there.

Did a good crawl along the pubs of the Thames Path back from the Express Taverm to Chiswick after Brentford away before. Enjoyable.

Where have you seen that?

So teenagers trying to create an atmosphere is now a no-no, as is celebrating your team bagging a late winner. Miserable, miserable country.

Was surprisingly impressed with the Greene King gaffs when I did a Stag in Cambridge.

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