Stoopid

Yeah - we lived near the ground and my brother ( who didn't like football) tried to charge people a tanner to leave their bikes in our yard. When my Mam found out she clobbered him for being a grabbing bleeder!

And demographics - when I first went probably 80% of fans lived in the city. Hardly anyone went by car. Now it's different. More affluent. More county-based, a bit more entitled. Football mirrors society. The urban working-class are still around, but not so many go to the match.

Interested to see how Riyad's career develops at Man City. If Pep can improve him. So far he's been a bit so-so. Always felt he relied a bit too much on the change of direction. He does it well, admittedly, but it's more or less his whole bag of tricks. Never felt he had particularly quick feet for someone touted as a ball-wizard. Pretty controversial I know, but people bladdering on him being Leicester's most skilful ever player used to irritate me...

Agree with that. The title win was too big & crazy to really take in. More like a film I once saw than something that actually happened. And we seem to have more or less floundered since them. Fans as well as the team & managers. Hopefully, BR can spark something again, but I have to say I've got my doubts.

Remember when it was The Nag's Head. Was in there one day, and Ali Mauchlen came in. Challenged me to a game of pool. Best of three. One each, then he knocked in the black by mistake in the third...cost him a pint.. Was a really nice bloke.

Brave decision by whoever organised it to have Kasper & Joe Hart as pallbearers at Gordon Banks' funeral today. To be fair to them, they didn't drop it once... On a serious note, good to see the great Richie Norman looking so well on East Midlands Today.

And Man Utd - and I've seen him in Rangers kit...arise Sir Rod!

Tommy Smith?

England v Scotland -1977?

Breitner?

Some salty Celtic fan?

Bould & Limpar?

Bosnich?

Absolutely. Kidding aside, I always really rated Fletch - superb touch & real football brain.

Aldridge?

Willian & GTF?

Dennis Rofe?

Hmm..club gets rid of a manager with limited English, who comes across as a bit dull, who can't buy a win, and replace him with a charismatic title-winner to push their under-performing side up the table. Worked well for Fulham, didn't it?

To the tune of the Leo Ulloa song; Oh, his name is Brendan Rogers, He came south to manage the City! Who the f**k are Glasgow Celtic? He's our boss, and that's alright with me!

Yeah - well that, and the fact they're Scottish.

I'm going to miss Claude in a masochistic kind of way. After listening to his post- match interviews on a Saturday evening, I found it took me 5 - 6 hours to regain the will to live. Just in time for Match of the Day to destroy it again. Difficult to absorb, but good training for the inevitable disappointments of life. As a football manager, Claude was a bit of a disaster. But as a Zen master, we'll not see his like again...

Yeah but that's why I singled McLintock out. He never had a decent period & looked lost from the start. (Incidentally, Pleat couldn't really recover from the Gary Mac sale, and he squandered the money).

Agree with that ( though as has been pointed out, Pleat didn't divide supporters - EVERYBODY hated him!) Martin George & Brian Little heralded good times for us. Let's hope for a similar revival now. I'm optimistic - we've got some great young players. With the right man in charge we could be in for a few good years.

Of course, they were all shocking in their way. But McLintock was a different level of hopeless, just as Claude was a different level of tedious.