Mike the Metal Ed

It's funny. For all the "we were in League One once you know" they prattle on about, most of them don't really talk about midweek trips to Tranmere and Walsall or watching the team find its feet at this level under Nigel Pearson like I would. Almost like they weren't that into football back then. So yeah. They almost certainly weren't protesting Shipman. Maybe they remember "Don't Go Martin" before suddenly losing interest in football in 2004.

Bit of smart play to nudge that player into conceding a throw in. If I got outmuscled by Luke Thomas I'd retire.

Probably compression due to Sky "having to" broadcast 33 consecutive games.

Nah he really was shit under the past two managers, but they also didn't use him like this.

Port Vale home or away. Think they're one of the few league clubs I haven't seen us play.

I went for the 2-0 win in 2007 which was Ian Holloway's first game in charge. It was at that moment I thought we'll probably be alright.

Torquay-a

We're going to lose to New Zealand after a Chris Wood masterclass aren't we?

Just like 2014 with Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica...

Two UEFA teams per group is the max allowed.

I misread Cote d'Ivoire as "VOID" before it was unfurled. That would have livened things up

We already have two European teams in our group so we can't draw Scotland.

Terry Wogan talking over the top of this would have added something.

Loving Canada being a top seed, takes me back to the top European sides complaining about us being in Pot 1 in 2016,

Should have been Zdeno Chara to make Shaq feel small.

Take me back

The board thinks the project is to speed run to the Premier League and then magically at least become midtable again. We know the project is to rebuild a solid foundation first.

I think we need to start a Monks Out thread then.

Our revival last time had nothing to do with being relegated other than it got Holloway sacked and we lucked into the right person. Pearson could have started that process from the bottom half of the Championship. We also had much lower running costs from being broke for years. If we went down this time they'd still continue to appoint absolute duffers, and we're absolutely up to our eyeballs in debt from Top trying to secure transfer money for our lame duck attempts at staying in the Premier League. Could the club even survive it?

Yeah I dunno what it says about the way we get information these days but I've definitely had moments where I forgot that if City score, I'll be among the first 30,000 to know.

Notts at home on May Day weekend should be great

When Fuchs went into management in my Football Manager save he made Shinji his assistant. Gwon Fuchsy, make the dream team a reality.

I got beeped for turning right onto my own driveway, in a controlled manner that would guarantee I didn't end up ramming into my gates (I promise you I wasn't slow, and signalled right in enough time). Next time I'll reverse in, in full accordance with the highway code, just because that takes ever-so-slightly longer.

I was so proud when I was looking at the stats in a Merlin album one season and Steve Guppy had better either crossing or corners stats than David Beckham.