Pilko

Wembley Singles or Doubles depending on the team formations. Heads and volleys was: no half volleys no self setups touches in the box allowed but only headers or biceys to score, volleys allowed outside the box only Biceys worth 2 points (can only remember anyone actually scoring one once ever) "sky's the limit" rule meaning over the bar was fine but wide meant you went in nets "post saves all" rule meaning that if you hit the post and it went wide or hit the bar then keeper caught it, it didn't count Deliberately ignoring someone's pass so it went behind would be funny and you'd make them go in goal for it, but excessive piss taking with this and you'd make the person ignoring the pass go in goal eventually

Quick, start ten threads called "Mackems meltdown"

York and Rochdale showing how shan the single automatic promotion spot is. 101 and 99 points respectively with 3 games to go, absolutely miles clear of third, but one has to go the playoffs. Absolute bullshit. Should be three down from League 2 and top two up automatically, they'll change it eventually I'm sure but should have been that way years ago when Wrexham and Notts Co were fighting it out.

2-0 Heed now. A lot of the teams near them seemingly winning as it stands too so very important. Playing against ten men now as well.

1-0 to the Heed

Do you think that's alright? Not too sentimental? Excellent.

Bloody hell. There's a decimal point missing in that fee.

2,300+ at Sheffield FC today for the Royal Oak v Nags Head thing pushed by the Steve Bracknall character. Whilst the character is a bit annoying, Jon McClure (aka "Paul Sampson") is a great bloke and him getting involved at Sheffield as Chairman can only be a good thing for non-league.

I posted about this a few months ago - the situation then was that it expires in the summer and we're "scrambling" (the exact word) to find a new sponsor. As of when I heard that info there was still apparently a chance we do another year's stub deal with Sela to buy us time to find the longer term sponsor, but more than likely not and even a chance we went into the season sponsorless as we didn't want to sell ourselves short on the value. Of course there was something in that KNOX article about Hopkinson taking the view that a lower deal is better than no deal so whether he's got involved since I was told this I don't know.

"We want to hear from fans of US fighter jets, you've had a difficult result today - the annoying blonde bint will be reading out your emails and texts later"

Massive signing and a modern day club legend, but absolutely the right decision for him to move on this summer. Hope he gets a good send off in the last few games and I'm sure he'll be back in some capacity one day if he stays in the game.

Morecambe's run in is horrible, mind. Carlisle, Woking, Boreham Wood, Forest Green. They need to claw back 7 points more than Gateshead across those. Hopefully Brackley continue to be awful, we get a positive lot of results on Monday and it's more or less settled for the Heed by then.

That's a class point on the road for the Heed, 0-0 at Carlisle. Shame Morecambe and Eastleigh posted unlikely wins but still a good result.

Reports that Nicky Butt flew home with the Manchester United team proved to be wide of the mark.

He'll be delighted with that, what with the size of the portions you get and the bait over in the US.

Just me who thinks O'Reilly isn't a full back? He's a great talent but always looks much more effective at centre mid whenever I've watched him.

At least the Japanese lass in the crowd wearing the giant double hernia hat enjoyed it.

Palmer's an absolute load of nowt these days.

Feel like De Zerbi is not what they need in the short term, but if he can keep them up he'll do alright next season and have them back 6-8th. Be class if he took them down. Here's hoping.

The spin machine on ready to groom is class. Anything announced by us is immediately bad news and has us in meltdown regardless of the actual facts and whether it is good or bad, whereas they could start selling ten pound notes in the Sunlin club shop for eleven quid and that would be hailed as a sign of their cleverness and levels of class as a fan base.

He'll be a legend. At South Shields after his release at 21.

"I think the next manager should be someone who knows the club, has done the job before and ideally their name will rhyme with Jim Clergood"

I don't think they are, and I don't think Howe is tactically poor either btw. A lot of the issues cited are longer-term such as the flat midfield three that swings open like a shithouse door in a gale for teams to run through us at will, the over-reliance on the press rather than being able to control certain games with the ball, and the inability to break down teams that sit deep with a tendency to just rely on slinging crosses in constantly when we're chasing a game. File some of those under "style" rather than "tactics" maybe. For balance we've also seen loads of good tactical/style stuff from Howe, far too much to list off in fact, many of which are the aforementioned things working to great effect in the past, I just think the gripes people have are a small bunch of the same consistent longer-term things or a lack of overall evolution in our gameplay when things start to look a bit stale or samey.

I think the logic behind Redknapp is based on MON going back in at Celtic and lifting the malaise with an old fashioned back to basics, slap em on the back and get em fired up, smiles on their faces type short-term boost. Unbelievably, it's as good a shout as any when you look at the likely alternatives which are almost all ridiculous.

Used to be a good local priest down there. Father Michael O'Flatley, Irish fella, in the holy parish of Wokingham.