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What I'm trying to say is in life we like to blame the government for everything. We see this all the time, people's own failings in life taken out on a particular government, because they make the easy fall guys, because politicians are greedy and selfish and squander and thieve our money. But sadly the people that elect those people aren't really much better, so I come to the conclusion it's a human trait. I include myself in that scorn as well. I often think if this country went to war, the people in it really wouldn't know what hit them, I wonder how some of them would even cope, no idea how I would cope, because being spoon fed most our lives makes us oblivious to reality, maybe we'd see skills we never knew we/they had. Think if I lived in Ukraine right now, with the freezing cold due to power all being knocked out, I'd lob myself off a bridge, but I suspect the fighter in me would rise above old age and excel in helping people who also can't cope. Helping others surive is the greatest motivation to keep going, and not giving up.
 
When I got the free coach to Sheffield United earlier this season with Le Tiss on it he said he'd love to play in today's game with pitches like carpets and defenders largely not allowed to kick the **** out of flair players.
Would be too woke for him now.
 
I went to the old Den a few times around 1986-1989. It was a horrible **** hole, both the ground and the surrounding area. I grew up in Lewisham so had a few mates who were Millwall fans. If Arsenal were playing away, I'd often go and watch Millwall, Charlton, West Ham, Crystal Palace instead.

Never went to the Old Den as an away fan and never would have. I remember Millwall coming to Highbury in 85 I think it was, in a 3rd round FA cup tie and it kicked off big time in the away end. Horrible fans.

Went there for an FA Cup tie in '83 - fenced in and they invaded the pitch and stormed our end having won 2-0 ... we were kept in for well over an hour after the pitch had been cleared and it was still 'sketchy' getting back to the station ...

They had Luton away in the next round ... infamously...
 
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Quite interesting on Mateta/Larsen/Palace that they lost Dougie Freedman who was apparently the brains behind the scouting that led to Olise, Eze, Mateta, Wharton etc.

The new bloke has spent about £75m on Brennan Johnson and Strand Larsen. Doubt they’ll be a Prem club in 3-4 years with Glasner on the way too.
 
Not a beef from me bro. See it more as perception vs perspective... we don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.
Exciting news. Found out a bloke at my new job is a Gillingham fan. Had a good chat at lunch about Conor Masterson, the away end, how it’s a dump, Ainsworth etc.
 
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Exciting news. Found out a bloke at my new job is a Gillingham fan. Had a good chat at lunch about Conor Masterson, the away end, how it’s a dump, Ainsworth etc.

Yeah things went tits up when Masterson got injured, now he's back the team is doing well again. The away end is very different from my day, it use to belong to the Town End fans of which I was one, and many decades ago you use to be able to walk from the Town End to the Rainham End (home support) round the back of the stand (Gordon Road) that run the side of the pitch - but then the era of football violence started, so things changed and it got closed off. I never really understood the Rainham End being the home end - especially as the club started out as Brompton and that is between Gillingham and Chatham, so the Town End. But alot of the big council estates were the opposite end, so maybe that is why it became the home stand and the Gate 13 mob (casual/firm). The Gordon Road stand eventually had to go after the Bradford fire, because it was an old wooden stand built by the dockers.
 
Ainsworth is ok, I would certainly give him until Christmas, so this season and half of next, before making any rash decisions.
 
That is exciting

There’s nothing worse than people saying they’re a United/Liverpool/Arsenal fan then ten seconds later you find out they know **** all. This is exciting. I can ask how they got on at the weekend except obviously I already know how they got on. That is an exciting conversation to be having over a chicken and rice bowl.
 
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There’s nothing worse than people saying they’re a United/Liverpool/Arsenal fan then ten seconds later you find out they know **** all. This is exciting. I can ask how they got on at the weekend except obviously I already know how they got on. That is an exciting conversation to be having over a chicken and rice bowl.

Thrilling even