To be fair, that stadium had amazing drainage, Laurence.

Lol [Link]

Hash, you should invite my brother round. Last time he looked after my cat when I was away pursuing the high life, there were loads of £1 coins in my sofa, presumably after he adopted a horizontal position. Went toward my next trip

Nervo - think that is excellent where it rarely rains. Ooops and haha. Did you see the pictures of the pitch with lying water?

Chips everywhere

But a signing (however, awful) is more likely

Nervo we need Harry Pell to be launching a few balls in that direction

Lol at the corner tables in the England match last night. [Link]

Just checked behind my sofa. All I saw was dust.

Apparently that ghettoblaster story isn’t true either 6mdm

Lots of things would be nice SB. It would be nice if I found a million pounds behind my sofa for example.

It would be nice to see a piece of inward transfer news today or tomorrow

There are so many Brian Clough stories that people will still be talking about him in 100 years. Mark Crossley, the former Forest keeper, does a very good impersonation of him as part of his after dinner circuit career. Amongst many, one is about WFC and what he did to the ghettoblaster when it got too much for him [Link]

No apologies, I absolutely loved The Damned United. Michael Sheen was fantastic as always. I really don't care that it was fiction. It was a great film.

Funny how Billy Edwards and Dave Donaldson always seem to be next to each other. The recently deceased Richard Teale is also in these WFC pictures (for those who didn't know who he was or what he looked like), who also had a stint at Walton and Hersham before moving to QPR.

I spotted Owen Harris too. All of them appear in the WFC team photos for the 1977-1978 season (my first and one I can recall more detail about than the subsequent 48) [Link] [Link]

Owen Harris died on 12 December 2025.

$6MDM - a very interesting piece on Walton & Hersham. In the dressing room picture where they are toasting the win with Allen Batsford front left, in the back row on the left next to Dave Donaldson is future WFC physio (the pint sized) Owen Harris.

I did like watching The Damned United as Michael Sheen is a good actor (although I find it hard with Timothy Spall to see him as anything other than Barry Taylor from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet). I've watched it a few times. I knew there was a bit of poetic licence and dramatisation but I had not appreciated how much until reading the debate on here from earlier today. I was confused by the way he apparently did not take up the Brighton job before going to Leeds when Dave Bassett, Dave Donaldson, Billy Edwards and Willie Smith (all who went on to play for WFC) were all part of the Walton and Hersham side, managed by Allen Batsford, that thumped Brighton 4-0 at the Goldstone Ground in December 1973, with Clough as their manager [Link]

Making us wait for a 10pm ko for a warm-up friendly, grrr

Poor Roy Keane has been briefed to be more positive and has just had to find his one moment for the evening and completely obliviously state that Cars is a great movie.

Oh dear, the weather isn’t playing ball for the England friendly….

Better than storms in Africa

England game delayed by storms in Florida

On the colours front, I did the tour of new WHL a few years back. Very impressive stadium, and they boasted there was no red in it. Until you got to the shop where there was plenty of red NFL merchandise (can't remember the team). Colours matter.