Alan - After Fratton Park I see Azeez went on to enjoy the atmospheres of Wigan's DW Stadium, the Estadi Balear and now the Zosimades Stadium.

Lurker-arguably staying in the top flight for 14 years was a bigger achievement than winning the Cup

Probably cash in rather than fire sale, but the same end result.

Apparently if you download the Donstix app the ticket will appear

Spit considering winning the FA cup was viewed by our great patriarch as an opportunity to have a fire sale, I suspect winning in the Europe would have been treated the same way.

Has anyone tried to buy a Notts County ticket and found that when they go to pay, they get a "Something has gone wrong" message?

RK Reeves tackle got looked at repeatedly and it was fine. Genuinely played the ball, not a follow through, their players stumbled from the legal part of the challenge. It wasn’t a penalty. It wasn’t even one of those you’d expect to be given outside the area. It was if anything the kind of challenge more likely to be allowed to go anywhere on the pitch.

We once were due to play Derry in a friendly but it got cancelled, I was looking into travel options

No doubt if we'd have been in the ECWC, we'd have got Derry or Cardiff

Millwall came up against Ferencvaros who have fans almost as mental as them so they saw it as a challenge to take Millwall on

CW - that reminded me of this [Link]

Alan IoW - I was trying so hard not to mention that ;)

Barca at Plough Lane would have been funny

Always thought if we were in Europe we would of won the cup winners cup and some players may of stayed a bit longer.

Repd, plenty have been shot in London too ;-)

Speaking of travel, we're off to Marbella again - [Link]

Alan,it's seems the youth of today are either nerds or feral. . I see so.much antisocial behaviour, being on the streets 8-10 hours a day.

We'd have played in the 1988-89 Cup Winners' Cup. There was a single preliminary fixture to decide the 32nd place, won by Békéscsaba (Hungary) who beat Byrne (Norway). Békéscsaba lost in the 1st round to Sakaryaspor (Turkey), who were stuffed 6-1 on aggregate in the 2nd round by Eintracht Frankfurt (West Germany). In the QFs, Frankfurt were knocked out by defending champions Mechelen (Belgium), who lost in the semis to Gianluca Vialli's (RIP) Sampdoria (Italy) to set up a final with Barcelona, who beat Hristo Stoichkov's CKSA Sofia to get to the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern (Switzerland) [Link]

A friend of mine got stabbed following England in South Africa

This labour MP knows calling people Gammon is racist [Link]

Anglo Italian Cup way back in 1976.

Alan IoW - perhaps a good job none of us went here in 2009 - [Link]

Kosice was proper Eastern European, didn’t go to Charleroi as I had a better offer

And imagine todays generation doing a "Life on Mars" transportation to those times. I reckon they would get a rude awakening that todays Gammons and other sub-sets would be deemed moderates in comparison.

Watching those highlights, I'm now even more nervous. Thought the Reeves "tackle" was a penalty. We certainly rode our luck