My first experience of Cardiff fans,was walking down Queens road on my own as a 16 year old in may 1985. Managed to persuade them I wasn't a wimbledon football fan,and just about got away with it😂

LLass, from last night- a friend of mine used to work as a chambermaid in one of the grand hotels in the west end. She said Omar Sharif was wonderful, not just glamorous(Unlike John Cleese and Barry Humphreys). You tend to get a pretty accurate impression of people when you do a job like that.

Thanks both (especially CW I'll definitely do that) that's good enough info for me.

Although it's possible of course this could be tightened for Cardiff given their reputation

As long as you go into the Woodman and shout SOUL CREW at the top of your voice you should be fine

Trigs - I have been to the Woodman many times pre match and never been asked to show a ticket.

I will not be drawn on that subject at the present time :-)

Good luck with the Dons trust election Twigs 👍

Morning all - I had said to Bert that I would be taking a break from wup for a while so this is just a one-off post because I could do with the combined wup matchday knowledge-base: I've got some mates who are Cardiff fans and they've been told The Woodman is the allocated away pub. If I wanted to go grab a beer with them pre-match can I get in without an away ticket?

Padds - some people just have an aura don’t they. A former colleague of mine’s mother lived in Brighton and wandered into the foyer of the Metropole Hotel when the international bridge tournament was on. Omar Sharif got out of the lift, and although he was just a short man with silver hair, everyone stared at him. You might say that was just because he was famous but I don’t necessarily think so. I was in the cheap seats bar at the Opera House last year when Simon Rattle turned up (as a punter) and no-one batted an eyelid. Or perhaps they were just being polite…

Sandy beat me to it. Morecambe have been sold. From there to say saved is another kettle of fish.

Elections rules: [Link]

Nominations open today for DTB elections in October

Good news on the face of it, JaW, although I understand that the Panjab group are also a little shady

Morecambe saved [Link]

Yes - at the time Terry and Julie were archetypal London names somehow.

LLass - I was standing in a cinema queue c.1968 as they processed down the Haymarket. He sort of glowed and she was very beautiful but more subtly so. I must admit I gawked.

Amusing how the Man U / Liverpool fans creep out of the woodwork into the hotel bar to watch their glory team. Londoners, Scots, Sheffield. Sheffield unforgivable imho

Dunno Sandy, it seems to be generally accepted now that it was, but I don’t remember anything being said at the time. Could ask Ray Davies I suppose.

You have to laugh, the better team for 90 minutes, benefit of a raging homer of a ref and they still manage to lose.

Lol, our fans living in Herne bay are fine, don't want to get on the wrong side of Wilco.

Thanks Spit. 😉

Visits to Essex were superb, it was the kent idiots who were far far worse!

Essex clubs in the Ryman made me depressed, such a bunch of loudmouths

Did Gyokeres play for Coventry when we beat them?