I can understand why the trust dumped X. It's become a dreadful platform since Musk bought it. However there are alternatives. Bluesky is a breath of fresh air and so pleasant to be a part of.

Better quality video [Link]

[Link] That George Santos tackle at Bramhall Lane (about 1 min 30 secs in)

The DTB is now full of people who are not in it for the right reasons. It’s not that they’re just incapable of running a Twitter account or a members’ forum, or an Instagram account or a TikTok account. It’s that they don’t want to. Because any open channel invites opinions and they only want the opinions of people they know will clap along with their negligence.

Indeed Trigger. It makes the DT woke decision to come off Twitter all the more silly, when you see these sort of exchanges going on. Across club media teams there is a total embrace of twitter, since it drives eyeballs to the websites.

[Link] York City social admin had a few sherberts and one Rochdale Twitter account took it very well. Soccer! [Link]

A local newspaper commentary on the OTD Wealdstone match [Link]

The ref in that "Battle of Bramall Lane" was Eddie Wolstenholme. He was the ref in our FA Cup match and replay against Wycombe in 2001. I remember it as one of the worst refereeing performances I've seen.

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Naz, you need 8 players to start a game but it only gets abandoned if a side goes down to 6 players

In this Group B clash, already heightened tensions between the two football teams were exacerbated by the description of Santiago in crude terms by two Italian journalists, Antonio Ghirelli [it] and Corrado Pizzinelli; they had written that Santiago was a backwater dump where "the phones don't work, taxis are as rare as faithful husbands, a cable to Europe costs an arm and a leg and a letter takes five days to turn up", and its population as prone to "malnutrition, illiteracy, alcoholism and poverty. Chile is a small, proud and poor country: it has agreed to organise this World Cup in the same way as Mussolini agreed to send our air force to bomb London (they didn't arrive). The capital city has 700 hotel beds. Entire neighbourhoods are given over to open prostitution. This country and its people are proudly miserable and backwards."[3] Chilean newspapers fired back, describing Italians in general as fascists, mafiosos, oversexed, and, because some of Inter Milan's players had recently been involved in a doping scandal, drug addicts.[4] The Italian journalists involved were forced to flee Chile, while an Argentinian scribe mistaken for an Italian in a Santiago bar was beaten up and hospitalised.

Chileans don’t mess about

One player had to be escorted off by police

2-0 Chile and two Italians sent off

But not quite the "battle of Santiago" WC 1962, Hosts Chile versus Italy. Can't remember the score but think it was 1-0 Chile? Some X certificate tackles

OTD - lucky Bassett wasn't playing or it could have been 7 reds!

OTD - IIRC four of the sendings off (sending offs?) were at the same time from one incident. We were left with 8v8. I heard afterwards if either side went to fewer than eight players the game would have been abandoned.

That is probably my favourite "On This Day" ever. Wish I'd witnessed it :)

OTD - that Wealdstone game was something else with all the players sent off.

It was. And even the chance that Spurs might be just one division above us next season is pretty cool.

I'm not a youngster and I couldn't resist joining that chant. I also texted a tottenham mate after with tottenham away ole ole. It was fun for a few days to have that fantasy.

When I say we I mean the youngsters behind the goal as I’m too long in the tooth to celebrate too early

I wasn’t, CW. Same as I wasn’t singing “we are staying up” after we scored at Wigan. Well not until full time there and at Burton was confirmed.

When we beat Blackpool we were singing Tottenham away ole ole

Orient we're pretty good that night and their fans were singing "We ate staying up, say we are staying up"