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Chester City are on the verge of being expelled from the Conference for their financial shenannigins; Rangers could take their place in next season's Conference North, if they're still keen to play in England.

I work long hours and expect my mail both at work and at home at a reaSonable hour so I can respond. 3pm is just a load of sh*t. Royal Mail and their staff can GTF.

The late deliveries we get these days (as opposed to the 6 or 7am we used to get) were imposed by management as part of the modernisation they keep talking about. At the time the postal workers opposed it, but of course were demonised as greedy dinosaurs, etc.

It makes me vomit to see Adam Crozier slagging off poorly-paid workers whose pay and conditions he wants to make even worse, when you know he's coining it in to the tune of £2,000,000 a year.

There must be loads of people out there who could talk shite and sack people for much less money, saving the taxpayer millions.

We wouldn't be a free country with freedom of speech for very long if Nazi Nick got anywhere near power. He's on record as saying such power will be the product of "fists and boots" rather than debate and elections. His predecessor as fuhrer, John Tyndall said that their opponents would be "swatted like flies".

As well as being as thick as pig shit, Griffin's also massively hypocritical - he wasn't too bothered about migration or terrorism when he spent several years sharing a flat with his Friend Roberto Fiore who was on the run from the Italian police after his own fascist gang bombed Bologna railway station killing 85 people.

It's nonsense to say the audience was picked to be hostile to Griffin - it was in fact rigorously screened to ensure no serious anti-fascists got in. A few liberals booing and hissing doesn't count as opposition in my book.

I see the nomads looking for it in the bottom left.

I'm told I was there shortly after half-time, but as my memory's a blank, I couldn't really comment

Leeds just shades it from Hartlepool. Personal prejudice, no hard evidence.

Back streets of Katowice in southern Poland were pretty scary back in 1976, but as we never left the relative safety of our charabanc, I could be utterly misjudging the place.

York away at Huddersfield in 2003. We took the lead about 15.20, then suddenly it was 24.05 and I was on the sofa at home

I managed to fill in some of the gaps in due course, including staggering into a pub at the station with my trousers badly stained with red wine, which the bouncers assumed was blood. Apparently they were satisfied with my explanation that "I must have fallen over a chair" and let me in. I promptly went to sleep until someone woke me up when the train arrived.

In the picture below, courtesy of those nice people at www.htfc-world.com, I can be seen top left, saying "no". You will notice I'm on my own - I think this was because I'd already vomited, persuading those around me to move elsewhere

My one of each on the way home from the match suddenly sems very virtuous, and very likely to help me shed a couple of stone.

I posted a mention of Off The Ball on the City forum, and it's provoked a fair bit of (mostly) positive comment:

He might as well be on the radio, it doesn't look like he is getting a game tomorrow afternoon. Another one who thought he could do better than York City.

To be fair, most of US thought he could do better than York City

Sol Campbell broke his toe and thus he is injured.

I like Manny - no fault he left York and I'd still have him (on form) at City. Genuinely nice guy, positive towards York and someone we should applaud should he ever return to BC.

Can't understand anyone having a go at Manny. On form he was a joy to watch and well capable of playing in the football league.

A real treasure when on form, when he finally scored his first City goal at Weymouth from one yard out it was an epic moment.

However, a knackered knee and an off-the-field thirst did for him but he was a great bloke and one I would give a hearty round of applause to should he ever return as a guest.

Even compared to the current crop of midfielders Manny (on his day) was a league above. He has that curious combination of being a really quite gentle fella off the field but a bit of an imperious b****** on it. Not too many of these types around.

Panther on his day was great. Sadly, during the final couple of seasons with us his days were few and far between.

The home game against Scarborough when he came back from injury sticks in my memory. It was like the scene from The Waterboy when Bobby Boucher turns up at half time!

Also, when he pinched Farrell's goal at Aldershot was classic and his performance to pull us out of the sh*t in the second half at Altrincham.

Finally, nailing Luke Foster in the final game of the play-off season. Welcome back.

The look of despair on Farrell's face after he did all the hard work of out-witting their keeper and clipping it over him only for Manny to put it in from an inch out and pinch his goal was worth the admission money alone....

One of my favourite players during his spell at Bootham Crescent, though he was widely thought to be a big-game player

He was a specialist at scoring from 18 inches out; one of his longer-range efforts

Favourite memory is getting to stand next to him (he was club captain) for the pre-match photos when I was involved in some match sponsorship thingy.

I guess he might still be here if we weren't among the stingiest payers in the Conference.

It's a major pisser for me that he's landed up at Crusty Park playing for Morescum

Oh, and he's a bit of a *** on the quiet.

Never really understood the attraction of waving national flags at club matches - utterly irrelevant as far as I can see, a bit like playing God Save The Queen at cup finals.

I wish the Yanks would boycott York next, then I can get to my local without having to take a half-mile detour round some lardarse blocking the street on his way from Stratford to Edinburgh.

All it does is to make the word, "racist" in this case, completely meaningless.

I'm afraid you're right.

And the end result is that it undermines the fight to expose real racists, such as the BNP, even though you get BNP councillors openly stating that smashing Asian people's windows with bricks is perfectly acceptable behaviour.

If this journalist turns up to oppose a racist rampage, such as the one planned for Luton in September, I'll accept his anti-racist credentials. Until then, I'm afraid I can only see him as a whingeing middle-class liberal.

I have a bar scarf which I got for the League Cup final at Parkhead. Wear it occasionally to City games provoking malicious accusations that I'm an Everton fan.

Tied my last City scarf to the gates of Bootham Crescent the day David Longhurst died and have never had the heart to replace it.

No disgrace, IMO, and heads didn't go down, even when it became apparent the game was no loger winnable.

Bugger. Missed the goal . Can't multitask - listening to York City on the radio, watching Saints online, and trying to watch Soccer Saturday is a step too far

Any legitimate company or party can advertise, even the BNP

Can't agree that the BNP is in any sense a legitimate party; it's a gang of Nazi thugs.

You have to put your faith in the justice system

I have no faith whatever in the justice system's ability to deliver justice; too many people have spent too long in jail when it was politically expedient for them to be allowed to rot.

I very much fear that's what's happened in this case.

My only experience of Ikea is some furniture bought for the York City Social Club shortly after the Supporters Trust took over. I guess someone thought it would be nice to have something "stylish" in the old place.

How wrong they were.

Flimsy and worse still a bugger to keep clean.

...Delia pulls the trigger

He should have heeded the wise words of Johnny Cash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24_e11EvwwQ

Did the questionnaire a few days ago, and hope you don't mind me hijacking it slightly to mention York City fan Simon Hood's fundraising effort for the Alzheimer's Society.

http://www.justgiving.co.uk/bicyclekicks/

Simon is cycling to every York City game, home and away, this season. He expects to be riding around 10,000 miles in the process.

He lives in London, so each home game is a 400-mile round trip

Surely it's "As drunk as a lord"?

As in the following apocryphal courtroom exchange;

Barrister: "The defendant was as drunk as a judge."

Judge: "You mean as drunk as a lord"

Barrister: "As you wish, my lord."

Hear all, see all, say nowt; sup all, eat all, pay nowt; and if ever tha does owt for nowt, do it for thysen.

Saints mug on Taggart!

Sneaked in by Colin McCredie, I guess?

Any idea which episode?

Horslips, Dublin in December

By chance, I've occasionally been in Whitby on this weekend, but have avoided the bands like the plague. The goths obviously enjoy it enormously though, and all look thoroughly miserable