Congrats to the women on reaching the Capital Cup Final, beating Brentford 4-3 at Bedfont Sports, next door (literally) to where we watched the planes dive bomb the pitch in the early CCL days.

Gage was youngest WFC league player but this other person seems to be the youngest player to score for WFC (when they were non-league), which is what LD asked. No idea how old Gage was when he first scored or who our youngest league scorer was (as either WFC or AFCW).

And his wiki page confirms it

Always thought kevin Gage was our youngest football league player

Haynes scored on his debut but was 4 days short of 17 years old. Playing inside forward, his winger that was none other than John Clark!

I thought possibly Jonny Haynes (yes him)who scored 4 in 6 appearances as a 16 year old but Bert seems to have topped that

The youngest I've found was John Clark, a 15 year old Beckenham schoolboy when he scored on his debut in 1951.

Hartigan scored in a 4-3 EFL Trophy win win at Barnet aged 17 years 7 months

Anthony Hartigan

andy tuner

Who is Wimbledon's youngest scorer?

Jefferson Louis 52 clubs [Link]

I was looking at the list of youngest Premier League goalscorers, most went on to have very successful careers but Andy Turner didn't - partly injury, partly talent. But he was with 23 clubs as a player, is that a record? Second on the list (first till yesterday) was the guy who almost beat us at Curzon Ashton.

Please never let Rosenior be England manager.

I used it for over 20 years and had some great times. The governor of The Little Windsor (my new local) reckons Punch will give it another chance with a new governor but I doubt if it will thrive again.

Cheers swiggy, sad to hear another pub going..

Yeah in a surname it must be respected.

Hi Spit, it's dead and buried mate. Zoe, the landlady, has been in hospital for 9 months having fallen down the stairs one night. It went into a slow decline and has been effectively closed for a couple of months. The keys go back to Punch Taverns tomorrow.

Swig,has the Nelson(lower road ) closed down? Was in pitch black at 9.45pm last night.

I remember the OTD picture in Spot the Ball years ago

Of not if

A rant on my part as it makes me so angry. Of course language evolves, as per your moral (😁), but I still use the rules that I was taught at school back in the days if slate and chalk.

Trigger, I have an apostrophe in my surname and get pissed off by companies that insist I can't use it. So it's all very well saying that languages evolve but why should I have to evolve into changing my family name? This is a specific instance but really winds me up, especially when the (racist) software they use insist the apostrophe should be replaced by e.g. #&×?#

In France it's Fete du Peres, suggesting the plural in which case it's Fathers' Day.

Is it not irrelevant anyway Swiggy? :) Everyone knows what people mean when they say Mother’s Day wherever they put the apostrophe or no apostrophe. Language is changing. Always has.