Yes Don Simon you make a fair point. I think maybe the semi finals are the peak of the CL.

DO - it was the length that confused me and that was the same in the original. Was it partially destroyed in the war and rebuilt shorter or am I misremembering its length when I was going?

OI - it was the South Stand and AI had somehow crammed about 5,000 into the stand and another 5,000 standing in front of it!!

Transfer window ends Monday 7pm.will we see anymore departures or arrivals?

RIP Lord Flight, did some work for him around his house is putney and Barton St Westminster. His wife Christabel was a character.

Trigger you do get the occasional CL gem. Inter vs Barca 7-6 across 2 legs last semi finals was something else.

Looks like the South Stand to me

Another weird picture today but interesting. Does anyone have an answer as to which stand was in the background yesterday and why it seems way bigger than I remember either the North or South stands in the 1960s?

I enjoy Sunday afternoon PL games at the pub with mates - the football often turns into background noise tbh. I don’t really watch CL games because there’s just too many of them and the random fixture lists of the modern set up means most of the results don’t really matter. By the time it finally gets to the semi finals the games tend to be quite boring.

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I enjoy the European football but definitely don't wish to inflict it on others if it doesn't appeal to them. And as a4e points out some of the skill levels are superb.

Pretty gloomy prospects going into Saturday’s match against Bolton but there may be a slight ray of hope. We are absolute rock bottom of the home form table. Over the last 6 games at home everyone else in the division has done better than us. We’ve not won a game (lost 4) and we’ve only scored one goal. Bolton are 6th in the away form table having W2D2L2 so you would expect our best possible result to be a 0-0 draw. The ray of hope is that relatively recently they’ve drawn against Doncaster and Northampton so maybe they allow teams to drag them down to their level.

What was your favourite song being played at old plough ln when leaving the ground? Think I can remember science being played with Magnus pike being played when we beat Southend I think is he dead yet?

You can definitely see the money making side of the CL, but the actual football itself is often of the highest order in terms of skill levels and speed of transitions, etc - I don’t care so much about who wins it, but some of the knockout games have excitement and drama in them that you wouldn’t see in the PL, and certainly not in the efl. Probably the only time anything as dramatic happens in English football is when a team like Macclesfield knocks out a PL team like Palace in the FA Cup, but even that wasn’t really such an amazing game in truth…

Morning all. Another ghost figure (distorted head and foot) between the goalie and the guy in blue in OTD. Or, alternatively, a person who's been largely masked in the enhancement. By the way, Bert, I'm enjoying the colourised photos and spotting these things - definitely not a plea from me to revert to the original B&W instead of these enhanced versions.

I saw it on the news this morning. Teams celebrating that they can take part in another manufactured round of fixtures for no other reason than to make very rich people even richer. There is no genuine sporting merit behind any of this. It's interminable and inconsequential. However, what it is doing is help the top levels of the game create more and more money, creating trickle down issues that leave clubs in the third tier of English football having to lose £5m a season just to standstill. It's a huge con and the TV companies continue to hoodwink people into believing any of this is important. Get me that David Mitchell sketch.

Yeah but it’s not out it’s just not in the top 8. It’s playoffs for most (designed to let the chosen ones through!) and only out for a few.

I enjoyed the goal show and Real and PSG missing out on the top 8, although quite likely one of them will win the competition.

Karen, I wouldn't want to be 50 years younger, I hated my teenage years. Thirty years would do.

Trigg - seeing the Benfica keeper score in 90+8 to put 9 man Real Madrid out of the top 8 was pretty funny though… 🤪😂

Benfica goalie scores in 7th min of injury time to keep them in and knock Marseille out

Sky desperately trying to pretend that tonight’s Champions League games actually matter.

It’s been a proper lol day! Sadly I will ruin it tomorrow with a look ahead to Bolton’s latest trip to Plough Lane.

Karen - scuba diving Trigger has a body to die for. If he put his mind to it, he could be the new James Bond. ❤️ 😉 👍

Not sure that’s the right link Keefy