The Nelson Arms showing the Cambridge game .

$6MD - hope it was the same guy that was up-chucking by the door from the covered area into the pub about 10/15 minutes before kick-off, otherwise there'd have been two of them and that would be even more worrying

Cricket is a totally different sport, with totally different crowds and totally different emotions. There is no emotional equivalent of a goal being scored in cricket and it isn't as fiercely tribal. I've never watched rugby (either code) live so don't know how that compares but would guess it is in between cricket and football for generating emotions. It's not just goals. Bad tackles. Refereeing mistakes. Tempers flare enough as it is, let alone while getting more drunk. I'm not aware anybody has asked for this change so why bother? Watching football in hospitality whilst drinking in view of the game is one thing. Doing so in a crowded stand is another.

Do people at cricket and rugby not spill beer, throw beer, drink too much? I'm happy with things as they are but Burnham's point seems to be it just applying to football (made whilst drinking a pint at Everton's ground watching a rugby league game.)

Carshalton- Arsenal are at Fleetwood in League Cup that night. No obvious reason for really early KO.

I almost got puked on before the franchise game in the west stand concourse as someone who clearly had a skinfull launched a puke projectile. I literally missed getting covered by not arriving a split second earlier. It bloody stank too. I agree in the 1980s on sparsely covered terraces leaning up against a crash barrier was a different time. Nowadays, if a goal goes in beer on the ground would get kicked over or somebody holding it would spill it. It's just Burnham trying to appear in touch with the common man and gesture politics.

It's good that we don't use Sparkular machines at Plough Lane.

Haven’t talked to anyone yet who does want alcohol in the stands. Interested to know what the youngsters think about it. Will have to watch a vlog.

Things change. Prior to the football beer ban, we played in Divs 2,3 & 4. At home or away, I would normally be standing on the terraces. Generally not very crowded - especially away from home. So beer was not a problem - plenty of space - can't remember getting beered or puked on on the terraces. Now it is all seating, and (especially at home) pretty full, we have potential problems that did not exist before the ban.

Bucks Womble - not just you. I find that and the players doing a lap of honour and fist pumping 3 times for a bog standard league game OTT too. All that lining up and shaking hands is needless too. Just get in with the game.

Apropos of very little, Jackson’s videos interviews always make me howl. Especially with the post-match ones, they usually finish mid-frame of him removing his mic the SECOND the interview finishes. Look out for it! Also on our interviews, is it only me or is it increasingly annoying that they always end with a ‘word about our fantastic fans.’ Think I find it a bit patronising that it happens EVERY time…

I'm more positive. We'll set out not to loses and steal a goal in the last 10 and hang on to win. Scooby Doo's Freddie* to get the all important winner

As usual with the few away games I’m able to get to, I’ll go with low expectation and just a smidge of hope - that way I’m neither too surprised nor too disappointed if/when we get nothing. It usually works, but then again it’s the approach I took for Huddersfield away last season, and I ended up feeling annoyed that we hadn’t actually won it, despite that fact that a point was quite decent in the end….

Can't call tomorrow at all. Could be anything.

Yeah can't see us getting anything tomorrow sadly but stranger things have happened, I guess.

Cambridge have scored a staggering 7 goals more than we have (12 to our 5) in the seven games played so far. They’ve conceded 3 more than us so it’s not all doom and gloom - but having watched our clean sheets I suspect their attack will cope better against our defence than our attack will cope against theirs.

Presumably the 6pm kick off time for Arsenal u21s on 27th Oct is so that the poor dears are home by their 9pm curfew

Cambridge 1 dons 4 tomorrow

That's me told:-)

Nice note from the club on Mr Strank [Link]

There is an issue at the moment with the OTD descriptions referring to pictures shown 12 months ago instead of what it is showing now. It usually gets corrected later in the day so I wouldn't get too hung up on it. Clearly the current picture is not 1982 or Steve Ketteridge, who is a grandfather now and well into his 60s.

Drop the AI photos, disrespectful to our former players ,steve ketteridge looks well in his 50s. The south stand looks too plush. And no wall in front. Embarrassing changing history

OTD - did keepers really not wear gloves in 1982?

The pic I mean, not the answer

Or maybe not?