Brilliant, Pete. Thank you from me and thank you from him.

Watched Napoleon last night, the newish one with Joaquin Phoenix(sp?). Hmmm. Whoever wrote the screenplay was more into bedroom tactics than French battle tactics. The Waterloo scenes were a joke. First time I've ever seen the French attack like a Scottish horde, rather than in slow moving columns. Very poor.

Interesting interview with Nigel James, father of Lauren and Reece, who apparently also discovered Rudoni. Based at Goals Wimbledon( is that the one next to the A3 and railway?). I presume our academy keeps contact with him. [Link]

That’ll be our paid brand & design manager then will it?

Paddington - I did post a joke yesterday, but just for you [Link]

8 red cards for Brazil in their defeat against USA.

A two- colour scheme isn't the worst idea - the advert hoardings at Burton are in two colours and they seem fine - but there's no real reason not to use blue and yellow.

I would be very interested to know how that decision was arrived at and who was involved in the discussions

Why blue and white? Why not blue and yellow?

".... the club want a blue and white theme within the stadium….."

Spot on Karen @13.13

An update on “sponsorship gate”. My understanding is that the discussions/ negotiations reached deadlock with the commercial team. Allegedly the sponsors reached out by trying to escalate it further up the line trying to reach out on a number of occasions, ……..but didn’t even receive a call back . I can only presume that we have found a magic money tree and can allow 100k + deals to lapse. Assuming this is the case then surely those involved need to give their head a wobble. Will be very interested to hear the clubs version of events

Paul Strank has always had that logo, if you look at the old programmes from (I think) the 1980s. I won't be entirely surprised to find out that, like MyPie, he was asked to start paying higher rates and got the arse

Actually having slept on it I agree with Stu, would love to hear the clubs side. Find it hard to believe it’s as clear cut as change your colours or your out. Sadly that will become fact if club don’t respond. IIRC people are outraged when mypie aired there dirty washing online but the club responded magnificently to that and put it to bed.

Why should he change his branding ?? Something he has had for a number of years and has been very successful using it just to please our marketing person

I wonder if Strank has got/is presenting the wrong end of the wedge and he was actually asked to maybe update his branding which has always looked like a 12-year-old designed it in PowerPoint. I imagine anyone working in marketing would look at it and perceive it as devaluing the prices the club could get.

My company has an annual staff conference. Next year it's going to be at Stadium:MK. I've been allowed to take the two days as leave but had to apologise for my initial vocal reaction. So I'm glad to say that the conference will have my symbolic gap.

Can you imagine?

Well i enjoyed The Damned United, anything with Timothy Spall is class.

Just seems such a strange thing to do - they changed fixtures (eg the suggested conception of Clough’s dislike for Revie was the latter blanking him at Pride Park when Leeds came to play them in a cup game. The game was played at Elland Road why change that? Similarly they showed Luton winning 0-1 at Leeds during Clough’s short tenure. The match actually finished 1-1. They showed Clough immediately reneging on a deal to manage Brighton when in fact he managed them for nearly a whole season before moving to Leeds. They showed Dave Mackay taking over as manager at Derby while he was still a player there - totally stabbing Clough in the back when the fact is he’d left Derby two years prior to be player manager. Mackay sued and won [Link]

Brodi Hughes has been released by Chelsea after 13 years at the club

Anyone know when pre season training is supposed to start? A week before we go to Spain?

The book "The Damned United" was mediocre but I could never really get into David Peace novels, they always seemed rather dense.

World Cup starts tomorrow but more importantly two weeks tomorrow the fixture list is released.

Really is Bob. If I’d read up on it first I’d never have watched it.