“I went to a foot ball game in the scuzzy end of Wimbledon and saw a lot of people drinking something called beer before the match started, and some of them were even eating something apparently called chips - my young children were with me, and I had to cover their ears when there were so-called supporters singing and shouting naughty words at the other team’s fans. Some of these words I haven’t heard since I binge watched Slow Horses and The Lioness… I’m honestly traumatised, especially because my little darlings cried when I told them that they couldn’t have chips and that they shouldn’t be calling me a “f*cking b*tch” - that’s the last time I ever use my friend’s South Stand tickets for a game against Milton Keynes Wanderers or whatever they’re called…”

They may have lived in a cave for the past 25 and a bit years, of course

Why should the players be expected to "get it"? They are professionals whose allegiance will be to whoever pays their wages. And hand shaking etc at the end of a game is simply good manners and sportsmanship.

I think with Richards, he won't have accrued enough minutes to qualify as one if the three

I took my four year old nephew to watch Rangers v Celtic and was amazed at the language.

A comment under the BBC match report. "My only suprise last night was the absolute lack of quality. Both teams were poor. They could still be playing and not score. My first visit to Plough lane. Will not be going back any time soon. The fans where I stood behind the goal (home end) were vile my wife and son were shocked at the vitriol on display. Cant coment on MK fans as did not come into contact with them."

What a wally.

As seen on Facebook. "Was right cheesed off tonight, a steward in the Cappagh started talking to me before the game, quite civilly at first then was going on about how his team was gonna win tonight, thought nothing too much of it until I saw him having an argument and winding up another couple of fans saying it was us who walked away from Wimbledon, our fault the team left etc, not sure how one of our supporters didn’t deck the fella but I did report him to one of the supervisors who was great and got straight onto it. Now I don’t care who the stewards support but Jesus what a dick head, just asking for trouble. Clearly enjoying winding fans up."

I chose to work last night and sold my ST. A couple things I've seen this morning. I'll post them separately.

Ah I’m away this weekend WJ otherwise I might have joined you for that one.

Chat GTP suggests only Hippo and Richards so just 2 call ups

"Hutchinson has since gone on to help the part-timers win four of their first eight games and on Saturday will line up for Farnham at Cirencester Town"

Thanks for the link Meadow. He's a star in so many ways. I hope we get him visiting Plough Lane when he finally retires and has had his surgery.

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So which players for us have been called up?

JJ mentioned in his interview that it was down to minutes played. Sounded like we couldn’t call it off.

MAGS - that’s interesting - are we yet sure that the Cambridge game won’t get cancelled?

I found this article re rules for cancelling matches and eligibility of players to be counted [Link]

Var would of given the red card, and that comes with a 3 match ban for serious foul play.

Brighton - I too consoled myself both times by recognising the unlikelihood of us actually scoring from either move, but it was incredibly frustrating to see a referee do this without first checking to judge whether there might be an advantage…

Just listened to JJ. Which players won’t be available at Cambridge? I’m guessing Hippo, Johnson?

Shame the ref had no idea at all about playing advantages - we were pulled back twice in really good positions

Agreed Trigs - i think though with the aim of avoiding relegation, if we continue to beat the teams in the bottom third and pick up occasional points against the others, we will be alright !

If he gets a ban, it should be just one game, even the FA/EFL can see that there isn’t much force and that he is arguably stepping over the guy, but equally it looks avoidable, and let’s face it, they hate us, so a ban seems likely… :(

Only caveat to that Hash is if you look at the table (I know it's only 6 games played for most) then our points come from teams currently in 14, 19, 22, 23 and 24th place. Nothing we can do about that everyone plays everyone but we will inevitably hit a run of games against better teams than the franchise and bromley. Nice to have the points on the board for that very reason.