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Rightio, the esteemed @carlos21 has expressed the desire for a quiz night of some form, so, on the express assumption that I am doing no more towards organising such debauchery than creating this thread, here it is. Go.

Any recommendations?

Some Belgian researchers have looked at how (Everton) footballers respond to mental pressure during the season - https://nieuws.kuleuven.be/en/content/2019/how-do-professional-football-players-perform-under-immense-pressure

In the fallout from Brexit, it would mean that European players no longer have an automatic right to play in the Premier League. The FA would like to therefore reduce the number of foreign players teams can have in their squad from 17 to 12 (we currently have 14, 22 if you count those out on...

An interesting new study has been done by John Moores University into what distinguishes Barcelona from other clubs (in the way they train etc.) "FC Barcelona are one of the most successful domestic football teams of all time. Some believe that one of the key ingredients of their success...

Spending as much time as I have around you fine folk over the past decade not only has the pride of our left leaning values been quite clear, but those values have also rubbed off on me. I couldn't help when, reading about the Richarlison rumour yesterday, feel a pang of disgust that the club is...

I sense that many of us would like the season to be over so we can start thinking to the future (hopefully with a new manager), but what positives can we look to get from the rest of the season? Can we blood some youngsters? Get some confidence into the squad?

Coca Cola's Santa Claus is largely based upon the legend of Saint Nicholas, a bloke from latter day Turkey who was renowned for his good deeds. Foremost among these was his chance encounter with a poor family whose three daughters were due to get married. As was custom at the time, the father...

Who will don the proper winter attire of short sleeves and no gloves today do you think?

Bruce Wayne submitted an update to GrandOldTeam's homepage New Manager, Same Results? Casting my mind back to the summer, there was an overwhelming sense of optimism. After years of fallow transfer windows, we burst out of the blocks with gusto, with barely a day going by without a new...

Some Like It Hot has been voted the best comedy of all time by the Beeb. Can't argue with it tbh. Dr Strangelove was 2nd. What's your favourite comedy film ever?

Post up your favourite memories of Unsworth. Whether it's his deadly penalties, his month long spell at At Least We're Not Villa or his creation of the best youth team in the history of the world. Rhino, we salute you. It is actually World Rhino Day ffs - http://www.worldrhinoday.org/

Whilst I think most can agree that Martinez was wrong and not up to the job, but the way our squad downed tools in his final months, even during the cup semi-final was frankly a disgrace for any professional, let alone the senior ones we have at our club. At the time we gave them the benefit of...

Southall or Martyn? Hibbo or Coleman? Speed or Cahill? Go.

It's quite possibly rose-tinted glasses, but when I was growing up, I always thought the cup was true to the cliches. Great leveler, anyone can win on their day etc. Looking at it now though, in the past 25 years, it's been won by one of Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea or Man Utd 21 times. By...

Despite scoring a decent number of goals this season (44 in 28 league games), Lukaku has scored 40% of our goals, with Barkley the 2nd highest scorer with just 5. I don't think it will harm us too much this year, but next season, is it better to give Rom more support? Where can we get extra...

Bit slow out of the gate as we've already had a few cobbled races, but some superb action ahead in the coming months. This period up to and including the Giro is my favourite part of the calendar.

Well? :rant:

Interesting piece on the BBC this morning. Brian Little, one of the world’s leading experts on personality psychology, is renowned as a public speaker. If you watch his recent TED talk on personality, as millions of others have, you will see an engaging and witty orator holding his audience’s...

Nice project in Manchester to plant a tree for every person in the city (~3 million in total) - from the Beeb http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38692022 "A project aims to plant three million trees - one for every man, woman and child - in Greater Manchester over the next 25 years...