It's on Dole Lane, next to The Little Theatre, across from the cop shop.

You should have gone to The Hyatt round the corner for a curry. Really good there.

Got an excellent review int Chorley Guardian last year, esp the steaks.

It's not the opinion that has changed...

Well only two more games left everyone. The three consecutive defeats meant we had gone from third and in the promotion spots to fifth, and out of contention. We now had to win both games and hope a couple of results would go our way elsewhere, involving Man City and Portsmouth, not to mention Brighton who were pursuing below. An away trip to Sheffield United was our penultimate game this season, and I used British Rail once more. Weather was decent, shirt sleeve kind of day, another spartan packed lunch wrapped up in cling film and arrived in Sheffield promptly. A short walk to the ground and onto the terrace below the home fans in a tight low horrible away pen. As the report below shows, a post war low crowd at Bramhall Lane of 7,697 saw a first half on the pitch that eclipse most of the rubbish seen played by Rovers since Christmas. The only bright spots were the three goals scored by Notts County against promotion rivals Man City at The County Ground (more of that game later). In the second half Sheff scored and we all assumed that would be that. But from nowhere, good old Jimmy Quinn bizarrely conjured up a three goal burst in 20 odd minutes to completely turn the game, and possibly the season around for us. City had lost, we had won and it was game on again with just one match left. The Notts County Man City game was frazzled with crowd issues. As City went 3-0 down, a large section of the travelling 10,000 fans decided to start a near riot and the game was held up for 30 minutes. Link below to a more detailed description of the events there that day. Notts County v Man City 1985 So for the last match at home to Wolves, Rovers had to win and hope City (home to Charlton) and Portsmouth (away at Huddersfield IIRC) both lost. One more installment to arrive soon....ish!

Very upsetting stuff AESF, depression is a major illness in this country and crosses all walks of life-it knows no boundaries.

A Teal is a type of duck. Not quite as fatty.

I Was A Teenage Armchair Honved Fan is an early Half Man Half Biscuit track, I guess the title was (as usual with HMHB) an homage to an existing cultural reference, in this case a 50's shlock movie I Was A Teenage Werewolf. HMHB are from the Wirral (God I sound like AESF now) and are well known Tranmere Rovers fans, football playing a recurring role in themes in their music. E.G. Friday Night (And the gates are low)-a reference to Tranmeres habit of playing on Friday night. All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit And my own favourite football/HMHB reference, Even Men with Steel Hearts, which has the line "Even Men with Steel Hearts Love to see a Dog On The Pitch"

Makes a change for us when a top player leaves us for being bad, not good. I would be gutted to see him go, I really rate him. Some of the football he has played in front of me in the last few years was breathtaking, and I suppose I just want to see more of it before the inevitable happens. Looks like I won't.

Your musical tastes appear increasingly eclectic, and similar to mine.

Not keen then Bob? If Di Danto bogs off in the New Year, I would play the same system with Dunn behind Benni. A motivated McCarthy playing with Dunn close to him should in theory be as good as what we have now, if not better. If he stays, and we are paying him wages then why not?

How bizarre! Benni has to play well and score goals in his International team to earn his place in his club side!

Indeed

Lyon won 2-1 at Anfield, so they only needed another goal at 1-0 in Lyon to give them a better head to head record, which makes Babels late miss even worse.

‘There is a price to be met if someone wants to buy Benni McCarthy. But we would have to have a replacement for him to allow it to develop.’ There Is a Price To be met... Very disappointed if we sell Benni.

Many thanks WB.

Made a late decision to watch Rev and the Makers Thursday night at Manchester Academy, but no chance of getting tickets in advance. the telephone number is permanently engaged, anyone remember what chance of paying on the door there is like.

£400k ish as I recall Paul.

"got to the quarter-finals of the Uefa Cup"? He must have still been ###### from when Rooney clobbered him.

Next match-The Notorious home game against Portsmouth. Pompey were one of the several teams still in the hunt for promotion to the top flight-Oxford I think were up by now, as were Birmingham City too. Realistically third spot was up for grabs between Man City, Portsmouth, Rovers, Brighton and Leeds. Portsmouth had a very tough side back then, some say dirty. I include myself in the latter group. The match was a crucial one, the winners giving them selves an excellent chance of third spot, with only two games left after this. I'm sure Bob Fleming won't mind, below is his recollection of events that afternoon, from a preview Bob wrote many moons ago... There was plenty of off field activity that day too, the malevolence was all over the top tier of the Riverside stand, and the Nuttall Street enclosures too. To this day the atmosphere has rarely been matched at Ewood. Defeat left us in poor shape as Bob says, with two games left-Sheff Utd away and Wolves at home.

Not Local, but I visited The Ubiquitus Chip, in Glasgow's West End last week. Winner of Scotland's Good Food Guide restaurant of the year award, I have to say it was very average. I had the haggis, neeps and tatties starters, which was OK, but very bland. Then a fillet steak, which was rather tasteless for the price charged. The service was sniffy and brusque, and atmosphere stilted. And this was on a Friday evening, 7.30pm! £105 for three people-deserves better for me. Anyone else been lately?

I wonder how Barry found his first `Big City` Derby at a less than sold out St Andrews?

Someone keep an eye on cocker-Oasis have split!