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Whilst the platform itself can be a nightmare in its own right, the Championship forum on Reddit is actually a pretty good laugh and is always full of Simpsons and apple crumble memes (for when teams at the top lose and are "crumbling") and actually on the whole has good discussion from fans of all the clubs in the league without it resorting to stupid tribalism that you see on the likes of Facebook.
Currently in the international breaks this year people have been trying to outdo each other in posting Championship tables in a variety of formats and its actually quite funny.
I was talking about this at work with my MD who's a big Leicester fan.
By all company metrics, our company is much bigger than QPR, although of course being in the construction industry has nowhere near the same public profile or thousands of fans turning up to shout every two weeks.
He was staggered at the idea of a 26 year old being put in charge of the club. The closest I can think of in comparison is Karen Brady being 23 when she was in charge at Birmingham, although of course she also had Gold/Sullivan as owners and closely involved on a day-to-day basis who no doubt steered the ship and gave all sorts of support in the early years.
Here we have a kid, who lets say at best is inexperienced (I am with Nico/Hunter/Northern etc in thinking it far worse) and an absentee ownership who therefore aren't there for any mentoring - its only going to lead to disaster.
I'd repeat London Scot. Sadly much younger in my mid-30s but I've had tendonitis in my right ankle a couple of times from my running, my most recent flare up was this summer, and its the strengthening (and frustrating rest) that gets rid of it as much as just stretching.
See a good sports physio/massage therapist to help work the muscles and tie out knots/get blood flow going.
But exercise/strengthening wise its a lot of calf raises, raised calf raises, sitting wall squats doing calf raises, both constant moving and doing them where you hold for 10 seconds. Single leg and double leg. Walking around on tiptoes, oh and did I mention doing calf raises?
I'm with most posts here, if we went down it won't be like last time, we'll be there for a long time, and potentially getting even worse with League Two.
In 2001 we still had one of the biggest stadiums and were one of the biggest names in the league. We won't be anymore, football has truly moved on these past 25 years.
What seems quite clear to me is how weak most top-flight leagues in Europe now are in this money dominated era where the most money and best talent has flooded into a handful of European leagues.
These guys have played top flight football in the countries they've been signed from, and even in European competition, yet are showing themselves to be badly out of their depth in the Championship.
Ignoring our fixture congestion aside, I think you could put a good Championship side (ie not us) into most European leagues and find man for man they'd be one of, if not the, best team in it.
I've always had a soft spot for Dundee ever since 10 year old me chose to play as them in the Scottish league on FIFA 2000 and I've always followed them from afar ever since. I really do want to try and get to Dens Park one day, particularly since this new stadium move might become a reality in X years (no new stadiums ever likely down here...)
Really sad news with Fabian Caballero recently too, that 2001-2004 Dundee period was a bit mad.
However, the concept of last minute home winners, opposing defences in despair and fans going wild in the background is all a bit of an alien concept to us down here at the moment. We're just used to everyone in the away end having a jolly old time all afternoon whilst we go home and grumble about another wasted afternoon of our lives on the internet.
I find it best not to think too deeply about it as it actually makes you feel a bit ill and wonder if you're just wasting your life away with a season ticket.
13 wins in 56 now with the stats that Northern keeps. That said, if its 8 from 45 in the last two years, that means the 11 games before that yielded 5 wins. So that was decent, at the time.
You know PH, there are certain areas of the internet where someone, somewhere, will read what you've put and take it seriously about multi-votes
I've only been to Canada once, but I loved it (Toronto). That said, as with everywhere in life, visiting as a tourist and living somewhere are two very different things.
Maybe foggy memory for me, but wasn't it George Best's death that heralded the arrival of the minute's applause? People felt uncomfortable with the silence due to his issues so decided to applaud for his career instead? Something like that anyway.
I'd probably say a lot of people don't listen, when it was explained that they'd read the names out, have the silence, then the Last Post, people just started clapping after the names because they hadn't listened, then once a group have started lots of extras just then all join in.
Controversial point but I actually find the whole performative stuff this has become really uncomfortable, particularly when, as we're frequently not, not actually playing at home on Remembrance Weekend.
There's some great investigative journalism ones on BBC Sounds that I enjoy listening to. Sports Greatest Crimes for a sports one, the first series of which was on the mental time at Notts County when Sven turned up, hosted by the lovely Alice Levine as she's from a County family.
But lots of other really good ones. They've done some really good series on the 40th anniversary of the miners strikes this year, BBC Leicestershire did one focusing on the Leicestershire mines which didn't strike except for a handful (in the grand scheme of total numbers of workers), and there was another one done by BBC Nottingham too on similar lines.
Uncanny by Danny Robbins is great, if you like ghostly mysteries, and they're always quite balanced and take both believers and sceptics seriously without judgement.
BBC Northern Ireland have their "Assume Nothing" series which focusses on lots of different things. They've done a couple of series serialising the memoirs of a Special Branch Officer and I've learned lots of things about those times I knew nothing about through it, really eye opening as to what went on and what people had to deal with.
I generally listen to very few sporting podcasts, I generally prefer just watching or doing it compared to talking heads waffling on about it. I got a bit bored with Undr the Cosh eventually.
That said on football, and its quite a few years old now, but James Richardson through the Athletic did episodes looking back at the 90s and 00s of Italian football (basically the Channel 4 era more or less) called Golazzo which was really good.
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