Also enjoyed Stoke's John Mahoney comparing the secomd half at Tottenham to the Relief of Mafeking. Which is not something you hear on Sky Sports nowadays.
This weekend is the start of this year's wonderful @favershamfringe.bsky.social. I will be performing two of my shows, both on 18th October, at The Guildhall.
In 85-86, I was one of the 3744 to see a second division match between Palace and Carlisle, seven years after I was one of the 51482 to see a second division match between Palace and Burnley. Says it all really.
Reminiscent of the football coverage of The Grauniad in the eighties. Midweek match reports often consisted of the closest match to David Lacey's house, invariably a second division relegation scrap watched by 5000 at Selhurst Park.
