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Southgate stated that he doesn't tell his forwards to stay in one part of the field , so Foden will probably start left to accommodate Bellingham, but he can drift in. I get the feeling Southgate knows this is his best and probably last chance to win something, so hopefully he's going to go all out and unleash the most talented attacking team we've had in decades.

What's the fascination with Luke Littler? Is it because he comes from RL country and he vaguely said something about following the sport. Sky are advertising a programme they've produced with him about his love for Manchester United, and his United heroes. If Littler came from Wolverhampton nobody here would give a t*** about him. Yes he's a great player, destroyed Smith and looked masterful against the World champ, but he's not going to do anything to popularise TGG, sadly.

You and Bedfordshire Bronco seem to be at cross purposes here. In the same way you can lose a few battles but win a war, RL can win a few metrics but lose overall popularity. Obviously in Cas or Wakey, more people watch RL than football and I agree I doubt more leave these towns to watch football than watch RL, but Bedfordshire used the term holistic, by which he meant the whole gamut of how people interact with a sport. If we want to be pedantic we can say no town is football or RL orientated because probably no town or City in the UK has over 50% people who care about either. Lots of people couldn't care less about sport. If we include in the term ," being a football fan", or " being a RL fan", to include going to matches, anywhere, amateur volunteers and players, casual goers, participants at all ages and television only watchers, then Bedfordshire Bronco is right , every town or city football is number 1. But if we go metric by metric, then RL wins out , in certain defined metrics,in certain defined locations, but not very many places or metrics.

To clarify about the BBC and their obligations. I mean that there's a " soft" obligation to cover regional material because of their funding. If they said they're not covering RL because its not national they'd get criticism that of course other FTA channels would not receive.

BBC are publicly funded and have a charter , it's their obligation to show RL , but not necessarily on main channels or prime time. It's regarded as of regional interest and treated as such. Hypothetically if there was a another code of football, say in the West Country, played in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, the BBC would be obliged to show a bit of that , for West Country licence payers. The Challenge Cup final is always on BBC 1, if one year the kick off was at 8pm on Saturday night would they show it on 1, prime time weekend, the BBC would probably resist that and want the usual kick off time.

Maybe I'm being disloyal to Spurs wanting them to lose, but we're not ready for Champions league, I don't want Spurs to suffer in the league next year as Newcastle have done. Europa League will do fine.

Oh no, my beloved Tottenham have lost to Manchester City, I am...er..heartbroken!

Brave stab at staying up by Burnley and Luton, but the inevitable relegation has happened. Even if Luton beat Fulham by 5 they'll need Forest to lose by 7 at Burnley, so it's over. Luton I think will be back , Burnley possibly as well,but Luton lacked that final bit of quality, Burnley had the quality but no strength to tough out results. Championship play offs start tomorrow, my tip is Southampton to get promoted. League 2 looks interesting, Crewe and Crawley should be good final, both have played impressive football in the semis. Last season I really enjoyed the Scottish Championship play offs, and so far the Partick /Airdrie matches have been good, Raith next for Partick. Very tough format, if Partick get promoted they'll have played 6 play off games.

From The Guardian online. Sky Sports plans to broadcast football during the 3pm Saturday slot as it gets set to increase its live sports coverage by 50% from next season. As Sky insisted it “takes ­seriously” the responsibility of minimising disruption for match-going fans, it announced that every game in the opening weekend of the ­English ­Football League season would be broadcast live, including those scheduled to start at traditional kick-off times. In a typical EFL weekend from next season Sky will show 10 live matches, with five from the ­Championship, and five from Leagues One and Two combined. Sky will also show ­midweek match rounds in their entirety, with distinct commentary teams for each match. Its expansion in coverage will extend to the ­Premier League from 2025-26, with 100 extra matches added to Sky’s output, ­meaning it will broadcast a minimum of 215 live top-flight games. re above; seems to me apart from the 5 each from each EFL division shown, the others will be unaffected and kick off at normal times.

C Palace 4 Manchester United 0 What a disgraceful performance by United. Palace destroyed them, United just capitulated. Shame to see a great player like Casemiro reduced to a liability. Ten Hag can't survive this, he's history. Hope Palace keep Olise and Eze, don't want to see City Chelsea or Arsenal grab them. If Spurs want them then ...er that's fine.

In the Dr Who TV movie 1996 McCoy got his farewell scene; Regenerating into Doctor 8 ,Paul McGann who has made an appearance in the new rebooted Dr Who series. Will I be doing reviews for Nu Who? Nope, I've seen all the episodes of NuWho, up to Timeless Child, the last straw for me,but tbh I'm not a great fan of modern Who, so I'll finish my Dr Who reviews here.

The Final Classic Who Story 12. Survival The Doctor takes Ace back to her home town of Perivale, only to find that something is very, very wrong. Many of Ace's old friends and neighbours have disappeared, whilst domistic pets become victims of unseen killers. Weird cats called Kitlings teleport victims to the planet of the Cheetah people who hunt them for sport. The Master is there trying to gain the Cheetah peoples skill in hunting and teleportation. The Doctor and Ace end up there and have a fight to survive. Doctor " If we fight like animals we'll die like animals!" FINAL SCENE Doctor. " People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace – we've got work to do!"

11. The Curse Of Fenric When the Doctor and Ace arrive at a secret military base during World War II, they discover that a centuries-old Viking curse is bringing terror to its inhabitants. As hideous vampires rise from the sea and Russian commandos begin to close in, they are confronted not only with a mystery from the distant past, but also a terrifying vision of mankind's future...

Season 26. 9. Battlefield Responding to a distress signal, the Doctor and Ace arrive near the village of Carbury, where a nuclear missile convoy has run into difficulties. The peace of the English countryside is shattered as UNIT troops are besieged by armoured knights from another dimension. As the crisis deepens, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is called out of retirement to join the battle. Together, he and the Doctor must face the Destroyer, a fearsome demon summoned by the witch queen Morgaine to devour the world. Arthurian legend comes to this dimension from another dimension where the legendary Arthur and Morgaine are real and the Doctor is known as.....Merlin! 10. Ghost Light London, 1983: an old house mysteriously burns to the ground. One hundred years earlier, the Doctor and Ace arrive at a sinister mansion in the rural hamlet of Perivale. Horrors old and new await the Doctor amongst the peculiar residents of Gabriel Chase… but it is Ace who must confront her own worst nightmares when she discovers that her past and the house’s future are inextricably linked. This is regarded as a marmite story, some love it others don't because it's quite odd and seemingly deliberately confusing. Basically an energy being called Light who surveys life everywhere for its catalogue, is asleep in a spaceship under the house. A Neanderthal man is serving in the house as a butler having evolved sufficiently to do so, and is in the service of Josiah Samuel Smith, a lifeform that Light uses to carry out the survey.

7. Silver Nemesis Earth, 1988: While the Doctor and Ace flee from emotionless men wielding futuristic pistols, neo-Nazi Herr de Flores is intent on heralding the Fourth Reich. Meanwhile, the villainous Lady Peinforte uses black magic to propel herself forward from 1638 for a final confrontation with her sworn enemy — the Doctor. And, at the same time, a spacecraft full of Cybermen sets down on Earth. As the Doctor desperately evades multiple enemies, a meteor containing a Gallifreyan super-weapon is hurtling ever nearer to the planet. Whoever is able to unite the validium statue with its bow and arrow will hold power of life or death over the entire universe. 8. The Greatest Show In The Galaxy Although Ace hates clowns, the Doctor decides to take his companion to the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax. There they find a group of scared performers who live in fear of the sinister and creepy Chief Clown. But what is so dangerous about this particular circus, why is there such a small audience and will Ace be able to overcome her fear before it's too late? Lurking below the jollity are the Gods Of Ragnarok.

Season 25. 5. Remembrance Of The Daleks. London, 1963, and the Doctor returns to Coal Hill School with his new companion Ace, where he has unfinished business. His oldest foes, the Daleks, are on the trail of Time Lord technology - an artefact the Doctor himself left behind on Earth. Enlisting the assistance of the local military, the Doctor must protect the Gallifreyan secret of time travel as two opposing Dalek factions meet in an explosive confrontation, with the fate of the entire universe at stake! 6. The Happiness Patrol On the planet Terra Alpha, bright fluorescent lights and garish candy-striped colors abound. The population constantly displays happy smiles. There's no sadness on Terra Alpha. Anyone feeling remotely glum disappears. Quickly. Having heard disturbing rumors, the Doctor and Ace arrive to topple the entire regime overnight. But they haven't reckoned upon the varied punitive measures enforced by colony leader Helen A. There are many delicious ways in which to vanish on Terra Alpha: you can be hunted down by the omnipresent Happiness Patrol or mauled by Helen A's ravenous pet Fifi. But those especially unlucky few will find themselves entertained in the sweetie factory manned by Helen A's psychotic henchman - the Kandy Man. This time, happiness will prevail...

3. Delta And The Bannermen Chimeron Queen, Delta, last of her race is pursued by the evil Gavrok and his bannerman soldiers. She hops on board a spaceship looking like a coach carrying tourists from the planet Navarino to Earth for a trip to Disney land. However an American satellite knocks them off course and the tourist party end up in a Welsh holiday camp in 1959. So, Dr Who meets Hi de Hi. The Doctor and Mel assist Delta to hold off Gavrok until the egg she has with her can hatch and a new Chimeron Princess born with powers can save the Chimerons. 4. Dragonfire At the Iceworld Space Trading Colony on Svartos, the Doctor and Mel unexpectedly encounter an old 'friend.' The penniless and desperate Sabalom Glitz has only one option to leave Svartos: find the fabled 'Dragonfire' treasure concealed somewhere in the depths of the planet. Joined by Ace, a teenage waitress with a love for explosives, the group ventures off to uncover lost riches, not knowing that Kane, Iceworld's ruthlessly intimidating overlord, will gladly murder them all to gain possession of the Dragonfire himself. Before long the Doctor finds himself playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with Kane's mercenaries, descending through the ice caverns ever closer towards the deadly gaze of the monstrous dragon that lurks below.

7th Doctor Sylvester McCoy Season 24. 1. Time And The Rani. The renegade Time Lady The Rani attacks the tardis with energy weapons, causing the Doctor to regenerate. Doctor and Mel are kidnapped and taken to Lakertya where the Rani and her bat creatures, the Tetraps have subdued the natives, while The Rani kidnaps high IQ geniuses from the galaxy to help her find a way to turn the planet of Lakertya itself into a time manipulator for conquest purposes. 2. Paradise Towers Story loosely inspired by J.G.Ballard's novel High Rise. In a dilapidated tower block in the future, the adults have gone off to wars, leaving the kids and old folk to fend for themselves. There's gangs of kids, old folk turning to cannibalism and the designer of the block, The Great Architect, Kroagnon, dead but mind kept alive in the basement in a machine. Kroagnon decides to mentally take over the chief Caretaker to clear the building of " human rubbish."

10. Terror Of The Vervoids The Doctor distraught by Peri's death, now has to compose himself and present evidence for his defence. Using the matrix he shows the court an adventure from his future. Along with new companion Mel, he goes on board the ship Hyperion 3 to answer a distress call from Capt. Travers. Murders are being committed on this luxury ship which contains paying passengers, scientists, aliens , and someone is a killer. The scientists have been developing Vervoids, plant creatures they hope can be used as cheap labour. This is clearly immoral, and against the law. The Vervoids are smarter than thought and have escaped captivity and killing people. The Doctor ingeniously uses bright light to accelerate their life cycle thus killing them. The Doctor tries to prove this action saved lives and the human race if the Vervoids had got off the ship. The Valeyard gleefully says the Doctor has committed genocide and now must forfeit his life. 11. The Ultimate Foe Two episode finale to the trial. The Master gives evidence, oh no, but hold on, he's on the Doctor's side here. The Master reveals the Valeyard IS THE DOCTOR!! An evil incarnation from the future in league with the High Council of Time Lords. The Time Lords destroyed Ravelox ( story 1) ,once known as Earth, to cover up the theft of secrets from The Matrix. The Valeyard wants the Doctor's remaining lives so did a deal to discredit the Doctor in this farcical trial in return for his remaining regenerations. Most of the scenes shown by the Valeyard in his presentation of the case for the prosecution were accurate, but some scenes the Valeyard faked, including Peri's death. She is alive and well and married to the warrior King Yrcanos. Various other scenes were concocted by the Valeyard to make the Doctor look bad. The Valeyard flees the courtroom pursued by the Doctor and they head for a showdown in the virtual reality world of the matrix. The Master having no interest in justice revealed what he did to bring about the Time Lords collapse and hopefully one of the Doctors will kill the other. It was a difficult time for the show and Colin Baker. The BBC hierarchy really wanted the show cancelled and Baker only got to do two years even though he was contracted for three. A year hiatus in production as the BBC rested the show. Fan pressure meant the show did return, but on condition that a new Doctor was introduced. Baker furious at being ,not sacked because his contract was up, but told his services would no longer be required, declined to do his regeneration scene. Sylvester McCoy, Doctor no. 7 wearing a wig and facing away from the camera, did the scene.

Season 23- The Trial Of A Time Lord. 8. The Mysterious Planet. The Doctor is pulled out of his time stream and summoned to a Time Lord space station above Gallifrey. On his arrival it is announced by the Inquisitor that the Doctor will stand trial. Accused of conduct unbecoming a Time Lord, the Doctor refutes the allegations made against him and chooses to mount his own defense rather than entrust his fate to a fellow Time Lord. Opposing the Doctor and appearing for the prosecution is the Valeyard, an enigmatic figure who is clearly out for the Doctor. Suffering from short term memory loss as a result being taken out of time, and puzzled as to the absence of his companion Peri, the Doctor can only sit back and watch as the Valeyard mounts his case against the eccentric time traveler. The first piece of evidence is taken from the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge. It chronicles the Doctor's interference in affairs of the planet Ravalox, a planet very similar to Earth and which was partly decimated by a fireball several centuries ago. Accompanied by Peri in this adventure, the Doctor and his young friend discover there is more to the planet than meets the eye. Why do the duo discover what appears to be an old abandoned subway station with an old sign that reads 'Marble Arch'? Who are the underground dwellers that live beneath the train station? What are the motivations of the Tribe of the Free who are ruled over by Queen Katryca? Why do the two villainous rogues, Glitz and Dibber, want to destroy the totem to the Free's god? And who or what is the god-like immortal of whom or of which the underground dwellers speak? As these questions and others are answered, the Doctor realizes he might be the only one capable of saving Ravalox from becoming the flash point of universal destruction. 9. Mindwarp The court looks into the Doctor's investigation of Thoros Beta, home planet of the Mentors whom the Doctor suspects of selling advanced weaponry to primitive cultures. The Valeyard continues to use the matrix to show to the court the Doctor's meddling. Sil who we met last season, the reptilian Thoros Betan, and human Dr. Crozier are conducting surgical experiments to try and save Lord Kiv , leader of Thoros Beta, and decide his only chance is a brain transplant....but into whose body? The Doctor is put in a machine to extract information and appears to go unhinged as a result. He abandons Peri, and she is captured and will be the host of Kiv's brain. At this point the Time Lords removed the Doctor from time as they could no longer stand by as these dangerous experiments of Crozier were progressing, but too late. Peri dies as Kiv's complete personality is transferred into Peri, but the Peri/Kiv being is assassinated by warrior King Yrcanos, guided remotely by mental force by the Time Lords. The Doctor watches aghast as on the courtroom screen the end of Peri is viewed. The Valeyard concludes the case for the prosecution, The Doctor caused Peri's death by meddling and being there in the first place, and his punishment should be death.

6. Timelash On the planet Karfel, the people live in fear of the ruler, The Borad, who throws those he wants rid of down the Timelash, a sort of time/ space corridor. The tardis contacts this corridor and the Doctor traces one end of it to late 19th century Scotland. There he and Peri rescue a girl thrown down the corridor, and also meet a Victorian gentleman named Herbert. The Doctor takes the girl, Vena back to Karfel and helps rebels overthrow the Borad, who turns out to be someone the Doctor met on a previous visit, a scientist who has since become half man half reptilian after accidently spraying himself with Mustakosene 80 gas, and then attacked by a Morlox creature. Morlox is mentioned in an H.G. Wells novel, and Herbert who stows away in the tardis and helps the Doctor in this adventure is revealed as H.G. Wells. 7. Revelation Of The Daleks On the planet Necros ,The Doctor and Peri go to pay respect to an old friend of the Doctor who has died. But it's a trap, Davros the creator of The Daleks is there, posing as The Great Healer, someone who is renoun now for saving this part of the galaxy from starvation with his synthetic food process. It turns out Davros is the power behind Tranquil Repose, a funeral parlour, and the people resting there, hoping one day to be revived and cured of their ailments that took their lives, after being cryogenically frozen, are being either turned into the food that Necros exports or worse turned into Daleks.

3. Vengeance On Varos The TARDIS makes an emergency landing on Varos, a planet that used to be a penal colony, and where the native Varosians are presently entertained by broadcasts of real violence and death. Mistaken for rebels, the Doctor and Peri learn that Sil, an evil delegate of the Galatron mining corporation, bids to rule Varos and to control supplies of Zeiton 7 ore, which is the TARDIS's only fuel source. 4. The Mark Of The Rani In a 19th century mining village, a renegade Time Lady known as The Rani is draining brain fluid from local men, turning them savage and berserk. She needs the fluid for her slaves on a planet she rules. It is here on Earth The Master plans to coerce her help in his vengeance upon The Doctor while also establishing a power base for controlling Earth's future. A meeting of great minds is taking place and the Master plans to kill some important people of the industrial revolution including George Stephenson. 5. The Two Doctors Doctor no. 2 is back with assistant Jamie. The Time Lords send the Doctor to a space station where Professor Dastari is doing time travel experiments that the Time Lords want stopped. Dastari is working with the Sontarans and Androgums, a race of brutish base humanoids. Dastari has used surgery to augment Chessene an Androgum to a higher level of intelligence, in fact super intelligence. As Doctor 2 says, " Dastari I'm sure you can augment an earwig so it could understand Einstein but it still would be a bloody stupid thing to do." Dastari wants to take some nucleus out of the Doctor's body to make his time travel cabinet work. The Doctor is taken by Dastari, Sontarans and Chessene to Seville in Spain. Doctor 6 sensing his past self is in danger and being tortured goes to the space station, where a frightened Jamie is in hiding. They meet and all go to Seville to face the Sontarans as they plot with Chessene to use Dastari's time cabinet for conquest.

Season 21 -( final story) 6th Doctor- Colin Baker 1. The Twin Dilemma After a traumatic reaction to his regeneration The Doctor is mentally unstable and tries to kill companion Peri. Meanwhile two mathematical genius twins have been kidnapped by a human named Professor Edgworth. Edgworth is working for Mestor, a giant intelligent slug creature from planet Jaconda who wants the twins to work out calculations to alter Jaconda's moons orbits as part of a plan to hurl the eggs of the giant slugs into space for colonisation purposes. The Doctor is unstable for most of this story but is just about mentally together to destroy Mestor with Edgworth's help, who is revealed to be Time Lord Azmael, a friend of the Doctor. Reckoned by many to be the worst story in Who's history. A poor start for Colin Baker. Season 22.- 2. Attack Of The Cybermen Much improved story for Doctor no. 6 from his first one. The Cybermen plan to divert Halley's comet in 1985 to smash into Earth destroying it, thus preventing human race from destroying the Cybermen's original world of Mondas , that happened in 1986, as seen in The Tenth Planet(1966 season 4) The Cybermen based now on Telos, a planet also previously seen , have captured a high tech time vessel from another race to do this time travelling and have engaged the service of Lytton, a character previously employed by Daleks to help. But Lytton is a double agent now working for the Cryons on Telos, a race of females who at war with the Cybermen. The Cybermen have a base in London's sewers and The Doctor and Peri discover this and end up on Telos.

19. Planet Of Fire Kamelion the shape shifting android from The King's Demons story is still in the tardis, and reprogrammes the tardis to home in on a signal its picking up. The signal is from a piece of metal recovered from the sea bed in the Mediterranean. A salvage operation to lift a boat from the bed of the Mediterranean is led by Howard Foster, his step daughter is Perpegillium Brown aka Peri. The Doctor and Turlough are here in Lanzarote to track the signal and Peri is rescued by Turlough after she nearly drowned in the sea. Peri is taken on-board and with her is this piece of metal that is emitting the signal that she stole from her stepdad wanting to sell it to finance her gap year travels. Kamelion changes shape to Howard, reading Peri's thoughts then changes to The Master. Kamelion is mentally linked to the Master from their past association. Phew! Complicated this.....now The Master is in trouble on the planet Sarn and Kamelion is coming to his rescue, unbeknown to the Doctor who is just following the signal , goes to Sarn to meet colonists sheltering in volcanic tunnels and worship Logar the Fire God. This does all tie in, and Turlough reveals Sarn is a Trion prison planet and the Sarn people are the indigenous people and their God Logar was volcanologists taming the Volcano from Trion, Turlough's home planet. Last story for Turlough. 20. Caves Of Androzani Last story for 5th Doctor. On Androzani Minor a war is raging between Androzani Major military and Sharez Jek, a genius in Android technology, and an outcast from homeworld Androzani Major. Jek and his Android army are in cahoots with mercenaries protecting their huge supply of Spectrox. Spectrox is mined here on Androzani Minor, a moon, and is the most valuable of substances. It when drank can extend human life by up to 50 years, holding back ageing. Jek is holding the Government on Major to ransom, no deal no Spectrox. The Doctor and Peri arrive on Minor , mistaken for rebel mercenaries by the army and executed by firing squad. But they were rescued by Jek at the last moment and perfect Android versions of them are the ones executed. Sharez Jek wears a hood to hide his horribly burnt face for which he blames Government official Morgus, and his price to release the Spectrox to a desperate people clamouring for their elixir of youth, is the head of Morgus, at his feet. The Doctor and Peri are infected by touching a sticky fugus ball, and have Spectrox Toximia and are going to die. This does bring about the regeneration of the 5th Doctor , who although has found the cure, bats milk, there's enough for Peri but not him. And the fifth Doctor becomes the sixth.