Len, A brilliantly different approach but one that carefully and truthfully sums up situations and undercurrents very nicely indeed. Certainly the attitude of the football authorities to fans is despicable in my opinion so a great big well done from me. Will it have any effect? I doubt it because ...

Just to add, as an experiment, I thought I'd also ask the AI I use to write a match preview in the style of Chris Rea's Driving Home for Christmas...It's first effort still had Michael Carrick in charge of Boro and Oliver Glasner at Palace - I instructed it to update to 2026-27 season but still miss...

Many thanks for that brilliant ghost-in-the-machine inspired preview Len - As AI says, you definitely hit the nail on the head (a well-used phrase in my dealings). Interestingly, modern AI chat tools would no doubt pass the Turing Test - something I was taught back in the early 1980s where Alan Tu...