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Sorry if this has been done, if it has I'll delete it. I got a free copy of the flp yesterday with the club red pack. It is two weeks old but has a double page piece on Paolo. A lot about compairing our recent derby game to others he has been involved in. He says: " Rome, Milan,Turin,Sheffield, Glasgow,London, it's not about 65,000 or 13,000 it's about how you feel, the passion I saw here at Swindon was amazing. He was asked about the defeat and said: " I stared up at the jubilant Oxford fans at the final whistle, only leaving the pitch when all our players had gone" " I had to be the last to leave he pitch to feel the hurt, I am responsible about the defeat. I stayed out there to feel even more hurt so maybe then I understand how I have to work" he adds: " I am very sad as i know we let the fans down but not sorry because we played the way we should and we should of won. we are professionals,we are a family, we work with honour. I told my players we will still come out and do something more special"
Does anyone buy the football league paper regularly? I am really impressed and will now make a point of buying one on a Sunday morning.

Every week i get it

Thanks Tans felt a right numpty for rambling on, you have probably quoted some of what Paolo said then already ? I asked my wife to pick one up for me this morning but ended up with The Non League Paper. Still a good read but not quite what I was after ! Reckon they do really well to get that much info out at football league level for a Sunday morning.

Thanks for that. I'll start buying it. Sounds like a good read.

I still like to sit down on Sunday morning with an actual paper and a coffee rather than using a lap top or alike to catch up on all the scores and match reports.I'm not that interested in premiership matches so this paper is ideal for us lower league teams as all teams get a decent amount of coverage unlike in most Sunday papers.

I buy it too.

I buy it when we've won !
Going off at a tangent, I remember the days of the football pink when I was a teenager. Used to go to the match, drive back and be able to read it in the local pub with the first or second pint of the evening. It was a paper almost entirely devoted to STFC, & was as upto date as the radio is now.

"For legal reasons I can't say too much about what happened at Swindon but there will come a time when I can"

Leon Clarke in this weeks edition.

The Pink used to have lots of local football in it, Swindon and District.....Wilts and Berkshire, which for those not in the know, bordered Wilts, before much of it was stolen by the Tory government and called for no good historical reason O*ford shire.

I used to play in something called the Borough League, which was Saturday afternoon up to 16. The Pink used to have roving reporters, who'd get a summary of some of these games into the Pink on the Saturday evening. Used to be a column on the back page, of all the scores from local football matches from miles around.

Think it was a strike in 76 which gave the owners the excuse to finish it off  :(

And amazingly in the latest on the back of the Pink would be the hore racing results from an hour earlier,think they used to have a little latest section in the adver also with the very latest news and race results.

I loved the Football Pink...a near full report on the match half hour after any match,home or away and being sold in shops..what happened to technology eh.

Didn't they bring it back for a few months during 97 ish?

They did indeed.  Remember picking up a copy on my way back home from the game.

It was, of course, the internet (and sites like this one) that killed it for good.