The videos column is not exclusively Taylor's, I think.

Got mine yesterday thanks to Ed - he's a top man by the way - and my book arrived today, just in time to take it with me on holiday.

Thanks Ed!

Thought Nishlord was maybe overdoing the old prison-rape motif, although the line about Dennis the Menace's Dad was very funny.

On the video column. I couldn't believe Leeds brought out a video about the Chief Executive. The lunatics really had taken over the asylum then. I'd read about the antipathy towards Ridsdale without truly grasping why, suddenly the scales fall from my eyes.

Are there any other videos about Chief execs? Is this a niche collectors area I've been previously ignorant of? Have Cardiff brought one out for him yet?

Hard as it is to imagine now, Ridsdale's popularity was stratospheric in the wake of his handling of the trouble in Istanbul in 2000. For a couple of months you couldn't open the papers without reading a new article about what a great guy and amazing chairman he was.

If I had to guess, I'd say that the video came out a few months after that incident.

I've spent about as much time reading the new issue as I have reading this thread. It didn't really grab me - dunno why, maybe I'm just feeling a bit "meh" about the whole football thing, and that will be fixed when we kick off on Saturday.

JB - you seem to have missed Nathan's point, somewhat, though I'm sure he'll be delighted to explain it further for you, should you require.

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Are there any other videos about Chief execs? Is this a niche collectors area I've been previously ignorant of?

Not sure, but I had a dream about the former chief exec of AFC Wimbledon the other night.

Wasn't he chairman?

Fucking chairman, TonTon? What's up with that Mister Lefty-socialist-respect?

At least Andy Walsh has the good grace to go by 'General Manager'.

Chairman AND Chief Exec. Get me. Look, it's not my fault that you lot are just better than us, is it?

I read the season preview thing last night. Really lovely to see WSC ignoring the verminous scum-sucking cunts once again, and also to see so many people mention them as the worst thing.

Well, it kind of is.

I'm considering going along to see them at B&H, just so I can boo. I wonder how many home gates around the country are swollen by that sort of thing.

Completely my fault? That's a bit harsh.

SR - I've heard of a fair few who have done just that. The danger, of course, is that you end up watching them win. I couldn't risk that.

I didn't say it was completely your fault. I said it was kind of your fault.

Which it is.

Kind of.

I'm pleased that WSC is still ignoring Franchise FC in the supplement.

Is it just my imagination, or has WSC's distribution become more far-reaching over the last year? I've bought the last two issues in a bus station in Glasgow and a small newsagents on the outskirts of Reigate respectively - before I've always had to go to big high street places.

And nish's BASF article is ace, btw.

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I'm pleased that WSC is still ignoring Franchise FC in the supplement.

Yeah, I suppose. I see they're still using the terse and slightly incongruous phrase "No questions asked", which has a vague sense of "You ain't seen me, roight?" about it.