Brighton's Dean Cox - celebrating his 21st birthday today but it could as easily have been his 8th, so narrow was the gap between the top of his socks and the hem of his shorts - is the smallest professional footballer I've ever seen, and Barnet's Adam Birchall is probably the second-smallest.

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Here is a picture of Carlos tevez, and Ronaldo who is a maybe a little bit shorter than you.



Now here is a picture of tevez with sergio Aguero and some other chump.



now, here is a picture of Sergio Aguero with Maximillian moralez.



He's five foot two, but he can hit the ball pretty fucking sweetly Check out the last goal.

Turns out Dean Cox is 5ft 4in.

Which meant that, when he slid in for a Gazza-at-Euro-96 goalline lunge, you knew he had even less chance of reaching it.

Has anyone noted the shockingly low attendance at the Luton - Plymouth game? Less than three thousand, I would have thought that the fans of this club in trouble would have turned out to support them in much bigger numbers. Perhaps the credit crunch is worse than I thought.

They got 7,000 plus on Saturday which was the much more significant game.

Teams always struggle with crowds at this time of the season. People are on holiday and, with ticket prices in League Two topping £20, a lot of people will miss out on matches like this. Also, home crowd figures usually include all season ticket holders, many of whom might have chosen to avoid a wet Tuesday night match that they would have been expected to lose.

Note: I am not saying that this is the right way to behave - just how it tends to be. There were only 2,500 at Brighton last night, I think.

Wow, my crowd-estimating skillz are on point. (I didn't get so bored in the second half that I started counting, honest.)

To be fair the ticket last night at Bournemouth was only £12, although I presume that's below their normal matchday pricing levels

We've got the franchise at home in round 2

Where are you getting that from? The BBC is only giving five selected ties, for some reason.

Carling Cup second round draw:
Ipswich v Colchester
Coventry v Newcastle
Hartlepool v West Brom
West Ham v Macclesfield
Huddersfield v Sheff Utd
Cardiff v MK Dons
Swansea v Hull
Rotherham v Wolverhampton
Brighton v Man City
Reading v Luton
Blackburn v Grimsby
Wigan v Notts County
Leeds v Crystal Palace
Crewe v Bristol City
Middlesbrough v Yeovil
Fulham v Leicester
QPR v Carlisle
Nottm Forest v Sunderland
Burnley v Oldham
Southampton v Birmingham
Bolton v Northampton
Watford v Darlington
Preston v Derby
Cheltenham v Stoke

Ah, here it is.

(Copy-paste disabling cunts.)

Brighton are at home to Man City. I'll try and get tickets for that.

Huddersfield v Sheffield Utd is a juicy one, as is Ipswich v Colchester, and Burnley v Oldham I guess.

twohundredpercent wrote:

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Teams always struggle with crowds at this time of the season. People are on holiday and, with ticket prices in League Two topping £20, a lot of people will miss out on matches like this. Also, home crowd figures usually include all season ticket holders, many of whom might have chosen to avoid a wet Tuesday night match that they would have been expected to lose.

Note: I am not saying that this is the right way to behave - just how it tends to be. There were only 2,500 at Brighton last night, I think.

It was 2,500 odd at Brighton last night. Which I think is a worry. One of the reasons Dick Knight replaced Wilkins with Adams was to try to get the crowds back before Falmer. Tickets were significantly reduced to £12.50 or £13.50 last night I am led to believe, so after Micky Adams return, and a win away on opening day that is a disappointing crowd.

I imagine it might be healthier than it might have been without two good wins at home to Bristol Rovers on Saturday.

And Man City at home is a cracking draw for us in rd 2.

Wouldn't be surprised if Sky turn up at the Withdean ...

One of my best friends in Brighton supports Manchester City. I'll have no choice but to book tickets for it.