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The one with the "printer" icon
5 November 2003
Pied off
Phil Tolley may have a point about the lack of chicken balti pies at Blundell Park, but at least Town don't falsely raise your hopes where pastry products are concerned. The bastards who do the catering at Oakwell
do not sell, nor have they ever sold, vegetable balti pies, despite displaying a beautiful, mouth-watering photo of a vegetable balti pie, appetisingly supplemented with the words VEGETABLE BALTI PIE.
At Luton earlier this season, furthermore, I was handed a sequence of no fewer than three pastry products purporting to contain a cheese and onion filling before dejectedly and hungrily claiming a refund.
I had hoped, after my experiences at Vale Park in 1999, not to undergo this kind of trauma again, but it appears that the sole intention in life of stadium catering managers remains to piss me off.
Pete Green
via email
Mmmmm...pies [Letters Ed]
Which witch is which
Another lazy Friday morning. Stumble out of bed at 8.45. Make a cup of tea. Flick on the TV. Stare at the back page of the newspaper. TV's warble starts to become intelligible as the side effects of twelve hours of sleep subsides. "...black and white witches..." Ears prick up, eyes dart up to TV expecting the sight of hags dressed in Town kits. Sadly, there were only witches who followed the dark side of the force and those who seemed to follow the light side of the force. Still, nice idea don't you think?
Harry Wainwright
via email
Cat fight
In last week's post bag your letters editor said: "We look down on them and smile with pity on their endeavours, like you would a dog with three legs." What about three legged cats given coverage on your site?
Paul Barrow
via email
Good point. And there's not enough coverage given to pigeons with manky legs for my liking [Letters Ed]
Printer prompter
I was wondering why you have a "printer" icon on your site. Clicking the printer icon brings up the page I am viewing with all the styling and graphics surrounding it removed. Why does this happen?
I hope you can clarify the use of this part of your site.
Mark Bancroft
via email
Um. It creates a printer-friendly copy, Mark, so that if anybody wants to print anything out from CA it doesn't waste any of their printer ink printing the big banner thing at the top 'n' that [Letters Ed]
Please show your working
Ten years ago a ticket in the lower Smiths was about eight quid. Today I pay fourteen notes to sit in the same stand. Is a 75% increase over those ten years in line with inflation or interest or whatever it is that determines the ever-increasing cost of living?
Sarah Newby
via email
Andy H says: "Looking at the UK annual inflation rates over the ten year period in question we see that something that cost £8 in Sep 1993 should cost £10.30 now, a 29% increase, or 2.6% per annum. As you correctly state, prices in the lower Smiths have in fact increased by 75% in that period, or 5.8% per annum. Thus we can conclude that ticket prices in the lower Smiths have not moved in line with inflation, and you are in fact paying more now than you were in 1993. The question that needs to be considered now is whether ticket prices have moved in line with increasing football club overheads. My guess would be that the annual increase in football club overheads is actually larger than the 5.8% per annum we've seen in ticket prices but data for this is not readily available so my hypothesis will have to remain unproven. The bottom line however, is that you're probably not being hard done by after all."
Sheffield Wednesday are shite
I've just been reading a couple of interviews with Town fans and they list Sheffield Wednesday as their most hated team. I just don't get it. Why oh why do people hate Sheffield Wednesday? Surely hate is too strong a phrase. What have they ever done to us?
Does anyone else just find it funny that they're now just a second division team?
Simon Wilson
via email
Why do people hate them? I'll tell you why - because they're shite and think that having a quarter-full 30,000 seater stadium means they should be allowed to play in the bloody Champions League or something. They were a second division side when they were in the Premier League - God knows how they managed to cling on in there for so long. They just happened to be up there when everyone was very rubbish. They're living on former (partial) glories and have £12m debt worth of delusion waiting to trip them up. That's why people hate, no, sorry, despise them. That and the fact that they're very, very rubbish. [Letters Ed]
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