Cod Almighty | Postbag
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.
from Pete Green
Letters Ed responds: Mmmmm...pies
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?
from Harry Wainwright
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?
from Paul Barrow
Letters Ed responds: Good point. And there's not enough coverage given to pigeons with manky legs for my liking
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.
from Mark Bancroft
Letters Ed responds: 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
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?
from Sarah Newby
Letters Ed responds: 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 questio
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?
from Simon Wilson
Letters Ed responds: 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 d
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