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I missed it sleeping (my alarm didn't work!) but BBC2 had a nice full replay starting at 7. Thrilling game. Woke up today to the great news of USA 1 Belgium 4 Balogan won the free-kick for their goal. I hope Belgium make the point that without that equaliser they might have gone on to win easier, 0-5 or 0-6 and have had the chance to rest players ahead of the QF with Spain. So the damage to the integrity of the tournamnet is done. USA got a big advantage in keeping the score down, so it was worth Trump using his influence over Infantino to get the ban lifted. I wonder if countries like Congo, Uzbekistan, Iran could have got any bans lifted. Guess we'll never know.

Hope Super is feeling better now We got to Alfreton. My youngest got quite a haul of photos and autographs. What a good set of players/people we have at Notts County! We're off on our travels now, mostly offline, so probably won't get the chance to post for a month or so... Wishing all a lovely summer

The fact the news was released on Saturday might suggest there's a flood of other news from Monday onwards

Alphabetic order is their only hope

Describes himself how Frank Vincent described himself - so could be a similar player... Love the name. I'd have given more chance to hearing a single 'Lip shook' from a pop star called Darius, than to land a midfielder of the same name. Teams always need players who put in the yards, so welcome and good luck to him,

The last time we played Leicester in the first game was in the top flight in 1983. We won that 0-4 to go top. This time it's at home and two leagues lower, so hopefully we can go one or two better, so 5-0, 6-0 County hopefully ;)

Echoed... The commitment is amazing, but its the skill that amazes me most. I can only dream

Little change, but time for an update, with Concrete Rod re-committing? I'll go.... ......................Belshaw .........Ness.....McDonald....Bedeau Tsaroulla..Sanders..Robertson...Jones ...........Roberts......Grant ...................Jatta Not easy. But RodMac was our play-off winning Captain and IMO played at the highest level of anyone in his games last season... So Ness or Gibbons? I'll have to be won over by Gibbons....I know he was Cambridge player of the year and in the L2 team of the year, but is he our kind of player? In Ness, Montague picked up a player with the potential to reach a level much higher than Gibbons could. If it wasn't for the inhuries, he might have moved on from Charlton in the other direction, up, rather than get picked up by us as a restoration project. He's kind of a poor man's John Stones...a Rolls-Royce of a defender who can aim for higher than L1 if all goes well. That's my thinking anyway Anyway, 7 weeks 1 day to the first league game and we can be sure there'll be at least the same number through the door in that time. The team could still change a lot

What an amazing start If we'd have jumped straight up to the Championship Leicester (H) might've been our biggest game And even for neutrals, this fixture might be the pick of the entire EFL Can't wait, balmy summer's day, bright sunshine, maybe nigh on 20,000 at Meadow Lane. Way to start our average Att. tally!

2010 revisited - Huddersfield (H)

The 'massive club' description seems to come more from those outsiders @Chris mentions Like others on this thread, I think 'ok mate, you carry on believing that'. We're too scarred by decades of 5000 to declare that ourselves. I think the perception comes from seeing that Nottingham is a 2-club city and, with the exception of Bristol, that usually means 'big'. The irony though is that they're right. Nottingham is a hell of a big metropolitan area, bigger than Sheffield for example (who cannot count Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley & Chesterfield) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_the_United_Kingdom When Nottingham was much smaller, we were getting the 47,000 or so post-war crowds. The dormant fanbase has always kind of been there. I think we have to give credit to all those great-grandparents and grandparents (in my case), who passed on the flame. Maybe it skipped a couple of generations, but I think the great-grandchildren are the ones to pick up their family heritage. It's amazing how young the crowd looked at Wembley. Just 10-15 years ago, It still looked like you needed a cloth cap to be a Notts County fan.

1974 for me...so many memories running home from school (the usually busy streets empty, I must have sprinted out at the bell) trying to catch Yugoslavia v Zaire. Gutted that I was watching highlights on the small black and white telly. Finally the penny dropped it wasn't highlights, it was just Yugoslavia running up a 9-0 win.

He had a great second season for us but no more pining for Didzy Bottom line is we couldn't win promotion with him, we only acheived that after he'd gone. In the end we didn't need him to achieve our goals.

My most played this week is this one...best song to come out of Nottingham IMHO

Italy v Brazil 1982 came up in conversation today - I realised I still haven't gotten over it!