Notts County travel to Sutton United for the first game of the season. How many players, managers etc., can we name that have links to both clubs?

One that springs to mind for me is Enzio Boldewijn who played for Notts in 2018-2021 he made 112 appearances and scored 19 goals before joining Sutton United.

How many more links can we find?

Yes it’s only a rumour but it keeps us guessing,

Anyone know anything about this player?

This absolutely sucks. I remember watching "Pee-Wees Big Adventure" and "Big Top Pee-Wee" as a kid. Just the other day I sat with the kids to watch "Pee-Wees Big Holiday" and they absolutely loved it. 

He brought a lot of laughter and will be missed. May he rest in peace. ????

Hi everyone. Next Saturday, the real football starts again. But more importantly, so does the PON prediction league!

For the uninitiated, every matchday I post eight (or six) fixtures, everyone predicts the results and I post the scores. And at the end of the season, the champion is crowned. This is usually @ARLukomski, but I've decided I'm going to win it this time. 

I've started this thread to work out how many people would be interested in taking part this season. And I have a question too: when we decided to taste the delights of the Vauxhall Conference in 2019, we switched from six to eight fixtures to accommodate the NL. Should we revert to six now that adventure is behind us? (This is a non-binding referendum and might also depend on how many people take part.)

So who's in? ????

Anybody know when tickets for the Sutton game go on sale?  It's my second most local match after Gillingham, so it would be good to go if I can.

Ex Notts youth player sold to Liverpool

Tragic news.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-transfer-wonderkid-wolves-owen-30554289

PSF - Salop (A)

Team: Shrewsbury Town

Date: 29/07/2023

Where: New Meadow

What line-up should Luke Williams opt for? What will be the key areas for the Magpies to get a victory? What do you think the final score will be?

Have your say below, join in with the Pride of Nottingham match discussion.

What weekend plans have we all got this weekend? Let PoN know what you’re up to or what you have been up to this weekend.

Today we are waiting in for a special delivery of Notts shirts. @George L has opted for the home shirt but his younger brother Fred is having a training top. After spending £90 on them I can’t afford one for me.  I actually prefer to wear my 20 year old shirt my two sons bought me for my 50th.

Saturday I’ll be doing my usual park run in the morning and in the afternoon I’ll be taking Mrs. T to the QMC to have an Echo Cardiogram so that’ll be fun (not). I’ll have an eye on the result at Shrewsbury of course.

I wanted to start a discussion about Luther Munakandafa and Lucien Mahovo, two of our professional young players. Do you think they will feature in our plans for this season, or do you believe it would be better to loan them out to another team for development?

I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this matter. Let me know what you think in the comments below.

In the olden days when @super_ram and myself were alive, it used to cost one penny to use a public toilet, in fact @super_ram can probably remember when it was a groat! 

This last week whilst on holiday in Scarborough me and my wife wanted to use the toilet and it was 40p each! That’s 8 shilling to us old farts. 

So a few months ago, I started a recruitment document on Excel. Now we've been promoted I've updated this. In my opinion we need to be looking at a keeper, one or two centre backs, a left wing back, two centre mids, and an extra attacking threat. Plus Jodi Jones. The question marks regarding when a player's contact ends, indicates that I can't find any info regarding when that player's contract is up. N/A for contracts obviously means, they don't have a contract because they are a free agent and don't have a club.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66243004

So sad to hear that Trevor Francis has died aged 69. The first million pound footballer.

Condolences to his family and friends.

It would be lovely if everyone who reads this could take a moment to post a comment, even if it’s just a brief paragraph. I’m curious to know if anyone got up to anything exciting during the close season and if people are starting to look ahead to the new campaign. There’s a lot of excitement surrounding our return to the EFL, which I’m determined to enjoy no matter what happens. I’ll be happy just to be back watching teams like Tranmere Rovers, Bradford City, and Walsall.

During the close season, I didn’t do anything particularly special, but it did seem to drag on at the time. Now that we’re in pre-season, everything has accelerated.

It’s a tricky subject to discuss, but let’s keep this respectful. I am surprised that FIFA hasn’t followed suit with the Olympics. When transgender athletes first started taking part, I always thought that it would be a slippery slope because, despite their transition, they still have an advantage over females. I am all for supporting people, no matter what their sex is or what a person may identify as. I don’t care if people are straight, gay, etc. Likewise with race, I don’t have an issue with it and I wish more people would be open-minded in this regard.

However, I am still torn on the decision to include a transgender player in the women’s World Cup. Part of me thinks it’s great that the Canadian team has embraced their teammate, but the other half worries that this will only put the sport at a disadvantage and therefore incur the wrath we have seen in other sports for including transgender people, only to backtrack and say they can’t.

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In their opening match against Nigeria, Canada midfielder Quinn became the first out transgender player at a Fifa World Cup. Like their style of play, it was done with minimal fuss.

Quinn is a key part of Canada's midfield, their place as the midfield anchor crucial as the Olympic champions aim to add the 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup trophy to their cabinet.

They played the full 90 minutes against Nigeria. The result was a goalless draw - but the Canadian number five's role created history.

Quinn came out as non-binary in September 2020, dropping their old first name, asking to be known only by a mononym - a name composed of only one word - and saying they would use the pronouns 'they/them'.

They have been an important figure for the national set-up since making their senior international debut in 2014, when they became team-mates with players who had shown them there was a future in football.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66299441

https://frenchfootballweekly.com/2023/07/10/l2-nenking-drops-sochaux-bankruptcy-looms/