A female footballer from Equatorial Guinea repeatedly has her gender questioned by opposition players, managers and even football federations.
 
Denied the chance to have her gender tested officially and in the past forced to lay herself bare to prove her gender.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30760929

Even @notts-joe

Will find a few of these funny ( I hope! )
>http://youtube.com/watch?v=z4_efhCpVvM

Please give a warm welcome to @adelaidepie

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Locally this has to be up there as the standout tie in the fourth round of the FA cup. Having seen off Scunthorpe, Chesterfield now look to do a Ram-raid on neighbours and championship high fliers Derby County.

The tie gives Paul Cook the chance to put one over on ex England manager and honorary cloggy Scchteve McLaren.

@super_ram surely being the cup, and a local derby, this is the worst kind of banana skin.....

Wolverhampton Football Club are mourning the death of former owner Sir Jack Hayward, a minutes silence was held before the FA cup tie last night against Fulham.
 
Sir Jack passed away yesterday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30803931

A true Football supporter, who genuinely loved Wolves...

IMO the footballing community has lost another of it's shining lights, but thankfully because of Jack Hayward, Wolves live on.

Jonas Gutierrez continues his recovery following surgery to remove a testicular cancer tumour.

>https://twitter.com/elgalgojonas/status/554774850825650176

Good luck to him having been given the all clear!

Welcome @Anotherstaffordwhite, may I be the first to thank you for taking the time in joining especially since your first post was a fantatsic addition to our site.

We have many resident fans here, you will be made most welcome.

Hopefully we may see you within the community from time to time, again thanks and welcome!

Steve Davis has warned his men to beware of a backlash from Notts County on Saturday, 3pm.

After a strong start the Magpies are in freefall in League One, having failed to win any of their last seven matches.

They have lost their last four at Meadow Lane, scoring just twice in the process, and are currently rock-bottom of the division’s form standings.

After the Alex’s recent run of good results the gap between the sides has narrowed to just five points, and Davis’s men will be confident.

But he warned Shaun Derry’s men will be hurt by their recent performances, and will view the fixture against a side they have already beaten 3-0 this season as the perfect opportunity to get back on track.

He said: “They have hit some indifferent form, it happens to all teams.

“But they’ll be trying to put that right, they are at home and their fans will be wanting them to perform a lot better.

“We go there at a good time, we hit Oldham at a similar stage.

“But they have a good group of players, they are suffering with confidence a little bit perhaps.

“We’ve gone longer than that without winning, you don’t know how it affects the group.

“They’ll see it this as a big game because we are below them in the table.

“I think we are better than we were when we met in the first part of the season. Hopefully we’ll give them a better game.”

The manager is confident defender Harry Davis, who had his tooth knocked out in the 3-1 victory over Gillingham last weekend, and midfielder Anthony Grant, who has a slight hip problem, will be fit to play.

Crewe have won three of their last four, but haven’t tasted success at County since the 1996-97 season. They have drawn two and lost two since.

The Alex hope to add a back-up keeper to their squad in time for the game.

County signed winger Will Hayhurst on an 18-month deal from Preston earlier this week, and brought in attacking duo Alefe Santos and Kwame Thomas on loan from Derby County.

Davis added: “Everyone feels better when you are winning, there is momentum and spirit around the place.

“In all honesty, even when we were losing, we kept the belief in the group that we could turn it around and that’s starting to show.”

Thoughts?

Our old goalie is on telly tonight as he plays in goal for Ipswich against one of his former clubs Southampton.

Hope he keeps a clean sheet.

Has anyone else noticed these signs that seem to pop up in all sorts of odd places?

I've never seen any police activity going on and they seem to be there for a week or so then disappear.

What's that all about?

I'd like to know what you think about the above article, this is a little bit of an experiment but please do read and share your opinions here in form of a discussion (by all means comment on the article) just head here to tell me if you feel we should be focusing more on our own system, if you agree with me and why or whatever you opinion on the matter is.

I feel strongly about giving any player the chance and although we have times where we voice concern, I know if they do well people will acknowledge that.

Derry could forge a name for being trusted with players, naturally clubs will only let youngsters out at first but I could see a partnership forming where by clubs know we can get the best out of experienced players, especially those who are struggling to get into their first team but the club wants to keep.

Click the image or Here; League Link-Ups; The Importance of Networking in Football.

So what did you think? Discuss...

Who will be the next PON hall of fame inductee voting to start soon 

Darren Caskey, ex Notts player with a larger than average frame is set to start using a diet app, in order to shed the pounds...

Not really, but is this the latest fad to hit the mobile technology/app market? Will they work?

Admittedly Darren could have done with these around when he was playing for us..

As the January transfer window starts what do county need to get?

According to PNE forum and twitter (apparently), we are due to sign this 20yo winger William Hayhurst on a permanent. 

He is currently on loan at York City, and has extended until the end of the season according to Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Hayhurst

PNE fans seem to rate him as 'having potential' or 'destined for L2 level'. I assume for us to sign him, they will have to recall him from York. Tried signing up for York's fans forum but there's about 100 hoops to jump through before you can even see their forum. 

 

Hello @Outlaw Pie, welcome to Pride of Nottingham. Pleased to have you here, hope you enjoy your time visiting and interacting with us here on the community.

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Interesting game happening right now, Coventry City vs Swindon Town. If Swindon win they go back to the top of the league, which would be smashing for them and our very own PoN resident.

@medievalmickey I see your beating Coventry 2-0 at the moment.

Double goals by Williams!! Hattrick? Let's hope so.

I'm guilty folks, I couldn't help myself. It had to be written!

Welcome to PoN @SOFIA.Hope you enjoy your time with us

Here's a view of what the general census of the Bristol City fans think.

Before the Game

'Fatalist'; Said "In the game at Meadow Lane they were really timid. Derry said they had no choice but to get men behind the ball, we were so good. They just let us come at them. We really should have had it sewn up long before JET's winner. All this was with them as the HOME side. Don't expect them to come at us all guns blazing tomorrow."

'dandare 1966'; Said "Don,t panic we will get at em and they don,t like it up um."

'Marina's Rolls Royce'; Said "NC competed really well last time at BS3 and we were lucky to win. The TOTL spot is there for us and our team will want that every bit as much as us and more."

'Buckobcfc'; Said "I reckon we will win 3-1 smith to bag a brace and K. Smith to get a screamer from 25 yards."

'old_eastender'; Said "Reckon it will be close, going for 2-1 City win be really good to see Jet score from open play..."

'cidered abroad'; Said "This will be close. Just look at Notts away record. W 5. D 5. L 1."

'Iron Man'; Said "One of the worst teams for their time wasting, need an early goal or it will be one of them days."

Aftermath

'Super'; Said "Worst team I have seen by a mile this season. And by far the worst kit!"

'Slartibartfast'; Said "Only play as well as they're allowed."

'Antman'; Was annoyed by Roy Carrol, he said "petulant, erratic, **** and hilarious in equal measure - how he got away with his 'bribery' gestures i'm not sure,he seemed to be as frustrated with his own team as the fact he kept leaking goals."

'GrahamC'; Said "Notts were desperate, they made Yeovil look like Real Madrid."

Whilst 'chilvers88'; Said "I am seeing a lot of post saying how bad notts were ect but I have to say I think they came here with a game plan not many others have and that was to win themselves but they were just not good enough and I think if they came here today and put 10men behind the ball we probably wouldn't not have scored as many."

'BRISTOL86'; Believes Roy Carroll should be punished for his alleged actions within the game - "He should be facing trouble from the FA for those bribery gestures. Not very professional at all from a player with such experience."

'Aaron-Bcfc'; Said "That's only because we scored early. Their game plan from the beginning was to park the bus and grind out a draw but our goal changed that and forced them to open up a bit. I don't blame Derry at all for setting up negatively though, we have the better team so it's to be expected."

'Northern Red'; Said "Just been having a browse of their forum, the main criticism from their fans seems to be that they're too defensive. Not just today, but as a general point."

'Strawberry2157.'; Said "Worst side this I've seen this season, they had nothing to offer and were lucky they have a decent keeper ... Enjoyable game."

'ChippenhamRed'; Said "A combination of us playing very well in spells, and Notts being poor. The early goal ensured they couldn't park the bus and made for an open game that suited us down to the ground."

'harrys'; Said "you are desperate not to give Jet any credit, spoke to a Notts C. Fan in North Streetafter the game who said that is one of the best performances he's ever seen from a player in his 30 years of following football."

'dezgimed'; Said "I liked their kit. ADO Den Haag esque."

'ChippenhamRed'; Returned and said "Fully expected them to park the bus but to be fair to them, they kept trying to play even when 4-0 down. Absolutely nothing up top though."

Which comments stand out to you and why? What are your thoughts?

Okay, I'm going to challenge you all to a little game of 'Guess Who' again.

I want you to use the

bbcode so start with "[spolier]" and end with "

" and you comment would go between, after which it saves others from seeing your guess. No picking at what people guess! Okay? Good.

1)


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3)


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Good Luck!

Ps. If any images disappear whilst people take part, I will re-add them and contact those who join in (I don't expect it to happen).

Are going to be playing in Blue again, after the barm pot that owns them does a U turn on the re-branding that saw them play in R*d.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2903888/Vincent-Tan-reveals-mother-U-turn-controversial-rebrand-Cardiff-change-club-colour-blue.html

I just notice this on another forum, I think it's something Notts should consider for the bench next season. Yet I would limit to a age range, get youngsters 'feeling' the magic around Notts. I wonder what @erindoors would think of this?

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S64Vo483Q_k

There's a chance of snow forecast in the next few days.What's the weather  like where you live?It;s been relatively mild here until the last few days.What about you @PTID1862 , @Northants Pie and further afield @Dripsey3, @Canadian and @pie_in_shanghai ?