We enjoyed the first season (although ‘nerve shredding misery’ is probably an apt description of much of it). I wasn’t convinced how much more it had in it to keep me engaged though. Will give season 2 a go.

Momentarily I forgot which thread this was and thought you were talking about Forest in the Prem.

Given up on Poker Face. It's formulaic and repetitive, and the device isn't strong enough to carry ten episodes.

At 11pm tonight on Sky Sports Football, you can "Relive a classic clash from the English Football League as Nottingham Forest face Yeovil in their Sky Bet League One play-off semi-final second leg at the City Ground in 2007."

Might see what happens...

There was never such a game, didn't happen. Will just be a blank screen.

We were 2-0 up after the away leg, and comfortably saw close to the entirety of the home leg out with a 1-1 draw.

The final was cancelled, so we went up the following year.

I don't think I've ever seen this game, or even the goals, on TV.

So I couldn't remember the sequence of events, except that we lost, and I had to console my two little boys on the way home with how one day, when we were in the Premier League, we'd look back at this day and it would make us stronger. Or some such shit.

Two things that surprised me: 1) just how terrible the League One football was and 2) how, at the end of it, Calderwood didn't get sacked. I didn't think he should have been sacked, but I imagine the clamour now in the same circumstances would have been unstoppable.

Doughty wasn't exactly the fastest to pull the trigger. We were bottom half, 4 points off relegation, when Megson was finally made to resign.

Slightly disturbed by Gregg Wallace: The Miracle Meat

I finished the first series of Last King of the Cross, flows pretty well and enjoyable. Also has Tim Roth who always makes things better

Beef was a really good movie stretched into a needlessly long TV series. A perfect example of what's wrong with streaming services.

Mrs Rave's 8 year old niece made her professional TV debut in ITV's Payback this evening. We're all jolly proud.

I recommend Partygate on Channel 4 to anybody who has momentarily forgotten why this government needs removing at the earliest opportunity.

I am actually enjoying the Beckham documentary on Netflix. I mean, I never partook in it but the insane abuse he got for a red card that shouldn’t have been a red card was unbelievable. Also Gary Neville is hilarious and Roy Keane just seems a little doolally. Posh Spice seems pretty together and David is a lovely interesting cat. The fact that he didn’t blame anyone other than him letting down England was very very interesting. With Dog’s abuse like that I probably would have gone full Cantona. Ferguson seemed a little petty with Golden Balls but he was the “Us against the world manager”, that Billy Davis tried to be.

Becks seems like a lovely lovely man. I met him once. He was very nice to me. Most other footballers I have met generally weren’t as pleasant. (The exception being Gareth Southgate who was really good company). Well this was in the 90’s.

The Maradona documentary showed how people broke him. The people didn’t break David Beckham and that really is quite remarkable. It’s just a shame he played for Man Utd but a minor quibble considering.

Highly recommended viewing.

Chicago: Revisiting my almost youth.

This. I just binged it. Much more enjoyable than I had expected and quite revealing. They both come across very well and there is clearly a lot of love for him as a bloke from some pretty impressive folk. Whilst he was a talented and driven footballer, I think what has protected him (more than, say, Maradona or Gascoigne) has been his ability to ride the wave of the commercialisation of football and be in control of his brand and his business. Back in the day he was thought of as a slightly thick flash Harry but it turns out he’s way more astute than anyone gave him credit for.