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And Tony Cottey played first class cricket for Sussex that year too.

I had to look that one up…. This is how it happened: Tony Cottee once played in all four divisions in one season. Cottee started 2000-01 at Leicester City, where he made a couple of Premiership appearances as a sub before being released to Norwich, in what was then Division One. In November the chance to be player-manager of Barnet came up and soon Cottee was playing in Division Three, but alas it did not work out. By March he was again looking for work and found it, with two sub appearances, at Millwall in Division Two.

Surely for professionals it's never been easier to look things up online, probably some over reliance on the spell checker.

We have a little chuckle on here at little errors or grammatical gufferations but they don't really matter in an informal setting.

But the amount of people you deal with professionally who don't know the basics is worrying.

Thanks AP - is great to have you on here to share this kind of info. Caveat on whether Paul was economic with the truth noted 😊

I once read something that was complaining about how stupid the youth were compared to the past. Can't remember the name of the article but it was written in the 1600's. Standards have been in decline for at least the last 500 years.

Having said that, the woman I recently met who thought 'anglophile' meant a person who was attracted to English children might indicate we have reached the end.

Let’s hope none of the BFP reporters ever look on hear. It’s not very constructive for them

So, will I be the only one on here supporting Crawley tomorrow evening?

Rooting for Crawley and Brizzle in 2 days; it's almost too much to take. Thank the lord there is drink in the house.

I'm a content writer. I make mistakes and some of them end up getting published, which is inevitable with a lack of dedicated subbing and quick turnaround times, but there's a vast difference between good writing with the odd error and writing that's just crap in general.

I work in PR. A lot of national papers also aren't subbed.

Nonetheless, it's hard to fathom how someone gets this so wrong. I can't work out what they were even trying to say.