Don't make a schoolboy error in Rec dust-up

LIKE most good footy fans, a lot of what I learned at school tended to go in one ear, out the other.

But some key info stuck. My mates only had to name a football club and I’d give them the home ground, kit colour, manager and nickname before they’d had time to open their lunchboxes.

And if I learned anything in maths, it was how to subtract from 501, number of furlongs in a mile and that 11-4 is bigger than 13-5.

So a few things to stand me in good stead for life, though those off-the-cuff footy quizzes are definitely more of a challenge today.

Keeping tabs on ground changes has been a challenge in itself but it’s when sponsors start demanding a venue should be named after them that I get seriously cross.

Sorry, I don’t care how many different backers Bournemouth have had, Dean Court is, and always will be, Dean Court.

And forgive me if I sound like a dinosaur, but the FA Cup tie between Aldershot and Portsmouth is not coming at us live from the Electrical Services Stadium, it’s coming from The Rec, spiritual home of the Shots for the best part of a century.

Should be a decent showdown this one. It ended 2-2 at Fratton Park (that’ll never change, surely?) and given how woeful Pompey are on the road, I quite fancy the Army to put one over the Navy in this forces dust-up.

Prize for the winner is a home tie against Rochdale – that’s Spotland, blue, Keith Hill and Dale – or Northampton – Sixfields, claret, Cobblers; now who’s the gaffer? Doh! Bottom of the class again.