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I tried to remember by which bird I was with. Got the wrong bird.
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Never liked punk back then nor northern soul nowadays I don’t mind punk and once a month go to a northern soul afternoon.
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Good grief loyal it would only have been a 50/50 choice
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 What I remember too is that my brother’s brother in law tried to pull her while dancing with her. Sniffer they called him I learned afterwards. |
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Which footballers nickname from the 70s was sniffer ?
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Good post jimnast
I had my first visit to England in about 12 years a few months back, seemed to me that every woman in England is blonde!! |
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Alan Clark
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Jimnast, that would be Allan Clarke
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His brother Wayne scored a few important goals in the toffees championship win in 86/87, including as cracker from distance against Arsenal at Highbury
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Going back to that 73/74 season when Utd got relegated, there was only 12 points at the end of the year between Derby in 3rd and Southampton (relegated)in 20th, amazingly tight even allowing for the fact it was the days of 2 points for a win. Leeds and Liverpool were well clear at the top.
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Alan Clark correct Dixie and g hall
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That season united finished with a great run until that Monday night at Everton
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Wouldn’t have missed that season in division two for anything it was great united got use to winning again and all those quirky grounds I got a chance to visit,all different now due to the money
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G hall a lot of those blonde women you saw there’s a big chance plenty of them had a pair of boll.x also
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West Ham winning the 1975 FA Cup in me favourite home kit,
a proper Claret & Blue one.Not like the designs the teams have today. |
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I saw Fulham win the semi final at Maine road that year Penzance watching Bobby Moore lead at Fulham against West Ham yet another incredible fa cup memory
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I loved football in those days Jimnast, players were entertainers. Bobby Moore being joined at Fulham for a spell in the mid 70s by Rodney Marsh and George Best was great fun.
Watching my local team (Gillingham) was also highly enjoyable down in the 3rd or 4th tiers, the atmosphere was brilliant. As you say, all gone now  |
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Good morning Dixie
I wished Gillingham could have held out a bit longer at Wembley in 99 if they had the landscape of football in this country may well have been so different. |
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DixieDean60 must be working the YouTube algorithm (or maybe it just reads whatever I read) because it has just thrown up:-
1976/77 - Fulham v Hereford (Division 2 - 25.9.76) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZyAcNJ7Lg |
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I dearly remember Mama and Nanny putting me to bed in the winter of 67. The sky was clear and you could still see red whatever knocking on my small window pane. Mama and Nanny would cuddle me to sleep and kiss me and each other. Happy childhood. RIP Mama now. Nanny died before I was six.
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And then you discovered betting shops.
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Jimnast, that is a conversation that i have had with many a fan since that fateful day at Wembley. City i think would have remained in the doldrums but for that cruel (for Gills) ending. For the first 80 minutes not much happened then two quick goals for the Gills had us fans in dreamland. We had never been promoted to the second tier before. Some of the fans around me were taking photos of the large electronic scoreboard as we hit 89 mins and Gills 2 up. Many City fans had already left before they pulled one back ! Then in the 95th minute that slight deflection on Dickov's shot took the ball past Vince Bartram in the Gills goal. Vince was actually Dickov's best man at his wedding unbelievably .I have never felt so deflated at a game, we knew then our chance had gone. Mark Halsey was very generous with the injury time he allowed that day but in fairness the celebrations for the Gills goals did go on a bit.
Thankfully the Gills returned to Wembley the next year, again in the play off final, beating Wigan 3-2 in a cracker that went to extra time, this time they came back from 2-1 down to win. So they finally made it to the Championship. The next season Corals were going 5/2 the Gills got relegated whereas a local bookie were offering 6/4 they stayed up, so i made a few hundred quid backing both outcomes in a win/win bet before they rectified the odds ! Ramruna - that is a great clip, true entertainment. I remember that being the main game on the Big Match with good old Brian Baden Moore being the commentator. Brian was a life long Gills fan and a director for a number of years, there is a stand named after him at Priestfield. |
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6/4 and 5/2 no draw can never happen again Dixie due to the internet almost everyone the same price,only yesterday I saw in the post regarding the ashes every single bookmaker was 2/1 England absolutely incredible not one odds compiler took the view they could go 9/4 or 7/4 depending what opinion they had
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I was pretty amazed that the local bookie had a big board outside with 6/4 on offer to stay up (which gills did quite easily) as Corals were just a stones throw away with their coupons showing the 5/2 relegation. I'm told they opened up at 2/1 ! They cut the odds before i saw them, they eventually cut them down to 4/5. Unfortunately i had no more spare cash at the time or would have continued betting as much as possible. Tax was still 9% at the time unfortunately so reduced the winnings. I told all my mates and work colleagues to do the bets for guaranteed profit but many thought there must be a catch and didn't partake, those who did kept me in beers for a while the following May !
The internet does of course mean no repeats of the above are likely. I too have been searching for some value in the Ashes markets but little is available. There are some modest discrepancies in the top bowler/batsmen markets so i have done a few bets there. England will i think need to win the First Test if they are to win the series so 7/4 at Perth may not be a bad bet. |
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jimnast & DixieDean60 -- you are right about the impact of the internet (and the exchanges) but also in the old days bookies were protected by the minimum 5-fold rule. It was not uncommon to see different favourites to win a football match but difficult for the average, unsophisticated punter to take advantage of. This meant there was not so much pressure for odds-compilers to get it right. It was quite rare for odds to change between the coupon being printed and the match.
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The price on the football coupons. At a time when Rangers were a lot better than Celtic so they would have been well odds on to score 1st. I had heard the 2 main strikers Mcoist and Hateley would miss the game. The great winger Brian Laudrup was 8/1 on the FGS market on the coupons. I thought we was the best bet I would ever see so took the day off work and toured the betting shops putting on as much as I thought each shop would take. IT was still 0-0 when he was clean through with plenty of time to pick his spot but the shot went wide.The 1st doubts entered my mind and yes someone else scored.It was a the full bank gone.
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Brighton beating Bournemouth 2-0 in a top of the table 3rd division clash, around Christmas time,maybe 1972 or 73, about 30,000 at the Goldstone Ground.
Ted McDougal and Phil Boersma up front for Bournemouth, great atmosphere, magical days. |
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Phil Bowyer, not Phil Boersma.
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Saturday 21st December 1971
Attendance 30,600 Goalscorers Kit Napier Peter O' Sullivan |