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i played on the plastic twice, and the one at Vauxhall Motors in a County Cup game.
My girlfriend came with me to a few games for the first few seasons after we dated and before we married. She went once this season when my boy couldnt make it. She was at JPTF, 88 and 89 LCF, York and Wimbledon National League playoff finals. Like you, I must confess to going to watch someone else for a couple of seasons when my lad was too young....watched Rushden and Diamonds quite a bit the season they won the Conference and the one before that. Diamonds was only 10 miles from me, Luton is 30. |
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Been watching full series of Ancient Aliens, quite good in places.
Some rain today or my parched garden, bought Lupins and Delphiums. |
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I can still remember my first game - Sheff Utd V Derby 1974. Big crown and two very good teams.
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In the early 1980s, when Liverpool FC were trying to commercialise their success, they planned to release (amongst many other things) a branded aftershave.
Their marketing agency contacted one of the hottest celebs of the time, Yul Brynner, to be the face of their advertising campaign. However, the whole deal ultimately fell through because Yul never wore cologne |
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I was sitting on the edge of the bed, pulling my boxers off when...my wife said, "You spoil those dogs."
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A pastor, a priest and a rabbit walk into a blood bank.
The rabbit goes up to the counter and says "I think I'm a typ-O". |
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The mother who injected her 8 year-old child with Botox for beauty pageants has lost custody.
Her daughter didn’t look surprised. |
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Very good Shane...especially the boxers and the rabbit!
Q: How do you sex an ant? A: Drop it a a glass of water. If it sinks...girl ant. If it floats...buoyant. I can only remember 25 letters of the alphabet...I just don't know why. For my wife's birthday I bought her some new beads for her abacus. It's the little things that count. Tuesday: Rain stopped play. Caught up with latest two episodes of Better Call Saul. No more til next year. Watch series 1 of After Life...very good. Wednesday: Still raining on and off. Cut some asparagus. Took delivery of eight very good quality clematis from Taylors of Sutton. Watched/watching Oh Brother! Where Art Thou? and The Untouchables, neither of which I'd seen for a long time. Will probably watch Brightburn at 21:00. Jesus man....I need some horseracing!!!!! |
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My one visit to kenilworth road was in 1985 united had won the first 10 games in division one and were obviously top of the league ,win number 11 was considered a formality and a new record would be set.
It ended 1 1  |
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Thursday: Took dog for a walk before it rained for rest of the day. Watched After Life S2. Extremely good.
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Friday: walked dog. Socially distanced drinking over garden fence. GK East Coast, OLd Speckled Hen, Champion, Bishops Finger, Old Peculiar, Old Hoppy Hen, Boon Doggle.
Fell asleep in armchair. Will watch OUATIHollywood tomorrow night instead!     |
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Saturday: Walked dog. Played Born To Run twice. Made a load of 4ft long, 8in diameter support tubes using 5ft plastic coated metal canes, green PVC coated 2ft x 4in x 2in wire and small cable ties for my tomatoes.
Made some 6ft long, 15in diameter versions using 8ft canes for my new clematis collection. Watched OUATIHollywood...very poor for a QT film. Sunday: Walked dog. Set a load of shrubs in garden. Cleaned up my glasshouses ready for potting on my tomatoes/melons/cucamelons/cucumbers and watermelons. Watched Countryfile, A Roadshow, Primates, Killing Eve. Garden and allotments have never looked so good...and all because there is no horse racing!  |
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Monday: Walked dog. Hoed around raised beds of strawberries at allotments. Watered seddbeds and glasshouses. Listened to Hand It Over and Cosmo's Factory, twice each.
Socially distanced beers over the garden fence with my neighbour and his two workmen who are my mates anyways. 500mls bottles of Marstons 61 Deep, Brakspear Oxford Gold, Wychwood Hobgoblin Gold, Jennings Cumberland Gold and a McEwans Champion to finish. Tuesday: Walked dog. Potted up some tomatoes and some small cacti seedlings. Listened to my Tom Waits Ballards playlist on Spotify. Took delivery of some more wire netting (but 4ft wide this time, not 2ft) to made 8ft clematis cages and 4ft tomato cages. Dismantled the 6 ft couple of protocols. Socially distanced drinks again. Hobgoblin Ruby, St Austell Proper Job, Sharps Doom Bar, T Taylor Landlord and once again a Champion to finish off I can't even go fishing on my local lakes....yet I am closer to probably 200 people when I stand in my back garden than I am to anyone anywhere when I'm fishing! |
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Wed: Sh!te night. Dog wanted to go out at 3.00am. Wouldnt come back in....spent 10 mins at 2degC in boxers, t-shirt and slippers coaxing it back in. Then took best part of 90mins for me to ge back to sleep.
Got up aout 10.30 as a consequence - at least 3 hours later than normal. No music. Watched Return To Oz on the Disney channel - nowhere near as good as my kids and myself used to think it was! Then just sat around eating bacon sarnies and drawing planting schemes of my garden/allotments. Social beers across the fence again at 16.30.....it's good when your mates are under contract to the house next door! Bottles of Landlord, Champion, Envy, Doom Bar and Bombadier happily consumed while putting the world to rights. Need to leave the village tomorrow for first time for at least 2 months!  ....have to find some compost and gravel/grit somewhere to enable me to carry on with planting. |
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and back for 'glory' days of Moss, Walsh, Futchers etc
Both Paul and Ron played for my team Oldham. Paul was a good a centre half as you could hope to see. Ron was a terrific striker in the box , turn on a six pence. Paul played for Barnsley against us marking his twin brother. Was at the last grass game before plastic - think QPR Played on the plastic a couple of times - tore me ankle ligaments I played on two of the four plastic pitches in the football league ,Boundary Park & Deepdale. |
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sixtwosix...I saw you on the Disney Channel yesterday!
 Yeah, we signed the Futchers from Chester I think. Sold them to Man City. Paul was much better than Ron. Best central defender we've ever had in my years of watching was Mal Donaghy. £20K from Larne. 10 years service at the top end (and well over 50 caps for N Ireland) without any injuries as I remember it. Then sold him to Man Utd for £750K. Honourable mentions to Eliott, Foster, Curtis and Steve Davies, Heikennen, Boyce. We had Upson as well but dont think he ever played a league game for us before we sold him to Arsenal. |
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sixtwosix...I saw you on the Disney Channel yesterday!Wink
You are the first person to work that out , my son was a massive fan of the show. |
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My best LTFC team (and first choice replacements) in all the years I've watched them.
G: Les Sealey (Andy Dibble) RB: Kirk Stephens (Tim Breacker) CB: Mal Donaghy (Curtis Davis) CB: Paul Elliott (Steve Foster) LB: Matt Taylor (Mitchell Thomas) RM: Ricky Hill* (Ricky Hill) CM: Brian Horton (Peter Nicholas) CM: Mark Pembridge (David Preece) LM: David Moss (Kingsley Black) S: Brian Stein (Paul Walsh) S: Malcolm MacDonald (Mick Harford) *irreplaceable... would have to play Horton and Nicholas if Ricky was unavailable. |
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Loved the film 626, never saw the series.
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I'll add in Bruce Rioch to make up the full 22 man squad.
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Unlucky to miss out...
Kelvin Davies [G] Marcus Heikennen [D] Emerson Boyce [D] Andy King [M] Peter Anderson [M] Chris Nichol [D] Paul Futcher [D] John Hartson [S] Roy Wegerle [S] Mike Newell [S] Manager: David Pleat Assistant Manager: Jimmy Ryan |
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Andy Goram
Dennis Irwin Earl Barrett Richard Jobson Paul Warhurst Neil Redferan Roger Palmer Nick Henry Neil Adams Andy Ritchie Ian Marshall unlucky to miss out Andy Rhodes Gunner Halle Andy Linighan James Tarkowski Paul Futcher Mike Milligan Mark Ward Tommy Wright Mike Quinn Frank Bunn Luke Beckett |
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Interesting selections there MH
Can't argue with some but could be a few other possibilities All about opinions and whether they did it at top level Not sure about Pembridge or Preece at CM (Preece used to hang out in my bookies in Round Green - sad case) Antic for sentiment, Grealish and Bible boy West Findlay / Chamberlain GK Aizlewwod LB for his screamers Paul Price RB But i am biased timewise Upson played 2 mins as sub and sold for 2 mill to Arsenal - great business On Times top 50 players - Valois gets a mention |
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Some decent names there 626
Quite surprised with Frankie Bunn tho having seen him at the Town |
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He was certainly 'paceless' MH but .......30 years on he is still in the record books as the only player to score 6 goals in a League Cup tie.
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I saw him score a cracker at Filbert Street once
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Against West Ham 626 ?
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Been a gorgeous day, mainly spent in garden topping tan up. Bought a nice geranium, different leaf colour, more line an ivy.
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like an ivy
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Got stopped by police Sunday in a road block, they were ok, just said we had been shopping.
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Against West Ham 626 ?
No Foxy he was out injured until the final . In round 3 he scored 6 in a 7-0 win over Scarborugh. Scarborough beat Chelsea in the previous round. It was on Midweek Sports Special. The draw was made on the show and one of their players quipped 'where is Oldham'......think he know now. Now Chelsea taking the 'mick' is one thing , but Scarborough . |
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Takes me back the name Futcher.
Many good memories from early to late 80`s on away days. |
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Ron was our top scorer in 85/6 , the first year of the play offs.
We finished third but lost to Leeds who finished fourth on away goals ........doesn't happen now. We took a 2-1 aggregate lead in the 89th minute .....they equalised 15 seconds. Leeds lost in a third game to Charlton who were the team from botton of first division in play offs......doesn't happen now either. If my memory is not fading Ron was sent off twice in a week which meant he could not take part in the play offs .....we loaded the skyscraper Ian Ormandroyd who played in his place. |
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Thurs: Went to a local Farm Shop....bloody great queue so thought sod that.
Looked in another one - £6.00 for 70 litres of some brand I'd never heard of so left it. Took dog for a walk. Looked on line for compost...thieving bastards everywhere! 100 litres for £33.33 on ebay. Went to Wellingboro to vets to get some tablets for the dog (she's old - nearly 14 - and a bit arthritic). Thought about calling at B & Q but long queue and 'no compost' sign. Tried B & M Wellingboro: no queue and plenty of Westland compost at just £8.95 for 120 litres! Bought 8 bags. No gravel though. Back to planting up tomatoes tomorrow. |
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626 I just thought it was the West Ham semi final,your knowledge on Oldham is impressive,I had many a good nights out with Andy goram,and my brother is godfather to tarki who couldn’t get in you first 11,
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LTFC 1989/90 survival season currently on the official club website. 88 mins long. Chamberlain, Breacker, Dreyer, Beaumint, Black, Preece, Wegerle, Spring....Also Linekers first game for Spurs I think was opening game of season? Paul Stewart. Gascoigne, Whelan, Rush, Grobb, great to see some old names running around on your screen.
Famous for Harford deliberately scoring a great headed own goal for Luton [as a Derby player] in last game of season to keep Luton up...I was lucky enough to be there.  He has always infered it was intended....but never officially admitted it a such....legend!!! Watch it and judge....a classic header from a great header of the ball....enough said! Lots of tomato-ing. Lots and lots of socially distanced drinking. Have a good and seriously reflective VE Day. |
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13 mile bike ride
gardening (putting beans out , peas already out) reading Mortimer / Whitehouse Gone Fishing Book in the sunshine. Bangers and Mash for tea(dinner for southerners) Watching last episodes of Life On Mars for the billionth time......rewatch of The Americans next(contender for best drama of the last decade with Better Call Saul). Whisky to follow. |
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Actually I've got the wrong season.....we won 3-2 at Derby last game 1990 (and Sheff Wed lost at home and went down instead) but Kingsley Black scored the decisive goal past Shilton. So many last match miracles that yo lose track of which season was which! Sorry!! The Harford o.g. was the next season! (I think!)
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Loved M & W fishing series (tv). Superb banter about some serious life reflections. And I'm a fisherman myself so doubly interesting.
I'm a southerner but I agree with you 626 that it's breakfast, dinner, tea, supper. 'What about brunch' my kids say. 'IT'S BRINNER' I tell them"!!!   .Never seen The Americans but will have a look seeing as you quite rightly call Better Call Saul as top notch. I assume you enjoyed Breaking Bad/El Camino also? Chernobyl is the only one that beats them all for me. For their time Homicide: Life On The Streets was brilliant and I still love watching Frasier every day on CH4 (even though I own the box set!). Friday: Made some more tomato supports. Potted on some more tommy plants. Socially distanced but extended drinking for VE Day. Too many different brews to bother to list. Dog didn't get a walk... |
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I don't think tele ever got better than Homicide Life On The Street.
Breaking Bad / El Camino was good ......just not anything like as good as 'Saul' 11.4 miles cycling. Finished the fishing book. Sat in the garden all afternoon . Watching the tadpoles and frogs in my wildlife pond. Radio Manchester had a program on our title winning Second division game in 1991 that took us to the old division 1. Going into the game West Ham had to beat Notts County at home for the title .....they lost 2-1 to County who got the fourth promotion spot in the playoffs. 20,000 packed into Boundary Park , Sheff Wed take the lead and all their fans in the home end celebrated ,were ejected delaying our game. Sheff Wed go 2 up after 50 minutes . We scored on 60 and 80 to make it 2-2 , needing the win. 93 minutes we get a penalty and go up as champions. Watching Vietnam War , 18 hour documentary ......18 hours not enough it is so good. |