Where they’re from;

[Eggs]

....I vaguely remember a story of Joseph Yobo’s brother being kidnapped. These pics are from his birthplace, Kono;

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Jim McDonough the proud Irishman who's actual name is Seamus.

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

Djibril Sidibe is from Troyes, which I'm now desperate to go to:

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Been there on a holiday where we drove around France for 3 weeks - what a find! Absolutely beautiful, couldn't believe how nice it was for a place I'd never really heard of before going. Like something from a fairy tale!

Dunno what the local ASDA situation was like though.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Pocket dynamo "inchy"

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Georgie Wood.

Douglas south Lanarkshire

 

[Eggs]

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....see previous page, @Adam-GOTTV says he’s been drunk many times in that place.

 

[Paul Rideout]

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Where is that?

 

[Eggs]

Where is that?

...I think it’s Newcastle-Under-Lyme.

 

[Joey66]

Trevor McGregor Steven (born Berwick-upon-Tweed, 21 September 1963) wrong side of the road , and hed have played for Scotland....

 

[Methuselah]

....Oumar Niasse from Ouakam in Senegal;

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Been to the capital of Senegal - Dakar. It was called French West Africa when I was there (1957), Remember being quite impressed with it. Wide streets (Avenues) with trees down both sides.

 

[Eggs]

Been to the capital of Senegal - Dakar. It was called French West Africa when I was there (1957), Remember being quite impressed with it. Wide streets (Avenues) with trees down both sides.

...sounds colonial French, I suppose it’s similar to parts of India being British. When I hear of Senegal, I think of The Goree which I understand is an island of that coast which lends its name to part of the Dock Rd in Liverpool.

 

[Methuselah]

...sounds colonial French, I suppose it’s similar to parts of India being British. When I hear of Senegal, I think of The Goree which I understand is an island of that coast which lends its name to part of the Dock Rd in Liverpool.

Think I may have posted this somewhere else but Dakar was where our troopship stopped on the way back to Southampton. We were supposed to play a football match against the French Foreign Legion who had a fort just outside Dakar, but it got cancelled. Never found out why but I was mega disappointed for a long time as I was centre-half and captain of the troopship team!

 

[Eggs]

Think I may have posted this somewhere else but Dakar was where our troopship stopped on the way back to Southampton. We were supposed to play a football match against the French Foreign Legion who had a fort just outside Dakar, but it got cancelled. Never found out why but I was mega disappointed for a long time as I was centre-half and captain of the troopship team!

...wow, amazing stuff and great memory despite the postponement. I was 1 in 1957, the furthest I’d been was probably New Brighton on the ferry.

 

[Methuselah]

...wow, amazing stuff and great memory despite the postponement. I was 1 in 1957, the furthest I’d been was probably New Brighton on the ferry.

Can get quite choppy on the ferry to New Brighton.

 

[bigjonny]

Mikel Arteta - San Sebastian


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Slightly off-topic, the middle picture is where the bull fights used to take place (had a few days there in the summer).