Recent content by Methuselah

Not sure we need another midfielder when we are desperate for a striker. Still, our chances created will probably go from 20 to 30 per game but our goals scored will stay the same.

That house, at the opposite end of the main stand to the church, had a drainpipe that me and my brother climbed up to escape the mass off people who rushed the ticket office for semi-final tickets v RS at Maine Road. The area at the back of the other stand was a training area then and we went...

Reading the reported stats on the England under 21 game, I thought I was reading an Everton game. England had 25 shots on goal and DCL didn't score. England lost.

If the police couldn't feel any collars when the Man City bus was attacked in broad daylight, there is not much hope here.

That's incredible. I reckon only about 1 in 5 survived that experience. Those who were shipped to Japan had to run the gauntlet of American submarines and a lot of 'prison ships' went down. I used to go into a pub in Windsor. The landlord had been a POW of the Japanese. He was shipped to...

That would not have been a good experience, nightmare, he did well to survive it. Fortunately, my many visits to Changi were 10 years after the end of the war.

At the time and for years after, I thought he was South African. Don't know where that came from. He was actually born in Northumberland!

Welcome in. I did my National Service in Singapore 1955/57. Played a lot of football out there, have got a photo of a local team we played who called themselves The Arsenal. I was based at Tyersall camp which was close to the Botanical gardens. Don't think its there any more. My daughter has...

Peter Farrell. Modern times - Baines.

Actually, as I had left school, there was some talk about me staying in Liverpool and working for my uncle who had a fruit and veg stall in St. John's market. Didn't fancy doing that though.

You think that this is bad son? In 1951 when I was 15, my Dad told us that we were moving from Liverpool to Leeds.

You will have to take my word for it. 1948/49 Centre forward: Albert Juliussen. Worst centre forward I ever saw (anywhere). I can still see, as clear as day, watching him at Goodison. He was put clean through, only the goalie to beat. He side-footed it past the goalie from just inside the...

You think this is bad son? I remember losing threepence to an RS in 1950/51 on a bet that we wouldn't be relegated. Mortified 15 year old.

I remember a true story about Ray Wilson. In the late 1950's I was living in Leeds. I can't remember who the Leeds manager was, (it was before Don Revie). The Leeds manager, on a scouting trip, went to watch a Huddersfield Town match. The left back in the match programme couldn't play so Ray...