Recent content by Old Blue 2

I was there, aged 15. Bus(74D) from school straight into the city in my school uniform with my satchel. Special from Lime Street. Great game and great win. Then back to the station and train back to Lime Street. Because the football specials got low priority, got back home about 2-3 in the...

Richard III Loyaulte me lie

Hey! I represent that remark. Well I did cross-country running for three years in CAGS.

Doesn't surprise me in this day and age...

We should put in a good bid for him in January. If Spam are even further adrift, he may decide to jump ship...

I would be delighted with that also. But don't mind if either Wet Spam or Forest go...

A replay of the goal shows the Forest 'keeper getting up and walking away normally. Then a few seconds later he's on the deck with an injury. I think he was feigning that injury...

This is an account I have written about my early '70s rock band (which will be in a 'book' that I'm putting together for my two grandchildren), and a return from a gig that really, we should have all been killed. How the van never crashed on that first leg of the return journey, I'll never...

Excellent. Thanks for that explanation. Which DoE did you work for? I started in the DHSS in October 1969. And by the way the RS are playing at the moment, you may yet get a call...

So over quite a period of time you have posted that you played and scored at some top level grounds (presumably for a fairly top club). How does that square with with you leaving school after taking A-levels, almost certainly at around the age of 18, and going straight into being a civil...

Sufferiing a heart attack in August 2001. Total re-evaluation of my life...

Makama is scoring regularly for Norwich. They could yet escape relegation. I hope not...

Thanks.

What's with Blackburn playing in white shirts today at home? With a Maltese Cross as emblem? Is it a reference to a former kit of many decades ago that they are commemorating. Some kind of anniversary tribute...?