[old crust]

Fingers crossed they will fuck off else where and leave proper football people in this country to get things back as they were. I'm all for reintroducing Saturday 3pm kick off's, standing on terracing, shirts numbered 1 to 11, goal average, no more than five stewards in the ground, the occasional pitch invasion....... I could go on all night. This new cunt at Liverpool has just been on Sky News and stated he won't be at tomorrows Merseyside Derby because he thinks it better for fans to share the first experience with them at a home game WTF.

[tommiecoughlin]

Originally Posted by Winston_Churchill

Will the English premier league upsticks and fukk off the the USA, just look at the facts... they tried to get the shermans interested in footie but it never really caught on, the moneymen realise it's a global sport watched throughout the world and big dosh to be made liverpool, man u,man city. chelsea etc etc all being took over by jonny foreigner but will they keep it in England??.There's not many English players in the epl these days just remember you heard it here first

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[old crust]

.......... thanks tommie, that's reminded me of another thing, reintroduce leather balls with a lace in, the game was'nt invented to be played with beach balls.

Bring back a cup of Bovril and a Wagon Wheel at half time

[woodman2]

Bye bye Torres and Gerrard. The Red Socks were famous for selling Babe Ruth and then winning fuck all for 90 years

[woodman2]

And football specials. I wonder what British Rail do with all their shagged out rolling stock now they cant fill it full of hoolies and claim the insurance when it gets wrecked. I still have a ticket for a special to Leicester in the early 70s where the fare is 17p return.

In light of this weekends Leeds v `boro game we were reminising at work today about past visits to Ayresome Park. Without fail the train always got bricked as it slowed down just outside the station and we had to travel back freezing our tits off in a train with no glass in it.

[tommiecoughlin]

Originally Posted by woodman2

Bye bye Torres and Gerrard. The Red Socks were famous for selling Babe Ruth and then winning fuck all for 90 years

woodie...you are a sporting man of the world...you know more than a bit about sports that've never caught on in other places

[old crust]

The year Carlisle played in the top division the football special from Leicester was £ 2 return.

Bricking's only ever seem to take place on cold days's. I remember coming back from QPR on a freezing cold Boxing Day with no window's left in the bus.

[woodman2]

Originally Posted by tommiecoughlin

woodie...you are a sporting man of the world...you know more than a bit about sports that've never caught on in other places

I spent a bit of time in Boston. In fact most sporting venues in the States. Been to Fenway Park and Foxboro and the old Boston Garden.

I remember doing the stadium tour at the old Garden just before they closed it and moved it to the new Garden next door. In the home locker room shared by the Bruins and the Celtics there were 2 exit doors.

1 was 6`-6" high and 4` wide for the ice hockey players t`other was 7`-6" high and 2` wide for the basketball players. True story.

[woodman2]

Originally Posted by old crust

The year Carlisle played in the top division the football special from Leicester was £ 2 return.

Bricking's only ever seem to take place on cold days's. I remember coming back from QPR on a freezing cold Boxing Day with no window's left in the bus.

Got a story about the trip to Leicester. I think it was one of their first seasons back in the old 1st division. The days of Keith Weller. Must have been early 70s. Certainly before the days of the Service Crew when we started using scheduled trains instead of specials.

On the train down nobody seemed to know anything about the reception we would get when we got to Leicester. Were the police organised to handle 700 idiots arriving together on 1 train. Did Leicester have any fans who would fancy a ruck. Where was the ground etc etc

Because of the unknown there was a bit of apprehension as the train arrived. Everybody charged off the train, through the station and into the street. We answered all our questions. There were about 4 police who scattered sharpish. About 10 Leicester fans who scattered even quicker and we could see some ground in the distance.

Pretty cock sure of ourselves we marched through the streets to the ground thinking this was easy. At the ground there was an open gate guarded by 2 old Legion guys. We stormed the gate thinking we had all got in for free and were going to make a pretty impressive appearance mob handed only to find ourtselves on the rugby pitch at Wheldon Road.

We did a quick circuit of the ground and charged back out to look for the right location.