themaninblack

MPFC, There is NO team called Scarboro Athletic, nor has there ever been. Whether there might yet be is yet to be seen, of course, in case of revival, a la Telford, Fisher etc. But I admit my mistake over the Town with Workington- I was thinking of the rugby league club. The great Shanks was manager of Workington. Ah those old football teams that were in the league: Workington, Bradford Park Avenue, Maidstone Utd, Newport County, Aldershot, Scarborough etc, etc...

Apparently Dave Martin, co-creator of robot dog K-9 in Doctor Who, has died.... No links yet.

Oh blimey, that was the match you got free tickets for! Let me remind you that it doesn't happen like that at every match at OT....

what goes around comes around... hang on a sec - what goes around comes around? Death? he sacked people with a text message so what? that isn't karma. poor bastard just died in a car crash. Yes. He was the former boss of the Accident Group.......

Let them think they have it won.....

f*****g Karma or what?

...bit of a draft then.. ..Coat. Got.

Stan Ternent has a dodgy ticker....but I'd wager on Jimmy Adamson being the next ex-Burnley manager to..er burn... 1000!

you're actually going to all these games? Yes, the Bradford v Oldham is an annual thing and my girlfriend's father's managed to acquire tickets for the Roma and Chelsea games. If he keeps providing tickets for OT and Stamford Bridge, you better get that ring! The Chelsea game is the FA Cup semi final, it's at Old Trafford. Of course, of course. How silly of me... Still...FA Semi-Final, you lucky so-and-so!

you're actually going to all these games? Yes, the Bradford v Oldham is an annual thing and my girlfriend's father's managed to acquire tickets for the Roma and Chelsea games. If he keeps providing tickets for OT and Stamford Bridge, you better get that ring!

HAPPY FORTIETH COWBOY RONNIE!! Hope you last longer than this poor chap when he turned 40....

Cancer, according to this. http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.p...rge-sewell-dies And 3 picked him on DDP...somebody was on the inside track!

I saw him on stage about 10 years ago in 'The Homecoming'..pity he died. Probably the customary 'short illness'...

Well here's my team.... themaninblack APA = 75.0 1. Estelle Getty, 84 2. George Melly, 81 3. Lee Hazlewood, 78 4. Louis Farrakhan, 74 5. Tony Wilson, 58 6. I.J. Good, 91 7. Tammy Faye Messner, 66 8. Kevin White, 78 9. Francis Cardinal George, 71 10. Evel Knievel, 69

Savile, not Saville.... All those marathons done him good. He was a wrestler too...

I saw that match on 'The Championship', as close to a freak game as I've ever seen! It wasn't that Wolves played particularly badly, it's just that everything went wrong for them and right for the Saints (OG/missed penalty/wonder goal etc). Football is indeed a funny game... Remember though, every other team that stays in the Premiership will get a share, the difference is what you do with it....

For a while I thought Johannes Hentschel was still alive until I found out he died in 1982...

I'm sure it was fun experimenting....

Well done CP..... This is my first year at the WDP, so I'm hoping I do as well as on my first year on DDP! Bring it on!

Why do you keep harping on about this? We don't care about the FA Cup this season, that's why we put the reserves in for every game. So, if we don't care, why should anyone else? Maybe in two or three years, but not now. Coppell has also gone on record as saying we don't want to be in the UEFA Cup next year, and such an unusual statement might be tantamount for fan backlash. Not at Reading, where we just build & build, step-by-step, the Coppell Way. Where we are now would be a magnificent achievement come May. A long cup run would've damaged all that. Good point. Look at the 'success' of Southampton, Millwall and West Ham. They reached the cup final, they lose, the expectation rises, the players get full of themselves, they struggle, they get relegated. Entering the UEFA cup can be a bit of a curse as well...

Absolutely. You'd never find me stooping to such lows. And I mean *Reading 6-0 West Ham United* never. Such behaviour is sooooooooooo *Yep 6-0* childish Yes, and you STILL should've f*****g beaten Man Utd in the FA Cup!!!

...and the local undertakers read through the obituaries to gague business: '"need, need, need, got, need"....

...and they're still rubbish!

MIB, if you read through this thread, you will find I have hated Oxford United since the early 80's, for very good reasons indeed. Leeds from 1996 onwards, so you've got them the wrong way round. QPR are the only other ones. Their fans are complete & utter pricks, the lot of them. I've never met one decent one. They (and the club) have the same mentality as Leeds & accuse us of "Nicking" the hoops, even though we were wearing them BEFORE QPR were even formed! I hate Warnock, but not Sheffield United. And whilst I don't hate them, Chelsea, Swansea City, Birmingham City & Southampton aren't amongst my favourite clubs. Other than that, I love 'em all. EDIT As I lived in Spain for a long time, I also have a hatred of Real Madrid. Every other single Spanish team.. fine & Valencia especially so, but Real Madrid... what a bunch of Maricons. Didn't Cap'n Bob Maxwell try and merge Oxford and Reading and call them the Thames Valley Warriors or something. Lucky escape there. How we laughed at school when he fell off his yacht (Cap'n Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob.... ). The first time I came across Reading was when they started the season with 13 straight wins (1984/5?), a record that still stands I think. I've been to Valencia and went to the Mestalla when there wasn't a football match and found the spot where Billy Hamilton crossed to Gerry Armstrong, one of my fondest early memories of football..

That's nice of you. Is that punch Paul Kaye aka Mike Strutter or actually punch me? I was considering changing it, I don't think I'll bother now After 3+ years on this site, I still have no idea how some people have avatars that move. Josco's Smooth Little Pill, when Boudicca makes her tartan sparkle, and even Olvy's somewhat aggressive curly haired shouty man - wonders one and all. Its a GIF image. I had one in my early days on this site from Family Guy. You can pick up one from any number of image sites. I'm afraid I don't know how to create one however...