StockholmRam

Interesting, very interesting

*waits for Sheffield Wednesday fan to turn up and tell us all the doom and gloom before nearly 500 pages of nothing ensues*

Oh Nottingham is ful of poo, poo and more poo

I think Roberts can play on either wing, like Joz. So if we're looking to increase chances of crosses they can play on opposite flanks.
I actually expect Roberts to play on the left for us at the start of matches as Joz has been best on the right forming a good understanding with Byrne.

It’s a bank holiday in Manchester.

I heard it is imminent.

Id have sent him to bed an hour ago if he were my boy! 

I refuse apologise for sharing an amusing anecdote at Leeds' expense for those uninvolved with the world of Twitter.
I did it for the people, and a few likes.

Anyone who has scumbag united as a 2nd team knows nowt about ther history. 
Its like saying ” look, Osama Bin Laden is back, but he is ok now because he has got a fancy suit on”! 
Journalists and tv/radio broadcasters are having a love fest about them. Meh. 
Sooner they and their self entitled supporters are put back in their box the better. Sooooooon please.

Anyone who has scumbag united as a 2nd team knows nowt about ther history. 
Its like saying ” look, Osama Bin Laden is back, but he is ok now because he has got a fancy suit on”! 
Journalists and tv/radio broadcasters are having a love fest about them. Meh. 
Sooner they and their self entitled supporters are put back in their box the better. Sooooooon please.

Not sure how you can call obstruction, he doesn’t look behind him so has no idea where the keeper is. Even if he misjudged the flight of the ball, it’s not a foul on the Leeds keeper and the goal would have stood. 

He knows how important our record is to us! ?

I will be having something to say if this one turns up and its not a Canadian blue vinyl copy!! 
Ive had my collection on discogs for a while but this is the first time i have decided to purchase from the site. I really miss going record shopping and being able to be out and about digging in the crates and shelves. 

Clues in the name . Didn't spot it.  In that case you can disregard everything I said as baalocks. Why would your parcel be at Heathrow . lol.
Use discogs a fair bit myself, it's a good site but I do tend to get them to cross ref the matrix run outs now as a bit of a first press junkie and had a few incorrect listings sent to me.  Ordered a signed Damned lp that was supposed to be white vinyl . Turned up unsigned and black .  That was probably my favourite .
Hope it turns up soon .

A cheap Yamaha dreadnought, just to get started. It's quite addictive though, I'm already hovering over a Squire electric too.

@StockholmRam said that he had seen it on HBO, obviously he's in Stockholm ?. I know that HBO isn't available in the UK because I was chatting to my sister about it a few weeks back when they went into lockdown. At least over here they have some very good series on there.

I'll be watching them in Bristol on Friday 7th December, two days after watching Young Fathers.
What a scallywag I am.

Did you get your Stone Roses book signed? Can recommend the John Robb Roses book if that’s your thing.
 

We love you though mate. 

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Travelled overland independently by train, lots of snow around Banya Luka (October), but still arrived in good time at Mostar. Walked from the station to the ground in conversation (in French!) with a German, who recognised the Ram motif on my shoulder bag. Gateman at the ground was after Rams souvenirs when Stuart Webb arrived, we exchanged a few pleasantries, he showed his DCFC credentials and I was allowed in with him!  The team coach arrived shortly after and Alan Hill was struggling with the kit hamper across a pebbled area, so yes, just offered a hand to get it to the visitors dressing room. Most of the players had gone to have a look at the pitch, but David Nish followed us in. He had just moved into our village and had had conversations over the garden gate with my Dad, so that was a useful starting point until Zac arrived with his bit of typical Yorkshire forthright approach!
I bade my adieus, and walked out into the next room which happened to be the club bar, which, needless to say, was full of Bosnians and Serbs. My bag and rucksack singled me out as a Rams fan, and it was only seconds before I was besieged with more requests for Rams souvenirs. I had only two left when their inside forward Vidic, who had played in the first leg at Derby, came and sat down, and he ended up with a copy of the Football League Magazine which came out with the Rams programme.
Whilst waiting in the York Hotel outside the station for the train back home after the first leg, a tall smartly dressed individual wanted the phone, speaking in  reasonable English to the hotel staff, who of course had to get the call for him - in the 1970s it was necessary to wait for calls to be obtained to less popular international locations, in this case Mostar. I assumed that he was possibly the Mostar president or CEO perhaps, so in the bar I motioned to Vidic that I wanted to speak to the "President". He disappeared and duly returned with an ageing gentleman who was in fact the Club President. But the message had got across that we needed an interpreter, and shortly after the guy seen in Derby appeared. I recalled to him that I had seen him at the York, so we were well away! Drinks and food were provided gratis, courtesey of the club / President, and I could leave my rucksack there until after the game. The well dressed guy was the reporter for the local paper, and this was news, as Mostar had beaten one of the Moscow teams (? Spartak?) over two legs in the previous round, unbelievable for a town the size of Burton!
As it built towards kick-off, I made my way out to the Terraces, only to find that I was in the private part of the ground, with only a small three- step terrace which held about 20 people maximum! A programme seller appeared walking round the ground, the very guy who had been manning the gate earlier on. I called to him and rummaged in my shoulder bag for the last souvenir, one of those circular gold and dark blue DERBY COUNTY pin badges with a Ram in the centre - you might have one still, I haven't! I thought that offering it was an appropriate gesture to a guy who had been instrumental in what was turning out to be some totally unexpected "adventure", and he proudly pinned it on, safe in the knowledge that no one else had one!
The Rams of course lost 4-1, and it was almost dark as the firecrackers went of following their third and fourth goal, the latter a penalty against Colin Todd which was clearly ball-to-hand rather than the reverse, which the high profile and even more highly controversial Dutch referee, Charles Corver, duly gave.  (He was handing out photos of himself on the flight into Dubrovnik apparently - some ego!). Stuart Webb was beside himself at this unexpected setback, and on returning home made it clear that Derby would appeal against the firecrackers during the match, so I sent in some camera shots of them to him, and weeks later they were returned after the appeal had been turned down.
So, back to the bar, where the President came to commiserate - and celebrate that lightning did sometimes strike twice. In true English fashion I offered my congratulations, and eventually took my leave of them, reflecting, in spite of my disappointment, that I had witnessed what had been a momentous event in the history of this small club.
This must sound unusual to many of you, but the club is not like an English club. The dressing rooms and bar were part of what we would call a large two story club house, set back some 50 yards from the pitch and behind the goal. The directors / officials watched the games from easy chairs in a first floor "terraced room" with sliding -folding doors, looking out "onto all they surveyed". The 50 yards in between were flower beds with rose trees, neatly trimmed low privet hedges and a pebble path for the players to access the pitch. The opposite end was not spectator accommodation. The side nearest the road was terraced, and provided perhaps 15 steps the length of the ground, and the opposite side had 3 /4  steps of concrete terrace, with a small seated stand at the half way line. Beyond this, the (enclosed) hillside rose quite steeply into the far distance, and would have accommodated the population of the three East Midlands cities with ease.  Little did I know the horrific significance that this welcoming club was to play some 20 years later. During the dissolution of the old Yugoslavia, you may be aware of the subsequent ethic cleansing which took place: the Radavan Karadice saga / era, plus others.
That same pitch was used as a concentration site / camp for those unfortunate enough to be on "the wrong side"......
And no, I had no part at DCFC, I'm just a popside fan who took his chance when it came, this being the third "adventure" that being a Rams fan has brought my way. To me, DCFC has always been a Way of Life.
Thanks for reading - sorry if I bored you.

Thats the thing I love about boxing Bris... I agree, couldnt see anyone but Groves winning and then BAM..out of nowhere. Astonishing.