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richinspain

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    richinspain got a reaction from loweman2 in Derby County Shirt Collection   
    Shall probably be wearing that one to the pool tomorrow ?
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    richinspain got a reaction from McRainy in What are you eating tonight   
    Note to self - when you see a thread called "what I ate yesterday" immediately mark it as read!
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    richinspain reacted to loweman2 in Derby County Shirt Collection   
    No rich, number 8 was oh Bobby bobby !
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    richinspain got a reaction from Steve How Hard? in What are you eating tonight   
    Note to self - when you see a thread called "what I ate yesterday" immediately mark it as read!
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    richinspain got a reaction from Boycie in What are you eating tonight   
    Note to self - when you see a thread called "what I ate yesterday" immediately mark it as read!
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    richinspain got a reaction from i-Ram in Picture where you, and your knee are now.   
    Don't know about the bike rack, but that number plate is definitely illegal .
    Sorry, just realised its an incredible piece of photoshopping 
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    richinspain got a reaction from Zag zig in Picture where you, and your knee are now.   
    Don't know about the bike rack, but that number plate is definitely illegal .
    Sorry, just realised its an incredible piece of photoshopping 
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    richinspain got a reaction from Steve How Hard? in Picture where you, and your knee are now.   
    Don't know about the bike rack, but that number plate is definitely illegal .
    Sorry, just realised its an incredible piece of photoshopping 
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    richinspain got a reaction from David in Picture where you, and your knee are now.   
    Don't know about the bike rack, but that number plate is definitely illegal .
    Sorry, just realised its an incredible piece of photoshopping 
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    richinspain reacted to David in What are you eating tonight   
    One snail is too many, once you start eating snails, thats just eating animals for the sake of it, bit like a Bear Grylls episode when you know he has a pizza waiting for him in a restaurant.
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    richinspain got a reaction from Angry Ram in What are you eating tonight   
    Got to admit, I really paid for dipping bread in a plate of spicy toamato sauce (alright, I ate a couple but that's all).
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    richinspain reacted to CapeTownRam in RamsTV Feedback   
    Can someone from RamsTV explain why I cannot watch most games in South Africa? I know it has to do with broadcasting rights.
    I have searched the local TV offerings and there is nothing to indicate that today's game is being broadcast live locally.
    I don't get why i can't use this service when no other service is available. I've been a Ram all my life and I want to watch the games dammit! 
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    richinspain reacted to CapeTownRam in RamsTV Feedback   
    Not sure what a fiver gets you in the UK, but is SA we can buy a house, car and a year's worth of groceries! 
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    richinspain reacted to Cam the Ram in RamsTV Feedback   
    What's Waghorn like? Does he come across as a nice lad?

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    richinspain reacted to loweman2 in The Forgotten Man !   
    Should be a little something posted by the end of the week ! ?
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    richinspain reacted to loweman2 in The Forgotten Man !   
    wow just had a phone call from Colin Todd to say well done on the Jim Medal, spent twenty five minutes chatting about stuff, some relevant to Derby and some not such as he had just made a cup of tea and was waiting for the man from British gas to come round to service the boiler !!
    top man Toddy !
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    richinspain got a reaction from rynny in RamsTV Feedback   
    Honestly don't know, but as I did mine on the first I'm fairly confident it will run until the end of the month ?
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    richinspain got a reaction from Spanish in RamsTV Feedback   
    Honestly don't know, but as I did mine on the first I'm fairly confident it will run until the end of the month ?
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    richinspain reacted to Spanish in RamsTV Feedback   
    @David
    I know you've all been worried but do not fret a nice man at DCFC has solved the problem and I can now sign in for what I hope and expect will be a fun year, it is the hope that kills you
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    richinspain reacted to Boycie in RamsTV Feedback   
    The new stuff works, but the union game still won’t, really weird.
    @OwenB87?
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    richinspain got a reaction from Spanish in RamsTV Feedback   
    I had to do the monthly one unfortunately. Like I said (enters Keogh mode), I had absolutely no problem to renew apart from not having the option to pay by PayPal. The app is now working fine as well.
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    richinspain reacted to Spanish in RamsTV Feedback   
    sunday?
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    richinspain reacted to Boycie in Picture where you, and your knee are now.   
    Are they weird weeds close up or really strange tall even weirder trees?
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    richinspain got a reaction from froggg in What are you eating tonight   
    Yesterday's breakfast, a horse meat and fried spring onion with alioli cob ?

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    richinspain reacted to loweman2 in The Forgotten Man !   
    Jim Walker the forgotten man
    As many of you know I have been for the last 18 months meeting up with the old brigade, the proper DCFC legends, the ones that put us on the map in footballing terms, the ones that made us the best team in England and got us to the European Cup semi finals, the teams of 71/72 and 74/75.
    It started off as way to spend time with my Dad who was a bit lost after the loss of my mum, he is a season ticket holder now and was back in the day so I started off out on a journey that has lead us to meet most of them, one of them remains elusive and one didn’t wish to participate.
    All of them have been fantastic, eager to tell stories of the great Brian Clough and the amazing fortunes of Derby County who in those bleak years of three day weeks, power blackouts, strikes and Rolls Royce nearly going under taking thousands of local jobs with it gave the people of Derby something to be proud of.
    Upon meeting one of those legends, Jim Walker I was particularly struck by how at peace he was with the world, very relaxed, very friendly and by far the best story teller of them all.
    Jim had not long ago lost his wife to illness so immediately him and my dad had something in common other than the love of football, he made us very welcome and gave us an open invite to go round when ever to continue with the tales.
    Now most people may remember Jim as the guy who was signed by Clough & Taylor from non league football to play for Derby County and was a major part of the team that won promotion from division two in 1968/69.
    He lost his place in the team to John Mcgovern but captained the reserves and stepped in when required to cover injuries of suspensions, this meant that he played only a few games in the 1971/72 season but it was his goal in a 1-0 win against Crystal Palace in late march that gave Derby both points and if you remember we won the league and finished first above dirty Leeds who were just one point behind and had a greater goal difference, so in effect Jim scored the goal that won us the First Division Championship.
    Aswell as a footballer Jim is probably better known as the Aston Villa physio, he was there for around twenty years and served under many managers including Graham Taylor, Ron Atkinson, Brian Little and John Gregory, he was also the man charged with looking after Paul McGrath for many years both on and off the pitch and is spoken of in very high regard in Pauls autobiography.
    He had a private practice at the Belfry for the golfers and was also the go to man at the NEC when any pop stars suffered an injury or needed attention from a physio, he worked with George Michael, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Michael Hutchence and Kylie to name a few hence him having so many fantastic stories.
    Jim has also had illnesses this however does not dampen his spirit or take a smile from his face.
    One thing that I was amazed to hear that Jim did not receive a medal for winning the league title despite being only one of sixteen players in that 71/72 season to have donned the shirt and scoring such a valuable goal.
    When ever you see the pictures of the team celebrating and holding up their medals jim does not have one.
    I approached Andy Ellis the club historian and the writer of many Derby County books and the fount of all knowledge and he confirmed it.
    So we the approached the club and asked if they would support an application to Gordon Taylor of the PFA to ask if he would inturn support an application to the football league to present Jim with the medal that he should have received 46 years ago.
    The club agreed and they sent the letter to Gordon Taylor who gave it his blessing and the approach was then made to the football league, this was back in February this year after the ball was started rolling in June of 2017 so it took a while.
    I am delighted to say that the agreement was given and Derby County approached the very same jewellers who had made the original ones to make one for Jim, to the exact specifications of the original medals and in the same box and made from 9ct gold with all of the hall marks.
    For some reason the club at this time can not be seen to publicly present Jim with the medal which is a great sadness as I thought that he was going to be able to step out on the pitch at Pride Park on the opening home game against Leeds (quite fitting as he stopped them winning the league with his goal), it is a litigious matter so I will comment no further other than to say that they did everything that they could.
    So to wrap up the story I had the great honour of going to Jims house today with my dad and my son and presenting him with his long overdue medal, he had no idea that it was coming and to say that he was over whelmed is an understatement.
    It was great to see his face and to have the privilege to do something like that, I had the medal at my house for a while but obviously didn’t want to post any pictures until now as it was a secret.
    Not very often that you get to present a league championship winning medal on behalf of Derby County and to one of the few from those great days and can be called the legends.
    We are hoping that Jim will still be able to have amore public presentation at sometime in the season at Pride Park when what ever issues are resolved.
    Up the Rams !!
     



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