Ellafella

Really lucky, what was great was to be able to introduce my son to them this time and get some great pics that he can look back on in forty years and say he met them !

Im 58 years old and i want to meet kevin hector is it still allowed at my age to be star struck lol

I was really lucky to get an invite along today to the yard from John O’Hare to meet up with some of the 70s legends who were meeting up to celebrate Roy Macs 70th birthday and the annual Easter visit of Alan Hinton.
i thought I would take the opportunity to take my son along to meet some of the older players who when he is grown up will hopefully be given the status that that Steve Bloomer gets now, at least he will have a few photos to show that he really did meet the men who made us famous and for a brief moment in time perhaps the greatest football team in the world ?
when I got there I was a little embarrassed to find that I was the only member of the general public in attendance and felt a little bit out of place, the classic gatecrasher at the party, fortunately I know a number of them already and was instantly welcomed, I made sure that we sat just out side of the main group to allow them to chat to each other
Every one of them made time to come over and have a sit with us, I had of course taken some stuff to get signed as it was to good an opportunity to miss, after checking that they were ok with it they signed stuff and sat and talked and had photos with my son, he loved it and entered into some great conversation with them all, he was asking them about the odd haircuts that they had on the photos ( he is only eight) he told John Ohare that he should now be called john nohare which I’m not sure if john picked up on or not, he spoke to Alan about his white boots and got me showing Alan photos of his green boots, to a man they sat and chatted away talking about anything and everything, the numbers continue to dwindle, I felt like the man in the middle sharing stories of my recent meets with Colin Boulton, Colin Todd, Frank Wignall, john McGovern, and Peter Daniel, those in attendance (some with their good ladies) were John Ohare, Alan Hinton, Alan Durban, Roy McFarland, Roger Davies, Rod Thomas, Jim Walker and Henry newton, once again it struck me that the club should make more of a fuss of these guys whilst they are with us, let’s not wait twenty year before we finally get round to making up a song for them that we sing and the younger generation doesn’t have a clue what the names Todd, McFarland, Nish, Hector, Hennessy, Boulton, Newton, Gemmill, Davies, McFarland, O’Hare, McGovern, Hinton etc mean to Derby as a city.

That's a real beauty....Portmerion you say? Did you manage to escape? 

I am not a number, I am a free man!
First time Dad took Mozza and me to Portmerion they were filming "the Prisoner" there.
Patrick McGoohan passed us in his car.
We watched "Danger Man" for ages thinking he was filming an episode!
 

yep, no worries, just walked straight out !

Picked up this little beauty today from portmeirion 1972 ! One of the rare ones where they put the wrong year on for the FA cup win !

Not true.

Sounded like a duff idea for a thread but actually brilliant! Ellafella
Elluvafella...What a guy!

Given this last week, by a tradesman neighbour who obviously didn't appreciate a customer's kind gesture.
Not surprising really, seeing as he lives in Nottingham and so is obviously a Manure fan!
Won't risk it on hot drinks, but it's a reasonable size for Hine.

How dare you!

Come on Burton.... 

The best folk on it. Humility and humour.

God bless the Siddiqqi's

God bless the Siddiqqi's

God bless the Siddiqqi's

The lads from Derby on Gogglebox. Spotted a Dave Mackay Champions mug nicely positioned on the table. Good effort 

I think it might be about the time that swan thing gets a bit of a knock with your feather duster, rich. You could always glue it together again

And that's why she's an ex girlfriend?

I've had the real pleasure of meeting Arthur on several occasions. He is an absolute first rate Gentleman. He told me some fabulous anecdotes about the time he worked for Robert Maxwell but point blankly refused to be in any way indiscrete; {Maxwell used to pay Arthur bonuses in the form of dozens of pairs of gentleman's socks from Harrods!}. I think Derby County for once were privileged to have had Arthur as manager {the players all referred to him as the Sarjeant Major} and I feel privileged and honoured to have met him. He always give people his time and shows people total respect. A true living legend. Spoke about his Derby players as if they were his own sons and visibly shed a tear when we talked about Rob Hindmarch. A wonderful man and true Derby County hero.