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11 minutes ago, oomarkwright said:

Perhaps went a bit too far in calling that player out and squad is pißßed off hence chairman pulling the plug. 

Was perhaps sneaking in too many chicken balti pies?

Weird one has Forest Green had only released a statement about support him over the online abuse he received at the weekend.

https://www.fgr.co.uk/news/club-statement

1 hour ago, Ram-Alf said:

Saint Valentines Day Mascara...featuring Revlon and Maybelline with L'Oreal Paris as the shooter 😁

No L'Oreal!! Max Factor!!

3 hours ago, Henrycav81 said:

Garth was a big hard fecker, Walt’s best mate seemed to be a lad called Haggis but your right they were a good set of lads 

Went to tech (ilson)with Garth late 70's. Went to watch Forest/Derby in the infamous Boxing Day game 78 with the Ilson mob at Garth's invitation.

Ended up in the Trent End then chucked out after the rucks started.

We hung round Notts for the next two hours, having a few pints before heading back towards the station.

Got herded onto the Ramaway by the police (just to get us out of Nottingham as quickly as possible).

Not wanting to go all the way to Derby a plan was hatched that someone would pull the emergency cord just before Long Eaton and with luck we would stop more or less at the platform.

After much harsh debate, as to who and exactly when the cord should be pulled we had already passed through Long Eaton before the said act took place.

Fortunately the train stopped exactly on Sawley Road Level crossing and we piled out and began the longer walk back to Ilkeston.

About 8.30 by the time we got back to The Market inn.

Safe to say, being a bit of a Wuss i never went with them to another game again!!

Good in the ball, but prone to getting in a tangle.

I also thought he was tied up long term. 

Sorry Bob you beat me to it.

Mods can you merge please.

So sad another great person gone to play music in the heavens.

RIP Annie, thank you for OGWT and Radio 1 Sunday Afternoons.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67955757

39 minutes ago, admira said:

145. Year, opponents and memories. 4-1 home win .Goal scorers not necessarily in the correct order.

1970 V Dirties at home, Leeds got fined for putting their reserve team out as a protest for match congestion as i rememeber.

Ossie End near the C Stand

2 minutes ago, Spanish said:

Yep I read the Tory graph were trying to get Blair and starmer enmeshed in this.  Clearly the tories have been out of power for decades

No fan of any politicians, but if Crozier is being brought into it, (probably rightly)then his political masters need bringing into it.

2 hours ago, Spanish said:

Quote from telegraph 

 

Adam Crozier, the former chief executive of Royal Mail, would have been aware about the faulty Horizon IT system after it was identified as “problematic” by his technology specialists, an insider has claimed

 

royal mail owned the post office at that time

Cheers i thought it was separated in 2001 but looking at it was pretty artificial separation were it became effectively 2 cost centres.

It became a completely different business in 2011, of course they are still enmeshed with one and another with RM picking letters up from the PO structures.

i think a lot of people are to blame in letting it fly from the time of Blair and Brown right through to present day.

4 minutes ago, admira said:

144. Year, opponents and memories. 4-1 home win and Rob Hindmarch's debut.

Goal scorers not necessarily in the correct order.

Hartlepool at home in the League Cup was 5-1 not 4-1 1984 and the first win in Arthurs Reign.

11 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

Look at that team. 3 years after winning the league. It vexes my soul. Afflicts my humour.

Still gives me Nightmares!!!

10 hours ago, Grumpy Git said:

Ian Hislop cut-off on ITV's Peston just now whilst tearing Jake Berry a new one. 👊🏻

I wonder where former PO & ITV executve Adam Crozier is hiding currenly?

Just to be pedantic (i do intensely dislike the man as well) Adam Crozier was CEO of Royal Mail not the Post Office they are different legal personalities.

At present he is the chairman of Whitbread and BT. 😢

Just now, CodnorRam said:

Im 30 and iv never seen any hooliganism. I still live in ripley/codnor area and its always just banter between derby and forest lot as everyones grown up together.

To call what it was as hooliganism is a little strange in this case, it was more like a mates disagreement over anything close to football rivalry and the drink takes over.

Punch up matchday buying each other a drink the next. Don't live too far from you even now but i am a Ripley lad born and bred.

2 hours ago, CodnorRam said:

My previous comment was sarcasm as i think its pure stupidity. Especially anyone that wears stone island clothing thinking theyre hard🤣

But my friend was a hooligan (hes a forest fan), said it was fighting for your club and making a name for yourself or seeing if the opposition were all that they made out to be. He said there was only 2 rules an that was no knives and dont run away. In ripley theres derby and forest fans and he said they used to fight each other all the time but when another bus full of opposition fans stopped off in Ripley the derby and Notts fans would team up 🤣 He also said when he used to go to all the England matches abroad that you was fighting for your country. Its seems daft to me but he said any hooligan would say the same thing. He said he couldnt wait for the weekend and feel the rush of adrenaline and he said that they only would fight with people that wanted to scrap. 

Its all quite primitive from what i understand 🤣

The Ripley Derby/Forest lads would go drinking with each other before Derby/Forest games get p****d and then fight each other, it became a bit of a ritual in the 90's 

In the 70/80's less so although you knew who each other were

2 hours ago, Ram-Alf said:

As you know ICF/DLF were not around then, Tho the Mile End Boys were...WHU, We had a beating in the Greyhound Pub at the back of Wembley Stadium 50 of us on the coach against many more.

Just before the game had finished we could see WHU fans leaving the ground, All Derby stayed behind to cheer Roy Mac and the lads with the Shield, By that time we got to leave the ground half of London was outside there waiting for us, It didn't look good, But we had a fella in Kev O'Reilly as hard as they come, Stood on the steps and screaming at us to move forward, We had 2 choices...do as he said and get a beating or go back in the ground and get a beating when back in town, We chose the 1st option, It wasn't very good as our numbers were still coming out of the ground but soon enough the numbers were getting on equal terms...then numbers in our favour, As you said it was the Derbyshire Miners that helped take the day...and night in Old London Town.

A very hot day with dust clouds all over the place, The police just couldn't cope, You say it lasted a few seconds not where we were concerned, It was payback for the Greyhound incident, Scaffolding poles and planks were at hand, Bottles from inside the ground were used by both sides...probably the worst violence I've seen or been involved in as a 19 year old

Years later talking to some "ICF" lads who were there, They admitted it was our day, Bill Gardner who was their top lad admitted through gritted teeth that "Derby had WHU on their toes".    

16 at the time we saw West ham disappear from the other end so we sort of knew what was coming.

Still got to go home at some point and safety in numbers went down the stairs and got hit by a hail of bottles, my mate copped one and the shoulder and ended up in the nearest A and E for the night having to have his wounds stitched, his old man wasn't happy that he had to go down the next day to pick him up.

The miners were largely from Ilkeston and worked at Babbington colliery or Moorgreen having transferred from the Derbyshire pits after they closed.

My old man had worked with quite a few of them before deciding life underground wasn't for him.

My best Beckenbauer memory is when Bayern beat the Dirties in European Cup Final in 1975 at the Parc Des Prince in Paris.

The scarf twirlers still moan about that game to this very day.

2 hours ago, Ram-Alf said:

There's those that know and there's those that don't, If you weren't there in the 70s and 80s then you read the books or watched the films 🙄, Football hooliganism died decades ago, There's a multitude of reasons why both male and females fought going to and at football stadia, The 70s was a mad decade if you turned up at the wrong place you'd get a smack.

 

 

 

  

I smiled at the Females bit, One day going to watch the rams at Birmingham c1973, with my old man.

We saw  two Brum lads with a girl waiting at a bus stop in Sutton Coldfield. My Dad being a kindly soul stopped and gave a lift in the back of the car, a bit of banter one the lads asked if the lads from Derby were rough and would there be trouble, no my dad says, it's the girls you have to watch, they all work laying the track for British Rail!!

20 minutes ago, RodleyRam said:

I once threw a scotch egg at Jonny Rotten at a festival. Does that count?

Was he hungry?

2 hours ago, admira said:

141. Year, opponents and memories. 4-1 home win.

Bolton at home April 2016 Grand National day, a poignant one for me as it was the last game my late old man went to

Over the last fifty years (showing my age) i have been to quite a few darts events some ala PDC and some "closed door" events.

(By the way i am only a casual player, in no way was i playing in them).

I much prefer the less rowdy events, however this is not a new thing, the old News of the World tournament used to end up as a mass punch up sometimes, which for a naive 10 year old could be a tad scary.

i don't undertstand the comments on the darts forum that David posted, probably posted by people who only ever watch on telly, at the end of the day it was a pub sport designed to be enjoyed by people having a drink and a laugh to forget about their strife in life for a couple of hours at the end of the day, and yes i have seen more than my fair share of aggro over it.

Maybe with the demise of the working man's traditional pub envoironment the people who go to the televised tournaments need to let off steam.

5 hours ago, admira said:

I cant tell from my source but his name is in the programme, as is Steve Spooners. 

Just to round it off the same Steve Spooner has just been made temporary manager at Brum in the wake of our Wayne.

Minor setback hopefully, we go again.

Thought we looked jaded and in the need of younger legs/break.

Need a couple of younger signings in quickly, in the middle of the park and an ugly striker!!!

Just had a tot up, 531 Left so i am guessing we will be around the 30,500 mark.

51 minutes ago, admira said:

133. Year, opponents and memories. 6-1 away win. Goal scorers not necessarily in the correct order.

Boston United 3rd FA cup replay 1974. Played in the afternoon on a Wednesday. Capped school and me and my dad travelled to Boston.

At this time it was the three day week, due to the miners strike. (no floodlights were allowed to be used to conserve coal stocks).

We had done the usual the Saturday before at the BBG and contrived to c*** it up against non-league opposition.

(Boston had hammered us in Round 2 6-1 some 18 years previously at the BBG)

We had drawn 0-0 at Derby the previous Saturday 1pm kick off I think. 

I do remember Archie missing a sitter on to an Ossie end post that day when it was easier to score.

Anyway we went through to round 4, where we subsequently played and lost to Coventry.

Another connection was that TBE played and managed Boston in the Two matches.

47 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:

The only man in Nottingham who has never missed out on the last pie.

 

I dont know Kenny B wouldn't given up without a fight.