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Still doing it Bless him.
Not many shots but the the best goals per minutes played in the entire division. ( & no penalties)
Like McGoldrick last season & Jordan Rhodes, Martin & Collins this season, age is seemingly no barrier in League One

We’re remembering it differently. He was a massive wind up merchant but his ability on the ball was still a step up compared to the rest of the team. 

Because P&S isnt really about the integrity of football, its about trying to retain the status quo and stopping anyone from breaking the monopoly that is raking in so much cash for the authorities. 

I'd be happy with we signed him and CBT. I would consider that a good January.

There obviously were very bad incidents and obviously some very bad people but pretty much everyone I knew never wanted to kill , maim or seriously injure and hitting ordinary people who wernt looking for it was going to get you piss taking and lack of respect as opposed to kudos,
to most it was an adrenaline filled punch up and perhaps a bit silly but you kinda never thought it through to the possibility of real bad stuff , a bit like a boxer dying from a fight in the ring , the surviving boxer never went in to do that , yes they know there’s a chance but in the main it all ends ok , that said the effect will be massive , eubank was never the same animal in the ring after the Watson thing , 
we mostly all do daft things without really thinking what could happen, different now but how many people got behind the wheel of a car with a drink in them , ect ect ect ,
so the people who have a mix of fond memories from those days are lucky enough to have escaped anything really bad to them or doing anything that resulted in what could have happened,
some won’t get and are able to look down on those who did ( fair enough) but we are all different people growing up with different life experiences, as I’ve said earlier, wisdom and responsibility sometimes only comes with age 

To be fare to the Bushwackers anything outside the boundaries of London was North...and that includes the South coast 😁

I think if you could take  anyone under the age of about 35 whose only experienced football in modern all seater  stadia back in time to a game at the baseball ground in the 70s, they would be awestruck. Firstly everything was sort of grey and run down, grim and very working class. The streets were narrow, the housing really grim street after street, all red brick. The closer you got to the ground the more windows were boarded to stop a brick or bottle growing though. It was the underlying feeling of menace that is hard to describe and you got to be able to spot the signs of when something would kick off. Even then there was far more trouble outside the ground than in and some matches it would flare up all the way back to the station as away supporters got separated from each other. I couldn’t count the times I’ve been close to it but only once got a bit of a kicking from West Ham on Shaftesbury street, saved by a police horse galloping up the street giving out a bit of stick to the cockneys. Even at home Derby  didn’t have the numbers compared to Leeds or Man U but the warren of streets meant there would often be opportunity for the numbers to even out. My first away match at Hillsborough in 1969 saw a sizeable set to in tne kop and you got the tell tale separation in the crowd and then fists and boots flying. Although it was sort of horrible at times I’m glad I’ve got the memories as the experience of football from the terraces is gone forever. 

Ivy Square to the ground...at night time was fun, A Saturday afternoon walking back to town and many a home owner stood at their front door with a piece of 4x2, A cricket bat, Pick axe handle or the wife in curlers and an apron 😁
We had the time of our lives...now it's shopping at Asda fighting for deals in the whoops isle 

Crammed in behind the ossie goal, king kev scores and everyone is just pushed forward. Those were the days to be young.

🤣 Yeah right yourself. He’s gone out on loan to the club where he started his career, to play first team football, why does that imply it hasn’t worked out here? He joined the academy, he’s 19 years old, going out on loan is part of the development of young players isn’t it? 
It genuinely amazes me how many people on this forum seem to default to the most pessimistic and negative stance on anything and everything 

Good in the ball, but prone to getting in a tangle.
I also thought he was tied up long term. 

Good in the ball, but prone to getting in a tangle.
I also thought he was tied up long term. 

I'm a frayed knot.....
 

I'd prefer Scott Twine

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

Superstition is ridiculous and will play no part in our season, touch wood.

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.

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

Back in the 70s. There was the Burton lot, Willington, Findern, Osmaston, Normanton, Allenton, Belper, Ripley, Ashbourne and all points north/south/east/west... all the "local" groups merged into one on matchday.

You may or may not be surprised on how many squaddies were involved in the above, Here's a story I was told by someone who was there, 2 Soldiers went over the border to Holland from Germany to watch a game, After the game they went into a Dutch bar...one where the girls sit on your lap and you pay for their service, They were hit with the bill...extortionate to say the least, They refused to pay and got a good hiding by the doormen, The next weekend 50 squaddies get on the coach and head to the Bar, Beers flowing until it was time to pay, They never paid, The bar was trashed along with the bouncers, The local police did nothing...which was a good idea.  Today I agree with the above in bold, At home imo you were fighting for your territory those who would come to your town/ground and try and take over, When England played over seas it was called "the English disease" by Politicians, Eventually the England fans became the whipping boys for the local police forces...for just being English.
And then you wonder why we finish bottom every year when we enter the Eurovision Song Contest 😉

Walk along Tissington trail near Parsley Hay. Completely litter free apart from every few yards little black or green bags of Doggy poo. On return walk of about a mile and half I counted 18. Who do they think is going to collect it all. Getting dog owners a bad name.

Correct, forgot to change the line I copied from 143.

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