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GB SPORTS

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  1. 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. No fan of any politicians, but if Crozier is being brought into it, (probably rightly)then his political masters need bringing into it.
  3. 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. Hartlepool at home in the League Cup was 5-1 not 4-1 1984 and the first win in Arthurs Reign.
  5. 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. 😢
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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!!
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. Just to round it off the same Steve Spooner has just been made temporary manager at Brum in the wake of our Wayne.
  14. 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!!!
  15. Just had a tot up, 531 Left so i am guessing we will be around the 30,500 mark.
  16. 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.
  17. I dont know Kenny B wouldn't given up without a fight.
  18. This one: Remembered like yesterday, Hector being flattened by Tubby Lawrenece as he scored the Third. I was on the ledge at the back of the Ossie End : A great day to be a Ram. If only we were as quarter as good as that side now 🥲
  19. The Ref added them on at the end of the second half instead.
  20. Referee aside (who i still think cost us 2 points today) I will look at our performance IMHO. This was only my 3rd game of the season live for a variety of issues. Pros: 1. We do create a decent amount of chances particularly from the wide right positions. 2. Defence is relatively solid, divvi header aside Cash was MOM for me, just infront of NML. Wildsmith good, Nelson also 3. From a tatics pov Warne's substitutions, make sense in timing and position to change the game in our favour (more of that in cons). Cons: 1. No centre forward quick enough to be on the end of some very dangerous positions. Hope we can keep TJJ until May as this might solve the problem. 2. We can't deliver a ball out of defence effectively or quickly enough and we are static pins for recieving, if the opposition close you down, you need to move a bit more to make your self available for the ball. 3.Warnes subs are ok if you have the right players, we still don't have the players to play 3-5-2. 4. We need to play the game Wycombe were showing us how to do it at every opportunity, we're too nice and instead of playing the same we just got angry. We should have buried Wycombe Yesterday.
  21. I have git say having watched probably watched well over 1500 professional football matches and played in over 100 non-league games to a reasonable standard, it was the worst one i have ever seen. Her only control was to resort to a card, always the sign of a poor referee, and can't understand why she could not see what 25000 people in the cround could see. When you see players high 5ing when 30 seconds before they were rolling around like they had been shot.
  22. I was also told, that the great Burt Bacharach, reluctantly changed the title of his classic "Do you know the way to San JOse" from "Do you live alone in Cotmanhay" Of course the singer also changed her name by deed poll from Dionne Wardwick.
  23. Isn't it time we need to forgive Gibson, Couhig, the baron and the EFL .
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