chezzyram

So out of this whole turgid mess of a game which hardly anyone comes out of with any credit, including the manager, you have picked on one incident involving Dobbin as the catalyst for our problems? What a surprise!

It was a typical small mining village built around the pit, just a few streets of Victorian terraced houses, a pub, miners welfare and school. They were special communities.
The gas was methane seeping into the houses from the mine workings below, an unforseen circumstance of the pit closure. They opencast mined a site across the main road then filled it and built a new village on it, then they demolished the old village and opencast mined that. There was one old boy in a detached house who absolutely refused to move no matter what they offered and they eventually opencasted up to his boundary on 3 sides, it looked like he was perched on the edge of the white cliffs of Dover! His house is still there though.

I worked as a youth worker in Arkwright throughout the strike and when the pit closed. It was an incredibly tough and difficult time for everyone in the village. There is a book called 'Norma Dolby's Diary - An Account Of The Great Miners Strike'. I knew Norma, she was the wife of a striking miner, the book is probably very difficult to find now but it gives an honest and revealing account of how difficult life was from the inside and also how resilient, determined and proud they were

I was born in Annesley Woodhouse where the Sherwood tv drama was acted out. If you left school without qualifications it was a way of earning good money. Communities were destroyed and have never recovered. We are now surrounded by Amazon clearing warehouses and suchlike. I have lived in these communities all my life, so forgive me but don’t you live in central London.

Usually agree with most stuff you post but the above is way off , men , families and community s had they’re lives destroyed, I could agree with you if safe healthy employment was grafted into those areas right away or even over a few years to replace mining but it wasn’t and that goes further back than the miners strike , we moved from the west of Scotland when I was 5 , just visit those areas even today and see the devastation that was visited on people , generations with no jobs , no money , no self respect and a culture of hopeless dependency 

Just say it in a Belgian accent and you'll be fine

It was a typical small mining village built around the pit, just a few streets of Victorian terraced houses, a pub, miners welfare and school. They were special communities.
The gas was methane seeping into the houses from the mine workings below, an unforseen circumstance of the pit closure. They opencast mined a site across the main road then filled it and built a new village on it, then they demolished the old village and opencast mined that. There was one old boy in a detached house who absolutely refused to move no matter what they offered and they eventually opencasted up to his boundary on 3 sides, it looked like he was perched on the edge of the white cliffs of Dover! His house is still there though.

It was a typical small mining village built around the pit, just a few streets of Victorian terraced houses, a pub, miners welfare and school. They were special communities.
The gas was methane seeping into the houses from the mine workings below, an unforseen circumstance of the pit closure. They opencast mined a site across the main road then filled it and built a new village on it, then they demolished the old village and opencast mined that. There was one old boy in a detached house who absolutely refused to move no matter what they offered and they eventually opencasted up to his boundary on 3 sides, it looked like he was perched on the edge of the white cliffs of Dover! His house is still there though.

I worked as a youth worker in Arkwright throughout the strike and when the pit closed. It was an incredibly tough and difficult time for everyone in the village. There is a book called 'Norma Dolby's Diary - An Account Of The Great Miners Strike'. I knew Norma, she was the wife of a striking miner, the book is probably very difficult to find now but it gives an honest and revealing account of how difficult life was from the inside and also how resilient, determined and proud they were

I worked as a youth worker in Arkwright throughout the strike and when the pit closed. It was an incredibly tough and difficult time for everyone in the village. There is a book called 'Norma Dolby's Diary - An Account Of The Great Miners Strike'. I knew Norma, she was the wife of a striking miner, the book is probably very difficult to find now but it gives an honest and revealing account of how difficult life was from the inside and also how resilient, determined and proud they were

I worked as a youth worker in Arkwright throughout the strike and when the pit closed. It was an incredibly tough and difficult time for everyone in the village. There is a book called 'Norma Dolby's Diary - An Account Of The Great Miners Strike'. I knew Norma, she was the wife of a striking miner, the book is probably very difficult to find now but it gives an honest and revealing account of how difficult life was from the inside and also how resilient, determined and proud they were

He won't be a patch on him

Wow. Kick like a mule !

Too subtle

We're going to have to create a new trophy at the end of season awards for most enigmatic player!

We're going to have to create a new trophy at the end of season awards for most enigmatic player!

We're going to have to create a new trophy at the end of season awards for most enigmatic player!

Give it a rest!

Give it a rest!

Give it a rest!

Give it a rest!

Eyor, eyor, eyorlways posts this crap on a match thread!
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Give it a rest!

Credit to Wildsmith, he can land the ball on a sixpence time after time. Unfortunately the sixpence is a foot beyond the left hand touchline

Credit to Wildsmith, he can land the ball on a sixpence time after time. Unfortunately the sixpence is a foot beyond the left hand touchline