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I was proudly one of the many sitting in the centre circle before that Man City game and I didn't take any offence to any comments over the PA. Even in my late teens I knew it was said due to the pressures of getting the game started and risk from the authorities the game could be cancelled and we forfited any points and other penalties.
As far as I was concerneced, the point was made. The game started and we won 1-0.
Phantom playing card urban myths and confusing shenanigans remind me a touch of the confounding strange postcards sent from all around the globe by a gnome apparently in Amelie:
Ron, a lot of punters on here were angry and disgusted about the shabby way the club treated one of your successors the great,kind,unflagging Sheila Marson when she took the fall for a cock-up in the registration/signing of a player - I forget which one,someone will tell us hopefully. Any thoughts,comments or inside info on this?
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I can only agree with every word you say. Sheila was one of the best Secretaries the Football League ever possessed - far more knowledgeable in soccer affairs than I could ever hope to be. Nothing was too much trouble for her - she was one of the hardest workers I ever met - and totally loyal to Rangers. The only reason I was finally able to escape from the club was because I knew I was leaving it in her good hands. I had no idea she had been sacked until I read this. A huge mistake on the part of the club, I'm afraid, which bodes ill for the future..
I can only agree with every word you say. Sheila was one of the best Secretaries the Football League ever possessed - far more knowledgeable in soccer affairs than I could ever hope to be. Nothing was too much trouble for her - she was one of the hardest workers I ever met - and totally loyal to Rangers. The only reason I was finally able to escape from the club was because I knew I was leaving it in her good hands. I had no idea she had been sacked until I read this. A huge mistake on the part of the club, I'm afraid, which bodes ill for the future..
It was Paladini wot did her in.
Bet you're glad you never had to work for the greasey waiter.
Why does it feel like R'SWiPe is still on the books? Yer Couldn't Make It Up.Well Done Me!
The Nick Kidd Portfolio became extinct due to the Omniturf ! I could not for the life of me ever get any decent action snaps on the plastic pitch. Terry Venables was keen for no pictures to contain knee burns because the pitch was controversial at the time receiving allot of bad publicity and of course most of my photographs contained players with skin burns ! Can you remember ringing me up to rush over to Loftus Rd one afternoon to take photos of a sodden pitch so the club could send the pictures to the FA to help the case for the plastic pitch ? Nick.
Gosh, you're right. I haven't thought about the plastic pitch for decades. It was my job to defend it but it was a hard job when everyone in the soccer world detested it. The pitch should have been taken up long before we eventually removed it. However, Alan Hardaker, the Football League Secretary, made the mistake of ordering Jim Gregory to get rid of it. That pair were always at war with each other. As soon as Jim Gregory got the order... the pitch stayed.
I was proudly one of the many sitting in the centre circle before that Man City game and I didn't take any offence to any comments over the PA. Even in my late teens I knew it was said due to the pressures of getting the game started and risk from the authorities the game could be cancelled and we forfited any points and other penalties.
As far as I was concerneced, the point was made. The game started and we won 1-0.
Thanks, Juzzie. I'm glad that someone appreciated the pressure we were under. But it wasn't just loss of the points that was threatened - it was ground closure.
I'd still like to know the answer to that one. Was that was that genuinely Tommy Docherty's idiocy or was he merely the fall guy?
Useless to ask me to explain the sales or purchases of Rangers players. If (on the rare occasions I was sitting in on a meeting to discuss team building) II dared to comment... there would be a stunned silence until I changed the subject. But I totally agree about Goddard and Allen - and the 8th letter of the alphabet.
Gosh, you're right. I haven't thought about the plastic pitch for decades. It was my job to defend it but it was a hard job when everyone in the soccer world detested it. The pitch should have been taken up long before we eventually removed it. However, Alan Hardaker, the Football League Secretary, made the mistake of ordering Jim Gregory to get rid of it. That pair were always at war with each other. As soon as Jim Gregory got the order... the pitch stayed.
I have the most awful confession to make, you asked me how I got the pitch to look so waterlogged if you remember, what I failed to mention was that I asked the groundsman to hose areas of the pitch with water then got him to stand in the puddles with his wellington boots on as they sank into the mud. Sorry ! Nick.
I have the most awful confession to make, you asked me how I got the pitch to look so waterlogged if you remember, what I failed to mention was that I asked the groundsman to hose areas of the pitch with water then got him to stand in the puddles with his wellington boots on as they sank into the mud. Sorry ! Nick.
Was it true we got the artficial pitch because the groundsman rolled the drainage pipes flat with a heavy roller?
Was it true we got the artficial pitch because the groundsman rolled the drainage pipes flat with a heavy roller?
I doubt it but brilliant if that was the real reason. On reflection though, the groundsman seemed a bit too keen to make the pitch look worse than it was for the photographs !
I doubt it but brilliant if that was the real reason. On reflection though, the groundsman seemed a bit too keen to make the pitch look worse than it was for the photographs !
I'd heard he was only good at preparing cricket pitches.{grin]
Ouch, it wasn't my brother. He is, and always has been, an incredibly hard working bank manager. How many more people are going around, claiming to be relatives of mine?
tw@t of a landlord in a pub in the isle of man claims to be your cousin? It pretty much got me banned, long story and I was on form!!
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