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Thread | I am a complete and utter f**kwit...
at 11:36 12 Oct 2011
Just opened the post - Stoke ticket.
Put the envelope on the mantelpiece. Ticket in the shredder.
Perhaps my subconscious has taken a leading hand here, as hand on heart it’s not my favourite away day, but this is drastic subliminal action!
What a chump
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Thread | Gary Cook - Resigns from Man City
at 16:31 9 Sep 2011
"Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook resigns over claims he emailed defender Nedum Onuoha's cancer-suffering mother mocking her illness"
- BBC Website
Strange one really. Initially claimed his account was hacked, and a member of staff was under investigation. Now 'quietly' resigns.
Assumption is he lied I guess?
What a way to destroy one's own career.
Reading the full article the comment, in isolation, wasn't 'terrible', but considering the subject matter a very stupid thing to say, and an inevitable, and correct, outcome.
Thoughts?
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Thread | Don't be silly Chris Eagles!
at 08:40 13 Aug 2011
Without wanting to make light of the recent troubles in London, the following quote(s) from Chris Eagles (from the 'Mail Online') did make me chuckle:
"you never know what may happen. They could ransack the pitch'
'you don't know what they're capable of. We want to be safe. If a fire blows up you could get caught in the middle of it'
Maybe it's just me, but having considered the profile of the scum who have been 'protesting' so vehemently, my gut feeling is that these individuals are unlikely to pay T&C's walk up prices, and then hop over the fence to torch the pitch in front of 17,000 burly football supporters and the Old Bill.
Still, if it puts you off your game Chris...
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Thread | Championship Flags from the end of last season.....what happened to yours?
at 10:41 12 Aug 2011
Although I wasn't a big fan of waving those free flags around during the Leeds game - seemed just a tad manufactured - like many others I took the pole out and stuck it in my back pocket.
Got home pissed that night and tried to climb the big f*** off tree in my garden in an attempt to hang it from the highest branch. Stupid, because I'm scared of heights.
In retrospect it was just as well I fell on my arse when just a few feet off the ground and gave it up as a bad job.
In the end I found a 6ft bamboo pole, stuck the flag on top and wedged it into the BBQ for the next door neighbours to admire. Got a tut of disgust from the husband of one of the daughters the next day. Bearing in mind he then turned up on 'The Apprentice' ('Vincent the Tw@t') I think he had a nerve, the slimy git.
Anyway, it lasted a week before the wind took it up above the streets and houses; never to be seen again.
Wish I still had that piece of memorabilia.
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Thread | The First Day of the Season — The Football Fix
at 11:32 11 Aug 2011
The First Day of the Season — The Football Fix
There is just something about the first day of the season. A certain anticipation; sometimes built on high hopes for a successful year (not often), the prospect of catching up with old mates and certainly a desire to sate a burning thirst after a barren summer. Less so in World Cup or European Championship years, but it’s still there; the need for the football fix.
And you know what, it doesn’t change with the years; I’m forty- three years old now, and still get the same irrational buzz.
I’m working at home today and I’ve stacks of work to do, but I just can’t get football off my mind — I’m wistfully looking back at first days of the season past.
My first ‘first day’ was at the tail end of the 70’s; we’d just been relegated from the top flight after an appalling season, and I’m ashamed to admit it, but I was quite pleased we were dropping down a level.
I saw this as a chance to rebuild the team around the likes of Clive Allen (who’d shown his potential the previous season with a hat-trick against Coventry to temporarily avoid the drop), a flying winger signed, I think, from Nottingham Forest, called Steve Burke (he looked the business in a pre-season match at Folkestone anyway), the underrated Glenn Roeder and the clean-cut boy from the Boys’ Brigade, Paul Goddard. Stan Bowles and Tony Currie we’re also on the books — it seems a long time ago.
My dad took me along, which was fair play to him as he hated football, to watch the R’s see off Bristol Rovers 2-0. Goddard and Allen doing the business.
Roll forward nine or ten years and it was my first away ‘first day of the season’ - West Ham at a re-developing Upton Park. As I recall the building work meant that Rangers only got something in the region of 400 tickets, and I was lucky enough to snaffle a seat to watch us cruise to 3-0 victory; Bannister and Brock scored, not sure who else, and I believe Tony Roberts had a pretty solid game too.
Clive Allen was playing for Hammers that day with the Rangers fans chanting ‘you should’ve stayed at the Rangers’. A shrug of the shoulders and a sly wink seemed to indicate he agreed.
The match was particularly satisfying as my previous visit to the Boleyn (not a ‘first dayer’) saw us lose 3-0 with a hat-trick from Goddard and a saved penalty from Phil Parkes. The injustice.
During the early 90’s I was playing a lot of cricket, so missed many August matches. I remember listening on the radio — having been bowled for not very many, as usual — to reports of the game at Arsenal (who were probably the defending league champions), and having led through, I think, a Dennis Bailey goal, we were pegged back to a draw in the last minute. My language was, shall we say, ‘just not cricket’.
A couple of year’s later, football had just been gobbled up by Sky, I watched from the comfort of first armchair, in my first house, the first Monday night televised game on satellite. This was another 1-1 draw, this time against Manchester City with Sinton scoring a cracker. Was Keith Curle in the opposition team?
The next few years saw our dramatic decline, and my next memorable first day of the season was in the third tier away at Bury. It was also my first taste of ‘hospitality’, £25 each, and we had tickets in the centre of the main stand, with a three-course meal and a bucks fizz reception in the bar. No arguing with that for northern value!
Even better they had a quiz, and because there were a few R’s with the same idea as us, we were grouped together in one team, and we won the bloody thing! Loads of Bury gear from the club shop, which I think we ‘generously’ left to be raffled.
And the icing on the cake, apart from a 2-0 win (maybe including a goal from Paul Bruce?), one of my great heroes, Simon Stainrod, appeared in the bar as a last minute replacement for another ‘guest of honour’ who didn’t pitch up.
Oh, the licensee of the bar was one Neville Neville.
Great day followed by a large night out in Manchester.
This is certainly not a definitive list of my ‘first dayers’; merely an eclectic selection based on personal memory. I didn’t even get to the balmy day we nailed Blackpool 5-0.
Halcyon days.
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Thread | Nice to be back, to be back, nice...
at 21:06 29 Jul 2011
It’s been an awfully long time since I last posted on LFW; funny how you just let it slip, let it drift, let it go - and then you’re just too embarrassed to show your stupid fat face.
But here I am, home alone, no missus, no kids and, quite frankly, missing the crack I had as my previous alto ego, Don Samioni.
Interesting time to make a comeback too; it seems, potentially, and with caution, we may be on the cusp of shift in power at the helm.
Putting aside the nagging doubt at the back of my mind (our collective minds?) that we don’t really know an awful lot about Tony Fernandes, my spirits have been lifted simply because he is NOT either T or C.
OK, not the most positive reason for an upturn in spirits, but I’m certainly feeling a whole lot better about my season ticket renewal — artificial elation perhaps, but I’ve been so bloody desperate for a straw to clutch.
You know it seems bizarre — and is bizarre — that a 43 year old bloke, with 35 years tenure at Loftus Road, and with a huge catalogue of ‘life experience’ can have their thought patterns so totally dominated by a football team, but it’s just the way it is.
Anyway, I look forward to watching — and contributing to — the LFW space.
I hope you’ll be kind to me on my return.
Cheers,
Don
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