timbo
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Post by timbo on Mar 19, 2014 22:12:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2014 6:58:37 GMT
"These grave financial times" sufficiently serious, it appears, to warrant a Torquay United Action Fund.
Another one I've forgotten or is it the same one we discussed recently? No, I'm sure that one was from the 1980s.
No doubt I belatedly caught up with this crisis when the press cuttings arrived through the post from my mother. And I expect that, as a know-all first year university student, I loftily dismissed my home town football club as a lame duck shambles: "you won't catch me watching that rubbish much longer. They're going bust anyway!" I really did know everything back then.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2014 19:38:58 GMT
I think we need some toe tapping music in honour of 'The Man In The Middle' - Brian Henry Daniels. Not only the founder member and President of the Ilford Seven-a-side Charity Cup competition, but also shrewd enough to claim all the available expenses from UEFA while making himself available for linesman duties in Las Palmas.
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Post by Jon on Mar 20, 2014 22:34:54 GMT
"These grave financial times" sufficiently serious, it appears, to warrant a Torquay United Action Fund. Another one I've forgotten or is it the same one we discussed recently? No, I'm sure that one was from the 1980s. No doubt I belatedly caught up with this crisis when the press cuttings arrived through the post from my mother. And I expect that, as a know-all first year university student, I loftily dismissed my home town football club as a lame duck shambles: "you won't catch me watching that rubbish much longer. They're going bust anyway!" I really did know everything back then. This was the December 1974 crisis. We have discussed the November 1974 crisis before: We really did need a Cup run for financial reasons and this defeat sparked a crisis meeting at the Town Hall begging for financial support. Of the match, John Lovis wrote: Despite playing well, United were unable to penetrate a strong defence and the visitors broke out to score the winning goal from virtually their only attack of the game. Plus ça change. We have also recently discussed the March 1983 crisis: The Crisis of 1983. Was that the one I asked about recently? Or was that another? This was the crisis of March 1983. It came after the crisis of February 1983 and before the crisis of April 1983. Don't worry. Webby will sort it. and the April 1981 crisis: Compelling words underneath that "thank you" from Alan Mer.son: "so here we are at the end of another season.....and how nearly it became our last". Good grief, which crisis was that? I think I missed that one. Keep up, Barty. It would be far quicker to list the seasons from our history that did not feature a crisis than the ones that did. 1972-1984 was perpetual crisis until that nice Mr Webb came and sorted it all out. Of course, time did not tell what kind of players Mike Green might have brought to the club in the close season. Merse has told us of the shenanigans and false promises that brought a sad end to the the third longest ever reign of a TUFC manager. Funnily enough, those weened on the old Mervo site were repeatedly told that TUFC before Mike Bateson was a land of milk and honey where money was in plentiful supply and directors never mentioned the difficulties of surviving on our gate receipts. The truth was a constant rattling of the begging bowl. |
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