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Post by timbo on Sept 4, 2014 17:42:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 19:15:39 GMT
Well, well a 1955 trip to London and back on the same day. On the train. An "economy plan" that was scrapped almost immediately. But the "careful spending campaign" evidently continues.
A disappointing decision by referee N.C.Taylor of Westbury to rule out Dobbie's goal at QPR. I wonder if he was on the same train home afterwards?
Reassuring anyway that our lads are "not the type of men who make excuses". That's the spirit!
An Arsenal player on loan whilst he was serving at Denbury. I'd not heard of McGreevey before; a Mancunian who went on to play for Stockport County.
Mr Bean of Perth in the middle? Was this part of an Anglo-Scottish reciprocal arrangement?
Harry Pearce has sent in suggestions for a signature tune. Any ideas? Widecombe Fair? Er no....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 20:58:54 GMT
A fascinating old programme provided to us by Timbo. I'd just been wondering whether I'm feeling well enough to deliver a couple of full throated 'Sort it out Hargreaves' shouts on Saturday, but as long as I remember to pay a pre match visit to Cocks & Dunsford chemists at Castle Circus for some pectoral balsam of honey, the old voice could be back in fine fettle by 3pm.
The topic of the moment, travel arrangements for the players to away games, was even under discussion back then. The journey up and back on the train having it's pros and cons mulled over.
Tony Collins, fortunate enough to have been on the books of Sheffield Wednesday (there can be few greater honours in football),yet unfortunate in being there at the same time as the great Eddie Quigley and the even greater Redfern Froggatt, which curtailed any chance of a first team place.
Instead of the obvious Froggatt/Sheffield picture, let's have something a little different. Despite the unhelpful 'to/from' question (public sector, what else can you expect) provided by Sheffield City Libraries.
Construction of Furnival Square Roundabout and Underpass looking towards from Froggatt Lane, properties includinfg the former premises of Oakes, Turner & Co. Ltd., bullion dealers towards Sheffield College of Technology.
LINK- Froggatt Lane
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 21:31:03 GMT
Don't get me started, AJ.
Three things:
1. Redfern Froggatt's daughter occasionally visited our student household during 1976/77. She was going out with a local lad who somehow ended up with us.
2. Sheffield College of Technology (as pictured) is now Sheffield Hallam University. It's undoubtedly the same block although greatly altered both inside and outside.
On its' side it has a poem called What if? by Andrew Motion. I could never be arsed to stop and read it although it may appeal to AJ:
"O travellers from somewhere else to here
Rising from Sheffield Station and Sheaf Square
To wander through the labyrinths of air,
Pause now, and let the sight of this sheer cliff
Become a priming-place which lifts you off
To speculate
What if..?
What if..?
What if..?
Cloud shadows drag their hands across the white;
Rain prints the sudden darkness of its weight;
Sun falls and leaves the bleaching evidence of light.
Your thoughts are like this too: as fixed as words
Set down to decorate a blank facade
And yet, as words are too, all soon transferred
To greet and understand what lies ahead -
The city where your dreamling is re-paid,
The lives which wait unseen as yet, unread."
Exactly. Perhaps I should have paused to take it all in when returning from away games these past two seasons. What if we'd scored a few more goals?
3. The Furnival Square underpass was truly grotesque and has long gone. It's one of several Sheffield features which were "nearly new" in my youth but have since been bulldozed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 14:49:05 GMT
Tony Collins, fortunate enough to have been on the books of Sheffield Wednesday (there can be few greater honours in football),yet unfortunate in being there at the same time as the great Eddie Quigley and the even greater Redfern Froggatt, which curtailed any chance of a first team place And what does the future hold for Wednesday now the takeover has seemingly fallen through? Certainly no more "Hillsborough, Land of Fire". |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 18:22:58 GMT
As McGonagall would have said:
No more Hillsborough, land of fire When the man from Baku said he could pay he was a liar So the Owls will crack on with the players they've got Which on the evidence of last week isn't saying a lot Typical Wednesday; when I want them to win They go and throw a silly goal in And if that weren't bad enough there was simply no reason Not to tackle the guy who was an Owl last season They all stood around as Antonio crossed A header went in, and Wednesday had lost.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 18:38:35 GMT
No more Hillsborough, land of fire When the man from Baku said he could pay he was a liar So the Owls will crack on with the players they've got Which on the evidence of last week isn't saying a lot Typical Wednesday; when I want them to win They go and throw a silly goal in And if that weren't bad enough there was simply no reason Not to tackle the guy who was an Owl last season They all stood around as Antonio crossed A header went in, and Wednesday had lost.
What fine verse. Certainly worth quoting in full. Good old Forest, eh? Oh mist rolling in from the Trent my desire is always to be there..... |
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