FL2: Northampton v Torquay United 5th April 2010

From Geograph:

Built to test lifts by the Express Lift Company, decommissioned when Otis lifts took over. Sold to a house building company who built so close as to prevent any demolition. Concrete cancer was discovered on a routine inspection and it now needs a protective covering. It is alleged that the tower may be used again for its original purpose. An unmissable landmark that regularly features as the Northampton lighthouse in the letters to Terry Wogan on Radio 2. There appears to be communication equipment on top of the building and you certainly get a strong phone signal close by

The very same Lee Kirkman who was shamefully framed by the Bateson Family and subsequently banned from Plainmoor after Richard Hancox told blatant lies "To Daddy" about what went on at Rochdale the day the total piss was taken out of the Yellow Army by having to endure "Handjob's" fat ageing frame squeezed into a club kit and watching him perform with all the effectiveness that the bloody coach driver would have if he had been put in the team instead.

Unlike Mr Hancox with his obscene gestures and language, Lee did nothing, said nothing that was untoward nor against the law or spirit of entry into a professional football match, yet Hancox chose to pick him out probably because he was the only one he recognised from amongst those laughing and jeering at his arrival on the pitch as a substitute..........................I know, I was sitting next to him and his parents.

Talking of the game we had 3 men sent off by Michael Ryan at sixfields, who were they?

Healy and Herrera I think but I can't remember the third

It was Beds, I think. 2nd yellow after failing to retreat 10 yards from a free-kick wall? Proper farce that day.

Northampton isn't as bad as all that. The town has a rich sporting heritage and pedigree and a rich history, hinted at by its market square and one or two fine historical buldings. It's hinterland is also quintessentially English imo...attractive, unassuming villages built in the local ironstone, and without any of the cloying tweeness found in the Cotswolds, or dare I say, parts of Devon.

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Rob has got plenty of experience of using words to good effect in court. An example from a recent case:-

Chairman of the Bench: "Now Mr Chandler, can you tell us if with that remark your client is trying to show his contempt for this court?"

Rob (immediately): "No. With respect Your Honour, he is doing his very best to disguise it!"

I know, if that's the best I can do don't give up my day job!!