Well Terry an interesting story on the front of the
"Times" this morning, so it must be true...

The head of Railtrack is talking about resuming train
services on Christmas Day AND Boxing Day, the latter
would of course be particularly welcome for football
fans.
I'm not sure when BR packed up running trains on
Boxing Day, I think it must havve been some time in
the 1970's. I remember the frustration I felt
particularly in the early 1980's when I was living in
eastbourne without a car and Palace were playing
Brighton.
One year I went up over Xmas to stay with my bro, and
someone gave mne a lift to selhurst Park on Boxing
day, the only way I could get back down south was to
smuggle myself on board an Albion supporters coach.
Luckily for me albion had won, though there was a lot
of crowd trouble, I think someone was knifed that
year. The police came into the coach to get our IDs, I
was on the back seat and luckily was not carrying
palace clours!

I ended up staying the night in a Brighton B & B
because the taxifare back to eastbourne would have
been far more! So I for one would welcome the return
of a train service in the future.

Bob Brown
--- Terry Morley <terry@...> wrote:

> Must admit I was expecting the run to come to an end
> Saturday as well. I am not sure if the League ever
> operated exact mirror seasons. I seem to recall when
> I first started going to Palace we used to play the
> same team on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Not sure
> but in the early 20's I think teams used to play
> home and the away to the same teams in a fortnight.
> This season is a bit weird we have already played
> Coventry QPR & Norwich home & away, but we still
> haven't played Bristol City yet and of course have
> just played Wolves, got a feeling there is someone
> else we haven't played yet, No idea why they have
> arranged the fixtures in this manner this season. I
> know some of the Premier teams have played each
> other home & away already as well. Assume it's the
> same in the other divisions. See your local side
> has just signed an ex Eagle - Steve Thomson from
> Falkirk. Happy New year to you too. This site has
> gone a bit quiet recently we'll have to try and get
> things moving again.
>
>
>
>
>
> ========================================
> Message Received: Jan 15 2008, 01:42 PM
> From: "Robert Brown"
> To: sixtiesandseventiessoccer@yahoogroups.com
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [Sixties and Seventies Soccer] Torres
> relatives?
>
> Thanks Terry, Happy New Year!!
>
> I did well out of the Wolves game on saturday with a
> pint bet with a local Wolves supporter here in
> seaford. Hope we can now do the Double! BTW when did
> the League abandon "mirror" halves of seasons, if in
> fact they ever had that policy? Both Palace v Wolves
> games are in the second half of this season.
>
> Bob Brown
> --- Terry Morley <terry@...>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > No he is not related Bob. The Wycombe player;
> > Sergio; is Argentinian.
> > He came over as an amateur had a trial with Falmer
> > Seaweeds, and then had a spell at Basingstoke
> vefore
> > going to Wycombe.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ========================================
> > Message Received: Jan 14 2008, 03:17 PM
> > From: "Robert Brown"
> > To: sixtiesandseventiessoccer@yahoogroups.com
> > Cc:
> > Subject: Re: [Sixties and Seventies Soccer] Torres
> > relatives?
> >
> > Cannot comment on this, I remember watching
> > Trebilcock
> > play for Everton v Sheffield Wednesday in the 1966
>
> > Cup Final but that was in black and white!
> >
> > Can anyone answer a much more recent question; on
> > Boxing Day Wycombe against Brentford played up
> front
> > a
> > blond-haired pony-tailed striker called Torres. He
> > looks amazingly like the Liverpool player also
> > (unusually for a Spaniard) with blond hair. Are
> they
> > related? I think the Wycombe bloke is Sebastian.
> >
> > He took the Bees defence apart as well as
> Fernando,
> > but that was not quite up to Premiership
> standards!!
> >
> > Bob Brown
> > --- jgibbes@... wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Mike Trebilcock certainly looked black to me
> when
> > he
> > > was at Torquay.
> > >
> > > Trebilcock is a good old Cornish name so I
> always
> > > assumed a Cornish father
> > > and an Afro-Carribean mother. Pure guesswork
> > though.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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