Although I have watched City Nomads (the Reserve team in the Hellenic Premier)twice recently,I managed to catch the City first-team on Saturday playing in a...
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bill laing
billy318124
Apr 14, 2013 9:51 pm
I gave my Sutton United (Conference South) season ticket to the window cleaner.Cricket season starts (for Surrey) on...
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Bob7071
bob_dunning_uk
Apr 15, 2013 5:12 am
I've had a great football season with three parallel strands. Firstly I've seen Leeds United about 15 times, which has been painful, then I've seen Guiseley a...
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Robert Brown
bobbrownct
Apr 15, 2013 9:54 am
Amazing to think Lewes survived for one season at the Conference level, Steve King took them up way above their normal level. Â Then just as he had...
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bill laing
billy318124
Apr 16, 2013 9:29 am
Good luck to you Bob ! I have nothing but admiration for older supporters who can retain that boyish enthusiasm for the game. I fell out of love with it years...
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Prof
oxonchap1
Apr 16, 2013 7:28 pm
Certainly refereeing has kept me reasonably "fresh" with football.I still watch OUFC when not assessing/coaching,but enjoy the unpredictability of non-league...
Hi everyone, Just a reminder you to come and visit the Sixties and Seventies Soccer Group at Yahoo. If you have heard some news of the stars from the 60s and...
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Prof
oxonchap1
May 5, 2013 7:03 pm
I did not really mind which team won the Conference play-off final,as both are Welsh.What a year ! Cardiff and Swansea now in the Premier,Newport back in the...
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Bob7071
bob_dunning_uk
May 5, 2013 7:25 pm
When I first followed football and there was no automatic promotion into the Leagues. The first team I saw disappear was Barrow - who I saw home and away in...
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Prof
oxonchap1
May 5, 2013 8:26 pm
County were re-formed...money problems like Merthyr who vanished for two seasons into the Western League.I saw Barrow lose 7-0 at Oxford in our early league...
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Bob7071
bob_dunning_uk
May 5, 2013 8:51 pm
Scarborough Athletic won the North Counties East League Premier Division I don't know if they're related. In that League Bridlington Town were 3rd with 95...
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Robert Brown
bobbrownct
May 7, 2013 11:30 am
In my firsrt season of watching Palace as opposed to just supporting them, 1996/67, Wolves and Coventry were both promoted to Div. 1, Coventry for the first...
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claphamstuart
May 7, 2013 11:39 am
I think the play-offs are something you love if you are in them, hate if you are not. As a Leeds fan I know all to well of the misery of losing at Wembley...
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Robert Brown
bobbrownct
May 7, 2013 11:47 am
Thanks Stuat, how's your ABC collection? Â I take it Highfield road has been developed now,it will be sad when inevitably Griffin Park suffers the same fate....
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claphamstuart
May 7, 2013 1:05 pm
Collection hasn't moved. I am into collecting FA yearbooks at the moment, I am desperately trying to get hold of a 1972-73 edition. I am not sure if Highfield...
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Bob7071
bob_dunning_uk
May 7, 2013 9:26 pm
I didn't realise Griffin Park was going, too. I've never been, is it too late already? . I never got to Highfield Road either. Still waiting to get to...
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Robert Brown
bobbrownct
May 8, 2013 12:18 pm
Griffin Park I think will be there for a couple of seasons yet. Although the new site is agreed in principle I don't know if the funding has been tied up....
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claphamstuart
May 8, 2013 12:23 pm
And when was a 3-year contract at Leeds or anywhere else proof against managerial change? i cannot believe what you have written here. are you for real? or do...
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Bob7071
bob_dunning_uk
May 8, 2013 6:58 pm
I'll make a point of going next season. Ironically as a kid growing up in Maidenhead it was one of the easiest grounds to get to. Thankfully following Leeds in...
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bill laing
billy318124
May 8, 2013 9:03 pm
Just got back from the Surrey Senior Cup Final.Godalming v Sutton (played at Sutton) i tried to leave at ht but the gates were locked.I left a few minutes into...
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Bob7071
bob_dunning_uk
May 8, 2013 9:12 pm
My last live game will be Guiseley in the West Riding Cup. I will probably stay to the end - I can't bare to lose my money! They're playing FC Halifax Town who...
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bill laing
billy318124
May 8, 2013 11:30 pm
How long have you got ? I'm totally fed up with football.It ended 1-0 to Godalming.On Monday i spent a sunny afternoon at The Oval watching Steve Davies score...
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Robert Brown
bobbrownct
May 9, 2013 12:03 pm
Sorry stuart, but the record on managers at Leeds is hardly stable is it? Not as bad as (say) Blackburn recently, but hardly a model of loyalty. Â I hope...
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Prof
oxonchap1
May 9, 2013 2:41 pm
I was at Griffin Park in 1964 to see Oxford win in the FA Cup replay,26000 there ! Where will Brentford go ? Sir Alex's first game (well documented) was at...
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Bob7071
bob_dunning_uk
May 9, 2013 5:58 pm
They are saying on the local news that Halifax have sold their 1000 allocation already. I'm not sure how ready Guiseley were for the Conference Premiership...
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Prof
oxonchap1
May 9, 2013 8:43 pm
I watched Halifax the season they went out (at OUFC),I wasn't assessing ! Poor at the time but have re-grouped well.Sorry to see Barrow go down from the...
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Robert Brown
bobbrownct
May 10, 2013 12:59 pm
Eerie moment here, the thread title "Halifax etc" comes next to the only other Yahoo group I am active on, a group talking about WW2 in particulat an RAF...
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Robert Brown
bobbrownct
May 11, 2013 11:41 am
Have just ben posted a link to this info on the new Brentford stadium, for those of you interested. Thanks Rick. Here...The Stadium of Dreams under the...
