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Thats me out then. I'll not wear anything with a betting logo on it regardless of who owns it.

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It'll be interesting to see how Brentford get on this season. With a new ground to pay for and to fill, their ticket prices must be the cheapest in London.

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Hillsborough 74 for me also. We had had such a good season up to that point. Gutted at the end and thought about what could have been for ages after.

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Well done to Gareth Southgate and the team. Proud of you.
A sad end but there you go. The harsh reality of penalty shoot outs. It Hurts but we will bounce back. That's what we do.

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That scene from Casablanca never fails to bring a lump in my throat.

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You could have had a ticket for the final for ten bob, a programme for 2/6d a pie and a cup of tea at half time and still have change out of a quid. (PS...Not sure if Twixes had been invented then)

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Final Programme for 1966. Cost price 2s 6d half a crown or 12 and 1/2 pence.
Final programme for 2020 Cost price £10.

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Ticket for the final would have cost you Ten Bob or 50p.
Compared with a ticket for the Euro final tomorrow on offer for over two grand.

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World Cup Willie

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The UK always was four separate countries, but once the move to devolution and regional assemblies took place from the late 1990s, that is definitely more so today than it was in 1966. There are lots of videos on YouTube of the 66 WC final, and this colour example shows there were St George's Englan...

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David Attenborough still on the telly 55 years later.

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The tournament brochure was quite common. The image is from eBay where the brochure was signed by all the players going for £450.
WC final prog also common but signed takes that up into several hundreds.

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Tournament programme

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Before Three Lions, there was...
https://youtu.be/TA3btKkbZpU

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On this day... The 1966 World Cup Competition got underway. If you were around then, it was all in black and white as colour tellies were still a year away and broadcasts of regular colour programmes even longer. Here's the Radio Times cover from 9July1966 and what was on... (If you're interested in...

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Didn't she play the part of Minnie Caldwell?

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Recorded all the Star Treks shown on Film 4 last week. Just finishing Off ST2 Wrath Of Khan tonight, then onto Search for Spock.
Bill Shatner still the best Captain of the Enterprise IMHO.

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High Force in Teesdale taken a fortnight ago.

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BBC TV transmission in the north only started in October 1951 when the Holme Moss transmitter was opened.
The 1947 Cup final would only have been seen on televisions in the London area.

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I knew Jean had been suffering for a while. So sorry for Rocky and his family. A sad loss to the Clarets family.
RIP Jean

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We've got five right backs. That must count as a positive. No one else has so many.

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Get Grealish on - only England player who can make a difference

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Lee Trundle, Henri Lansbury, Andrew Driver- we could have been Champions League contenders if the board had only signed these guys.

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Damn and blast. Once again my flabber is well and truly gasted. No Ashley Young, and now no Angela Lansbury either. It’s a disaster bigger than the Covid outbreak.

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£1:50 for three hours is cheaper than Burnleys £1:60 for two hours. The charges Sound reasonable. The old honesty box system didn’t have any clout people just walked past it. I’m guessing it will increase Parking along the road which was always bad unless they’re planning on charging there too?

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I thought his enthusiasm added to the match commentary.
He’s not bad on 606 with Sutton either.

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Just reading Harrier 809 by Rowland White

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Theres a little shop on the Main Street in Lytham that sells the best Lancashire Parkin. Its next to the book shop. Sells it by weight and cuts it off huge chunks.
Absolutely gorgeous.

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Burnley Town Centre April 1980. Map from Burnley Reference Library. A thriving town centre. All kinds of shops and services. No Pound Shops, No Food Banks, No Charity Shops. Ah the wonder of Woolworths and the Pick and Mix on a Saturday morning. I do have a higher res version but couldn't post it on...

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Mark at the Colne Bookshop can order and get books faster than Amazon can deliver.

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Send for Bob Lord. He'd sort it.

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A butchers. A greengrocers. A fish shop. A book shop. A decent market - like Cliteroe's open market today.

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Cheers, I just thought it would be on here somehow. Ill have a shift at the NHS app.

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Where on the app can you find if you’ve had the jabs?

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I wouldn’t be surprised to see local restrictions stay in place where the R number is above 1, infections are on the increase and there are low levels of vaccine take up.

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There have been a few items on the BBC today about the National arboretum that’s been officially opened and a number of veterans are there after campaigning for it.

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The One Show.

This show had no equals in how bad tv has become.

Until these gems appeared…

The Big Pottery Throw Down and the more recently horrible The Dog Grooming show - absolute shyte.

Nothing makes me grab the remote faster

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And for corporal punishment fans there was Wacko starring moustachioed Jimmy Edwards thrashing cheeky young whippersnappers.

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If they watched any TV clips before making their £180 million buy out thenThey probably thought all we all live in cobbled streets of back to back terraced houses where it rains all the time and we only eat pies, chips, black pudding and tripe washed down with mugs of tea or pints of English ale ser...

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Here's an interesting NFT story - from the BBC home page.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57279486
and another what NFT's are and can do
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56371912

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Could you spell out in layman’s terms, simply and avoiding jargon and acronyms, the benefits of NFTs for
A) the football club
B) BUrnley supporters

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The bottom link of the two links above seems to be about basketball fans buying chunks of video and then trading these among themselves like Top Trumps. Is that the concept here? How will this work in football (the association type) when TV rights are owned by the major corporations?

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Interesting article on how concert goers can buy one or two price tickets - but how can NFTs be used in football stadiums with restrictions for separating home and away fans, including pre-booked seats for season ticket holders, different pricing structures for different groups, different stands, di...

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Penalty shoot-out.

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Some photographs from the Civic Trust collection of Gawthorpe 1950s to the 1970s.

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I don’t know if it was solely down to the pandemic but will next season continue with the same crazy KO times for some games? The tv scheduling of Four PL games a day for example between 12:30 and 8:15. 8:00pm KO on a Saturday night needs consigning to the bin for one as there’s no public transport ...

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1. Beating Arsenal. Waited for years for that.
2. Beating Liverpool. Almost as good as (1)
3. The win at Wolves was Burnley at their best. Fantastic performance.

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Did he have a sports shop in Accrington at one time?

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As a programme it’s a fun event but When you look at what won last night, it just about sums up the quality that’s on offer these days. Bring back Kenneth McKeller.

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Short film made pre-match on Wednesday night.
https://youtu.be/yyeQDzR9das

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