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Will always be Dougan in Sc*m to me.
RIP Patrick Murray.

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Yes. Most definitely. I got talking to a guy on holiday and asked where he was from. He said Lincoln. "ahh an Imps fan then?"..expecting some banter about their cup game against us. "No" he said quite indignantly, "Liverpool". So i asked him if he had moved there or had family etc. He said he'd sup...

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A straw poll If you meet a stranger and they say they follow one of the big sides, do you initially show them less respect than someone who follows a less fashionable/successful club? Especially if that club is Manchester United or Liverpool. I certainly do. 100%. If I'm ever away in holiday and se...

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Funny that this topic has come up today as for the last bloody week I've had the line "Gonna buy a tank and an aeroplane" from John Entwistle's 'My Wife' going through my head on what seems like a permanent loop for reasons I can't quite fathom.

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I've no idea why, beyond the obvious of him being a tough nut, but Joe Bugner was one of the only 2 people who used to really scare the life out of me as a child, the other one being the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
RIP Joe Bugner.

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The Swan and Goose Bistro at Barden Marina serves excellent food. It doesn't stay open late.for food, last service is about 6pm, but well worth a visit and has always been busy when we've been.

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On the rare occasions that I find myself on an empty and silent Turf Moor, that 3rd goal from Billy Hamilton against Wednesday is always the goal that I visualise.
Cracking compilation that. Thanks for posting.

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'Oh Pretty Woman' was No.1 on the Hit Parade the day that I was born.

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Not seen that before. Thanks for posting.

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'All Our Own Work' by Sandy Denny and The Strawbs is one of my favourite albums of all time and this beautiful version of 'Who Knows Where The Time Goes?' is definitely one of my Desert Island Discs.

https://youtu.be/3ycaoV0WXfk?si=sXsxndO7i23nooZD

RIP Dave Cousins.

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I found this pub by accident whilst picking up some stuff bought on Marketplace very close by. We've not been in for a while but I concur that it's a cracking pub. The pub still gets mentioned pretty regularly though as I had the (mis?)fortune to hear what must have been close to the single worst ev...

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I thought this was going to be about the Carol Smillie home makeover show with one of the best TV theme tunes ever in my opinion.
https://youtu.be/EaQp20fmBGc?si=3hGskj_s0naDvEzJ

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I don't usually bother with those videos, but I gave that one an Instant Replay.

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Whenever Sam Vokes' name comes up, it always puts me in mind of that 2-0 win against Liverpool and to this day it remains one of my favourite Clarets Premier League matches. I've just watched the short highlights back and those 2 goals looks just as beautiful today as they did back on the day. Good ...

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'You Oughta Know' comes around once in a while on my 'Long Journey' Spotify playlist and no matter how many times I've heard that song since I received the CD for Xmas '95 from a work colleague it's always a treat and a song I never tire of. As for bobinho's reference further up about Human Remains,...

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I still think everything will click into place one day and that Michael Duff will become a very successful manager.

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Right on cue, I took my dog to Victoria Park in Nelson earlier and was walking about 100 yards behind a young couple and saw a lot of stuff being thrown on the ground. When I caught up to where they were there were 2 plastic wrappers, 2 e-cig boxes and 2 e-cig instruction leaflets just discarded by ...

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Last Thursday, not for the first time, I swept the entire 50-60m length of the terraced street in Duke Bar where my Mum lives as I just couldn't bear wading through crisp packets, plastic e-cigs and associated debris, takeaway wrappers, piles of fag ends (from someone tipping out a car ashtray), can...

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Well before my time but I've just watched the Pathe News video of the 1957 FA Cup Final. I appreciate that this was a time when goalkeepers were considered 'fair game', but McParland's charge was just a diabolical assault. Here is the Pathe News video: https://youtu.be/Oi_LOP3RIMo?si=Aas1b-5eCyZEFWjE

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Some really cracking games to look forward to on the last day. All tough looking games, maybe Bristol City excepted, for those vying for a spot in the play offs.

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I'm afraid that I could never consider winning the 2nd Division title as being 'meaningless'.

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Bristol City for me. They've become my adopted 3rd team after I randomly met a guy down there in the 1990s after being refused service in The Robin pub who took me for a pint in his local and we've remained friends since always travelling back and forth when the teams meet. Also it's over 40 years s...

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The Hillingdon Arms. I'm pleased that I managed to find a picture. I was never a regular but went in a good few times.

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karatekid wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 18, 2025 9:49 pm
There was a pub on Kibble Bank estate called Lanehead. Just up from the Black Bull. I think it’s a Spar shop now. Shame as it was a real local pub for the estate residents. Everyone knew each other.

I think that the pub on Kibble Bank was called the Hillingdon Arms.

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Hi Targetman.....im almost 100% sure that it was Leeds 30th game to equal our record and am sure it was at Ellend road, not at Stoke, i think they were winning 1-0 at ht... but Stoke scored 2 in the 2nd half....Claret Tony will know better than me. Here's the video of the Stoke City v Leeds United ...

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Now would be a good time to give Shriekback another listen. I couldn't take to them at all first time round, but my tastes have widened a lot since I was in my 20s.

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There will be other fans of Gang Of Four on here saddened by this news. Entertainment is one of the greatest 'punk' (well, that's the rack you'd find it in in the record shop along with Magazine, PIL, Mekons etc.) albums of all time. The superb single version of 'Damaged Goods' at the link. RIP Dave...

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Page 324.
I believe that there were times when we had to wait until page 8/8 to see where we were in the table unless my memory is playing tricks.

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Too slow. I thirded it.

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willsclarets wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 05, 2025 5:15 pm
I'm loving this regular service Vegas, look for this thread a few hours after full time every week

I'll second that.

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I may be wrong, but wasn't there another free kick that Hedman saved? That may have been a better save that denied us than the one shown. Edit: The commentator actually mentions it. It was the free kick before that one! Yes, there was another earlier free kick shown in the video link below which in...

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Like pretty much everyone on this thread, I have zero good memories of Gascoigne's time at Burnley. As for this mythical world class free kick denied only by a world class save from the Coventry keeper, I can recall seeing it back several years later and being surprised at how unspectacular it was i...

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I was only thinking about how Tony Parkes was doing the other day whilst watching an old Big Match late one evening.
Here's him scoring in 1975 v Oldham Athletic.
https://youtu.be/Cxmf-0JaMus?si=nnzjVhRpElhBQlkM&t=2790

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My first ever encounter with alcohol was consuming an entire bottle of Harvey's Bristol Cream in about 30 minutes aged 13.
To this day, now in my 60s, even the merest whiff of it makes me wretch.

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https://youtu.be/i17pORf_iE4?si=4pVVY_3ZFvz8sKCP

More chicken related weirdness - 'The Chickening' which was posted on here many years ago. (Warning: video contains some swearing).

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Well looks like thats it for Marsden unfortunately. Sad news, spent many happy hours up there when i was younger. Believe they're opening the full 18 one last time this weekend if anybody fancies one last trudge up Cardiac hill! I've long since given up playing golf but I was a member at Marsden in...

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Wow. I was only listening to her version of Janis Ian's 'Jesse' about 2 hours ago and being reminded of what a spectacular voice she had.
Her masterpiece version of 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' in the link:
https://youtu.be/d8_fLu2yrP4?si=37R6syG3MvVnctnG

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Think it might be the first time we sold out the new stands for a league game. We had to go in with the away fans in the Cricketfield Stand. Didn't somebody miss a sitter of a header? Maybe Alan Lee? If I remember correctly the 'sitter' from Alan Lee was in the away game v Wigan and quite late on i...

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Fookin' ell. That's a shock.
RIP Rick Buckler.

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Stunned at this news. I used to work with Nigel years ago and can echo what's said in the above tributes as to him being a lovely bloke. In fact the picture posted on here really sums him up as no matter what, he permanently had that smile etched on his face.
RIP Nigel.

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RIP Kris Kristofferson.

The Highwaymen - Highwayman : https://youtu.be/TxNx4UbtNA4?si=z6itM6WtyKO0uIv0

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"As a typical bloke I thought I could power through it, I thought I was invincible but unfortunately these things have a habit of catching up with us!" Very succinctly put and so very true. Good luck getting back into playing football - knowing this board when it's at its very best it wouldn't surpr...

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10 points from 15 now for Steve Cotterill's resurgent Forest Green Rovers.

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https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... es-aged-50

Superb comedy character in The Office. RIP.

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FAO NewClaret - I have sent you an email.

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Best of luck to Steve Cotterill. I met him while he was here and he could be a 'bristly' character and not a bloke to be crossed in a hurry but I think that was just his slightly guarded way and he always struck me as someone with a real love of the game so I'm glad to see him back, especially after...

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Would the 'League Liner' have been running for this game? I recall going to a few games on it, just can't recall if this was one of them.

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Keith Hedges is based in Nelson and he's done my Mum's, a close friend's and my sister-in-law's full bathrooms and all this work has been of exceptionally high quality.
https://keithhedgesbathrooms.co.uk/

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Used to love Annie Nightingale on the Old Grey Whistle Test, by her own admission the BBC initially booked her as the 'token female' yet looking back now she ended up in no time at all with as much credibility and respect as absolutely anyone in the business.
RIP Annie.

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