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You are in luck SJB! :D He said he has a spare copy at home and he will happily send you his spare for free. Is there a way for the admin's to send you my email address so I can get your postal address? If so, I am happy for them to share my details. I'm logging off now and going away for a few day...

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That's great Poulton. If you put your email on here I'll note it straight away then you can delete it if that's OK?

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 18, 2025 8:17 pm
Notts 10/3 off 2 overs but the third wicket is a shocking decision. Given out lbw when the ball hit his arm.

I'm not watching the game but you can be given out LBW if the ball hits your arm, providing of course that all the other LBW criteria are met. If it hits the hand then it can't be given.

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I don't think he would as he is quite a collector of sports memorabilia and from games he played in particular, but I will certainly ask the question :D I imagine if he did not want to sell, he would probably do you a photocopy for free. Obviously that is not the same thing, but I can ask the quest...

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Poulton-le-Claret wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:51 pm
Thanks for that! My father in law could not remember the details of the game so I'll let him know and see if that jogs his memory

Would he/you be interested in selling it at all?

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Quicknick wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:42 pm
I'd never never heard of Marcus Phelan.

He never played 1st team football for us but was a very good cricketer with Nelson for many years

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We won this game 1-0 on a snow covered Bloomfield Road pitch. Our goal was scored 20 minutes from time by Kenny Saunders; Kenny was a 17 year old trialist from Liverpool who wasn't offered a contract. He still works in football as a junior coach on Merseyside.

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fidelcastro wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:07 pm
Micky Phelan didn't start out as a goalkeeper, did he?

That's his brother Marcus

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 16, 2025 8:07 pm
I knew Chappy well along with his mum & dad who I still see occasionally at games although we no longer sit in the same stand.

Unfortunately Chappy's mum hasn't been too well for a while now.

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Did you see any of those goals? I only mentioned him because I have never seen his name on here before I went to primary school with a relative of his in the sixties No i didn't but then I didn't see any of the 1914 FA Cup winning team play either. I'm sure there are dozens of ex Clarets whose name...

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Down_Rover wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 16, 2025 2:24 pm
Recently… Dane Richards.only player to be distributed in his only appearance

Going back a bit… Andy McCluggage

Andy McCluggage played over 200 games for us & scored 22 goals as well as winning 13 full caps for Ireland, so hardly obscure to be fair.

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sjb wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 13, 2025 4:38 pm
11 England batsmen have been bowled in the match- and a good chance of being 12 - the highest number in any Test for the last 65 years.

And there we go. 60% of batsmen out bowled. Technique?

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11 England batsmen have been bowled in the match- and a good chance of being 12 - the highest number in any Test for the last 65 years.

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Starter For Ten by David Nicholls
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Anything by P G Wodehouse
The Jennings books by Anthony Buckeridge

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 09, 2025 11:20 am
The team is:

Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Stokes
Smith
Woakes
Carse
Archer
Bashir

As I predicted

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I can't see them risking Atkinson though I think Archer will play instead of Tongue. Don't think we need a specialist spin bowler at Lord's but Bashir seems to be Stokes' pet project so he'll probably play despite doing next to nothing to justify his continued selection. If Cook & Overton are our ba...

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Play to start at 12.40. Just 10 overs lost.

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Back in the 80s a former footballer worked for me. He’d had to finish playing due to an ACL that left him hardly able to run. We used to play matches at work and he would play and stick at centre half (despite being a striker) and would, despite hardly being able to move, be the best player on the ...

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Get. And indeed In. Well done the town team.

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Bashir is a proper ferret. He comes in after the rabbits.

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Ann Jones
Christine Truman
Angela Mortimer

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A friend of mine who lived in Preston at the time was also questioned. The body was discovered on the day of Live Aid though the lad had been murdered 2 days previously on the day of CT''s leaving do. The murderer was a Londoner named Robert Morley who actually lived in Accrington during the 1980s.

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bodge wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 26, 2025 11:20 pm
If any of the above fall through, I would strongly recommend O'Reilly based in Torquay, he's been around since the
70's and whilst he has a lot of experience in the hotel trade I'm sure he'll assist.

You Orelly men?

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The manager of Taskers on Plumbe Street in the 60s/70s was a guy called Paul Christian.

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ecc wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:55 pm
Hi sjb,

Cheers. Great batsman but apparently not the most modest of individuals.

Apparently not. An ex England player I spoke to a couple of years described him as being 'almost as big a c*nt as Kevin Pietersen'.

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sjb wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:19 pm
If this lad Bashir is really the best spin bowling option we've got then the future's pretty bleak in that department.

I'll get me coat

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If this lad Bashir is really the best spin bowling option we've got then the future's pretty bleak in that department.

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ecc wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:04 pm
Where's Kohli?

Retired from Test cricket.

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Any cricket book by Stephen Chalke, particularly Runs In The Memory & Caught In The Memory, stories of County Cricket in the 1950s & 1960s as seen through the eyes of the players.

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I sometimes wonder if supporters of other clubs are as obsessed with getting former players back in the way some Burnley fans are. So far on this thread I've seen people calling for the return of Heaton, Pope, Tripper, Mee, Taylor, Keane, Cornet, O'Shea & Harwood-Bellis. There may be others too. I d...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 16, 2025 4:49 pm
At Leicester in the 1975/76 season and he walked straight off. Such was the injury that he only started four of the next twenty league games.

I think he was referring to Ron Futcher - he did his groin scoring a pen at Stockport.

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Savoury pastry covered foods are ALL overrated. Doesn't matter which one it is. Pork pie Steak slice Cornish pasty Sausage roll Steak & kidney Etc Etc They're all awful. Pies should be sweet, filled with fruit based items and covered in custard. Absolute rubbish. A good steak & kidney or cheese & o...

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There was (I think?) a retake V Palace at the Turf in the FA Cup around 83/84. We missed the original kick, but the ref controversially ordered a retake and we scored and won the game 1-0. Palace absolutely fuming! I'm thinking it might have been Steve Taylor with the pen, but not sure. I well reme...

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GetIntoEm wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 13, 2025 1:24 pm
Electric Neon on at Lowerhouse after the game tonight, they are normally pretty decent.

Should be entertaining for the hoards of travelling fans across town

You'll be able to boast to everyone that you knew CJ E-R was definitely staying & told everybody on here. Oh, hang on..

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:43 pm
Ha. The word new is missing from my Q, I see.

So - New stadium - Where Jean Louis Valois scored his free kick on a freezing night when I thought I may be gone for some time, or the old Baseball Ground?

Thks

The games were at the Baseball Ground Ian.

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Saw Lee Mack doing a gig in Harrogate a couple of years ago. A heckler shouted out 'which football team do you support?' And he replied ,'Er, Arsenal, er Blackburn, I'm not really bothered!'. A very witty guy with the most interesting fact about him being that he used to be Red Rum's stable boy in S...

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Northants won by 24 runs at Old Trafford today. They scored a reasonable 180 and Lancs were never in the hunt with some pretty average batting. Sir Jimmy took 3 for 31 but the best bowler on show was Northants' Scrimshaw who is rapid.

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Looking at the schedule for Saturday, this is Episode 4 , Series 9 Big Match Revisited. So the following weeks might have the 4-4 draw at the Turf v Norwich. I'm pretty sure that game didn't feature on the Big Match. A week on Saturday's programme will feature QPR v. Man Utd, Everton v. Newcastle &...

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Score a century to win the Ashes. Here at the MCG, Boxing Day Test. going 2 up in the series with one to play. Hopefully someone in the current England side will do exactly this this Christmas! With Stokes our captain, we’ll bring the urn home!! That would be mine too. Set 130 to win, I carry my ba...

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I bear him no animosity for leaving. I also do not want to see him back because he isn't good enough.

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You can say that again.

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Quicknick wrote: ↑
Wed May 28, 2025 1:37 pm
Just googled him. Impressive scorong record.

Leeds, Fulham, Lille & Besiktas all interested in him apparently.

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Could never understand how he got the job. Oversaw Gloucestershire finishing bottom of the first division, getting relegated then finishing bottom of the second.

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They will go into the break for the Blast as the only county out of the 18 without a Championship victory this season.

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Not having a go at anyone's opinion in particular but how anyone sat through 90 mins of that and came out with the main takeaway being that Kieffer Moore would improve us makes me glad that they are likely sat watching on their sofa like me and not involved with our transfer committee. He's semi ef...

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Get Hamer & Cooper signed up Scott.

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I wanted York to go up but now don't mind either Oldham or Southend. Anyone except FGR.

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jdrobbo wrote: ↑
Sun May 18, 2025 12:22 pm
How good was that Z-Cars entry?

Simply sensational. I couldn’t even tell you what we come out to: we really need to change that!

It's Blind Faith by Chase & Status

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Yes well done to Palace - apart from that barsteward Wharton of course.

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Burnley 45-8 against Todmorden. 7 wickets for Priestley.

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