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Post by Dutchpeter on Jan 8, 2024 6:08:55 GMT
A Stoke player who I won’t name, did a monkey impression to a black Darlington forward by the away end at Feethams. He got torn to pieces by the Stoke support in the vicinity.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jan 8, 2024 6:05:24 GMT
Stick in a queue trying to get in when Bertie scored away at Posh. Long way to go to miss the goal. Same as me 🤣
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jan 6, 2024 22:49:20 GMT
Paint your face gold, wear bug eyed shades, that’s all you need when you’re the world’s greatest Rock n Roll……
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jan 6, 2024 13:21:49 GMT
Excellent vid and worth 20 minutes of your time if you were a fan of David Soul and Salem’s Lot.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jan 5, 2024 19:01:30 GMT
Hopefully put in a bid for Cap’n Jaspers and the Dolphin pub 🤣
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jan 5, 2024 18:58:38 GMT
When I read Salem’s Lot (a book I go back to), I can’t imagine the character Ben Mears being anyone else but David Soul. RIP
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jan 3, 2024 13:34:13 GMT
I doubt she'll get life. Roles reversed he'd be a complete animal in the press and social media and a far stiffer sentence I’ve no doubt they went down the ‘wife beater’ route to help reduce her culpability, but the lad looked clean cut.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 30, 2023 15:59:22 GMT
Nothing for Lou Macari or saint Peter Unbelievable considering some of the dross that got awards Lou Macari is particularly deserving of recognition. Peter Coates would get something if a Labour government was in power.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 30, 2023 15:57:37 GMT
I never warmed to Peter Shilton, found him arrogant and remote, an unnecessary acquisition when we had Farmer and needed a CF. I seem to remember his form was not top notch whilst he was here and was nowhere near Bank’s level Denis Smith rated him as a better shot stopper than Gordon Banks.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 20, 2023 23:56:13 GMT
Hong Kong Schuey, the number one super guy Hong Kong Schuey, quicker than the human eye Oh, he's got style, a groovy smile, and team that just won't stop When the team plays bad, he's super mad With the Hong Kong Schuey chop That’s fucking brilliant, made me laugh out. I hope JC bought him a filing cabinet to get changed in 🤣
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 20, 2023 18:54:39 GMT
I’d like to see ‘simply the best’ or ‘fanfare for the common man’ played while the team come out, what a start that’d be! Do I win five pounds?
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SPOTY
Dec 20, 2023 8:03:46 GMT
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 20, 2023 8:03:46 GMT
Stoke-on-Trent born David Steele won SPOTY in 1975. I’m not into cricket but he seems little remembered or feted.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 19, 2023 23:23:11 GMT
Schu schu skip to ma schu, Skip to ma schu…er…Macari
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 19, 2023 10:05:06 GMT
Mick Lynch, might make a nice change to have a friend of the working class in Parliament.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 13, 2023 6:28:23 GMT
A special event took place at the Victoria Ground 50 years ago tonight in the bitter cold, pouring rain. It was Gordon Banks' testimonial game against ManU. The event had seemed ill fated from the start. The choice of a mid-December kick off had reduced the spectacle from a Rest of the World 11 to our rivals from Old Trafford. Only Eusebio of the invited big names turned up although we did field Preston manager Bobby Charlton. And then 24hrs before kick off, thieves stole the diesel that Stoke had purchased to run the generators required to beat the government's ban on floodlights. Thankfully, replacement fuel was brought in with only hours to spare and the game took place in front of only 21,000 fans as there was a rail strike and large parts of North Staffordshire were blacked out by the energy crisis. We lined up; - Banks, Dodd, Pejic, Mahoney, Smith, Skeels, Haslegrave (Robertson), Greenhoff, Hurst (Ritchie), Eusebio (Bloor), Charlton. Our opponents were; - Stepney (Roche), Buchan, Forsyth, Greenhoff (Graham), James (Sidebottom), Griffiths, Morgan (Martin), Anderson (Macari), McIlroy, Young, Best. Although suffering from a knee injury that nearly caused him to miss the game, it was Eusebio who scored our goal with a vicious drive. Banksie, in a black goalkeeping jersey showed his quality throughout the game and it was hard to believe this would be the last time we would see him playing for Stoke. Sir Alf turned up to play tribute to Banksie, which I've always thought was a generous gesture. In other news, transfer listed Stewart Jump has joined Malcolm Allison's Crystal Palace on a month's loan. View AttachmentMalcolm Allison was a visionary coach, decades ahead of his time played false 9 back in the 70's- However he was useless in the transfer market Jump loan spell was deemed a success - sorry to 'jump' ahead on the time line -, Big Mal rings Waddo (no agents then) and offers £30k for Jump Waddo said "how much!" meaning that was way above his value, Big Mal immediately goes "OK £50k but take it or leave it" Deal done before you could say, well, jump. I may have the £wrong but this is the story The Hungarian national team were playing false 9s in the 50s. After they smashed England 6-3 at Wembley in 1953, Don Revie picked up on the false 9 at Manchester City where it was known as the ‘Revie Plan’.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 12, 2023 23:00:09 GMT
We’ve not had a keeper this bad since Barry Siddall. I’ve been saying it for 3 seasons. That he’s still here, sitting on a contract extension, playing first team football in the championship is a dereliction of duty and sums up everything that is wrong with our club. Complacency reigns and we simply aren’t ruthless enough…see also Ciaran Clark and Dwight Gayle Lest ye forget Gordon Marshall.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 12, 2023 10:32:29 GMT
Doctor McCoy’s nickname on Star Trek.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 8, 2023 14:30:18 GMT
How did Barker justify the change in style from playing some really good stuff to just going aerial? I know it was the new vogue but to change it on the back of a strong 1982/83 campaign was just bizarre? I think a big reason was the club didn’t have a pot to piss in. Chairman Percy Axon had died in the summer of 1983 no doubt ending a source of financial support. Paul Bracewell had been well undersold for a paltry £250k, he was probably worth double that. Stoke had relied on the sales of our home produced stars to finance transfers, once Bracewell had gone only Chamberlain had big value. The pool of valuable young stars was beginning to dry up. If you look at the summer transfer ins/outs then we were left with a slightly poorer squad than the previous season too. Barker must have looked at Watford and seen how there direct style (not long ball) had taken them to 2nd place for little outlay, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that was an influence. Problem was he didn’t quite have the players to do it, or at least ones who bought into the idea.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 4, 2023 12:47:37 GMT
First club that turns out a trans women team wins everything- forever. Goo on Tony you know you’ve got another chapter in you 🤣
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Post by Dutchpeter on Dec 1, 2023 20:45:53 GMT
Very sorry to hear this. Brilliant as Thelma.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Nov 30, 2023 19:32:16 GMT
For those driving down there take it easy on the A38 between Exeter and Plymouth. It’s a dual carriageway that snakes and turns like it’s a country lane. Fast bends, tight bends, hidden dips, blind rises with dangerously short slip lanes feeding onto it. The Plymouth old bill may well be waiting for you with a speed trap in a lay-by you only see at the last moment too. Stay safe Stokies 👍
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Post by Dutchpeter on Nov 26, 2023 18:47:46 GMT
Yep, it's always got to be all about him, hasn't it ... He must've been delighted, that went entirely as he'd hoped. I can't quite assimilate the idea of Robinson and his sieg-heiling goons marching in support of protecting Jews! Rather in the same way left wingers join protests knowing that anti semitic hate will ensue, and indeed join in. Oh, while we’re at it since when did the middle class ‘Labour movement’ support working class people either? The only socialist on this EE board is my icon.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Nov 26, 2023 12:28:44 GMT
A top level footballer, a top coach, could turn his hand to singing, co-wrote the Hazell books and TV series, a very media savvy guy when most footballers had very poor media skills. Quite a talented man. He also came across as affable and likeable, Euro 96 was unforgettable. RIP.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Nov 24, 2023 8:16:54 GMT
A Concorde flew over St Andrews in 1987 during the Birmingham v Stoke match. That’s about as good as my afternoon got that day.
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Frank Soo
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Post by Dutchpeter on Nov 23, 2023 18:51:01 GMT
In my case it was my father telling me about the great Stoke players of the 30s. He took me to my first Stoke game in the 50s. Oddly though he was not a huge fan of Matthews. It wasn't that he didn't think he was a brilliant player, it was more that he didn't like him as a person. He thought he was very self centred and only thought about himself and his own career. But my father was very "old school" and thought people should be subservient to their "betters". Thankfully those days have gone. He did use to drewel about how good Soo and Steele were. That’s exactly what my Nan said about Stan.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Nov 23, 2023 12:49:18 GMT
I grew up on Stories about the Stoke City players of the 1930s from my grandparents. Frank Soo was prominent amongst those memories, so he still lived on in the folklore of that generation. My Nan worked in the CO-OP laundry along Campbell Road, and Stoke players would work there (summer time?) to top up their income, one of them being Frank Soo. My nan only ever had good words to say about him as a man and a footballer.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Nov 21, 2023 14:45:28 GMT
It also shrank the pool of council houses available. Coupled with the Callaghan government decision in 1977 to let anybody rent a council house (previously you had to be employed), meant that the shrinking pool became more and more the preserve of more dysfunctional elements of society. Hence there sad decline as nice places to live to potential (but not always) crime affected hot spots. and thats my point. they never reinvested the money in replacing the stock sold off That’s quite correct. I thought it was worth mentioning the Callaghan government decision as it was just as influential on the future of council housing as the Thatcher sell off. Council house sales came within a whisker of being included on the Labour manifesto in 1974, and was looked at favourably by James Callaghan later in the decade. Labour Party activists were constantly asked about council house sales in the 1970s by the very people who lived on council estates. Council house sales were nothing new of course and had started decades earlier.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Nov 21, 2023 14:27:53 GMT
Mrs Thatchers policy to allow people to buy their homes was massively correct. it allowed people with nothing to own their own homes and I suspect there are people on this very forum who have had or will get an inheritance out of this policy. However the subsequent decision not to reinvest that money in building more council/social housing is equally as wrong It also shrank the pool of council houses available. Coupled with the Callaghan government decision in 1977 to let anybody rent a council house (previously you had to be employed), meant that the shrinking pool became more and more the preserve of more dysfunctional elements of society. Hence there sad decline as nice places to live to potential (but not always) crime affected hot spots.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Nov 20, 2023 19:16:22 GMT
No CV in the men’s game don’t be daft but Sarina Wiegman had a successful playing career in Netherlands and USA where she also got her coaching badge. She managed several Dutch women’s teams winning the league title and cup twice. At international level she led Netherlands to European Championship win 2017 & runner up in 2019 World Cup. She did the same with England in 2021 Euros and this years World Cup. Statistically as International manager she has achieved well over 70% wins rate with both England & Netherlands and she has been voted FIFA best women’s coach 3 times and EUFA women’s Coach of the year twice. So far from just, as you say making a statement by appointing her because she is a woman, imo she has more than enough credentials to do it. But it’s probably the fear of her being successful & misogyny of players that will prevent it happening. You do realise that 30% of the players in the recent World Cup Finals were Amateurs. The standard of the Women's game in Europe has improved over the last few years, but it is still poor. Before that, it was abysmal, with 9-0 games occurring on a regular basis. If you think that any Club Chairman would not appoint a women that he thought would bring success because he was afraid of her being successful, then I am afraid you should see the men in the White coats. I believe a female coach will manage a men’s side soon (EFL/step 1). I also believe that the female coach will spring from within the men’s game and not cross over from the women’s game as it’s an inferior grade as it stands presently. The irony is that female coaches may well be more interested in a career in the men’s game than the women’s.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Nov 20, 2023 11:27:47 GMT
Myself and my girlfriend went to see The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown in Birmingham last night. The venue was a place called the Hare and Hounds, a large pub with an attached room for gigs. We enjoyed a drink and the faded Edwardian splendour of the pub first, then moved to the attached room. It was old school with a guy sat by a table with a cash box and a clipboard to usher us in up the steep staircase to a small hall with a small low stage. Quite an atmospheric place. Arthur and his band were simply brilliant. Arthur is to my mind,is the godfather of heavy metal vocals , an early pioneer of progressive rock and has an influential visual look (Alice Cooper and Kiss owe him). I just couldn’t believe how good his voice and range were for an 80 year old guy. The songs segued into one another with the band moving seamlessly into the next song while Arthur changed his outfit for near enough every song. The band were excellent back up and proper rock musicians with respect for Arthur’s sound. The visuals were stunning. I can’t ever remember getting sucked into a performance like this, I really did go somewhere else. The set list based mainly on his best work from 1968-75, with a lovely new folky number chucked in. Arthur has this image of a one hit wonder with a gimmicky image, wrong, he is a proper rock musician with an excellent back catalogue brilliantly performed. Arthur walked past me after the gig and I patted him on the back and said ‘thank you Arthur’ to which he gave out a pleased sounding chuckle (made my night 😁).If you get the chance go see him. Excellent review sir.I've seen CWOAB twice this year,supporting Hawkwind at Manchester and at HRH Prog Sheffield, stunning both times.I first got hooked on CWOAB in 94 when they played The Wheatsheaf.Arthur is an absolute star.I intend to go next year's gigs at Wakefield,Birkenhead and Gt.Yarmouth.I saw Ozric Tentacles at The Hare and Hounds a few years ago and it's a great venue.Again thanks for the review. Thank you for the kind words. I felt a bit compelled to write something, it was a bit special. My girlfriend who really only knows ‘Fire’ was blown away. I’ll be off to Birkenhead myself, I didn’t know about the other dates so thanks for the heads up.
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