Football season

I thought it was offside too - well everybody did except Uriah: even the Linesman.

Talking of bad referees - could anybody explain the rules to Mr G Laws: when the ball goes over the line between the posts it is a goal - not an opportunity for the other side to go up the the other end and score: details here.

Mark - I still think QPR will not go down - bad results true, but they'll pull it around.

Mark

Just saw the QPR - Southampton goals on the Championship and QPR were also on the wrong end of a decision. If Southampton's opener wasn't a foul on the keeper then I don't know what was. And then Southampton keeper drops the ball and QPR score (Dexter Blackstock); however, referee sees an imaginary infringement - S'ton go up the other end and score. Must be the weekend for it. I hope you're luck changes - for me it'll be Southend, Leeds and Luton for the drop.

ROTF,

Unfortunately I have not seen any replay of the incident, I was out last night and missed MOTD. I was not disputing whether or not the Milner goal should have been allowed because of offside, simply agreeing that Uriah Rennie is a inflated self important prig who seems to think that the game revolves around him.

Shame that he did not see fit to penalize West Ham for the persistent cynical fouling of Newcastle players everytime they crossed the half way line.

Regards

Nic

[QUOTE]Originally posted by nicnaim:
ROTF,
Shame that he did not see fit to penalize West Ham for the persistent cynical fouling of Newcastle players everytime they crossed the half way line.

Football and the C4 TV programme 'Big Brother' appear to attract the same sort of half-witted yobbos.

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Originally posted by nicnaim:
ROTF,

Unfortunately I have not seen any replay of the incident, I was out last night and missed MOTD. I was not disputing whether or not the Milner goal should have been allowed because of offside, simply agreeing that Uriah Rennie is a inflated self important prig who seems to think that the game revolves around him.

Shame that he did not see fit to penalize West Ham for the persistent cynical fouling of Newcastle players everytime they crossed the half way line.

Regards

Nic

Hi Nic - I'm a great admirer of Newcastle who always play football in the right way, besides there's the Sir Bobby Robson connection and you have Kerion Dyer, who when fit is a tremendous player. On MOTD, you only get to see a few highlights of the game and, of course, they played the Milner goal over and over, and the linesman did have his flag raised. I agree with you about Uriah who seems to be one of a group of referees who want to draw attention to themselves, whereas surely the best referee goes unnoticed.

Good luck for the rest of the season - you've got a great chance of winning the UEFA cup, as well as climbing the league.

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Originally posted by ROTF:
Mark - I still think QPR will not go down - bad results true, but they'll pull it around.

I hope so, ROTF, I hope so. It's not so long ago that we were up with Ipswich, though. We're being slowly hauled in and I'm afraid I don't share your confidence at the moment.

Mark

ROFT,

Cheers, it would be nice to win something in my lifetime!

Regards

Nic

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Originally posted by ROTF:

Good luck for the rest of the season - you've got a great chance of winning the UEFA cup, as well as climbing the league.

Scotty

I was just looking through my collection of old QPR programmes and I found this:



Mark

ROTF

I also found this:



Mark

Check out the teams, Scotty;

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Originally posted by Chillkram:
ROTF

I also found this:



Mark

50th Wembley FA Cup Final and ITFC Centenary Year.

Sadly, the nearest I got to this was going to Bristol Rovers on a freezing day, 18th Feb '78, for the Fifth Round, when Town scraped a 2-2 draw in the dying seconds (3-0 in the replay); and cheering their cup parade at Ipswich Cornhill, about two minutes from when I then lived.

I had, in fact, gone down to the town centre about 20 minutes after Mick Mills held the Cup aloft. It was absolutely deserted.

My late uncle, as well as his record collection, left me a VHS video of the game.
James

I was there - wonderful, wonderful day. We dominated from start to finish. Paul Mariner hit the bar; John Wark hit both posts with 20 yard drives. Clive Woods was the best player on the field. David Geddis played out of his skin. Jennings (Arsenal's best player my a long way) made a stunning save from George Burley. And then that moment - just about my favourite moment in football: Geddis got the ball drove drown the week and put in low cross and Willy Young (always liked him ) knocked it back to Roger Osborne who stroked it in. Credit to the Arsenal supporters who applauded us off and acknowledged we were just better than them in every department. I know Malcolm McDonald had boasted about what he was going to do, but when he knew Kevin Beattie (the greatest tractor boy of all time IMO - up there with Ray Crawford) was in the team, his head dropped and he knew he was out of his class.

I followed Town in most of the rounds: I feared for my life when we won 6-1 at the Den. The ref had to add 20 minutes of stoppage time and there weren't any injuries as I recall.

We got the dreadful Clive Thomas to referee our semi-final. The man hated Ipswich and was a truly awful referee (my vote for the worst ever), but we beat him and West Brom 3-1 at Highbury. Still can't forgive him for ruling out two perfectly good Hamilton and Woods goals in the semi-final of 1975.

The pictured programme is one of my prized possessions. Other great moments were winning the Championship with greatest manager of all time (Sir Alf Ramsey - it was he's greatest moment in football - I think he managed another side to success, but I've forgotten the details - plus if he had Crawford and Philips up front he wouldn't have needed extra time). The marvellous UEFA cup final - what a day in Amsterdam against the might AZ Alkmaar - 5-4 on aggregate and the best Dutch players were on display: Arnold Muhren and Franz Thijssen.

And of course, the last significant victory at Wembley - the play off final. Barnsley were terrific, but we were at our very best and we had another Dutchman, Martijn Reuser - what a wonderful goal to clinch it. 4-2 superb: always had a soft spot for the Tykes since that day.

Will those days return - of course they will: Jim Magilton said so and after his hat-trick against Bolton that put us in that play off final, there is nothing he says that I don't believe.

Glad that brought back some happy memories for you, James and ROTF!

mark,
excellent , thanks for that memory - those were the days. whatever happened to stan bowles ?
regards, scotty
p.s. nic : what yer whingeing about ?its a MANS game ! and besides we need the points badly

There's a song about Stan.



You can hear it here

blimey ! so hes making music videos now then!!

rumour has it that lucas neil has signed for west ham.

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Originally posted by ROTF:
There's a song about Stan.


You can hear it here

Fantastic! I've never heard that song before, although I seem to remember that the opposition fans had a song about him. Fairly basic lyrics as I recall! Bowlsey was my boyhood hero and I had a Rangers shirt with a red number 10 on the back.

I believe he still does some corporate work for Rangers and the last I heard he was the manager of a tile shop in Brentford. Still a regular at the pub and the bookies.

He was one of those wonderfully gifted but maverick players that seemed so abundant in the seventies. Others that spring to mind are Frank Worthington, Peter Osgood, Tony Currie, Duncan McKenzie, Charlie George, Alan Hudson, Rodney Marsh and, of course, the original, George Best.

I never got to see Best although I have a few programmes with his name on the team sheet. I went to the games but he didn't!

Mark.

mark,
he was probably in the pub with stan.
i heard a story about stan (dont know if its true) that once the manager had to send someone round to the local bookies at half time to drag stan back to loftus rd to play the 2nd half.
would be great if it were true

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Originally posted by scottyhammer:
mark,
he was probably in the pub with stan.
i heard a story about stan (dont know if its true) that once the manager had to send someone round to the local bookies at half time to drag stan back to loftus rd to play the 2nd half.
would be great if it were true

I think it was just before the game, Scotty. Stan would frequently turn up just before kick off, having been down the bookies. He would tap up the chairman for an advance on his wages and then blow it all on the geegees before the match!

What a player, though!

Not much changes!

Mark

And in his pomp:

yeah he was very good indeed - shame we dont get the characters in the game anymore........
THOSE WERE THE DAYS !
scotty

He scored 2 on his debut when a kid for Man City. Sadly Joe Mercer sacked him for gambling and booze and the rest, as they say, is history.

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Originally posted by Chillkram:
I never got to see Best ....

Mark.

That's what Tommy Docherty used to say ...

When The Doc was at Preston he once asked why he didn't get paid as much as Tom Finney - the manager said he wasn't as good as Finney - to which The Doc replied: I am in the summer.

As a manager he once remarked “They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.”

Of course, the great Brian Clough once said that the first England manager Walter Winterbottom was an idiot because he didn't pick the best player in Europe for his world cup squad. When asked who that was, Briain replied "Me, of course".

Scotty

Who is he - West Have have reached an initial agreement with Sevilla to sign striker Kepa Blanco on loan until the end of the season, with an option to buy.

Please can we have Mark Noble as he never seems to get a game.