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I for one won’t be buying this! Here today with what will probably be maximum 20 of us if we are lucky. Will sing like we am did at Sarfend! Will lose the boarder line supporters who contemplate on travelling away. Get on the road, make the effort and get behind the boys (if you can!)

It would help if we had proper away transport. We used to run a coach almost everywhere, with a minibus only for the odd match such as Welling (I think Jo drove), or Workington in the Chairman's cup thingy. We had a maximum price of 15 pounds for SAFE members, you could pay on the coach, and occasionally I turned up without having booked in advance - most times I got on ok (even if Ecky wasn't pleased!). I think it's fair to say that things are a bit different now.

Quote from: Hugh on December 06, 2022, 09:39:44 PM

"Unfriend"? Dreadful term. What's wrong with "fall out with" (although admittedly that would be the nuclear option - and ends with a preposition!). And that Pets In A pickle ad - I keep thinking they're going to add "and brown sauce". Ugh!

Speaking of ads: perfume ads!!!

Pretentious, meaningless crap!

"Because you're worth it"; "The sciency bit" - argh!

Why was it played at Rotherham though? And didn't we first make our acquaintance with Barnsley fans there too? Here's hoping for another Trophy run anyway, it's been too long.

Just getting back towards Manchester… we had them beat today! Toby and Newby were the standouts for me! Was at least 70 or more there. So much better than last year. This team is going places!

Interesting. The official figure was apparently given as 48, which to me looked plausible from the footage I have seen. By contrast at Woking, I made a rough count from the back of the seated stand behind the goal and as I recall concluded we had a little over 60 there - but apparently there was 97! How did I manage to miss out over 30 people (unless 97 was a typo)?

Here is the bit from the linesman's book. He was also a player, playing at the time for a team called the Lagos Casuals, and as such invited with his club to watch a match between Nigeria and Brazil when Pele was playing. He writes of the occasion: "We had the honour of meeting up with him after the match. The game itself was a beautiful exhibition of controlled play by Pele and his colleagues. The result of the game was inevitable but irrelevant to the fact that it was a delight to watch and Pele afterwards was great. Incidentally Pele comes from the Yoruba area of Brazil in Belem where as a youngster playing soccer he would dodge and dive, as he still does and the children used to shout Pele, in Yoruba, meaning Sorry - "ekpele" - Sorry in that way is a typical thing Yoruba's say to each other when someone missed out something. Pele himself cannot speak Yoruba although he admitted his parents do."

So rights Chief Elwyn Williams, who is in fact Welsh (now with a b and b in Penygroes that I sometimes go to) but took a great interest in the Yoruba culture during his time in Nigeria.

I should add that Yeovil midfielder Charlie Wakefield has released a documentary covering mental health issues called Man Up, inspired by the death of his uncle but also covering the tragic death of Town captain Lee Collins before their scheduled match with us in March 2021. A very important issue.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-63747528

Unconfirmed report mentioned by the BBC that he is failing to respond to chemotherapy.

If not the greatest, certainly one of the greatest. His record of scoring over 1,000 goals is comparable to Jackie Swindell's scoring record at Altrincham, but at the very highest level and over decades. The Yoruba must be very proud of him. I hope he pulls through.