I agree with you up to a point, Hazzer. The other reason he became leader is that - if you remember that Labour Leadership contest - all the other candidates spoke little but management bullshit and vague platitudes. He was the only candidate who actually talked specifics; and Andy Burnham and...
St Michael's in Plumpton for me, right next to the Agricultural College. My parents were married there, I was christened there and my Grandparents spent 50+ years there in various roles. Whenever I am back in Sussex I always pay a visit or at least drive past on the Underhill Road. The Half Moon...
My favourite non Albion Sussex club is my home village's team, Ringmer. Great times in the 70s when they won the Sussex County League, Senior Cup and reached 1st round of the FA Cup.
Fell on hard times, lots of complicated financial issues and 'politics' but still going if further down the...
I think we'll have to adapt the epitaph Lord Byron gave to a particularly unpleasant politician called Lord Castlereagh:-
Posterity will ne'er father
a Nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Bill Archer:
Stop, traveller, and piss!
Agreed. Their player seemed to have - at one point - his left arm across the front of Estupinan. Not sure it restricted him much (well it obviously didn't!) but I wonder whether that was enough for it not to be given. Close run thing though!
Living in St Helens I know a lot of Liverpool fans, many who are regulars at Anfield and not just armchair/plastics. Almost without exception they are pretty fair minded. Went to a party the evening after we drew 3-3 there and they were all highly complimentary about Brighton.
.You can get...