Rivalry is not always just local, sometimes it just comes down to the 'Billy Big Bollox' in your division. I remember the huge rivalry with Luton from the late 60's - early 70's, and we had our bottom division rivalries with Cardiff & Chesterfield and we also had Orient.
Then we had the 'South...
I'd go for 75.
The Albion were looking for a nicjname as a previous one of 'Shrimps or Shrimpers' had fallen out of use or never really caught on. The club ran a poll (not sure if many bothered) and Dolphins came out the winner. Not a bad choice as Brighton was famous for the Dolphinarium...
A bitter/sweet benefit this week. Went for a quick lunchtime haircut at a Mr Lee place in Western Road. Only going for a 4 all over so not too fussed, had my £10.00 ready for £8.00 cut & tip so pleasantly surprised when he only charged me £6.00, saved a couple of quid.
A few days later I was...
I'm no expert but wars are expensive, the did for the British Empire, so who is looking after this states population? how are they being fed, what are they producing in regards to work and trade and what about infrastructure? You can't just have a state that rages war with no regards to the...
In the Civil Service people naturally moan about the lack of pay rise, the degradation of conditions and pensions and the massive job cuts.
So, the call goes out "What are the Union doing about this?" Well, the union asks members to vote with a variety of options. Hardly anyone votes but those...
Well Ken, maybe I didn't explain myself. That certainly was the worse with those 13 defeats on the trot but it's a bit like some of those teams that go into the Prem now who sort of expect to take a few thrashings and just hope to survive. Going into the season, our 71/72 promotion winners had...
Bleak times and we sunk to the bottom, often tried hard but were out of our league.
This year was seems worse, we were not bottom but were unable to beat, or even score, against teams that everybody else was beating.