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As the ideal of Classic midfield play comes to be realised only by the transformation of preceding elements, the first point to develop consists in making manifest that it is truly sprung from the creative activity of the player and not coached out of him by the Joe Kinnear's of this world; that...

Much cap throwing, shouting huzzah and downing bottles off Milk Stout.

I see all the young whippersnappers are getting their hoodies and asbos in a twist regarding the current managerial and player situation. Let me tell you things have been far worse in the past than they have now. So grab a glass of best Port, roll out the high quality shag and find your...

All these high falluting gadgety things are very difficult for us older people to fiddle about with. If somebody invented catheter bag that lets off an alarm when full up one would be extremely happy and mightily relieved at the same time. In my day the number one gadget was this Got me out a...

6.55 get up, hit head on top bunk, bloody woodwork gets in the way again. 7.15 Clean teeth with Micky Mouse toothbrush, spit out, hit the side of the sink. 7.20 Have morning dump, hit the side of the pan. Mum tells me off for missing the water again. Point out that the richard is in the bowl and...

1. Tailored sailor trousers and vest for those amusing bohemian summer beach parties. 2. Richardson's luxury shag for one's pipe. 3. Gentlemen's art magazines for the discerning connoisseur. Particularly the detailed Swedish publications.

This is a question I am often asked, so whilst I am relaxing in the drawing room perusing my scrapbook of Association Football memories, a glass of fine port to hand, a quality cheese board and a pouch filled with high grade shag for my meerschaum, I shall tell it. If paradise was half as nice...

Before we go tarring all students with the same brush, when I worked up Sussex Uni I often found that those running the Badger were a very small clique whose views either did not match 95% of the students they purported to write for and were just ignored anyway. In fact reading the Badger used...

Recently unearthed by my sibling the younger Arthur Scrimshaw, presented to you tonight is a fragment of a lost carry on script based upon the goings on of a get-with-it-daddio crowd of swinging 60s NSC. CAST LIST Sid Crabtree = Sid James Bernie Simster = Bernard Bresslaw Nurse Dover97 = Terry...

Back in the war a young whipsnapper needed to memorise only three phrases when in foreign climes: 1. Do you sell woodbines, old chap. 2. A glass of beer, my host. 3. Do you do it doggy doggy? Intelligent chaps would learn a fourth, is this the clinic for certain gentlemen's ailments, just in case.

It's been a long time since I last posted on here, but the fingers are no longer as dexterous as they once were and matron now has to help me undo my fly buttons and point percy at the porcelain. To think that 30 years ago I used to have to pay for this kind of service (2 and 6 down Steine Lane...