I am watching an episode of Meldrew on Gold - he is reading a paper that has the backpage

[Deleted User X18H]

....headline

'PALACE AXE 9-GOAL PERRY'

I have checked Wiki and it suggests the series was first broadcast in Jan 1990. Leading me to believe this episode was filmed around September/October 1989.

What a superb social document.

That is all.

 

[LamieRobertson]

....headline

'PALACE AXE 9-GOAL PERRY'

I have checked Wiki and it suggests the series was first broadcast in Jan 1990. Leading me to believe this episode was filmed around September/October 1989.

What a superb social document.

That is all.

For ever?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

For ever?

We can but dream.

 

[Beach Hut]

I don't believe it

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Corresponding front page headline too.

 

[Mr Putdown]

....headline

'PALACE AXE 9-GOAL PERRY'

I have checked Wiki and it suggests the series was first broadcast in Jan 1990. Leading me to believe this episode was filmed around September/October 1989.

What a superb social document.

That is all.

Not quite "all".

It just made what followed in the FA Cup semi final so much sweeter.

[YT]OkOqYoNZSCA[/YT]

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

This has prompted me to search out my One Foot In The Grave Box set!

 

[Johnny RoastBeef]

Here's another for the archive.

 

[Hillian1]

Not quite "all".

It just made what followed in the FA Cup semi final so much sweeter.

[YT]OkOqYoNZSCA[/YT]

First ever televised Semi if I recall correctly.

Watched it in the Kings Head Cuckfield (RIP) after a Sunday league game.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Not quite "all".

It just made what followed in the FA Cup semi final so much sweeter.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Not quite "all".

It just made what followed in the FA Cup semi final so much sweeter.

[YT]OkOqYoNZSCA[/YT]

Did it? Really? Getting spanked by 9 and having something sweet? Nah a 9 goal defeat is humiliating, whatever happens after.

 

[Mr Putdown]

Did it? Really? Getting spanked by 9 and having something sweet? Nah a 9 goal defeat is humiliating, whatever happens after.

How can you experience pleasure without experiencing pain?

 

[Sussex Nomad]

How can you experience pleasure without experiencing pain?

My girlfriend's quite gentle.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

http://www.attilathestockbroker.com/footpoem.php

Tuesday September 8th 1989 began like any other day in the footballing calendar, with newly-discovered Team of the 80s, Crystal Palace, travelling to Anfield to test their Colditz-like defensive qualities and mesmerising attacking skills against the sacrificial lemmings of Liverpool. Now football is a funny game, as the utterly retarded cliche goes, and on this particular evening it proved to be a very funny game indeed, in fact a positively hilarious, side-splittingly humourous one, even more mirth-inducing than David Beckham trying to define existentialism or Bill Archer attempting coitus with a paper-shredding machine. For while Palace's much-feared rivals Brighton and Hove Albion were thrashing Wolverhampton Wanderers 4-2, at Anfield the final score was Liverpool 9, Crystal Palace 0. Liverpool 9, Crystal Palace 0. N-n-n-nine nil, nine nil. N-n-n-nine nil, nine nil. And following those fateful n-n-n-ninety minutes on that hilarious Tuesday night the hapless halibuts from Selhurst Park were subjected to fierce and merciless ridicule from the rest of the football world and many of them are still living out their experiences to this day. Even now the South London branch of the Samaritans receive mysterious phone calls where the only audible sounds are donkey-like voices braying bewilderedly 'Nine nil. N-n-n-nine nil. Ee-aw! Nine nil. N-n-n-nine nil. Ee-aw! And when the Palace players got home, obviously in need of moral support and counselling following their torrid n-n-n-nine nil experience, none of them received a hero's welcome. None of them. None of them received a hero's welcome. N-n-n-none of them. The long term effects of such an unbelievable n-n-n-nine nil annihilation are hard to predict, but it seems likely that many of the Crystal Palace squad may have been be so demoralised that they may have been forced to leave professional football and sign on. S-s-s-sign on. Sign on. S-s-s-sign on. S-s-s-sign on, sign on. S-s-s-sign on, sign on. A worse fate even than this may well have befallen the Palace goalkeeper Perry Suckling, a man who, rather like the Queen Mother, wears gloves for no apparent reason, for his intense feelings of humiliation may well have led him to emigrate, and sign on in Vietnam. V-v-v-Vietnam. S-s-s-sign on. V-v-v-Vietnam. S-s-s-sign on...........(repeat ad nauseam)

 

[Return of the Rev]

Watched it in the Kings Head Cuckfield (RIP) after a Sunday league game.[/QUOTE]

Loved the kings head circa 75/76