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I have long been of the opinion (based on not an awful lot though) that being "good at football" does not always mean that one is a natural candidate for being an elite level athlete. Athletes, of the track and field variety, are obviously built that way...but are footballers? Does the level of...

Is he not just there on loan? "playing for a contract" as they sometimes say about such things....

Yay!! :)

This is the problem (if it actually is one) with football; the huge, and increasing, gap between the Premier League and anyone else. United are where they are because they are the team that is most shit, end of story basically. However, put that team into the Championship and they would be in...

Wednesday 100%. Everything associated with them is shit.

I think that that was the first league match my dad took me to. Looking back at it now I am surprised I ever went again :D

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The oil industry is about a lot more than energy. Its quite possible that oil would/could become too valuable to just burn off to make things hot...

Henry Boot for those hoofball moments....

Rather appropriately for today.... the 1912 "top team" could really be Barnsley and not the grunters. Barnsley won the FA CUP that year, so does that count for more than league position?

5-5 on penalties!!

Now Thats what I call a Premier League Return!!! :)

Yay!! :)

Can hear the crowd from Sandygate!

I know one of those people vaguely:oops: Definitely a Blade though...

Well bugger me! I put the "match report" on on BBC page (usually brings bad luck) but this time it seems to have worked in our favour :)

YAY!!! :)

Yes I can When my eyes have got over the shock of the visual horror that is some of those shirts I will do.... Carl Bradshaw and a fat thirsty pig

Thinking a little further on the matter... Shoreham could well be a good middle name; most people would just as likely assume that you had had a productive dirty weekend at a small port on the south coast.

Bramall isn't such a bad name really, and it least it is likely to get shortened to Bram...... Vampires and all that ;) Personally if I was naming a kid after a road in the immediate area I may have opted for using John Street as the basis (or Cherry Street if it were a girl ;) )

Correct. They are just like I would be if I claimed to live at Claridge's cos i once rented a room there :D

Oh dear. I think you need to work out what the gate referred to is.... It may help you stop being foolish again.

Wagon Wheels, well at least the ones sold at the erm, "Catering Facilities" under the John Street Stand, used to be way bigger than the top of one of those little plastic things they called a cup of "Bovril". That would be one way to test out if they have really shrunk ;)

Mother and every one of her family (bar one!) were grunters; in mitigation half of them had lived around that area for a long time. Father was a Blade (of course) His dad was from Gloucestershire, therefore he was a Villa fan, who sort of liked United too. Local team - Blades again now but its...

Oh good Lord no! For once I can clearly and truthfully say Thank God for Sheffield Council !

This is taken from Porktalk but I thought it was of some interest.... From the price of 4* at Law Bros it must be about 1976 for most of the images. https://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/topic/310906-how-the-walk-to-hillsborough-used-to-look-penistone-road/

I met Mel Sterland outside the pub (he is sort of a friend of a be-trottered friend) and sad to say he seemed to be quite a decent chap really.

I was there. sat with me dad, in my usual seat on the John St stand when we beat Northampton - I must have been the only school kid in Sheffield not there on a freebie :D Twenty years later I was working in the south west with several West Brom fans among my friends/workmates - They dint seem to...

Beer Houses were introduced in the 1830 Beerhouse Act and they did not originally need a proper License. You just had to pay a small yearly Excise fee and you could brew and sell beer, but only beer! Literally thousands of them opened up all over the place and (strangely enough!) many were...

Yeah! I like that ;) A mate of mine who live just over the river (his kids are Fulham fans) was/ is there - He says FFC were shit :D