Glyn wrote:0-1 is a cricket score. How many times...???!!!
I take it you used to open the batting then!
It has been known... as has 0-1 with me doing so...
Here's the core of a letter I had published in When Saturday Comes last winter...
Oh dear. Your correspondent Jon Spurling, writing on "Christmas (goal) feasts" (WSC 299), refers to the "cricket scores piled up", citing 8-2 and 10-1 as examples.
It seems that he, together with many football writers, fails to realise that 0-0, 1-0 and 0-1 are also all cricket scores - and seen a lot more frequently than those he quotes.
They made a big feature of it on our local BBC news last night.
Some fans said he has paid his debt to society and should be given another chance - others said they will boycott any Truro matches he plays in!
Personally IMHO - anyone who drink-drives, let alone kills 2 young lads in the process, deserves to serve more than 2.5 years of a 7 year sentence.
I bet the poor parents of his victims are fuming.
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
HTFCSA 'Supporter of the Year' 2014 Original HTFCSA #2 Original PPD number 21
Not sure if that does qualify as text-speak ... IMHO has been around for a long time if my memory serves me well ... along with many others.
I can recall my Dad using those letters long before mobile phones came along ... along with MYOBP (mind your own business please!)
Objection over ruled!
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
HTFCSA 'Supporter of the Year' 2014 Original HTFCSA #2 Original PPD number 21
Saw Ade Akinfenwa make his debut for them in the only game I ever saw at Oswestry Town (before they disappeared to reappear as part of the TNS "merger") - seems an awfully long time ago!
I think that was in the John Fashanu "we will be European Champipns" era, but don't quote me on that.
We did lock horns with them on several occasions, of course, before some bright spark invented the WPL...
In relation to Histon I can only say that i am surprised it has taken so long. For a number of years they were punching (hugely) above their weight given the gates they were getting.
I guess the frustration is that only the die-hards go to games when the chips are down.
The trend for financial meltdown is gathering pace - is it not time for the authorities at NL level to talk sensibly to each other about how to halt this trend. From the outside it appears that they stand by passively watching clubs surge through the leagues then end up in a complete hole a few years later.
The same will happen to Fylde at some point and perhaps St Neots
Perton Pitman wrote:In relation to Histon I can only say that i am surprised it has taken so long. For a number of years they were punching (hugely) above their weight given the gates they were getting.
I guess the frustration is that only the die-hards go to games when the chips are down.
The trend for financial meltdown is gathering pace - is it not time for the authorities at NL level to talk sensibly to each other about how to halt this trend. From the outside it appears that they stand by passively watching clubs surge through the leagues then end up in a complete hole a few years later.
The same will happen to Fylde at some point and perhaps St Neots
Great minds... I've just made a similar point on Facebook to the person who alerted me to the Histon article...
Until or unless clubs stop living beyond their means and league administrators start carrying out proper financial checks - BEFORE seasons begin and/or clubs are admitted to their leagues - the current epidemic for clubs in crisis will grow apace...
I see Hereford are to get more TV money as a result of their 2nd round FA Cup tie being televised. Are Hereford still living on the back of their win over Newcaslte 40 years ago? Shouldn't ESPN be doing more to spread the money around clubs at lower levels?
Personally I think the whole thing is a bit unfair
Perton Pitman wrote:I see Hereford are to get more TV money as a result of their 2nd round FA Cup tie being televised. Are Hereford still living on the back of their win over Newcaslte 40 years ago? Shouldn't ESPN be doing more to spread the money around clubs at lower levels?
Personally I think the whole thing is a bit unfair
I'm afraid TV companies couldn't give a hoot about morals, they just go for the game with the highest likely viewing figures, hence ITV going for the MKD/Wombles game, and when the 3rd round draw is made they will always tend to choose an "all-Premier-League" game (which we can see any time on Sky or MOTD) rather than for example a Championship at home to Prem game which would probably be much more interesting...
Ian Ridley (ex of Weymouth) resigns as Chairman of St Albans City as he "feels unable to agree and implement the owners' proposed 20% price increase mid-season"
Perton Pitman wrote:I see Hereford are to get more TV money as a result of their 2nd round FA Cup tie being televised. Are Hereford still living on the back of their win over Newcaslte 40 years ago? Shouldn't ESPN be doing more to spread the money around clubs at lower levels?
Personally I think the whole thing is a bit unfair
I'm afraid TV companies couldn't give a hoot about morals, they just go for the game with the highest likely viewing figures, hence ITV going for the MKD/Wombles game, and when the 3rd round draw is made they will always tend to choose an "all-Premier-League" game (which we can see any time on Sky or MOTD) rather than for example a Championship at home to Prem game which would probably be much more interesting...
Not just FA Cup money which is keeping the Bulls afloat
Wonder if they have finished the large seated stand behind the goal yet. I remember when we went to them on a Thursday night that they went around asking for cash donations at half time in order to help them out.
