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Reply | Leeds (H) Friday Night
at 16:52 5 Apr 2024
That's a bummer! I was looking forward to going with young grandsons, so now a lonely, late Friday night trip. Also, Mrs Hants has already organised a theatre trip with a friend in my absence! F**k SKY |
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Reply | Today’s game summed up in 8 words :-))
at 19:21 29 Mar 2024
I went through peaks and troughs of emotion today, but in the end, I was too made up ( modern expression) to care whether it was boring or sh1t URRRRS!!! |
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Thread | Lighten up the load No.2 - Yuka app
at 20:40 10 Mar 2024
If you or your partner/ mum/ Dad etc. haven't already found this app, I would issue a word of warning. Mrs Hants is now using it to check out all the tasty, unhealthy foods I used to enjoy and only getting those recommended that are free of sugar, calories, salt, fats etc. ...and sometimes, taste?
On the other hand, if that's important, and I guess it should be and is for many, it's a simple app that scans barcodes and provides all the information you need to buy healthy products. |
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Reply | Relegation Preferences
at 10:13 6 Mar 2024
If/when I know we are safe, I will delight in the schadenfreude of such a choice. Until then, it's ABU |
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Reply | Stan’s Greatest Game
at 07:59 3 Mar 2024
I was at that 3-3 game and especially remember one of Stan's goals when he feinted with his left and scored with a right foot shot. A stupid recollection from that game was a loud- mouthed neutral bloke near me declaring to all and sundry at the end, 'two very poor sides!'- made me think I'm a lousy judge as I had enjoyed the game, mistakes and fouls nonetheless. I think it was another game when I saw Mickey Droy nearly slice Stan in half with a waist- high tackle that went unpunished. [Post edited 3 Mar 8:02]
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Reply | Mark Clattenburg Notts Forest Referee Anyalyst
at 08:26 29 Feb 2024
He was a respected ref as I recall, but was wrong to give Adel a 2nd yellow - he confessed he'd forgotten about the first yellow and should have given him a severe finger-wagging instead. |
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Reply | Fouls galore in Chelsea v Leeds 1970 Cup Final
at 17:11 28 Feb 2024
slmrs...beat me to the link!
Anyway, I remember watching the first game so well as I saw it at my parents' flat (they had colour tv) and I had asked them if I could bring my friend to see it with me. 'Friend' was the future Mrs Hants, the first time she was to meet her future in-laws. Same again for this replay, when a couple of Mrs Hants' flat mates also joined this merry band to watch the carnage.
The footie? Fouls galore as stated - Dave Webb - future QPR legend [Post edited 28 Feb 17:15]
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Reply | Stan Bowles
at 16:15 27 Feb 2024
Some fabulolus words written by fans of our club and others' plus the media as tributes to Stan. I really don't know how to add anything except that Stan was so much of my QPR-supporting life that I feel that a part of my own life has now gone.
I will always remember the buzz around South Africa Road terraces when we bought Stan "he's better than Rodney you know!" was the general theme for our record signing, so it was quite exciting, especially as he looked the part and he'd been labelled a 'bad boy' by the papers. What were we to expect?
I'd been brought up on and idolised Rod-Nee whom I thought would be impossible to replace, but it was quite noticable that QPR played much more as a team after Marsh's departure. I'd already had a glimpse of Stan when we played Crewe (I've still got the programme) but he had a very promising debut for us, making one goal and scoring another - with his head! I never bought the lazy tag that some ascribed to his play because I could see him extremely active creating attacking moves, providing assists as well as scoring some memorable goals.
He was usually closely and heavily marked, on the end of some vicious tackling at times although he was skilled at evading many of the cloggers and taking the mickey. I'm trying to remember the name of a Chelsea thug (Mickey Droy?) who took him out with a waist-high tackle, that went unpunished! I mnentioned on another thread that he sold such a dummy to Arsenal's Bob McNab, that the defender fell over backwards without any contact. That ability to drop a shoulder, switch play and accelerate over 10 yards was mesmerising for many an opponent.
He was a player for whom your pulse started racing when he got the ball as you knew that something exciting could happen, a beautiful left foot passer of the ball - Joe Mercer said of him, " He could thread a needle with his left foot!" - pity about the very few England Caps that such skills won him.
Many wonderful memories, but the one that always springs to mind was at the Baseball Ground in August 1975 when I stood, accompanied by the future Mrs Hants and surrounded by Derby fans expecting their League Champions to do a little better than to lose 5-1 to these upstarts from West London! Hat-trick by Stan caused me to whoop a little! Got some serious glares from those around me - I would have been moved or ejected from the ground these days.
I saw him in 2015 when he came on the pitch at half-time and got drenched by the sprinklers! Not long after that, I found myself face to face with him outside the ground in SAR, but didn't recognise him at first. Very difficult to realise that this was my favourite player ever, the man with long hair and sideburns who had once been an iconic member of the best-ever QPR team that played fabulous football
He had many well-documented weaknesses in life that I find a little sad to read, but I like to remember him for those halcyon days in the hooped shirt and giving us all so much pleasure.
RIP Stan |
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Reply | Totally Football Show Podcast with James Richardson
at 06:33 27 Feb 2024
To be fair, The Times had a full page obituary in the main paper, but I was also surprised to see no mention in The Game (which is almost exclusively Premier League anyway) edit: this was in response to Wegerles stairs re The Times. [Post edited 27 Feb 15:17]
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Reply | EBay leeches
at 18:34 26 Feb 2024
In our greatest ever season, I lived and worked in Kenya,but I bought my Dad a season ticket and he sent me programmes. On one occasion, he spotted Stan outside the ground and got him to sign a programme, which, to my delight, he sent to me. Sadly, when we had to leave Nairobi, Mrs Hants made a bonfire of what sho considered useless, but this included my treasured programme! I think I called her a number of derogatory names including possibly (OP) a leech? |
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