Does any potential deal have to go before the FA peek for the fit and proper persons test? ..Or if according to one Carpet Burns it could be done before the end of the week, has this been already done...If so, that would assume that the take over is not a figment of anyone's imagination.
That fits with something I was told a while ago, but chose not to get excited about. I’m still cynical enough not to be convinced yet either TWT
When my dad first took me for a pint when I was 17 I asked for a Double Diamond because like everyone else of my age I had been drinking it. He informed me I could have a pint of Tetley's. End of argument. I quickly saw his point. Awful stuff DD. Ian McKechnie came in my local to knock a pile of coins down for a charity he worked for. It was the day after the Stoke quarter final and a couple of days before the Battle Of Bramall Lane. Landlord told him a big City fan was in and he came round to talk to me. He bought me a DD as that was what he was drinking. I offered to buy one back but he passed saying he had better not have too much as there was a hard training session next day ready for the Blunts game. Landlord said to me later that he wondered how many he would have had if he didn't have a heavy training session as that was the 7th he had seen him have. Walking along after the game at Sheffield there was a banging on a bus window as we walked past. It was McKechnie banging and giving me the thumbs up. Great days.
Yes. He did speak to me, thanks. Those were the days a couple of us used to come over to Hull to go to every away game on a bus which wasn't even full most times and was often the only one there. Was sorry an old chap who used to go in there who was at City's first ever game wasn't in. He was still going every game in his 80's when I moved.
You heathen, nothing wrong with draft DD, most of my mates were on that crap called Guinness, the only thing wrong with DD is that on draft you couldn't get it in many places, and city players in those days, well nearly all of them, were much like the Hull FC, I'm in the Sammy Evan's era now. They used to play on a Saturday back then, I lived down Hawthorn Ave, not far from Hawthorn Pub. If Hull had a match at the Boulevard on the Saturday afternoon about an hour or so before the match you could see the Hull FC players piling out of Hawthorn after a few bevvies. I do agree though Castro great days. Before Terry Neil became manager you could see some of the city players after the game in the clubhouse that used to be in the North Stand and was accessible by the staircase on Boothferry Park car park, there was also an entry from the North Stand as well but after a match it was a bit chaotic. Oh and for a bit of nostalgia my membership card, name erased.
I was a member as well. Although it was full with a waiting list they got fed up with ejecting a few of us that sneaked in via the fire exit door which the one of us who was a member opened up and so let us, about 7 or 8 of us, join. One was the Coffin carrier, who disappeared, one emigrated, went to the funeral of another a couple of years ago, one used to post on here occasionally and lives abroad now, another died a couple of years ago and lost touch with a couple of others who no longer go to City. You probably knew some of us.Quite a thing then getting a pint between 3pm and 6pm.
DD was gassy, awful stuff. Makes me shudder to think I drank stuff like that, Worthington E, Brew X, McEwan's and other keg mostrosities. Though when working in Birmingham for a while found that Brew XI excelled them in awfulness. They used to dehydrate me. Never had a hangover since my early 20s when I stopped drinking that sort of stuff.
I'll also have you know I drank, quite a lot of, Hull Brewery Mild, until it became Mansfield, urh, bitter, larger all did nothing for me, other than make me ill, so that's when I started on the wine, back then it was something for a guy to drink wine, or even order it
Half time was a pain GLP, you no sooner got a pint ordered than the players were coming out for the second half, down in one if you could, a lot of it down your chin
I too was a member. Loved the scrum at half time when all the pints were pulled and lined up on the bar. Syd Stamp was the chairman ( the bloke with the keys and behind the bar) I used to sell City scratch cards for him at my place of work. Started off with a round of about a dozen and finished up with 50/60 and more members. Syd used to get commission on this which he saved up until the end of the season. This snowballed to quite a few bob, at a guess £100 maybe more which was a lot of money then and Syd told me to come into the club house on the last game and he'd see me alright. I walked in and Syd said 'what yer drinking' ? He then pulled me a pint of lager and that was seen as my commission. As you say, great days. Remember too a game v Swansea getting called off at the last minute due to a torrential down pour. I was already in the club house talking to Syd when the Swansea supporters bus pulled on to the car park. The bus driver came into the club and asked Syd if the Swansea fans can come in and use the toilet, get a drink and so on before they headed off home. Syd so no, 'They have to be members'
We used to take it in turns to be the one to miss a few minutes at end of first half to order the drinks at half time. This gave us time to down 2 pints. Chance of missing a goal but priorities and all that.
I just missed out on Waggy in his prime ( went to a few games but was too young to understand what was going on). Older brothers swear blind he'd be in Fiveways before a game and therefore one of the chants was A double diamond works Waggy, works Waggy... Repeat a few times, to the tune of ' A double diamond works Waggy' . Any truth?
I love the way, no matter what the thread, we can bring the subject back to beer or gin, or wine.... A bit like a word association thing!!
