Word Association Thread

First Test 1977 Lions tour

 

A great souvenir, may I ask how you have it, as you were 9 at the time?

Stable - Bleats **

** see blats

 

Hi Nick, it was my late brother in law’s. George Napier played all 32 matches for the Invincibles!

The programme also has photos of each of the tourists - 28 of those are autographed by the players themselves

Bleats - Tables

 

Thank you Taff - Wonderful, thanks for sharing

Tables - Ablest

 

These are the football programmes my Dad left me - they’re between 1944 & 1953

Dec. 1944 Man City v Blackpool

Feb. 1945 Bury v Manchester United

Nov. 1945 Bolton v Sunderland

Mar. 1946 Everton v Newcastle

Mar. 1946 Carlisle v Darlington

Sep. 1946 Man City v Bury

Oct. 1946 Arsenal v Brentford

Oct. 1946 Liverpool v Charlton

Dec. 1946 Arsenal v Charlton (Football Combination)

Dec. 1946 Everton v Derby

Dec. 1946 Arsenal v Wolves

Mar. 1947 Brentford v Chelsea

Apr. 1947 Man Utd v Wolves

Apr. 1947 Burnley v Liverpool (FA Cup Semi-Final Replayed Tie)

Apr. 1947 Barnsley v Manchester City

Apr. 1947 Man City v Glasgow Rangers

May 1947 Nottm. Forest v Swansea

May 1947 Man City v Burnley

Aug. 1947 Bournemouth v Swansea

Aug. 1947 Bury v Doncaster

Aug. 1947 Aston Villa v Man City (also includes team news v Sunderland 2 days later)

Sep. 1947 Bolton v Preston

Sep. 1947 Birmingham v Newcastle

Sep. 1947 Preston v Arsenal

Sep. 1947 Blackburn v Blackpool

Oct. 1947 Wales v England

Dec. 1947 Burnley v Preston

Dec. 1947 Man City v Huddersfield

Jan. 1948 Man City v Aston Villa

Jan. 1948 Man City v Chelsea

Apr. 1948 Man Utd v Man City

Apr. 1948 Birmingham v Cardiff

Aug. 1948 Swansea v Watford

Sep. 1948 Swansea v Crystal Palace

Sep. 1948 Bury v Fulham

Oct. 1948 Swansea v Exeter

Nov. 1948 England v Wales

Jan. 1949 Aston Villa v Arsenal

Jan. 1949 Aston Villa v Cardiff

Feb. 1949 Birmingham v Everton

Aug. 1949 Cardiff v Swansea

Sep. 1949 Swansea v Sheffield United

May 1951 Swansea v Eindhoven

Aug. 1951 Swansea v Notts County (Two of these)

Sep. 1951 West Ham v Swansea

Oct. 1951 Birmingham v Swansea

Nov. 1951 Aston Villa v Middlesbrough

Dec. 1951 Wales v Rest of United Kingdom

Jan. 1952 Arsenal v Aston Villa

May 1952 Arsenal v Newcastle (FA Cup Final Tie)

Oct. 1953 Wales v England

Also

9 March 19?? - Stockport v Crewe (1945/46 season?)

? - Crewe v Oldham (1 Sept 1945?)

? - Crewe v Accrington

 

Ablest - Blatter*

* - other (allegedly) crooked sports administrators are probably available ....

 

Need to be in a club museum ?

 

Blatter - Battler **
** Britain - Wizard or Adventure ??

 

Battler - Battalions

 

I will need to decide what to do with them

 

Yes indeed, whatever, it will give a lot of pleasure to a lot of people

 

Battalion - Batatusta **

** Batigol or El Angel Gabriel.
One of my all time favourite footballers, one of the very best I ever saw live.
In my top 5 !!!

On that going to have to sign off, have to say it really get me down, but there you go

Seeya tomorrow

 

Sleep well Nick

Batatusta - Basten*

* - Marco van - not a bad player either

 

Morning Taff & PH

All well and trust same applies to you and yours

MVB also in my top 5 seen live

Today's theme, words containing the random letters E N S

Basten - Absent **
** he rarely was

 

Morning Nick and PH

All ok here and pleased that you are ok Nick

Great link

Absent - Einstein*

* - Nick the Einstein of anagrams

 

Praise indeed

Einstein - Genius **

** he was

 

Genius - Mortensen*

* - hat-trick hero

 

The other Stan

Mortenson * - Ensued

* Marilyn Monroe's real surname, she scored a few times as well

 

Morning Nick & Taff,

I hope you and yours are all well, all fine here,

Ensued pensive **

** other moods in which Wordsworth was, whilst lying on the couch thinking about daffodils, were also available. Although not, apparently, opium induced