A 45 inch chart single in 1980 was around £1 (equivalent to £4.57 in 2022) from somewhere like WH Smith or Woolies. I was spending the money I got from my paper round (about £5 per week) on singles, although I got mine from some back alley record shop, so they must have been a little cheaper, as I was buying about 8 per week, and the owner would sometimes let me have an additional 2 for free There was a something similar in a pub in the Isle of Man in the late 80's full of 60's records, that cost 10p for 2 songs. It was brilliant until the size of the 10p was made smaller and I ran out of my King George VI 2 shilling coins
Why can't we afford better than Bamford?. He was 7 million. 49ers group are meant to be loaded and if Rads is serious about selling for big money he will have to spend bigger or sell up. How do you know how much the club can afford to pay.
Can you remember the first single you ever brought? I brought two together Blondie “Island of Lost Souls” and Toto Coelo “I Eat Cannibals”. My first album was actually a cassette, Adam Ants “Prince Charming”. I got into music much later than my mates, as a 12/13 year old I wasn’t interested in music yet they’d all rush indoors to watch Top Of The Pops. My fathers collection (of hardly played records) were Elvis, Shirley Bassey and a huge host of Country Western singers like Johnny Cash and Tammy Wynette My father would have LPs for birthday and Christmas and they’d be played once or twice a year, he was more into watching TV when he got home from work and Saturdays would be his horse racing, Sunday lunchtime working Mens club, Sunday afternoon asleep on the sofa so I guess not much time to play them. I remember his face when he first saw Adam and and then Boy George on TV
The other biggy is that all the teams at the top have top quality DMs, we are only just getting ours back and its April……
I was expecting a win myself against the Saints and TBH if it wasn't for the poor decision making of James in the first half and missed chances from others we would IMO have been out of sight before halftime. But then again I didn't expect anything from the Wolves game and look what happened there. I don't expect us to get anything from the city, arse and chelsea games but you never know. We certainly need to get something out of what is a tricky away game against Watford. A lot of ups and downs still to come.
Elvis's way down was my first 7 inch single that I bought. But my first tape was a Bay city rollers. Although I do remember a novelty record bought for me, by Charlie Drake...my boomarang won't come back. Only a certain age group would remember that.
You know three to four years ago, I could have only dreamed of what was ahead for Leeds United but it still irks me that during this period our attackers have continued to miss chance after chance after chance. We had a little purple patch with Raphinha putting them away, before that Pablo, but like I said in another thread, it’s like it’s become an acceptance. We’ve coined the phrase or excuse “they do the other stuff”.
Firmino for Liverpool. Ronaldo for scum. Antonio for West Ham. Kane does play a 9 for Spurs. He is the focal point for their attack. Benzema for Real. Bamford for us. The number 9 position has changed over the years though to accommodate smaller more technical players. The aim is to hold the ball up and drag the other players up the pitch. Bamford is our focal point and because he hasn't played we have suffered. We suffered because our only other 9 is probably Roberts who we all agree just doesn't cut it at this level. That's why we need either someone better than Bamford or a back up in case he gets injured again. Currently we have nobody to step in. Gelhardt is not a 9 just yet, I like him playing just off the 9.
I know we’re the kings of missing chances but people tend to get one-eyed about it. Comments that we should have been out of sight against Southampton for example because we had some opportunities. So did they. All sides miss chances.We just notice ours more. It is an issue… We are below where we should be for xg and that stat doesn't include bungled opportunities that don’t result in a chance. But just as a guide… look who tops this list (Note: paddy topped it last year!) https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/players/big_chance_missed
My comment at HT (to my son) was how are we still 1-0 up. Great save by Meslier, goal line clearances and Southampton pushing us back for the last 10 mins of that half. Just my opinion at the time of course...now I've read everything on here I realise we should have been at least 3-0 up.
It's not necessarily just the chances. My main gripe is that the front 4 are just hardly ever on the same page. The Newcastle game for example. The stats probably suggest it was a close game chances wise but the sheer number of times we broke clear and had them outnumbered when attacking was almost every two minutes. Then the simplest of passes were overhit, underhit, played to the wrong man, bad timing, missed crossing and nobody in the box to get on the end of it. That should have been so comfortable.
I hated that Toto Coelo song First singles that I actually bought would have been The Damned "Love Song", and The Buzzcocks "What Do I Get", followed by the Sex Pistols cover of the Eddie Cochrane song " Something Else", although that was bought mainly for the B Side "Friggin in the Riggin" . First album was "Ultravox!" by Ultravox!, when John Foxx was the lead singer. I know for Christmas when I was younger I received both the LP for the Disney soundtrack of "Mary Poppins" and also a single that had the theme music to the tv shows "Alias Smith and Jones" and the other side was "The Virginian". Adam and the Ants was the first band I saw play live, in January 1982, my parents bought me the tickets for my birthday. My dad was a Jim Reeves and Johnny Cash fan, and my mum Joan Baez and Nana Misskouri fan, although most of the time I would say they only listened to the music when we had Radio 1 on in the mornings as I was getting ready for school (Noel Edmonds was the breakfast show host then), and on Sundays, to listen to Paul Burnett play the top 20 hits of the week. I also got a Sony Walkman as a present when they were first released, as it meant that my dad didn't have to listen to all my punk songs anymore.
Ultravox! Great album. Still have that one plus SoR and HaHaHa!. John Foxx got me into music, then I went back to his Ultravox.
