Abel Hernandez

i hope he has signed something concrete before the end of today , Deadline day is going to be too much to bare without a second / replacement striker tied up

Im away on monday and wont be able to keep up till about 8pm arrrgh

 

Personally I will be glad when the window closes. Deep guilty feelings of wasting time on the net (quick scan of the Pink at 6pm on a Saturday was all I wasted back in the day). There must be a significant drop in GDP for the UK in the weeks before deadline day, however this is probably mitigated by the inflation in transfer fees that that same day causes. I am presuming that transfer fees are a significant portion of the UK GDP, and if not the whole of the UK at least around Wimslow!

 

Is that a euphemism?

 

No I am referring to the Hull Daily Mail Pink version (such a long time ago it may have been green, but, pretty sure it was pink). Came out around 6pm on a Saturday night with the Three Crowns version of Cities game during the season and Yorkshires travails or Jim Lakers/Freddy Trueman's feats at the Oval out of it. But I am sure you knew that.

 

It was certainly green when I did the paper round in the sixties.

 

I definitely only ever got a green one in the 80s.

 

i defo delivered a green one , . . . urm there is a pink paper not sure what sports are in it . . .watersports maybe

 

Me too, John. I did a round for Didsbury's (on Chants) in the Fifties. It was always green.

 

I think the 'Sporting Pink' is/was a racing paper.

 

Can only remember green.

In the 80's,Used to get a bus into town Satdee night into Teddys 6:00. Lionel used to go round the pubs flogging the Sports mail. Few beers in quiet reflection reading the paper before the nights festivities.

O/T Does anyone remember Lionel? Used to sell the HDM in one of those boxes and used to, I think nick some SMails and sell em in the pubs.

 

The Sports Mail was green

 

Financial times used to be pink !

 

Yes you are right the pink was the racing paper. HDM sports version was of course green.

Getting confused with the Pink. My Dad took that since he was an illegal bookie before bookmaking became legal. When it became legal, the legal guys put him out of business.

 

The visa will not hold up the signing. We can still sign him and sort out the visa after the window has closed. The main stumbling block would of been the work permit, now he has got that the visa is just a formality

 

Saw a Brucey interview where he said the permit was done and just 'a couple of little things to finish off'.

 

Now Didsburys is a name from the past...I lived dowm Westbourne Ave in the 60s.....didn't he commit suicide?

 

You could be right on that, Phil. I'd forgotten, but I have a vague memory of hearing about it.

I liked old Bill Didsbury. He'd worked on the Indian railways in the war (Indian Army) and he had some ace stories.

I lived down Park Ave in the 50's and on and off until mid-60's.

 

I think when he died it became one of Turnbulls first newsagents

 

It was a Turnbull's

 

Didsbury's late 50's delivered my papers down Westbourne Ave thinking they must all be really well off in those big houses and yes old man Didsbury was a nice guy.