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Finglas. the mention of Cahir brought back may happy memories. My ex was from there and i cant believe that small town can fill a minibus of R's.

Swords, you have probably upset another nation now. Isn't scotch a drink and there is a nation of Scots? Keep up the good work.

Bushman, I had several lunches with old man Jones of J M Jones and each time he moaned about not being paid by the club for ages. A year later when I tackled him about a late payment to me he avoided the subject.

There was a players bar in the old ER stand. it was tiny but I did enjoy a few visits there. It was great talking to the players there. all down to earth blokes.

Havent got much choice. the doc said until a thrombo is cleared I cant drink. Also no salt or sugar. Happy days. every time i look at Wubba's pint of guinness I drool.

Great photo 9's of the old flats not that I share your affection for them. 55 years ago I was a paper boy delivering there. Sundays were the time to go off sick but you didnt do that then. The first problem was that the family living in the furthest flat from the lift on the top floor chose...

As I said on an earlier thread my uncle was killed in a Lanc in the last months of the war. He is buried in a small village just north of Paris with some of the other crew. He is in a war grave imaculately kept by the WGC. What an emotional visit that was. The crew were a mixture of English...

Sorry but being an old f**t the ones I thought were heroes were about when i was at school. Arthur Longbottom, Brian Bedford, tony Ingham and the like. As you got older the 'heroes' were replaced by players you admired, the ones that came through our youth set up and formed the basis of the 67...

PS Granera got 57 mins. the other night and had a good rating. good player in the wrong team and league.

And we have just been relegated from the !st division after one year. so it is back to the second division.

I felt a lot was made of his depression but virtually nothing about his drinking which was rumoured at the time to be very heavy. As I said, not sure what comes first. alcohol sometimes makes you happy but other times has the opposite affect.

Diakite, injured or possibly mental problems? dont forget as soon as he arrived he could not play because he was 'homesick'. more needs to be done on assesment of players mental state before signing them for big fees and wages and perhaps include get out clauses. The Suicide programme showed the...

I felt the programme glossed over Carlisle's drinking. luckily I know nothing about depression but which triggers which or are they seperate? I also have a vague recollection of a fuss being made about him signing for Leeds. I think we gave him a free transfer (we paid 250,000 when he came to...

St. you must be off your rocker. 'Swords needs protection'. Good to see you back Swords, just play nicely or you will be on the naughty step again. Some times you talk sense and wont put up with PC rubbish which i like.

Grifter, you pick up on one sentence of mine and ignore the the next one. Why does one of the world's best international managers pick him? Because he is one of the best and chosen by someone who knows a lot more than you and me. We might have opinions but it does not mean a thing to those who...