Recent content by Melbournetiger

As an Pom who has lived here since 1987,cricket is taken seriously Yes I have lived longer here than the UK and the argument that things have changed doesn’t hold The test 5 day is still a priority, it is what we taught the wilrld SIimplek

Yes with due respect to Gordon Banks he wrote apparently that one oof Waggys goals was one of the best scored against him. All is fair in love and war Respect.

As a 72 year old and someone not bearing grudges I remember 1971 FA CUP 3-2 and then next year in the Cup 4-1 hate them So any win against them is good Bollocks to Banks,Ritchie, Conroy ! CITY till I die , few more years yet

I going day 3 of the Boxing Day test, hopefully it will last till then. Many City people going.?

A tough player, had his own style of running. RIP

I happened to be in New York when Manhattan was being filmed, saw her from a distance, she was so beautiful RIP

Been to Walsall but never Birmingham Anyway at the last Ashes in Melbourne I was in the bar near the MCG ie Cricketer Arms, got to talking to these two Birmingham fans, as soon as I said I was City they said that Wagstaff and Chilton were something else. I returned the compliment re Trevor...

Wasn’t it Olli, as we call him now, who got one of the lads sent off a few years ago when he played for the Bliunts.As good as Keefy

I know I haven’t posted on this particular subject for a while, not being self indulgent but this my 47 th year as a psychiatric nurse. I started early, actually am 72 now. ! Retiring next June. Anyway I haven’t got a magic answer but on a personal level I try to discipline myself in keeping a...

Just watched her appearance on Steptoe and son in 1974, brilliant RIP

Rip Hotshot Houghton Many memories

Dickie Bird RIP I remember going to the Oval in 1984, he was umpiring That part of London has a high West Indian population and many where there Joel Garner was bowling to the sounds of drums and shouts of Killer on the loose Dickie would sway to the drums but as soon as Garner was near the...

Fair dinkum Forest fans will either be stoked , but not if he turns out to be a drongo I hope he is a ripper ,bloody oath !

My 72 nd birthday, 2-0

I think he did own the sweet job near the ground, remember my old man talking to him at the Pantomine at New Theatre one year,he was sat behind us,and my old man told me that……..OH NO HE DIDNT