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  1. Hornet-Fez

    Hornet-Fez Well-Known Member

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    I was there. Offered a lift to my then best mate's Dad on my motorbike but he declined - lost cause and all that - so off I toodled, all on my own. Parked my bike under the ring road overpass in the town. The rest, as they say, was history.
     
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    Hornet-Fez, Sep 5, 2022
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  2. NZHorn

    NZHorn Well-Known Member

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    What was the lost cause? The game or getting there safely on the back of your motorbike, or, if your motorbike was anything like mine, getting there at all.
     
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    NZHorn, Sep 6, 2022
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    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    I had a motor bike like that when I was 16... I think the dealer saw me coming.........
     
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    yorkshirehornet, Sep 6, 2022
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  4. Hornet-Fez

    Hornet-Fez Well-Known Member

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    Honda CB250 K4. Quite a reliable engine so long as you put oil in it :emoticon-0127-lipss
     
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  5. oldfrenchhorn

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    More memories.

     
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    oldfrenchhorn, Sep 20, 2022
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  6. Markthehorn

    Markthehorn Well-Known Member

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    Luther’s double at Old Trafford .

     
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    Markthehorn, Sep 24, 2022
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  7. andytoprankin

    andytoprankin Well-Known Member

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    I was allowed to stay up and watch this. I was so pumped up by it.
     
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    andytoprankin, Sep 25, 2022
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    7th Heaven...
    I find it strange that we could do that regularly to big clubs back then, but now it's done regularly to us. I can't even remember the last time we won a League Cup game.
     
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    Bolton's Boots, Sep 25, 2022
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  9. duggie2000

    duggie2000 Well-Known Member

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    GT's mantra "never giant killed while I am in charge"
     
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    duggie2000, Sep 25, 2022
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  10. Markthehorn

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    We beat Reading one year and Palace last season - both were in our league I think.

    It's the ones lower down we have trouble with.
     
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    Markthehorn, Sep 25, 2022
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  11. Bolton's Boots

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  12. andytoprankin

    andytoprankin Well-Known Member

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    Agree with your sentiments, and wow, didn’t know that. I don’t think I’ll share this with Dad, he has a rose-tinted remembrance of Watford from those days.
     
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    andytoprankin, Nov 26, 2022
  13. oldfrenchhorn

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    It seems like yesterday I watched this lot.

    please log in to view this image
     
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    oldfrenchhorn, Dec 4, 2022
  14. Bolton's Boots

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    The 'match fixer' bottom left...

    Some instantly recognisable faces there - Holton, Howfield, Catleugh, Bell and Bunce. I knew of McNiece but can't truthfully say I recognised him.
     
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  15. Markthehorn

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    Sure a few of you remember another famous win at Arsenal!

     
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    Markthehorn, Dec 17, 2022
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    Why did we ever let Bardsley go?
     
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    Four things that come to mind seeing that

    Those shorts, they were the reason women became football fans

    The poor quality of the recording, makes you wonder how TV become so popular

    The rivers that Arsenal cried after that game

    Sadly the end of the GT era, the horror of the semi final against Spurs and half of the best team we had in that era were gone by the start of the next season, apart from a few highs it has been a struggle since then
     
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    duggie2000, Dec 17, 2022
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  18. Hornet-Fez

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    Mrs Fez commented during yesterday's game about how the shorts are now getting shorter again ( "phwoar" and "yesss niiice" being two of her comments ...). As an aside, she could recognise all of the Saracens forwards by their bums, back in the day!:emoticon-0127-lipss

    HDTV is not helping our eyes when looking now at old stock now.:emoticon-0112-wonde
    Still flowing, those rivers! <laugh>

    Damned straight! Awful, awful, day, that semi-final.<doh>
     
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    Hornet-Fez, Dec 18, 2022
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    My sister had a thing for Pat Rice’s legs. She denies it now, but she did.
     
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    andytoprankin, Dec 19, 2022
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