He'd be guaranteed a bigger crowd than the time he had a match at WrestleMania... please log in to view this image
Embarrassing If Spurs don’t win Europa than this goes down as the worse season since they were relegated.
80 years ago today my father completed his tour of France, Germany and the Low Countries that started on the beaches in Normandy on D-Day and ended in the small German town of Stemmen. I just checked and apparently today you can drive it in slightly under 11 hours. Back then it took 336 days, for the obvious reason that the Germans were trying to stop people doing that, and "diversions were in force". He was a radar operator in the RAF in a very unusual unit - in fact there were only four such units in the RAF, and no other country had them. It was a hybrid radar and fighter control organisation, but mobile. Such things had previously been separate and in fixed installations. He trained for two years for the job. When deployed the 30 personnel accounted for (by relaying contracts onto RAF fighters) 100 German aircraft destroyed and a similar number damaged. About one third of all these happened in two days while based in Eindhoven while XXX Corps were trying to break through to Arnhem. During their operations the unit suffered two killed and two wounded, all in one German artillery attack when a shell exploded next to one of their vehicles. Incidentally, when he was "called up", the RAF thought he would be suitable as a radar operator because he was an apprentice printer. Doesn't make much sense, but it did stop him volunteering for aircrew (which he tried to do) in which case I probably wouldn't be available to write this. Mind you same thing applies if the German gunners aim had been only a few metres different.
Thanks for sharing this, these stories must be preserved for future generations and the debt we owe people your Dad never under estimated.
40 years this weekend since the Bradford City fire disaster where 56 people died - and football stadia changed forever as a result. They were celebrating promotion that day. 40 years on, they are celebrating promotion again - with an 98th minute winner last weekend.
Stoke-on-Trent in doing something to justify its existence for once shock please log in to view this image
He died. Autopsy had cause of death as sepsis caused by small sharp laceration wound. Coroners' court decided the wound was probably caused by his cat, Steven. His estate was bequeathed to a Mr "Long Peter" .
The recent BBC documentary on the tragedy was a tough watch , it certainly brought back memories to me and at the time I would look at the state of the stadiums and stands , the main stand at vicarage Rd Watford springs to mind
