I'll leave Smithy to recall them but he and I discussed their much less famous replacements - Spurtacus and the Gladiators. I'm not that old but remember seeing a picture of them in costume on a freezing cold night game, with snow piled up around the pitch. I searched the internet without success but think it was in John Fennelly's celebration of our centenary, if anyone's still got a copy.
One of the many inconveniences that come with clearing my internet cache is I had to re-block Harry ****espout on NewsNow...
As this is the boozer - I fill my glass and raise it to my fellow Spurs fans - I wish you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas - Cheers
Happy Christmas gentlemen from both of us to all of your families. We can feel happy and secure about our club.
Dahn the battlecruiser for a few aristotles of smile and titter ay. Think I'll just pop dahn to the uncle Frank to sausage a gregory and join you.
With yet more pubs and clubs being shut to make room for half a dozen more blocks of flats, I have a nasty feeling this is where Croydon is heading...
Peter Hill-Wood died today. The guy who oversaw the goons when we had Scholar and Sugar and turned North London red. What can I say? Definitely RIP, a good man despite dodgy affiliations, a football man. Pleased to see the back of him? Only if he came back and kicked out the shower that are in charge at the Goonnmerates now. Hope his team die with him, but sad to see such a good football man go. RIP you old bugger. If you believe in reincarnation, try lillywhite next time around.
I'm not really one for football owners. The best are unlikable, rich men. The worst are detestable. Hill Wood represented the last of his kind, a sportsman. The only false thing that he did for Arsenal was to sell up to Stan Kroenke, who cares nought for sporting concerns and knows the price of everything... The world is a sadder place for the change.
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He can stay as long as he likes. If he needed a kidney and I was a match, I'd seriously think about it.....
RIP June Whitfield A true comedy great over 7 decades - becoming a star in her own right after the age of 70.
I got to know her via Terry & June, which was like root canal surgery without anaesthetic. However, as I got to see more of her work, she was a real talent, at a time when it was next to impossible to make a career as a female comedian. RIP
I first remember her on the 'wireless' as Rons long suffering girlfriend & Jimmy Edwards was her Father-in-law. Her catchphrase was 'ooooh Roooonnnn'. Popular show at the time!
