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humanbeingincroydon said:
Ryan Loft had a bloody good game last night
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Loft always seemed to do well for our academy. Not sure why he was let go, but they know better than we do, I guess.
 
Anyone know what happened to Alfie Stokes. I think he once scored 5 goals for us against Birmingham City and Gil Merrick. Wasn't anyones favourite but he did keep Johnny Brooks out for a while!
This certainly ages me.....I'll be asking what happened to Johnny Hollowbread next!
 
bigsmithy9 said:
Anyone know what happened to Alfie Stokes. I think he once scored 5 goals for us against Birmingham City and Gil Merrick. Wasn't anyones favourite but he did keep Johnny Brooks out for a while!
This certainly ages me.....I'll be asking what happened to Johnny Hollowbread next!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_Stokes

Seems like he played a really small number of games, scoring all the time, before moving to Australia and back.
Passed away in 2002 aged 69.
 
Thank you. I looked at certain players on that list and noticed Jeff Ireland's name was missing.He joined us from Finchley.I believe he only played one first team game and several reserve games,Haven't a clue what became of him......interesting though......all those names of the past bringing back memories.
My mates and me,as youngsters,used to bring a tennis ball with us for reserve games and play beneath the West Stand with one eye on the game!
 
bigsmithy9 said:
Thank you. I looked at certain players on that list and noticed Jeff Ireland's name was missing.He joined us from Finchley.I believe he only played one first team game and several reserve games,Haven't a clue what became of him......interesting though......all those names of the past bringing back memories.
My mates and me,as youngsters,used to bring a tennis ball with us for reserve games and play beneath the West Stand with one eye on the game!
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I saw an article earlier today pointing out that Reo Griffith's Lyon career hasn't got to the best of starts, with him immediately being sent to play for Lyon B in the French fourth tier, yet in their five matches so far this season he hasn't even made a single appearance in the matchday squad let alone on the pitch.

Now it is feasible that he's either picked up a knock or an illness, after all we remember a couple of seasons back when Marcus Edwards missed a couple of months with tonsillitis, but considering a move to Lyon looked a good one for him on paper it's worth keeping an eye on this.
 
In Susie Dent's Dictionary Corner column (years ago) she was asked about the expression "sick as a parrot". She dated it to the 1970's but didn't know it's exact origin. I can help her out on this one.
After returning from an overseas trip in 1908, the captain of the ship the Tottenham Hotspur football team sailed on gave them the ship's parrot as a memento.It was taken to Spurs White Hart Lane offices where it lived for another 11 years.
In 1919 the First Division was restructured and a League board meeting decided to elect Arsenal into the top flight,relegating Spurs.
This predictably caused outrage.....and on that very day, the parrot died! Because of what the League had inflicted on them,everyone connected to Spurs were said to be as sick as the parrot.
 
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bigsmithy9 said:
Looks like he's wearing the secondary kit. Was this the public trial prior to the season's start?
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It's from a trial match on August 16th 1958, according to Getty Images.
I'd link to the page and the slightly larger picture, but the site breaks the link, for some reason.
 
bigsmithy9 said:
In Susie Dent's Dictionary Corner column (years ago) she was asked about the expression "sick as a parrot". She dated it to the 1970's but didn't know it's exact origin. I can help her out on this one.
After returning from an overseas trip in 1908, the captain of the ship the Tottenham Hotspur football team sailed on gave them the ship's parrot as a memento.It was taken to Spurs White Hart Lane offices where it lived for another 11 years.
In 1919 the First Division was restructured and a League board meeting decided to elect Arsenal into the top flight,relegating Spurs.
This predictably caused outrage.....and on that very day, the parrot died! Because of what the League had inflicted on them,everyone connected to Spurs were said to be as sick as the parrot.
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As Spurs finished bottom maybe they deserved the relegation but Arsenal did not deserve to go up. I believe the Liverpool chairman had something to do with both cases. Back handers,probably,from the Arsenal board!
I believe,also,because of WW1,many Spurs players had joined up,weakening the club...….
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
The greatest Egyptian to play in the Premier League
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Also pictured, the second-best Egyptian to play in the Premier League
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Ghali...The time Redknapp wanted to bring him on against Wigan in the FA Cup in 2008-09 season was one of the very few times Spurs fans let ourselves down imho
 
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I see mercenary scumbag Kyle Walker is once again trying to insult our intelligence, bleating to the Daily Mail how Poch told him that he wasn't in his plans - because when somebody plays ten of the twelve games before that meeting, that's definite evidence of a player not being in a manager's plans, just like it's proof of a player not getting enough time on the pitch (which just so happens to be the previous story mercenary scumbag Kyle Walker used when trying to claim he was forced out of Spurs and it definitely wasn't his bank balance he was thinking of)
 
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