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Discussion in 'Watford' started by colognehornet, Jun 26, 2013.

  1. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    these are grandkids
     
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  2. Hornet-Fez

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    These are not the Bee Gees grandchildren.
    Not according to Snopes, anyway.
     
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  3. yorkshirehornet

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    They are....... I trimmed down the image......


    over to you......
     
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  4. yorkshirehornet

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    Oh you are right...I have been fooled!!

    Over to you!
     
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  5. Hornet-Fez

    Hornet-Fez Well-Known Member

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    <laugh> here's me thinking that you'd have to think up another question to save me thinking up a question... my answer only being correct to correct an invalid question...<laugh>
     
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  6. yorkshirehornet

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    I think you answered the question and were correct in correcting my sought for answer...so you sorted it ......brillianltly done!
     
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  7. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    What links Bill Nighy, Bill Murray, David McCallum, Paul Newman, and Ronald Reagan?
     
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  9. Bolton's Boots

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    They each suffer from Celtic hand - a disease that causes one or more fingers to become permanently bent?
     
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    Yes, Dupuytren's Contraction.
    Too easy.
     
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  11. Bolton's Boots

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    Thatcher had it too, which is probably why she didn't like Celts...

    A football question:
    In the pre-EPL days, a First Division club signed an outside left who went on to have a long career as a goalkeeper. Who was he?
     
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  12. Bolton's Boots

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    Signed as a 17 year-old from a Scottish amateur side, he made his debut for his new club's first team three years later - against England.
     
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  13. Bolton's Boots

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    Played 25 matches in the First Division before dropping down two divisions - where he played against Watford quite a few times. Enjoyed banter with opposition fans and was a popular character with the Rookery fans.
     
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    One of the teams he played against us for was Southend.
     
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  15. yorkshirehornet

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    Lawrie leslie?
     
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  16. Bolton's Boots

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    Good guess but no - he played over 100 games for Hibs and Airdrie as a goalkeeper before moving south. But you have the right time period.

    Arsenal were the 1st division team who signed this guy as a left winger
     
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  17. yorkshirehornet

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    really not finding one that fits
     
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  18. Bolton's Boots

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    He transferred from Southend to Hull - where he played for 8 seasons, during which time he achieved fame by becoming the first goalkeeper to concede a goal, the first to save a goal, the first to take a penalty and the first to miss a penalty in a competitive penalty shootout,
     
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    Ian McKechnie ?
     
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  20. Bolton's Boots

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    That's him - it always amazed me how he could concentrate in goal and exchange banter with opposition fans - and I'm sure it wasn't just us who joked with him.

    All those firsts came in the Watney Cup semi-final in 1970 when Man United knocked Hull out.

    Over to you.
     
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