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Post by smokie on Mar 30, 2017 12:29:56 GMT
Bit of a roundup of the various threads - who said Quo fans meander? In the next town where I lived in County Durham (i.e. in Bishop Auckland) More going off tangent and more meandering........
Bishop Auckland? How near is West Auckland? Remember seeing a film about WA winning the Thomas Lipton World Cup (true story).
How a team from a small town in England played against and beat much larger teams, the stuff of dreams!
I think the trophy that they won was stolen from their clubhouse, do you know if it was ever found/returned?
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Post by mortified on Mar 30, 2017 14:03:36 GMT
Bit of a roundup of the various threads - who said Quo fans meander? In the next town where I lived in County Durham (i.e. in Bishop Auckland) More going off tangent and more meandering........
Bishop Auckland? How near is West Auckland? Remember seeing a film about WA winning the Thomas Lipton World Cup (true story).
How a team from a small town in England played against and beat much larger teams, the stuff of dreams!
I think the trophy that they won was stolen from their clubhouse, do you know if it was ever found/returned?
Yeah, was that not why Juventus play in black and white stripes or something? Sort of rings a bell. Pre First World War I think.
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Post by smokie on Mar 30, 2017 14:43:41 GMT
More going off tangent and more meandering........
Bishop Auckland? How near is West Auckland? Remember seeing a film about WA winning the Thomas Lipton World Cup (true story).
How a team from a small town in England played against and beat much larger teams, the stuff of dreams!
I think the trophy that they won was stolen from their clubhouse, do you know if it was ever found/returned?
Yeah, was that not why Juventus play in black and white stripes or something? Sort of rings a bell. Pre First World War I think. That rings a bell with me too actually. Think Juventus had to borrow a playing kit and Notts County gave them theirs, or something.
Even more off tangent mutterings.
When Juventus moved into their new stadium a few years back, they invited Notts County to play the very first game there which I thought was a classy thing to do.
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Post by mortified on Mar 31, 2017 5:29:51 GMT
Yeah, was that not why Juventus play in black and white stripes or something? Sort of rings a bell. Pre First World War I think. That rings a bell with me too actually. Think Juventus had to borrow a playing kit and Notts County gave them theirs, or something.
Even more off tangent mutterings.
When Juventus moved into their new stadium a few years back, they invited Notts County to play the very first game there which I thought was a classy thing to do.
Yeah, that was it. I thought Notts County were involved somehow but couldn't for the life of me think how!
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Post by snakelady on Mar 31, 2017 7:36:12 GMT
Ah, those were the days - you either drove Golf or Kadett back then .. I was firmly on the Kadett side ! (actually drove three generations of it, till they switched to Astra ). I don't drive but the Opel brand I think was really the Vauxhall in the UK. There were very few Opel cars around. It was the Vauxhall Kadett. For some inexplicable reason. My dad had one back in the 80's. Both Opel and Vauxhall belonged to General Motors during the time. The Opel family had made sure though, that control and design remained in Germany. Obviously Vauxhall even used the German names for the car models. Things went down hill when from the late 80s on American managers took over and a so called internationalisation (read lowering of quality standards) was implemented. Opel has been slowly recovering over the last years, but lots of jobs have been lost. Looks like the Yanks have finally seen sense and Opel is sold to the French PSA Consortium at the moment. No idea about Vauxhall and if they managed to survive (or kept the brand name), but I assume they were in the same mess caused by Americans not understanding the European markets.
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Post by snakelady on Mar 31, 2017 7:48:47 GMT
Yeah, was that not why Juventus play in black and white stripes or something? Sort of rings a bell. Pre First World War I think. That rings a bell with me too actually. Think Juventus had to borrow a playing kit and Notts County gave them theirs, or something.
Even more off tangent mutterings.
When Juventus moved into their new stadium a few years back, they invited Notts County to play the very first game there which I thought was a classy thing to do. I know the English still rave about winning the world cup back in the 60s, but isn't going back before WWI taking it a little far .. ? No, seriously, I really like this - bit of footy history explained .. and the connection with KOTD is: Francis, Juve and those Italian fish'n'chips shops owners are all stories/results of Italian-British relationships.
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Post by smokie on Mar 31, 2017 10:06:41 GMT
Scotland were the first team to beat England after 1966 and we still harp on about that.
Celtic were the first team from Britain to win the then European Cup and that was a great and significant achievement but it's a long time ago, 50 years ago.
It's seems to be a British trait of looking back as opposed to looking forward to the future.
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Post by mortified on Mar 31, 2017 10:28:26 GMT
It's seems to be a British trait of looking back as opposed to looking forward to the future.
Is that coz our best days are usually behind us? Many Quo fans are no different
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Post by ant on Mar 31, 2017 13:27:22 GMT
That rings a bell with me too actually. Think Juventus had to borrow a playing kit and Notts County gave them theirs, or something.
Even more off tangent mutterings.
When Juventus moved into their new stadium a few years back, they invited Notts County to play the very first game there which I thought was a classy thing to do. I know the English still rave about winning the world cup back in the 60s, but isn't going back before WWI taking it a little far .. ? No, seriously, I really like this - bit of footy history explained .. and the connection with KOTD is: Francis, Juve and those Italian fish'n'chips shops owners are all stories/results of Italian-British relationships. West Auckland is to the west of Bishop Auckland (who knew? ). West Auckland won the Thomas Lipton trophy in 1909 beating 3 other international teams including Juventus. They then defended it (and won it outright) in 1911. They were invited as the snooty FA thought themselves above international competition, a belief they held until tonked by the Hungarians in the mid 50s (twice!). As a team in the best league outside the professional game (then and for many years afterwards) West Auckland were invited - there is a story that it was meant to be Woolwich Arsenal but a mistake was made (same initials - really?) - I choose not to believe that! ITV commissioned a film of the event called A Captains Tale and this was on telly starring well known north easterner (West Aucklandites aren't Geordies) Dennis Waterman! West Auckland play in tan and black. I believe that the Notts County story is the true one of why Juventus wear black and white. The trophy was displayed in West Auckland Workingmen's Club (how VERY appropriate since the team comprised mostly miners) until it was stoled in the 90s. A replica was made, but if those thieves are ever caught I hope that they aren't put in prison - just pop them into the workingmen's club and let the locals know why they are there! Bishop Auckland are probably the most famous non-league team in the country. Hope that helps.
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Post by smokie on Mar 31, 2017 14:03:18 GMT
ant,
Certainly does clear that up.
I wasn't sure about Bishop/West Auckland, for instance, West Kilbride is nowhere near East Kilbride!
I've only seen A Captain's Tale once and the Woolwich Arsenal thing is mentioned in that but who knows if that's true or not?
From what I remember, Dennis Waterman came across the book and approached ITV and that's probably why he starred in it.
It's a great story though.
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Post by ant on Apr 1, 2017 12:34:16 GMT
ant ,
Certainly does clear that up.
I wasn't sure about Bishop/West Auckland, for instance, West Kilbride is nowhere near East Kilbride!
I've only seen A Captain's Tale once and the Woolwich Arsenal thing is mentioned in that but who knows if that's true or not?
From what I remember, Dennis Waterman came across the book and approached ITV and that's probably why he starred in it.
It's a great story though.
All of those things are true, mate
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Post by snakelady on Apr 2, 2017 7:58:09 GMT
Leaves two questions merely: Is that Auckland the origin of the settlers who brought the name to Australia NZ ? And why's the team called 'Bishop' ? I doubt any clerics have been playing ..
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Post by snakelady on Apr 2, 2017 8:21:31 GMT
I might be mistaken, but isn't Auckland a very beautiful city in New Zealand rather than Australia ...? Yes, indeed ..
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Post by quodlibet aka granny on Apr 3, 2017 11:07:13 GMT
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Post by smokie on Apr 3, 2017 11:45:32 GMT
What do you golfers think of this? Harsh, very harsh.
It's happening more and more often in golf these days. Last year, Sweden's Anna Nordqvist was penalised after touching the ball whilst in a hazard. The contact was so minimal that I don't think that she realised that she had but TV cameras picked it up and............
The players in golf and as in snooker are very good at calling fouls against themselves when no-one else is aware of any infringement taking place.
Rules are rules but this just seems a bit unfair. It's not as if she placed her ball 4 metres from where it should have been, it was millimetres from the correct spot, I don't think she really gained any advantage.
Lexi isn't a cheat.
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