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Blimey talk about handbags.

 

i missed it when it happened, but it looks like grimsby led the national league by several points a few weeks ago. they had 29 points from 12 games. they've now dropped to third after a third consecutive league defeat (with an fa cup defeat in there as well). all defeats by one goal. the new leaders are chesterfield and the team in second is the mighty boreham wood.

 

alf ramsey put wales ahead in the 3rd minute of their wc qualifier against belarus. 14 minutes played.

 

I saw that too - they lost today to a goal from the son of Guy Whittingham, somebody who always played well against us!

 

Not bad for a bloke who died in 1999

 

true. there's a lot to be said for reincarnation.

 

Must have had a good life to want to be reincarnated as the same thing again.

 

I’m dying to know who I’ll be reincarnated as…

 

trouble is he's come back welsh, which might be a problem if he's aiming to win the word cup again. clearly somewhat slapdash when filling in the paperwork up there. easily done by those easily distracted. like me. i keep coming back as someone who claims wrongly to have been cleopatra in a previous life. there's thousands of us. it's a bit like the spartacus ones. every thomas, richard, and harold claims to have been spartacus, as documentary evidence shows.

 

i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's going to be alfred marks.

on the plus side, you'll forget you had groucho as your avatar this time round.

 

he's popped in another from the spot and still has 40 minutes to earn himself a hat-trick. possibly the first one since robert earnshaw, the well-known quiz answer.

 

Need Wales score to finish 3-1 for me bet. Can't see that happening somehow.

 

nope. it's 4-0, so your bet's scuppered. alf got subbed, so his hat-trick is scuppered too.

 

Knowing my bad luck I will come back as me...

 

leave yourself some letters and info and advice hidden around the place, just in case! and possibly a few ten bob notes.

 

5-1. their biggest win since a 6-0 away against china in march 2018 (it included a bale hat-trick).

 

eight goals for france today against kasakhstan, with 4 goals, including a first half hat-trick, for kilian mmmbop.

 

No one is that unlucky!

 

John "Tadcaster Ales" Smith

 

I had a really good boy's night out at Sam Smith Brewery in Tadcaster. Guided tour then drinks in the staff bar, the beer was excellent, it seemed better than you get in their pubs.