Off Topic Bill Nicholson Arms

United always struck me as a an unabashed celebration of things northern, even though most of the fans came from Devon, Wiltshire, Ireland, etc.; a club for wannabe Andy Capp's for those who come from places with more sheep or pigs than people.

Are they ready for a women's team? Somehow it seems like an unholy marriage, like United and Mourinho, LVG, Moyes....Oh well, maybe it'll be fine.....

 

Hope not.


The home kit reminds me of that horrific united away kit from the 90’s

 

It looks like one of those pictures advertising some stain remover

 

Yeah good shout.
Rumours are that they’re fake. However, over the last couple of seasons, the leaked kit/s that seem to crop up most frequently ended up being the real thing. And so far, this is the only one I’m seeing. Not looking good....

 

Looks to creative for a Nike kit.

Here's a quick selection of Nike's kits for this season and you'll quickly notice a pattern...

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In other words I'm expecting a white shirt with navy bits around the collar and end of the sleeve (maybe under the arms if we're lucky) that looks remarkably like the kits that Roma, Galatasaray, Werder Bremen, Eintrach Frankfurt, Pumas and Western Sydney Wanderers are wearing that season.

The only kits they put effort into this season were Barca, Atletico, PSG and Galatasaray - which by complete coincidence are kits that feature more than one colour in their design (although as you can see, they still phoned in Galatasaray's)

 

Takes place between the two Manc games.

 

Fek, I'm flying in on the 17th, get into Heathrow about 10:30. I was hoping to get there but if I bugger off to a match about 2 hours after getting home, the wife will be seriously miffed. I haven't seen her since boxing day. Any ideas much appreciated.

 

Divorce? Just a thought........ we’re well practiced

 

Verts has admitted that he was cheering on the Chavs against Barca

...because if they won, our league match would be rescheduled and he could pop back home to watch the Tour of Flanders go past.

 

Fish and chips on the beach, a stroll through The Lanes, a nice drink, a little moonlit football followed by a romantic night in a hotel by the sea? What woman could say "No."

I got the Mrs to say "Yes" to our anniversary in the Bernabeu. It cost me....but it was worth it.

 

She doesn't eat fish and chips, it would have to be Eritrean/Ethiopian. When I lived in Brighton the Egon Ronay guide described Brighton as a 'Culinary Desert'. Full of bleedin' 'Food for Friends', veggie and vegan stuff. I think it may have improved a bit since then but not that much.

And have you seen the hotel prices in Brighton? It would be cheaper to take her to the Bernabeu!

I think my flight might have to be 'delayed' for one day. The first wife will probably put me up for the night then I can get a cab back to Heathrow to pick up my normal cab back down to Ashford.

 

I'm gonna guess saveloys are a no-no, as well? I wouldn't eat one. Now, a battered sausage is a joy.

Brighton is full of ****, hipster nonsense and people who think that stuff is cool....oh, and Captain Sensible and Chris Hughton. Apart from those 2, it's unbearable.

 

Fat Boy Slim and Zoe Ball,...Des Lynham......you're right, unbearable.

Annie Nightingale, God I used to deliver Pizzas to her, Jesus, housework was not her forte. Mark Little,used to deliver pizzas to him as well. God he could talk, must have been vaccinated with a gramophone needle.

 

Interesting article marking the 100 year anniversary of Walter Tull's death:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43504448

I hope that there's some sort of tribute to him at the new ground.
It's strange that he's not more well known, really.

 

Danny Rose had to Google him.........Can't someone tell that bloke to shut up?

 

<QUOTE>
Spotted by Tottenham Hotspur, he was soon playing at White Hart Lane in front of crowds in the tens of thousands.

One of the first black players in the English game, he was subjected to terrible racial abuse. One newspaper report at the time described how, during a match at Bristol City in 1909, "a section of the crowd made a cowardly attack on him in language lower than Billingsgate".

The reporter wrote: "Let me tell those Bristol hooligans that Tull is so clean in mind and method as to be a model for all white men who play football. In point of ability, if not actual achievement, Tull was the best forward on the field."

His career at Spurs drifted following the racial abuse he suffered.
</QUOTE>

Mr Tull would no doubt be pleased to know that 100
yrs on, there are two football clubs in London whose
supporters still attempt to apply the 'drift' method to
Spurs players and supporters.

 

Sky Sports have put this out...

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...er-tulls-memory-by-naming-stand-after-pioneer

I'm not against the idea of outwardly commemorating his life in some way, but I can't see the club putting its head too far above the parapet, certainly not naming a stand after him. We should also celebrate the story of the supporter who climbed the East Stand to tear down a swastika flying there as England played Germany in 1935. These are great things that are not known about.

It's a shame, because one of the things that I so loved about Spurs, in the 'difficult years' of the mid-70's, was that there was never the slightest whiff of racism. Sales of National Front 'Bulldog' magazines were large at Chelsea and West Ham home games, maybe 700-1,000 p/w [out of crowds of at least double those figures].I think they tried once at WHL and got run off, never to return.

 

I think that naming a stand would be a bit wide of the mark.
Maybe the public square or something? Walter Tull Square?
It'll be interesting to see what they do call the stands, though.

 

No to be too holier than thou, but my old man
told me of abuse shouted from the WHL crowd
at Clyde Best (West Ham) .

No clubs' support is ever free of it.
However there is a difference between the
moron minuscule minority, and those clubs
that have a systemic problem that appears
to be widely embraced and revelled in.

 

That's probably just before my recollection. Very unfortunate and regrettable. Less than a decade later, I can't recall WBA's players or Viv Anderson (pre-Arsenal) getting anything by way of trouble.

By the latter part of the 70's ignorance of racial diversity in London had just given way to ignorance on the part of some.