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Energy and food bills bloody steep, though

Yeah, still using a roll pinched from the Football Special train to York, March '84.

Put it on the fire/in the wood burner, gone in half an hour.

AD's "legacy" was .... er, well, best not get in to all that

He's a sinner; he tried being a Saint but it didn't go very well.

Just so long as they don't all draw today like us .....

He came on at Burton, that was in March. I think that was his last appearance. I was there to witness it.

Don’t you start ...

Yep, 1st Best Including the Premiership

You lot have forgotten "a bit" about that?

Thank you for yours. Not on this thread but very often people scoff at owners hiring and firing. What else can an owner do, when the transfer window yields no improvement? Just sit there and do nothing as the weeks pass and you're still in the bottom three, and the ruin of relegation looms large, and your post includes delightful thoughts such as: "Hope you get cancer" etc?

Ditto Eastville December 1983.

4th best stadium outside the Prem, Second Toughest (Fans) In the Infants Championship *

Here's some more stats for the statistically minded: three clubs will be relegated this season. Fact! "Regress to the mean," is all well and good, but three clubs will be relegated. And Huddersfield don't want to be one of them. But that’s where they are, in the bottom three.

Yes, some neat football. But it must've been hard going back then to break teams down on poor pitches when defenders could take lumps out of you. Not long after this we signed Cheese who replaced Keith Fear (I think?) and we probably went a bit more "aerial" ? Like at Arsenal! Older posters will know more. Five or six local lads plus Tom and Gerry, our own youngsters.

I like the Chief Supers, flat peaked copper caps, keeping an eye on things by the entrance to the tunnel. You don't see that in 2023.

"He's not a very big fella, but he's got a tremendous dig on him" I would think Tony Robinson was there in the crowd that day, certainly.

I remember Kevin De Bruyne making no effort to patronise us, or be "nice" about us, or to "ruffle our hair" and say how jolly good we were, after the second semi at AG. If I remember kreckly he declined the interviwer's obvious invitation to do all that and pretty much said "they were rubbish, we're miles better" and it was quite amusing. And more honest. It's funny because people on here frequently complain about us being too nice, too soft, too obliging, nothing like ruthless enough. And when we see it in other players and teams, some get upset.

.... and the old folks - @Ivorguy, @cidered aboroad, @pongo88, @slartibartfast - wished him well

Bell n Wells. Wells Bell. Surely to goodness we can make AC/DC's "Hell's Bells" work here? Can't we? Come on A Block (ask yer uncle; get on youtube). ".... coming on like Harry Kane, You're only young but yer gonna die Wells Bell! You got us singing: Wells Bell Our temperature presses's high: Wells Bell Cos if Sam's on the left, Nakhi's sticking to the right, Wells Bell" Just need that Pompey bloke and his bell, and we're off .... Wells Bell. It might work. Until Tommy comes back

Enough now, stop all this. I only mentioned this about Naismith because my Crystal Palace mate said he was told this by Shaun Dairy.

We just won at Preston! Come on, have a go

This is what Henry Winter might've written the other week (end) if he hadn't been so intent on patronising a small lower league club.

You never see that @GrahamC on these sort of threads, he goes missing when the puns start flying. Disappointing.

He's been known to milk these in the past.