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Update on Club 1872 Dear Member, Club 1872 would like to update you on the progress towards a new constitution for Club 1872 and the upcoming Board elections. The draft constitution, which was issued to members, is with the CIC regulator for consideration. Once the CIC regulator has approved it, the constitution will be presented to Club 1872 members for a vote on its adoption. The holiday period means this process has taken longer than we anticipated but we are now in dialogue with the regulator and will issue a poll on the adoption of the constitution as soon as the dialogue is concluded. Unfortunately the upshot of this process is that it is likely that the elections for the new Board of Club 1872 will have to be delayed for between 2-4 weeks. We had hoped to have the new Board in place by the end of September but the adoption of the constitution is an important step prior to the elections and is not something entirely within our control. The regulator is there to scrutinise and examine these kind of changes and this process is part of the statutory regime to protect members. It would not be right to short circuit the process, nor can we do so in any event. We also wish to ensure that the election process takes place over the anticipated period. It is important that members are given time to consider applying for Board positions and that those voting have the chance to hear from prospective Board members via hustings and personal statements. The election process itself will take roughly six weeks and will commence as soon as the vote on the Club 1872 constitution is complete. We thank you for your patience and we will update you further as soon as we are able to do so. Club 1872

A Labour of Love by Vince Cooper | Jul 19, 2017 | The heartbreaking and inspirational story of Jean-Pierre and Bernadette Adams In March 1982, French international footballer Jean-Pierre Adams walked into a Lyon hospital. He was due to have surgery on a troublesome right knee. The tough-tackling central defender had completed a playing career that had seen him capped 22 times for his country and was preparing to move into coaching. Adams had been born in Dakar, Senegal and was brought to France by his grandmother when he was 10 years old. He was enrolled in a local catholic school and adopted by a local couple in Montargis. After playing for various youth teams (mostly as a striker) he joined RC Fontainebleau in 1967, switched to central defence and won the French Amateur championship twice. In 1970 he turned pro with Nimes Olympique and, whilst with the club, he made his first international appearance, in 1972 against the Soviet Union. As a mark of the esteem he was held in as a player, Argentina national captain Angel Marcos, then of Nantes, said; “I always dreaded the two annual confrontations with him.” Adams spent the next nine years playing top-flight football moving on to OGC Nice, where he was part of the team that knocked Barcelona out of the UEFA Cup and came close to title success, and then to Paris Saint Germain where injuries began to take their toll on a player whose approach on the pitch was always full-blooded. On a national team level, the partnership between Adams and Tresor was formidable (they became known as ‘La garde noir’, The `Black Guard’) leading none other than Franz Beckenbauer to claim they were ‘one of the best central defensive partnerships in all of Europe.’ International teammate Henri Michel, who played in his international debut said of him; “He was a force of nature, very strong physically and he had great determination and willingness.” His ascent to the national team was said to have been the forerunner to the success of players such as Marcel Desailly and Patrick Vieira who also had their roots in West Africa. His very nature and style of play left Adams prone to injury and in the late 70s these began to take their toll. He dropped down to the second division with Mulhouse in 1979 and eventually hung up his boots in 1981. The knee operation, which was routine, was to fix ligament problems which had troubled him for much of the later stages of his career and had recently worsened. There was a strike in French hospitals at the time and the anaesthetist was extremely busy, dealing with eight different patients. The obvious course of action would have been to delay the operation. But Adams and his wife Bernadette were never given that option. Left in the care of a trainee, who later admitted in court ‘I was not up to the task I was entrusted with’ a tube was left blocking the pathway to his lungs instead of ventilating them, therefore starving him of oxygen. Adams suffered catastrophic brain damage and had a massive cardiac arrest. Wife Bernadette was at home and unaware of the tragedy that was unfolding. She called the hospital to see how things were progressing and finally got through on the third attempt. She was passed on to a Doctor who simply said; “Come here now.” She rushed to the hospital, and was to remain there for five days, saying later. ‘I thought he was going to wake up and needed to be there.” Adams was in the hospital for 15 months. Then the recommendation was made that he be moved to a home for the elderly. “I didn’t think they would know how to look after him,” recalls his devoted wife who has no medical training. “So I said to myself ‘he will come home’ and I’ve looked after him ever since.” Now, 35 years later, he is unable to walk, talk or move any of his limbs and is in a ‘permanent vegetative state’ and Bernadette still cares for him every day. The now 69-year-old spends most of his days in his own room, in a specially modified bed. He can breathe on his own, digest food, and open and close his eyes. And Bernadette and the family try to bring some normality into his life. ‘No one ever forgets to give Jean-Pierre presents, whether it’s his birthday, Christmas or Fathers Day,” Bernadette told CNN in a rare interview last year. “I’ll buy things so that he can have a nice room, such as pretty sheets, or some scent. He used to wear Paco Rabanne but his favourite one stopped so now I buy Sauvage by Dior.” Bernadette is his full-time carer. She dresses, feeds and bathes him and claims that he knows when it isn’t her taking care of him. “He senses that it is not me feeding him and looking after him,” she says. “The nurses tell me he is not the same. “I think he feels things. He must recognise the sound of my voice.” Jean-Pierre was a larger-than-life character, who loved music, cigars and good clothes. “A smile was always bursting out,” Bernadette remembers. “He loved the good life and was loved by everybody as well.” Now, every day, from 7am until 8pm when he might fall asleep, Bernadette cares for her husband in every way including cleaning, preparing food, feeding and ensuring (with specialist help) that his lungs are clean. Sometimes it isn’t 8pm; there are times when Bernadette is awake caring for him all night. The French league, French federation and the Variety Club of France have all helped with the financial difficulties that have come with the need to care for her husband full-time, and modify their home for his needs. And Bernadette still clings to the faint hope that one day things might change. “His condition does not get any worse, so who knows?” She says. “If one day medical science evolves, then why not? Will there be a day when they’ll know what to do with him? I don’t know.” With their two sons now fully grown and parents themselves Bernadette has much to occupy her. But her main role, as it has been for three and a half decades is to care for the man she loves. In the mid 1990s a French court finally got around to ruling on the issue of mistreatment. The anaesthetist and trainee were found guilty on the charges brought against them. Both were fined a minimal amount and given one-month suspended prison sentences. After 35 years, Bernadette Adams continues every day to prove her dedication to her husband. “I have the feeling that time stopped on 17 March 1982.” She said. The awful tragedy that struck Jean-Pierre Adams has condemned his wife to her own life sentence one few of us could imagine. That she continues to serve that sentence willingly is poignant testimony to her devotion to her stricken husband.

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Some people are worth the watching.

I thought and hoped one of our computer whiz kids would have produced a short video showing all the contentious incidents, well the major ones anyway.

http://www.gersnetonline.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?86679-Pena-what-s-the-score

I thought we were going to film the "journalists"?

I also was born in 1950. I left Drumchapel at the end of last year in primary school.

The thing that annoys me most is we have one of the great football songs in Follow Follow and it has been reduced to a mumble. New words which alter the tempo, sung to quickly, sung to high. It just fades away ever time. I doubt if the under 40's actually know the original words & tune?

No.4 fettercairn right at the end next to Inchfad Drive. I went to Ladyloan Primary then to Cleddans Primary. Kingsridge was at end of next street Kerry Place.