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A princely footballer.  He with the oddly named Babbington and Houseman unlocked defences at lightning speed.

Five away wins. An inspired poster got them all. Unfortunately he had a couple of others which were less inspired.

1 hour ago, Uilleam said:

Well, let's hope; we were Turkish Delight at the weekend. 

 

(Ah ke, Ah ken, that's Fry's.)

Taken over by Cadbury so you’re all right.

That table is a pleasant sight.

I look at LiveScore a lot. They show league tables in a box beside the scores. For years it’s not been nice to look at. Now Rangers are top, the default table is the reserve league (Accies in pole) You can still see the main table but you have to click and scroll.

After United, Liverpool and Arsenal, who in England would sell more shirts than Newcastle? Chelsea maybe?

Good team on the park and that’s a formidable bench. They could all have been in the first selection and caused neither surprise nor anxiety.

2 hours ago, craig said:

But they have only ever argued that we are a new company, ergo new club..... the owner becomes an irrelevance 

Was that the official celtic line? I thought it was just their fellow-travellers, running-dogs, hangers-on and diocesan letters.

28 minutes ago, craig said:

Thanks Uilleam, I suspected as much.  The whole "separate entity" claim without actually using said words - subtle, less antagonistic way of saying they are a different company.... would that not mean any trophies won prior to 1997 are now part of a previous entities history ?

They’ll deploy the club/owner defence to that one.

Wolves 0-1 Palace

Blades 1-2 City

Burnley 0-2 Chelsea

Liverpool 2-3 Hammers

Villa 1-2 So’ton 

Magpies 2-2 Toffees

United 1-2 Gunners

‘Spurs 3-1 BHA

compo’s crystal ball couldn’t see as far as Monday but my laser enhanced predictorsphere says:

Fulham 2-0 Baggies

Leeds 1–2 Leicester.

The collar can’t decide if it’s Jim Baxter or Tiger Shaw.

You’ve jinxed it now, alex.

30 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

Thanks. I was going to say volte face but then thought it seemed churlish and 'smart-arshish' to actually point it out. However, as you infer, 'vault' is actually more appropriate since Lille on Thursday may actually bury their hopes for this season. My only fear is that they may actually sack Lenny and install, say, Lambert i.e. someone with more tactical acumen. 

The treachery of predictive text, alex. Many’s a time one of my literary gems has been torpedoed by the little bugger in the ipad.

9 hours ago, 26th of foot said:

It may explain his vault face

A vault face Stewart may well have but it’s safe to say the vault is pretty empty.

Fall out the predictive text, 26th.

The table shows a huge gap between 4th and 5th places.

Toffees unwrapped.

Why, yes. I remember it well. Seems like the other day. 
 

Same date 1964 LCF Jim Forrest 2, celtic 1.

The Hibs had a go and got their reward.

A dedicated stats thread is an excellent idea for the learned soccer scientists. I’m an actual-baw-in-the net stat man. It’s an age thing. I’ll look in, though, for a bit of extra bewilderment.

Who cares about EPL diddies? But nonetheless:

Villa 1-2 Leeds

Hammers 1-3. City

Fulham 1-1 Palace

United 1-2 Chelsea

Liverpool 3-0 Blades

So’ton 0-2 Toffees

Wolves 2-0 Mags

Gunners 2-0 Leicester

BHA 3-1 WBA

Burnley 1-4 Hotspurs

3 minutes ago, Uilleam said:

He is investigating the stramash

The stramash? What is this “the stramash?“ Hungarian food n’est ce pas?

28 minutes ago, Uilleam said:

....Adolphe Sax......Adolphe Sax.......Herge,

Georges Simenon...Georges Simenon

Jacques Brel, Toots Thielmans,

Rene Magritte.......King Leopold...Rene Magritte

......Your boys took a helluva hiding

I doff my bonnet to you that you were able to find so many off the top of your head even with one or two repeats.

M. Poirot? He is real isn’t he? Eddie Merckx.

Which club?

A club like no other, obviously..

If it goes ahead up to five clubs might leave the EPL. The remainder might not want a full twenty but looking at Championship clubs it would be surprising if Rangers and possibly another Scottish team weren’t invited to the new UKL.

52 minutes ago, compo said:

63 years ago today we played the horrors ?

For God’s sake, man, I’m still trying to forget.

22 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

 

I like Woy, but that whole approach to the game (don't lose, just defend for 90 minutes and hope you steal a goal) is just anathema to me - same with Bruce, Dyche and Moyes.

Unwatchable but understandable if your job is not to win the league but to avoid relegation.
 

The earliest exponents of this art were Stein at Dunfermline and Waddell at Kilmarnock at least when playing against Rangers and the second force in football at the time, Hearts.