Dunfermline Don
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I would say it goes back to the election of a certain PM in 1979 who went on to destroy the power of the unions and start the selling of all the publicly owned industries and services which though much maligned helped to connect and unify people on these islands. We all used BT for our telephones, traveled on British Rail, got our energy needs from the local electric board or British Gas. Stamps,pensions,benefits from the Post Office. Many also lived in homes owned and maintained by the local council.
I am not trying to pretend that everything was perfect or we were living in some kind of utopia back then but once all these services became privately owned (often by publicly owned companies from overseas ironically) and former council tenants ended up on the mortgage treadmill or tied to spending on credit, which was required to keep the economy going, the whole fabric of the nation seems to have changed.
We now appear to be in a situation where many in these islands hark further back to a perfect time that never actually existed and have a fixation with WW2, Spitfires, Vera Lynn songs and a lost Empire. All while willing to accept a Government and PM that constantly lie to them and are happy for shite to be dumped in the rivers and seas.
How did it come to this?
PS it wasn’t a penalty!10 -
Looks like the next Kirk Moderator is in favour of more liberal drug enforcement.0 -
Sarah Smith just saying on BBC News that the fall in Covid cases has taken experts in Scotland by surprise. Really!!??
Obviously nothing then, to do with somewhat more stringent precautions in force here.
Also saying that there are problems in Scotland with the roll out of the booster jab which won't now be available until mid-November. So, less than a month away - I can live with that.
I can't understand why Smith continues to live in Scotland given that, thanks to the Scottish Govt, she seldom has anything good, or worthwhile to say about the place.
What are the issues with the booster jag? I had mine two weeks ago. [emoji2371]0 -
Yes, when they play Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup.
As a Dunfermline based Dandy with Pars supporting sons that would just be typical. [emoji23]2 -
A very good show this week, I don't often re-watch it but think this one merits it. Telfer describing the bus journey to Spain a real highlight.
It certainly brought back memories of the bus trip to Genoa in 1990. Leaving Glasgow at 9pm on a Saturday night was always going to a problem waiting to happen.
I don’t think anyone dared to use the toilet onboard after about 1 hour on the road!
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Well that was fun, on a packed train heading back east, lots of singing and drinking.
I was never in doubt was it! [emoji2957][emoji482][emoji2528]3 -
Anyone had their vaccine passport checked coming in yet.
I waltzed in just before 4 without any hint of a check.0 -
Absolutely buzzing for this now.
On the train from Fife heading through. About 1/3 of the folk on the train seems to be going to the game. It’s also a bit like a mobile pub just now. [emoji482][emoji1634][emoji481]2 -
English football has so many ‘big’ clubs with a great history but it’s not surprising given their population and the fact they were the first to have professional league football.
When I was growing up in the 70s I am sure Villa had the record for number FA Cup and League Cup wins.
They also had a large amount of league wins but most were in the 1800s.
Everton were also a club that were talked about as being part of the big 5 in the late 80s and big team Spurs have never won the league since The Beatles had their first hit single!0 -
Yes Newcastle are a massive club in England and one of the best supported. However they are also massive underachievers, to put a bit of perspective on it, the last time they won a major trophy (The UEFA Fairs Cup) Chelsea had yet to win their first ever FA Cup.
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Was it Billy Connolly who was said that the fact someone wanted to be a politician should immediately disqualify them from ever being one.
How about everyone gets a chance to serve as an MP, councillor, MSP etc on a similar way that people are selected for jury service. I can’t see that causing too many problems. I could certainly live on £82k and have a few mates in London who could let me kip on their sofa saving a bit on expenses! [emoji2957]1 -
Soon we'll making our own Great British semiconductors again, surely. None of this foreign muck. We did just fine with the 48K Spectrum, manufactured from Great British parts!*
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Should I look out my old ZX81 from my parents loft and a cassette player to load the programs! [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]0 -
I used to have a season ticket in the Trevor Brooking Lower at Upton Park, affectionately known as the "Chav Corner" as like it is now it was beside away fans so there was always a back and forth going on. Without veering massively off topic, the reason for the whole meccano look is down to Brady's deal with the LLDC. The only way it will become a proper football ground is if it is knocked down and built up. Maybe one day.
Incidentally, the other month I was in the area on a Sunday (unfortunately) and passed a pub near the ground that had some questionable Irish folk songs being played. I hadn't realised that the Brother Walfrid East London CSC watch their games in a fairly well known West Ham pub.
Upton Park was one of my favourite grounds to go to,so compact and always a passionate crowd. If I hadn’t lived at the other side of The Smoke I may have gone there more. I do remember going to a league cup game in the late 80s against Liverpool that they won either 4-0 or 4-1. Paul Ince played a blinder for West Ham that night and the atmosphere was rocking. I used to like that quirky box/shelf terrace they had in the corner of the north bank.0 -
Thats brilliant....good on your dad taking you round. Think I may have visited most of these grounds in the late eighties for a match - often having to leave early due to crowd disturbances. The play off defeat of Chelsea to Middlesborough in 1988 was unbelieveable.....really scary.
i was in London last week and as I was at a conference at the Excel I went to see the London Stadium (West Ham v Rapid Vienna...incidentally a fair bit of trouble there too) They have altered the stadium so that more of the crowd is nearer the pitch - I was in the Treveo
It helped give me an appreciation of the uniqueness of each stadium, every one had something distinctive going for it unlike the identikit soulless new grounds today. The Shelf at Spurs, Marble Lined entrance to the main stand at Arsenal, The Cottage at Fulham, Shed end at Chelsea, Etc
I ended up going to work in London in 87 and used to try to go to a different ground every week depending if one of the big ‘northern’ teams were in town or if it was a local derby. Most games you could just turn up on the day and pay to get in. There was always a threat in the air at some games but I didn’t see too much trouble. It might be a bit stereotypical but every time I saw a Millwall game there was a always a bit going off somewhere in the ground.
Due to where I was living I ended up going to Palace more and more and eventually ended up getting a season ticket when they got promotion in 89. That came in handy when they reached the cup final at the end of that season. I managed to go to all the games in the cup run and a few away matches on their football specials including a 9-0 defeat at Anfield.
Football fans at the time in England were probably considered as worse than drug dealers but there was a comradeship among them and a humour on the terraces that was soon to disappear when Sky came along and Fever Pitch was issued.
I feel luck to have been able to go to football at that time.3 -
I'd have to disagree here. Football stadiums are often really impressive pieces of architecture and tours are the only way to see them if there's not a game on. Most of them come with at least some sort of museum about the club and its history which I think can be good for helping you understand a club and even a city better. I've been to a few when I've been on holiday to football cities and generally found them interesting if a wee bit expensive in some places.
In the old days you could just walk into most grounds and have a wee look round. I remember on a holiday in London with my folks in the early 80s spending a day on the tube with my dad visiting Chelsea, Fulham,QPR, Spurs, Arsenal and West Ham. At every ground we were able to get in and have a look at the empty terraces(sad I know).
I think it was at Spurs someone said if the new stand hadn’t been under construction we would have been able to have gone to the club office and had a photo with the FA cup.
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“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
I have just finished reading 1984 and it was frightening how relevant it is today especially when you consider how long ago it was actually written.3 -
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Has Dross blamed the SNP for it yet? [emoji23]
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I would welcome goal line technology but nothing else.
For fun they could try a Who wants to be a Millionaire system of 50/50, phone a friend or ask the audience for any decisions that are controversial! [emoji23]
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Pretty much sums brexit up!
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Those guys May and Main who have scored the winners in the last two matches look a bit useful could be worth going for! [emoji2359]
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Headlines to make it sound like some mercy mission to a 3rd world country.
When you actually read the story the army are doing the same in many parts of England as well.
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Who are the others? The Judean People’s Front?
Struggling to think how that category could increase 60%.
What about the Peoples Front for Judea and the Judean Popular Front?
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Tickets for Denmark game?
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20 minutes queue at the moment online so think they will go quickly.