Myles Offside

Train driver on the Rocky Mountaineer.

FTFY.

I interviewed Willie Wallace for a fanzine I used to work on with a Pommie mate here in Brisbane in the late 90s. He was (still is, I believe) living on the Gold Coast and we spent a couple of hours on the interview and then just having a good old blether about football in general. Genuinely decent bloke. Also interviewed Stuart Munro for the same fanzine. Photographed Alan Border, Jeff Thompson and a couple of other Aussie ex-cricketers with groups of schoolkids at a coaching clinic in Brisbane a couple of years earlier. Was on the same plane as Michael Caine (got his autograph) and Roger Moore flying from Glasgow to London, they'd been working on a movie in the Highlands (allegedly, I can't find any reference to any such movie in the relevant time frame, either 1988 or 89) Got Alan Rough's autograph when I was a student at Glasgow Uni, the Student's Union had talked him into being the goalkeeper for a fundraising penalty kick event Got Kevin Keegan's autograph after my brother spotted him in a phone box at Southwaite Services The rest hardly qualify as "met", but while I'm in name dropping mode.... Almost bumped into Jock Stein getting out of a taxi and dashing into Queen St Station Was trying to flag down a taxi in London once, but it drove about 20m past me to pick up David Bellamy instead Alex Ferguson was guest speaker at a Glasgow referee's association dinner, shortly before the 1986 World Cup Finals Walked past Billy McNeill at Glasgow Airport, he'd just got off a flight from Birmingham as I was heading for the same plane for the flight back down, he was Villa manager at the time Was a steward occasionally at Brisbane United games in the old National Soccer League in the early 90s, and stood about 20m away from Ferenc Puskas, who was coaching one of the Melbourne teams at the time And finally, watched the Scotland squad trooping from their hotel to the team bus with about 20 other fans on their way to one of the group games in Invercargill during the 2011 Rugby World Cup

A RECORD OF POST-WAR SCOTTISH LEAGUE PLAYERS VERSION 7 NOW AVAILABLE (1646-47 to 2017-18) 1646-47? Wow, Scottish football has a longer history than I thought....

Including the word Junior in the title is hardly going to bury the whole junior vs senior concept.

Pied butcherbird

If that attendance is correct, then the rest of the ground must have been practically empty.

The Shire have charged £120 for each of the past 6-8 seasons. No reason to think that will change.

FTFY

If the report is from an issue three weeks from now, does it tell us who won Euro 2020? I want to get my money on them.

Me too. One in particular.

Black necked stork

White faced heron

"When East Stirlingshire and Berwick Rangers were relegated they never dropped their ticket prices." The Shire did.

Don't look like Colts teams to me. And none of them paid £50k to jump the queue to a higher league.

The town is now known as Hwange. Must be trying to clean up their ..... act.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171017093515if_/http://amarillo.com/stories/011199/usn_fake.shtml#.WeXO3cTLfcd

Can't get much weirder than that old Shire favourite.... all together now.... "Self Assembly Furniture......."

Here in Australia, voting is compulsory. After every election, the relevant Electoral Commission writes to all non voters asking them to provide a legitimate reason for not voting, otherwise they'll be fined. Needless to say, the reasons offered are many and varied, and the newspapers will usually publish some of the best (names removed, obviously). Best one I can remember was an indignant voter who protested "how can you fine me for not voting when I voted twice?"

THAT It's a relatively simple concept .... THAN and THAT don't mean the same thing.

A wonderful bird....

If Denmark and Austria both won every other game, drew both games against us, and then each won one of their games against each other, they'd each have 23 points to our 22.

Next time someone asks me "so, why did you never get married then?" (which invariably, only women ever do), I'm just going to refer them to this forum topic.

Based on the Shire's kit, I'd be leaning towards 1983-84

My great grandma (mum's mum's mum), who I only remember actually meeting once when I was about 10, although she didn't live that far from us. Don't know her definite year of birth, but based on the age of my gran and her siblings, it must have been around 1880.