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  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    edited 31 August 2011 at 9:49AM
    match report
    15 clubs entered that first season, donington grammar school and queen's park, glasgow, the only two from north of hertfordshire. Queen's park was perhaps the most surprising entrant—particularly as the £1 entrance fee amounted to almost a sixth of the club funds at the time.
    wanderers had drawn a hard, goalless semi-final tie with queen's park and won a place in the final only because the glasgow team could not afford to travel back to london for a replay. :)
    the historic first final took place at kennington oval on 16 march 1872, before a crowd of 2,000. At that time football matches were played without crossbars or goal-nets. There were no free-kicks or penalties, and the pitch markings did not include a centre-circle or a half-way line.
    wanderers gained the first of their five victories in the competition, but it was only by a single goal scored by belts, mysteriously playing under the pseudonym 'a. H. Chequer'. Wanderers had the pick of all the best players who had been at the public schools and universities, yet it was the royal engineers from chatham who took the field as favourites at odds of 7 to 4 on. Not for the last time, the favourites went down in the final. Engineers were particularly unlucky in that lieutenant creswell broke his collar-bone after ten minutes - the first recorded accident in football.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • lemonjelly
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Bolton :eek:

    :eek:

    You are dead to me!

    I still remember Mginlays punch on david kelly in 1995.

    I will not accept such foul language on me thread!
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • Generali
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    lemonjelly wrote: »
    :eek:

    You are dead to me!

    I still remember Mginlays punch on david kelly in 1995.

    I will not accept such foul language on me thread!

    I won't mention the B word if you don't mention Ars**al.

    On the subject of Woolwich, if Mertesacker is the answer, what was the on earth was the question?
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    I have set myself a personal MSE league goal this season - be the highest scoring non-Rooney team :o Detest that bloke. And Fergie. Wenger tho, I do like - why is this happening?! :wall:
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • vivatifosi
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    sjaypink wrote: »
    I have set myself a personal MSE league goal this season - be the highest scoring non-Rooney team :o Detest that bloke. And Fergie. Wenger tho, I do like - why is this happening?! :wall:

    It's ok sjay. I've put Rooney in my team. That'll guarantee that he won't score another before Christmas.
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  • StevieJ
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    Neil Lennon has had his troubles, but this should warm his cockles :) The four leaf clover was made for you.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u76mEIY_Pf4&feature=player_embedded
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • StevieJ
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    How very very sad that is, it was a bit of a mystery why he had suddenly retired, not now icon9.gif
    Jamie Dalton twitter
    St-Etienne midfielder Steed Malbranque has retired from football so he can care for his son who has been diagnosed with Cancer.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • StevieJ
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    This should hack the ABUs off especially Liverpool fans:)
    1540 FOOTBALL: - Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson has been presented with a sports ethics award by an Italian university.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    How very very sad that is, it was a bit of a mystery why he had suddenly retired, not now icon9.gif

    This has been denied:

    http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12875_7153559,00.html

    "St Etienne and the player wish to firmly deny the groundless, sometimes hurtful rumours linking Steed's decision to his health or that of his children."
  • Generali
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    FTBFun wrote: »
    This has been denied:

    http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12875_7153559,00.html

    "St Etienne and the player wish to firmly deny the groundless, sometimes hurtful rumours linking Steed's decision to his health or that of his children."

    Apparently he doesn't have a son! He has 2 daughters.
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