Brilliant! On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 5:37 PM Richard Naef < [email protected]> wrote:
> What a lovely story. Your kids will regret not paying more attention to > their old man's stories. When you are dead they'll try and remember how > their parents met and if my experience is anything to go by, it'll be a > game of Chinese whispers ending up with; in about 1981, dad took his then > girlfriend to see the Paddington Bear Musical starring Brain Rix at the > Highbury Palladium. The show was cancelled due to the untimely death of > co-star Clive Dunn, famous as TV's Corporal Smith. To make it worse, Dad's > mate Adrian Butterworth copped off with Dad's girlfriend, Dad went out on > the piss, got lucky and pulled and the rest is history. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Leedslist <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Kevin Lewis > (UK SBS) > Sent: 16 August 2020 19:12 > To: Leeds List ([email protected]) <[email protected]> > Subject: [LU] Joe Bryan free kick & Lukic blunder (Rambling) > > This is a bit passe now, but did the Joe Bryan goal remind anyone of a > particular goal against Leeds by Graham Rix in 1983. > > It was an FA Cup replay at Elland Rd. Aidan Butterworth had just put Leeds > ahead against 1st Div Arsenal and it was the dying seconds of Extra time. > > Rix then hit a practically identical free-kick, which totally deceived > John Lukic, even down to the way he over-emphasised his intention to cross > it to the far post. > I also remember it taking an age to cross the line on a muddy pitch as > Lukic scrambled across the goal-line. > > I can honestly say I don’t think I’ve seen another such perfectly > disguised free kick until Bryan did it. > > It has a kind of significance for me, as I’d attended the first draw at > Highbury. So I decided that I had to see the conclusion of the tie, again > at Highbury thanks to Arse winning the toss. > > I got to London with my then girlfriend, only to find that ref Clive > Thomas had called the game off very late in the day. After a bit of a pub > crawl round the Paddington area, I ended up proposing to my now wife, so > made the journey home engaged. > > I still blame/thank Clive Thomas for the way everything turned out. When > I tried to show my now 36 and 34 year old offspring the similarity of the > goals at a family get-together, I could not find the Rix goal anywhere on > the internet, although Butterworth’s is there in various places. > > Needless to say, the ‘kids’ were completely underwhelmed by all this, even > though it is at least partly responsible for their very existence! > > > KOT. > > PS Arse eventually won the 2nd replay a couple of days later > > > > > > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > UK Shared Business Services Ltd. Registered in England and Wales as a > limited company. Company number 6330639. Registered Office: Polaris House, > North Star Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 1FF. This email and any > attachments are intended for the named addressee(s) only. If you are not > the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and do not disclose, > distribute, or retain this email or any part of it. While we have taken > every reasonable precaution to minimise risk of this e-mail or any > attachments containing viruses, the recipient should carry out its own > virus checks before opening the attachments. The Company does not accept > any liability for any losses or damages which the recipient may sustain due > to presence of any viruses. Any opinions expressed in this email (including > attachments) are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the > company's opinions. We will not accept responsibility for any commitments > made by our employees outside the scope of our business. The Company > reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their > networks for the purposes of preventing and detecting crime. > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ > > Dorigo's Right Buttock... > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ > > Dorigo's Right Buttock... _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ Dorigo's Right Buttock...
