', being led astray by a certain Reverend Lee'
How exactly??
:))
Michael.
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That game must be from the mid-40's...that's when I began playing the cricket
and football versions...I've never found a better game to this day.
Grampa
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I'd forgotten all about that little green tube so I scratched around,
and yes, I still have it- Pokkit-Socca. Still in good nick, nothing
missing, even the little dot that was the ball is there. Eish!
Subbuteo - I had just two teams Leeds and Chelsea. That was a real
love hate relatioship :-)
Verner
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--- On Thu, 25/2/10, Errand Fivefold wrote:
From: Errand Fivefold
Subject: Re: [LU] Young Uns
To: "John Lee"
Date: Thursday, 25 February, 2010, 22:20
I remember my first game as a season ticket holder, a niave young Ulsterman,
just off th
I had "Striker", it was great!
I remember the Crystal Palace Team with the Blue/red sash across their kit.
Plus the keepers were much more fun than subbuteo.
Verner
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--- On Thu, 25/2/10, Alick Stott wrote:
From: Alick Stott
Subject: Re: [LU] Earlie
How about Greenhoff, Gray and Hunter for the scorers.
Thirkers
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On 25 Feb 2010, at 21:44, Graham Palmer wrote:
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Ah, well..it's about time I owned up. I am neither oldest nor youngest, but
here goes...
1st match was v Sheff Wed on about the 30 Dec 1967 - we won 3-2 with goals
from Madeley, Jones & Hunter if I remember correctly (no, it was Greenhoff not
Madeley). This was from the Shed on a ha
Now you listen to Radio 2 and think "That Chris Evans, god he's an irritating
cnut"...
-Original Message-
From: tim.whe...@talk21.com
To: 'LeedS List'
Sent: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:15
Subject: Re: [LU] NONLU: HHGTTG
Before Christmas I would have said...
) You listen to Radio 2 as
I'm with Jeremy on the 72 Cup Final as the first tv game seen featuring
LUFC. I also watched the game on colour tv as I had the previous year's
final between Liverpool and Arsenal but I never supported either of them.
I had Leeds United, Liverpool and Bristol/Blackburn Rovers and poor old
Peter Lo
From: "Andy Clayton"
being so desperate for a Grifter) - Santa decided that I'd much rather
have
the football game where you pressed their heads and they kicked the ball -
was it called Match?
STRIKER!
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Santa decided that I'd much rather have
the football game where you pressed their heads and they kicked the ball -
was it called Match?
Wasn't that called Striker? The one where it was sort of a 5 a side game with a
taut ribbon running around the outside
That match was the day I was born - how old do you feel now Steve? ;-)
44 - supported Leeds since the 1970 cup final. Was listening to it on the
world service as we were in Germany at the time - probably didn't even own a
telly!
I was supporting "the other lot" as I went to school with Peter Bone
My earliest match seen on TV (as I recall) was the 1965 cup final against
Liverpool (which would make me 10 years old) sitting on what I recall to be
a brown corduroy sofa and literally leaping in the air when Bremner scored
for Leeds - I may not have realised it at the time but I seem to recall
"The first match I ever saw was on my Grandma's Bush"
Oooer Missus :-)
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The used to say that the test of a sophisticate was for a man to hear the
William tell overture and NOT think of the Lone Ranger...
-Original Message-
From: leedslist-boun...@list.zetnet.co.uk
[mailto:leedslist-boun...@list.zetnet.co.uk] On Behalf Of Nigel Barber
Sent: 25 February 2010 10
Welcome to the beautiful world of all that is Leeds United. It'll be a
roller-coaster, but you'll love it, and one day you'll come up to the Adelphi
in Leeds and I'll buy you a pint and bore you rotten about what it was like in
the old days :-)
I was 11 when my uncle took me to Elland Road -
> From: bruvvalee...@yahoo.co.uk
> Point taken about kids Jeremy - our youngest is currently dressed as
> Spiderman and leaping all over the furniture. What's wrong with a stick,
> going nanananana and shooting a few Germans. Youth of today eh?
Ah, the joy of finding a good stick that resem
yep, that was it Owzat. I still have them somewhere - who knows, I might have
to investigate further :-)
Point taken about kids Jeremy - our youngest is currently dressed as Spiderman
and leaping all over the furniture. What's wrong with a stick, going nanananana
and shooting a few Germans. Yo
Owzat !
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From: "John Lee"
To: "LU List"
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:38 PM
Subject: [LU] subbuteo teams on ebay
well there's quite a few teams on Ebay for 1.99 + about the same for
postage, so you can't cash yours in yet Thirkers.
Can you still buy Subbu
I think it was called Owszat or summat like that because when that
came up on the first rolled thing you rolled the next hexaganol roller
thing to see how you'd been dismissed.
Thirkers
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On 25 Feb 2010, at 16:38, John Lee wrote:
> we
Don't give em to the kids, my nephews smashed most of my subbuteo and you can't
buy them new anymore.
That cricket game was ace! I too got score books for it. I thought it was
called "Owzat" or something
> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:38:46 +
> From: bruvvalee...@yahoo.co.uk
> To: leedslist@li
Yes Thirkers - they've not been made for a few years. You could be a
millionaire!!
My first sets were from about 1974, and were very nicely balanced, as opposed
to the later ones which rattled and fell on their faces.
Gaffer
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>Test match!
D'oh! No it wasn't. My mate played it (and test match). No idea.
Gaffer
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transaction.
Ah "howzat"! Brilliant...
Cheers
Mark
El Presidente Wisconsin Whites
Leeds United
Chicago Fire
> From: bruvvalee...@yahoo.co.uk
> well there's quite a few teams on Ebay for 1.99 + about the same for postage,
> so you can't cash yours in yet Thirkers.
> Can you still buy Subbuteo - I've bee
Test match!
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intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of
any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any
transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not
warranted as to complete
well there's quite a few teams on Ebay for 1.99 + about the same for postage,
so you can't cash yours in yet Thirkers.
Can you still buy Subbuteo - I've been saving mine for the young uns, but have
this feeling they won't give a sh*te about it in a few years time!! In my world
LUFC always stu
After seeing the postings about subbuteo it reminded me that I bought
some a few years back. Iv'e just been and got them out and was pleasantly
surprised.
Iv'e got: Tottenham, Sunderland, Blackpool, England, Arsenal 2 sets, Newcastle,
Aston Villa,
Sheffield Wednesday 2 sets, Notts Forest, Cove
Hand painted numbers on mine. And skin colour as appropriate. Steve Hodge was
my penalty taker - he missed one, so I dropped him from that responsibility,
and Gary Mac took over. He had a 100% record, I remember.
I organised this league - there were two brothers (also in their 20s) that were
Me too...Hungary beat Scotland in my final.
Also, painted my England number nine to represent Cyril Regis.
Cheers
Mark
El Presidente Wisconsin Whites
Leeds United
Chicago Fire
> From: jeremyadam...@hotmail.com
> Too late, subbutteo was about the best game ever invented.
> I've still g
Too late, subbutteo was about the best game ever invented.
I've still got my original all white Leeds team from around 1974, AND most of
them still have those little sticky numbers on their backs that used to take
hours to attach.
I was such an anorak that I think I even had two divisions and I
Oh crumbs, don't start on Subutteo! I was still playing it in my 20s!
Gaffer
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Verner's recollection of watching the '73 FA Cup Final on TV (colour in
1973?! You rich snob!!), got me thinking about the earliest game I can
clearly recall watching. I do remember the '71 FA Cup Final occurring,
since my mum was an Arsenal fan and my dad a Liverpool fan, but I don't
recall anyt
1972 Cup Final on a colour telly...followed by my Dad coming home from work the
following week with two subbuteo teams...one in an all white strip and the
other all yellow. Both teams enjoyed years of thrashing all comers on the green
carpet with the plastic fencing and battery powered floodlig
My earliest tv recollection is the Leeds Chelsea FA cup final. I would have
been 6 at the time. At the time I lived in Malaysia but we were on holiday in
London. Since I'd been living in Malaysia I didn't know the result(s) but was
very confused as to why they played 4 halves! Took me years to
Wasn't it even quicker than that? I remember buying it from in front of the
Post Office on City Square on my way home after we'd been chased/done some
chasing all the way back in to town after the match. Can't have been much past
half five by then.
It would have been even better if they'd 1)
Keith Macklin - Sunday Afternooons - they must have been before this?
--- On Thu, 25/2/10, Andy Kneale wrote:
From: Andy Kneale
Subject: [LU] Earliest match on TV
To: "leedslist@list.zetnet.co.uk"
Date: Thursday, 25 February, 2010, 11:31
Verner's recollection of watching the '73 FA Cup Fina
I can remember watching the Chelsea V Leeds FA Cup final replay with my Dad and
3 brothers (all Chelsea fans) - it was the first time Leeds made me cry (not
the last time either).
We had the first (rented) Colour telly (1974) on our street and the 1974 World
Cup final was very popular with
Andy,
I can assure you it was a "Radio Rentals" Special!
;-)
I remember Saturday afternoons, all the kids in my street sat in my parents
lounge, curtains pulled watching the colour Cowboy movie on BBC2. Great times.
Verner
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Verner's recollection of watching the '73 FA Cup Final on TV (colour in 1973?!
You rich snob!!), got me thinking about the earliest game I can clearly recall
watching. I do remember the '71 FA Cup Final occurring, since my mum was an
Arsenal fan and my dad a Liverpool fan, but I don't recall a
News from the IFA:-
The Irish Football Association can confirm that Glynn Snodin and Fred Barber
have verbally accepted new contracts to continue as Northern Ireland assistant
manager and goalkeeping coach respectively for the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
campaign.
Glynn, who is currently a fir
James A. Lundon @ Yahoo! wrote:
Fellow LUFCers,
I'll be FORTY TWO in October.
I told the story here before about how I became a Leeds United
supporter. My father worked in a old-style ballroom of romance
(Dromkeen, Co. Limerick - Mid-West region of the Republic of
Ireland) and found a smile
Yes,
I can confirm he's working for the Samaritans.
I spoke to him the other night, as I find it saves me a lot of money on those
expensive sex chat lines.
You just call them up and tell them to talk "dirty" or you'll top yourself.
Works everytime.
Best wishes,
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DRB:
>
> Where's Jon Blythe these days? He'd make Rich W's comments on Becchio
seem like glowing praise, and he'd definitely win the Grumpiest Lister award
>
Thanks for that, Dave. I hope he's working for The Samaritans, as in
comparison even the hopelessly suicidal would seem cheerful.
Nigel
> Message: 14
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:27:20 +
> From: Graham Thirkill
> Subject: Re: [LU] Oldies
> Who remembers the Yorkshire Evening Post and Yorkshire Evening News trucks
> banging out the football results on the stop press on the backs of the
> newspapers.
> And later on in the stre
Fellow LUFCers,
I'll be FORTY TWO in October.
I told the story here before about how I became a Leeds United
supporter. My father worked in a old-style ballroom of romance
(Dromkeen, Co. Limerick - Mid-West region of the Republic of
Ireland) and found a smiley face badge one night on the floor
I think we need the largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony (*) as a
soundtrack to all this.
Nigel.
(*) The Hovis music, you plebs.
On 25 February 2010 09:31, Damian Walsh wrote:
> I looked up the link to try and "date" my first match at Elland Rd - I
> thought it was 1968 or 1969 agains
Get down, you old goat!
Nigel.
On 25 February 2010 04:13, JOHN SYKES wrote:
> Dawn, been a long time.good to hear from you again. Hope you are in
> good health!
>
> John
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> If I could, I'd be there in a flash...I'm enamoured by your country.
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Oystein, you're 2 months older than me, you old goat! ;-)
My first proper memory of Leeds United is watching the 73 Cup Final on our
Colour TV. I remember the "It's a Knock Out" thing with the two teams, and
then remembering why oh why had Leeds not won. Someways it seems like
yesterday other
I looked up the link to try and "date" my first match at Elland Rd - I
thought it was 1968 or 1969 against West Ham in the league and was nil-nil.
I think I'm wrong on all counts ;) Could it have been Burnley or (unlikely)
Aston Villa? Could it have been a cup game or even a friendly? I remember we
I still have that program, my dad bought it that night and kept it for me (
till i was 18) so mines still unsmudged
_
I think you're right Wayne, I think I'm just remembering us winning by
the one goal. I do remember the silver cover on the match program that
seemed to smudge quite eas
Ickenham? that's just up the road from me, dead posh there!
On 24 Feb 2010, at 22:35, Peter Cass wrote:
Born in 62 in Gods County
Moved to deepest darkest Ickenham in 69
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I think you're right Wayne, I think I'm just remembering us winning by
the one goal. I do remember the silver cover on the match program that
seemed to smudge quite easily.
On 24 Feb 2010, at 19:44, wayne callaghan wrote:
I thought we won 2-1, lorimer scored an own goal, but i may be wrong
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