[Football] Pompey Bloke John Westwood Going Viral Today

[Easy 10]

He's undisputibly a highly enriched weapons-grade BELLEND inside a football ground, but I hope his shop survives.

I've always loved the randomness of second hand bookshops, and charity shops for that matter. I can quite happily browse the bookshelves for ages in those stores while the doris does her rounds, and often come away with a well THUMBED edition of something-or-other for a couple of quid. My latest purchase was an excellent paperback on Dunkirk from a Cancer Research shop, for a bit of shrapnel in my pocket.

Long may these stores survive the scourge of Amazon.

 

[Soul Finger]

Is it not a noted fact that bookshops are on the wane, as are books, because many readers do so via e readers. Just a sign of the times and progression.

My definition of progression is markedly different from yours.

 

[jakarta]

Perhaps if he improved his personal hygiene he might sell a few more books?

 

[portlock seagull]

Gotta support local bookshops. Love mine. Never buy online.

 

[portlock seagull]

He's undisputibly a highly enriched weapons-grade BELLEND inside a football ground, but I hope his shop survives.

I've always loved the randomness of second hand bookshops, and charity shops for that matter. I can quite happily browse the bookshelves for ages in those stores while the doris does her rounds, and often come away with a well THUMBED edition of something-or-other for a couple of quid. My latest purchase was an excellent paperback on Dunkirk from a Cancer Research shop, for a bit of shrapnel in my pocket.

Long may these stores survive the scourge of Amazon.

Sebag-Monteforte? (Last Man Standing?)

 

[VAL1850]

Spoke to him on train back from Preston Park to Brighton after a withdean match, came across very well.

 

[Eeyore]

Looks rather different on a match day when banging his drum. I do support him with this though, I'm a regular visitor to my local Waterstones in Horsham.

I've sometimes hopped on the number 17 for a pilgrimage to Waterstones in Horsham.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Gotta support local bookshops. Love mine. Never buy online.

Also my favourite reason to pop into a charity shop.

As an aside, I bought a 1948 edition of Bannister Fletcher's - A History of Architecture from Westward's store in 1992. True story.

 

[Palacefinder General]

Gotta support local bookshops. Love mine. Never buy online.

Agree that bookshops need our support; even more important though is supporting your local library. We don’t need to own books when you think about it, read them and move them on. A poll of library card holders on NSC, would, I fear, reveal that few on here are active members.

 

[DavidRyder]

Can't believe that's HIM from Pompey! I'm imagining, on a Tuesday night game, he gets home and does the whole 'Tonight Matthew I'm going to be...' thing, walking through a smoky door and everything.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Commander and I sat just behind him at an England game at Wembley some years back. Noisy bugger he was.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Commander and I sat just behind him at an England game at Wembley some years back. Noisy bugger he was.

He's also been interviewed on the Radio 2 news at lunchtime and said since he tweeted he's had loads of replies and enquiries and loads of people coming into his shop. Good luck to him!

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Spoke to him on train back from Preston Park to Brighton after a withdean match, came across very well.

He should come across ok for that period of time....

You: "Hi how you doing ?"
BE "Yea...." -- intrupted by a loud tannoy announcement --"We are pulling into Brighton, next stop Brighton"
BE "Ah this is me then, see ya"

 

[lost in london]

Is it not a noted fact that bookshops are on the wane, as are books, because many readers do so via e readers. Just a sign of the times and progression.

Not really, kind of the opposite in fact: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw...le/82158-book-sales-up-in-u-k-and-france.html

 

[edna krabappel]

Looks rather different on a match day when banging his drum. I do support him with this though, I'm a regular visitor to my local Waterstones in Horsham.

Could be wrong, but I can't imagine Mr Westwood would regard somebody buying books at Waterstones as "supporting" his kind all that much.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Blimey, he looks different in his work clothes. I knew he was a bookseller, but I kinda pictured him in a hovel of a shop surrounded by tottering piles of old secondhand paperbacks. He looks almost academic.

Kind of like many of the poor down and outs on our streets that had good lives before things took a turn for the worse.

 

[Rodney Thomas]

Not really, kind of the opposite in fact: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw...le/82158-book-sales-up-in-u-k-and-france.html

Breaking: BG incorrect shocker!

 

[B52]

Agree that bookshops need our support; even more important though is supporting your local library. We don’t need to own books when you think about it, read them and move them on. A poll of library card holders on NSC, would, I fear, reveal that few on here are active members.

I support my local library, every home game In east upper!

 

[HantsSeagull]

Used to live in Petersfield round the corner from his shop. Think his dad ran it then. Thats all!

 

[swindonseagull]

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