He was a great player for them. Epic matches in the mid-1970s, fantastic atmospheres but as you say, certainly the Goldstone was nothing like the London grounds for sustained racist abuse.. A few idiots but nothing more and some of them are still around today, unfortunately.
A group of us got together as kit sponsors, starting with Kurt Nogan; for reasons to obscure to go in to here, we called ourselves In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. We were Kerry Mayo's kit sponsor for several seasons. When we were presented with our signed shirt on the pitch at Withdean we presented him with...
"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Fairly self explanatory in relation to Mr Robinson (although I did love 2-4-6-8 Motorway back in the day).
From the early 1970s the Sutherland Brothers, best known for Arms of Mary and writing terrace favourite Sailing, a big hit for Rod the Mod, but they produced these beauties.
How none of these were huge hits still mystifies me to this day.
Another vote for the Taxpayers Bowl. Not an arena to watch a football match in. Most of the older grounds are fine, you can't realistically expect fantastic sight lines and facilities of new stadia with the character of older grounds. You pays your money and takes your choice. Some of the newer...
The Premier League now looks like an increasingly difficult balancing act for all but the top 6. Become too successful and the big 6 will pick your best players off every window. Become stable but unspectacular and when it goes pear-shaped, a bad management appointment or the loss through injury...
We should be beating teams like Manchester United? I don't ever intend to lower my hopes for the success Albion might achieve, but nor do I want to stray in to the fantasy realms of the supporters of some other clubs with their sense of entitlement. We were drawn away to the second best team in...
Strictly, it's FA Cup Quarter Final Day One, sadly. By the time Leicester play Chelsea the winners will know who the other semi-finalists are. So unlike 1983 when all four matches took place at the same time.
Such a virtuoso performance from Alec Guiness that he played Cary Grant throughout the whole film, a bit like Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot. I do agree with you about Alec Guiness, tho. You can make a pretty passable Top 12 from films he was in, and to prove the point
1 Great Expectations
2...