I did very well out of Crystal Palace back in the mid '70s. I used to have a few shifts as a pump attendant on the forecourt at a garage right next to the ground. When there was a match on we could squeeze about eight to ten cars down the side between the rows of sale cars for a few quid each...
BBC Berks have longstanding form for this. I remember listening to their commentary on a Reading v Albion Boxing Day game some years ago. We were spending Christmas with my sister in law in Hartley Witney and perforce had to listen to the game on the local radio there. Really rude comments like...
About 1400 saw two nice goals for the Rooks then a keeper error for the Whitehawk goal. Bit of argy bargy in the latter stages of the second half followed by an almighty melee after the final whistle.
Whilst I love a hash brown, (and one of my guilty pleasures is the McD hash brown ... when freshly made and blisteringly hot) it has no place in the English breakfast. Fried bread is king here.
My dad took me and my younger brother to Leicester Square to see Battle of Britain when it came out. As the children of Polish immigrants we were blown away by the bit when the Polish flyers ignored orders and took on the German Luftwaffe planes. "Repeat please...repeat please"
I think it was called The Brighton & Hove Leader and was a freesheet that came through the door. And I think edited by one Mike Ward if memory serves me correctly. Went on to edit one of the red tops possibly.
Which reminds me of a puzzle in the Brighton local free newspaper sometime in the 1980s, I can't remember the name. Anyway each week they jumbled the letters of a local street for readers to guess. I think the editor got a bit fed up with it because one week he came up with...
3A2
Tough one that!