Friday Nov 14 - an evening of top sports chat

[Mr Banana]

Many thanks for the bounces anyway.

Do you know roughly more precise timings of when things will begin and end? I'm trying to avoid the doghouse, would be really useful.

 

[Eeyore]

Bouncy bouncy.

 

[Worthingite]

Gutted I'm missing this, as this is literally round the corner from me. hope this is successful and another one is done soon

 

[Hamilton]

I'll be there. V much looking forward to it. Perhaps Mick Cleary can point me in the direction of some Rugby World Cup tickets. I got none in the ballot.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Please ask Mick Cleary if there was any particular experience with a nasty, spotty herbert at Warden Park School that convinced him to become a journalist instead of a teacher.

 

[Barry Izbak]

I think I have been a complete Pompey fan. I have an email from them with a bar code. Presumably I just print that out rather that waiting for the postman! Anyway, another

You had me worried with talk of posting tickets.

My email has a barcode and telling me to bring that.

Pre-match Harveys in the Chimneys anyone?

 

[Mr Banana]

Would anyone like my ticket if I can't go? Free

 

[Guinness Boy]

Something of interest to NSCers, I hope - I've invited a few friends out for a Question Time-style chat about sporting matters in aid of the roof repair fund at community-owned Exeter Street Hall (5 minutes' walk from BHASVIC).

The panel is: Paul Hayward, friend of us all, Fergie's ghost-writer, multi-award-winning sports writer; Mick Cleary, Telegraph rugby correspondent; Paul Weaver, Guardian F1 and cricket man; Lynne Truss, who was reluctantly persuaded to become a sports columnist by The Times before becoming the nation's unofficial punctuation guru, and accidentally fell in love with golf; and Pete Nicholls, broadsheet writer on athletics, Olympics and drugs in sport. I'll be in the Dimbleby role.

http://www.exeterstreethall.org/sports-panel/

It won't be particularly Albion-centric (although all the above are Brighton residents and have all been to the Amex), but I know that there are many people on here who are much more broad-minded as regards sport than football obsessives like me. The plan is to have a first half of questions submitted in advance, a second half of questions from the floor. And they're all top people who won't mind a bit of brain-picking during the interval or afterwards.

There's also a raffle with prizes including Albion tickets, access to Top Gear recording and a cricket bat signed by the Sussex team. I've persuaded the organisers that Harvey's at the bar will go down well. And the Prestonville, Chimney House, Dyke Inn and Good Companions are all within an easy stroll.

Hope to see some of you there.

A very interesting and entertaining evening. Thank you and the panel very much.

I suspect it could have gone on for a very long time indeed but for the need to close the hall. Most of the big issues covered, though my favourite bit was actually Paul Hayward's Gordon Smith story. And can I just add that as a slightly lefty jumper wearer I have rarely felt more comfortable in an audience!

 

[Barry Izbak]

It was indeed an interesting evening.

my favourite part was the amazing "I was there" moments.

1981
Rugby world Cup
Airship over Wembley
Super Saturday
......and Josh Beckett for the Marlins

That question would make an excellent NSC thread

 

[Hamilton]

Great evening. Thanks to all those involved in putting such a good panel together.

Some very decent topics covered. Was especially interested in a few insights from the inside on Qatar, doping in sport and Rugby World Cup.

Top evening.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Great evening. Thanks to all those involved in putting such a good panel together.

Some very decent topics covered. Was especially interested in a few insights from the inside on Qatar, doping in sport and Rugby World Cup.

Top evening.

Thanks to everyone who turned up. We could indeed have gone on a lot longer and there's already talk of doing something similar again. Also a big thanks to the top writers who gave up their Friday evenings in return for no more than a couple of pints of Harvey's. The only person asked who said no had some pathetic excuse about being in Kazakhstan at the World Weightlifting Championships.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

The only person asked who said no had some pathetic excuse about being in Kazakhstan at the World Weightlifting Championships.

That's the same excuse that Dan Harding gave a few years back for not appearing in the Club's "Women's Institute-style" nudie calendar. Except it was an England U-21 international.