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Reply | Half decent tv
at 12:25 15 Aug 2025
If you like French mystery/crime dramas try Black Spot on Netflix. Very dark and mysterious set in an isolated town in a forested area in deepest France. There are 3 series and the characters and acting are very good. Especially if you like being immersed in France for an hour. |
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Reply | Mr Benn RIp
at 19:02 10 Aug 2025
So relevant today how things don't change. R.I.P. Ray and Carol White. |
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Reply | Who did you nearly support…?
at 12:42 10 Aug 2025
First team I followed was Spurs in the days of Danny Blanchflower/Dave Mackay. LT ran a football special from Willesden bus garage to White Hart Lane. It was only a shilling for children and a tanner to get in the stadium. It was more a day out with mates to watch football so wasn't to fussed when the LT stopped running the special.
Apart from the odd England game at Wembley we rather preferred playing football in King Eddies park than watching it, until a friend suggested going to see the Rs at White City. Had no idea who they were or who they were playing. Two of us sat opposite about a couple of thousand supporters in this large soulless 100,000 plus empty stadium.
It wasn't until the Rs returned to Loftus Road I started going regularly, becoming completely hooked in the 60s with that team under Stock. Fantastic football especially Marsh who could take your breath away with his tricks and goals. Great days and been with them ever since. |
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Reply | Corny Joke Warning
at 19:49 15 Jul 2025
Man comes home to find his mate shagging is wife, so stabs the fecker to death. His wife says "carry on like that and you'll have no mates left". |
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Reply | RIP Gordon Jago
at 13:03 6 Jul 2025
Sad, RIP indeed. Gordon Jago was the one who stabilised the team and brought success after the mess of managers following Alec Stock. I often wonder if we had gone on to win the league if he had still been here instead of Sexton. Who knows? |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 19:10 23 Jun 2025
Yup up to episode 6. I see series 5 of Slow Horses is coming on 24 September. We don’t half make good crime/spy series, as do the French and Scandis. |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 17:26 21 Jun 2025
Good so far, only watched a couple of episodes. Saw the original Danish series a few years ago on the Beeb 4 Saturday night Scandi slot. It was a lot darker. |
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Thread | Uncs
at 16:26 26 May 2025
Just coming at Wembley. Be good if he gets a medal but want the real Wimbledon to win. |
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Reply | Is it time to admit that Ultras are the way forward?
at 14:24 18 May 2025
If the kids and teens need orchestrating then good luck but us old gits and plebs are happy to sit and watch the game and swear a lot at the players, management and officials. Occasionally jumping up when we score. |
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Reply | Jonathan Varane contract extension
at 19:17 8 May 2025
“..., being able to combine physicality with high-level ball carrying"...
Talk about bollocks speak. Blimey the balls aren't that heavy and he only needs to stick it under his arm or put it in a bag? |
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Reply | Introduction to the demon drink
at 12:17 21 Mar 2025
First beer was from a quart bottle of Truman's brown ale a friend (he looked older than the rest of us) got from the offy at the Rising Sun, Harlesden Road, Willesden. When I could pass for 18 drank light and bitter in the Rising Sun. The odd Saturday evening we'd frequent the pubs up at Hampstead Heath and finish up in the Galtymore, Cricklewood Broadway where the bar stayed open until 2 in the morning. |
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Reply | Schools
at 11:38 2 Mar 2025
St Andrews Infants school, Belton Road, Willesden.
St Andrews Junior schools, St Andrews Road, Willesden.
John Kelly Secondary Modern school, Crest Road, Neasden.
So far as I know only the infant school survives with a change of name to St Andrews and St Francis. |
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Reply | Places for a new ground
at 13:08 26 Feb 2025
My Grandad used to take me to see Willesden FC at the stadium (mid 50s). Seem to recall there was talk years ago (60s?) about moving there but, if memory serves, it was dropped as there were no proper transport links. Probably many other reasons too. In any case King Eddies has been completely remodelled since then. |
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Reply | 25 Pee
at 13:56 8 Feb 2025
In those days 5 bob would have bought you a couple of pints of light and bitter and a packet of Smiths crisps with a tanner change. |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 22:34 3 Feb 2025
Agree, can’t believe some of the-comments on this thread. |
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