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Post by theprisoner on Jun 17, 2009 9:14:46 GMT 1
I'm going for Vera Lynn as in all likelihood she would have been going for promotion from BSN if not for her unjust demotion. She has also signed about 3 first team players from last seasons BSN champions Tamworth.
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Post by yeadoner on Jun 17, 2009 9:40:29 GMT 1
I'm going for Avenue for the simple reason that I want to hype them up to such an extent that they've no chance of living up to expectations. Also, as regards teams from anywhere near East Angular; there is an immutable Law in football (as decreed by the great gods of football; Zigger and Zagger) that says: 'No team from this part of the world shall ever win a sausage'...and so far, right throughout the history of the game, that little rule's held good..
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Post by adambrid on Jun 17, 2009 21:12:27 GMT 1
I have a sneaky feeling about Boston For some reason AB
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Post by otleybard on Jun 18, 2009 3:00:11 GMT 1
...as regards teams from anywhere near East Angular; there is an immutable Law in football (as decreed by the great gods of football; Zigger and Zagger) that says: 'No team from this part of the world shall ever win a sausage'...and so far, right throughout the history of the game, that little rule's held good.. I hate to be pedantic, but the 'Law' in question is attributable not to Zigger and Zagger but to the Football League Management Committee, and it dates back only as far as 1962. Here's the tale. Older readers might remember a character called Bob Lord, for many years Chairman of Burnley FC and a leading light on the aforementioned FLMC. Mr Lord was not actually a god, although he cannily refused to deny the family connection. Burnley in those days were among the elite of English football, and indeed had won the old First Division Championship a mere two years previously. On April 3rd 1962 they beat Fulham in a replay to reach the FA Cup Final, and they were once more well ahead of the field in Division One. The 'double', achieved the previous season by Tottenham Hotspur, again appeared a possibility. Now Mr Lord was by trade a pork butcher, and although in the 1960s the Football League was nothing like as aristocratic an organization as the FA he often felt that his 'new money' was looked down upon by the likes of the Mears, Cobbold and Hill-Wood dynasties that graced opposition boardrooms. Never one to miss a trick, he stood up at the next Management Committee meeting and promised a year's supply of his best pork bangers to the players, management and directors of whichever club or clubs won that year's League and Cup. Not surprisingly - he was hardly celebrated for his generosity - his offer was met with astonishment by his fellow chairmen. But Mr Lord was canny; he knew that in the dying days of the 'maximum wage', any (tax deductable) perk might persuade his star players to refuse the inevitable approaches of the big city clubs. And should the worst happen and Burnley's Cup Final opponents, Spurs, win the day... well, the large Jewish contingent among their shareholders and support would surely mean the gift would be politely declined. Well, of course, dear reader, the inevitable happened. Not only did Spurs take the Cup (as expected, they refused the offer) but Mr Lord's Burnley team, no doubt distracted by dreams of fry-ups to come, embarked on a collapse of Devon Loch proportions that allowed them to be overtaken at the death by Alf Ramsey's unfancied Ipswich Town. Burnley never recovered, and soon embarked on a decline that saw them minutes away from the Conference before clawing their way back to the top table last month. Mr Lord was incandescent. Not only would the Cobbolds of Ipswich - sporting types all - accept the comestibles with gentlemen's relish (and probably dine off the story even longer) but he would become a laughing stock in boardrooms up and down the land. There was only one thing for it. In collusion with League Secretary Alan Hardaker, he formulated a new Rule that sneaked in under the wire at the rather boozy AGM: that 'no team from East Anglia shall ever win a sausage'. And sure enough, no team ever has.
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Post by yeadoner on Jun 18, 2009 9:32:42 GMT 1
As regards the Zigger and Zagger tie-in with Bob Lord, I've a feeling that they may be one and the same thing going from the legend that Old Bob was some kind of earthly incarnation of one of the two gods... There'd been some sort of rift with the Hebrew god (the big one who was Jesus's dad) over the pork issue, and the two eventually agreed to part company and go their separate ways - the biblical deity retaining the official 'God' name, getting religion and taking all the royalties from the bible, and with Zigger and Zagger branching out into football and eventually securing a a big tie-up with Sky. Anyway, that's roughly the story as I was told it, or read it somewhere or dreamed it up one night on the way home from the pub...
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Post by rev on Jun 18, 2009 16:24:11 GMT 1
who the hells gone for ossett you deranged individual. Now you mention it lol (like that adam?) Kendal one season wonders Nantwich there abouts FCUM great support who knows Avenue youve just got their player of season theyve also sold the captain to matlock they'll finish below ossett Boston and Kings Lynn will both have good seasons but will both finish below ossett
Looks like that crazy and deranged individual might have a point. and no it wasnt me
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Post by rev on Jun 18, 2009 16:24:44 GMT 1
the second one was just couldnt resist it
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Post by theprisoner on Jun 18, 2009 20:23:23 GMT 1
Apparently Nantwich manger Steve Davis has left to become Crewe's Assistant manager. If true, this would make them less of a challenge (although they only have 12.5% of the share of the popular vote at present)
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Post by theprisoner on Jun 18, 2009 20:31:40 GMT 1
OB would your yarn support the statement " King's Lynn to be Champions.....and pigs might fly"
Any way as KL are towards the top of the fat arse part of the country could they class themselves as being North rather than East Anglia?
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Post by adambrid on Jun 18, 2009 21:30:04 GMT 1
Lol AB
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Post by theprisoner on Jun 21, 2009 21:08:51 GMT 1
Looks like Newcastle BS have gone out of business and perhaps that the league will run with an odd number of teams rather than re-instating Witton.
As far as the poll goes it looks like FCUM &....er...Ossett are the favourites next season.
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Post by adambrid on Jun 22, 2009 16:15:25 GMT 1
How r we going to do that then?? AB
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Post by mog on Jun 22, 2009 17:00:28 GMT 1
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Post by otleybard on Jun 23, 2009 3:56:53 GMT 1
How r we going to do that then?? AB Mog's link shows how it's done. In the season quoted, a team from each of the top divisions was drawn out of a hat and deemed 'supernumary'. That meant that instead of having their own fixtures they were allocated one of the other games and played sideways across the pitch, attacking and defending separate goalposts (placed on the touch lines at the half way point) while the other game was in progress. The Second Division representatives, Huddersfield Town, failed to get to grips with the new system, not only suffering relegation but conceding no fewer than 100 goals, many deflecting in via players participating in the main game. Manager Malcolm Macdonald later admitted that in hindsight their constant use of the offside trap had probably been a mistake. In the First Division, however, Wimbledon fared much better; their tactic of lumping the ball a furlong into the air and subjecting any player in their path to GBH gained them mid-table respectability. Indeed, it proved so successful that they adopted it for their (more traditional) FA Cup games, eventually defeating the mighty Liverpool in the Final. It'll be interesting to note which Unibond Premier team is allocated the 'supernumary' role for the coming season, although informed sources suggest that Buxton have already volunteered.
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Post by yeadoner on Jun 23, 2009 6:45:03 GMT 1
How r we going to do that then?? AB It'll be interesting to note which Unibond Premier team is allocated the 'supernumary' role for the coming season, although informed sources suggest that Buxton have already volunteered. Rumour has it that Eastwood are seriously considering forefeiting their place in the Blue Square North providing the Unibond will promise that they can be the Unibond Premier's own 'supernumary'. Apparently, the prospect of officially becoming the 'new Wimbledon' is a role they feel unable to resist...
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