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Post by Angas on Dec 2, 2015 9:35:16 GMT
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GasMacc1
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Post by GasMacc1 on Dec 2, 2015 14:11:37 GMT
This won't make any sense to those under 45: the Subbuteo team is Blackburn Rovers, but captioned Bristol Rovers.
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brizzle
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Post by brizzle on Dec 2, 2015 15:06:02 GMT
This won't make any sense to those under 45: the Subbuteo team is Blackburn Rovers, but captioned Bristol Rovers. As a child in the 1950s I was always fascinated by Blackburn Rovers, mostly because of the fact that they were also named Rovers, and their colours which were so very similar to our own. They had an excellent young centre-half playing for them by the name of Mike England, who went on to play for Spurs of course, Derek Dougan (but he seemed to play for everyone  ). But my favourite was Ronnie Clayton, but don't ask me why because I only had newspaper reports to go on at the time, as it was pre-MOTD. |
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Post by Colyton Gas. on Dec 2, 2015 15:48:32 GMT
 Took some disabled lads to Ewood Park and Ronnie Clayton was our host and guide.Top bloke and once captained England.Sadly no longer with us. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 18:37:26 GMT
This won't make any sense to those under 45: the Subbuteo team is Blackburn Rovers, but captioned Bristol Rovers. That's not the 93/94 away shirt either! |
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Post by Bridgeman on Dec 2, 2015 20:25:14 GMT
This won't make any sense to those under 45: the Subbuteo team is Blackburn Rovers, but captioned Bristol Rovers. As a child in the 1950s I was always fascinated by Blackburn Rovers, mostly because of the fact that they were also named Rovers, and their colours which were so very similar to our own. They had an excellent young centre-half playing for them by the name of Mike England, who went on to play for Spurs of course, Derek Dougan (but he seemed to play for everyone ). But my favourite was Ronnie Clayton, but don't ask me why because I only had newspaper reports to go on at the time, as it was pre-MOTD. I remember those well, Mike England (rather ironically) also played for Wales  |
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brizzle
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Post by brizzle on Dec 3, 2015 13:46:18 GMT
As a child in the 1950s I was always fascinated by Blackburn Rovers, mostly because of the fact that they were also named Rovers, and their colours which were so very similar to our own. They had an excellent young centre-half playing for them by the name of Mike England, who went on to play for Spurs of course, Derek Dougan (but he seemed to play for everyone ). But my favourite was Ronnie Clayton, but don't ask me why because I only had newspaper reports to go on at the time, as it was pre-MOTD. I remember those well, Mike England (rather ironically) also played for Wales He did, but we won't hold that against him now. Too much water under the bridge. I thought you might enjoy this, an interview with him recorded on the Spurs podcast in 2012 . . . thehotspurspodcast.podbean.com/2012/05/  |
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Post by Bridgeman on Dec 3, 2015 23:07:18 GMT
I remember those well, Mike England (rather ironically) also played for Wales He did, but we won't hold that against him now. Too much water under the bridge. I thought you might enjoy this, an interview with him recorded on the Spurs podcast in 2012 . . . thehotspurspodcast.podbean.com/2012/05/ Fantastic interview, thank you for posting it brizzle |
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