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Post by The Concept on Feb 10, 2018 23:32:43 GMT
The Hungarians gave us a good going over in the early 50s, I don't think that was down to any rule changes, although it could well have been because of our insular attitude that it was 'our' game and we couldn't learn anything from it, hence no participation in the first couple of World Cups. As for our armies, you do realise the French beat us pretty comprehensively in 1066, we're all foreigners now After king Alfie had fought battles just days before and had to march our own boys many many miles to even get to fight. I love history, those who ignore it do so st their own peril. Have you been watching the blonde woman doing her programmes, I forget her name but she is a breath of fresh air from Starkey. I seem to think her name is Lucy wossname Short blonde bob style = Lucy Worsley. Long blonde curly hair = Suzannah Lipscomb. Lipscomb tends to specialise in the Tudor era. Worsley also covers the Tudor era, and was curator at Hampton Court, but presents more widespread history programmes and now has the title 'Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces'.
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Post by Gregory Stevens on Feb 11, 2018 6:45:24 GMT
it's an old fashioned way of describing 3-2-2-3 formation from the days before 'midfielders'. Just as an aside at my junior school (1972-1976) we lined up 2-3-5 as did every other school we played against, yet this formation would already have been abandoned by professionals, I wonder why it was kept on at kids level? My guess is you had older teachers who didn’t believe in new formations and stuck with the old one. No matter how I try, I cannot understand how WM worked. The full backs always stay back. The half backs give the ball to the winger. So you had a gaping hole with 5 forwards and 2 full backs on either side. Seems like a formation to concede as many as you can while scoring loads. Like formations kids play with half the team goal hanging.
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Post by Rex on Feb 11, 2018 7:21:06 GMT
Just as an aside at my junior school (1972-1976) we lined up 2-3-5 as did every other school we played against, yet this formation would already have been abandoned by professionals, I wonder why it was kept on at kids level? My guess is you had older teachers who didn’t believe in new formations and stuck with the old one. No matter how I try, I cannot understand how WM worked. The full backs always stay back. The half backs give the ball to the winger. So you had a gaping hole with 5 forwards and 2 full backs on either side. Seems like a formation to concede as many as you can while scoring loads. Like formations kids play with half the team goal hanging. It was good fun though
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Post by kingswood Polak on Feb 11, 2018 22:32:44 GMT
After king Alfie had fought battles just days before and had to march our own boys many many miles to even get to fight. I love history, those who ignore it do so st their own peril. Have you been watching the blonde woman doing her programmes, I forget her name but she is a breath of fresh air from Starkey. I seem to think her name is Lucy wossname Short blonde bob style = Lucy Worsley. Long blonde curly hair = Suzannah Lipscomb. Lipscomb tends to specialise in the Tudor era. Worsley also covers the Tudor era, and was curator at Hampton Court, but presents more widespread history programmes and now has the title 'Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces'. Thank you VERY much. I prefer Lucy as she comes across a bit kooky and loves to dress up in period costume. I think she makes things more interesting in doing so. Both are very good though and great to see women doing this now
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Post by The Concept on Feb 15, 2018 19:42:39 GMT
Short blonde bob style = Lucy Worsley. Long blonde curly hair = Suzannah Lipscomb. Lipscomb tends to specialise in the Tudor era. Worsley also covers the Tudor era, and was curator at Hampton Court, but presents more widespread history programmes and now has the title 'Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces'. Thank you VERY much. I prefer Lucy as she comes across a bit kooky and loves to dress up in period costume. I think she makes things more interesting in doing so. Both are very good though and great to see women doing this now Yes, she is good, and I do like the quirkiness too, but I have seen her talk about the origin of some phrases and sayings that are plain wrong. The sort you see on email chains (like the one about shipping containers of manure, incorrectly saying it gives a word, through an acronym stamped on the container, that stood for Store High In Transit). Well she didn't use say that one on TV! One I remember her telling was that 'Sleep tight' comes from the middle ages, to do with wooden frame beds which had ropes threaded through, and they regularly needed tightening to prevent them sagging - complete tosh!
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Post by dido on Feb 15, 2018 20:11:56 GMT
Go on then, The , tell us your "truth" on that one.
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Post by The Concept on Feb 15, 2018 20:27:52 GMT
Go on then, The , tell us your "truth" on that one. Sleep tight? Well, not so much the 'truth', more de-bunking the theory ... - The phrase didn't turn up until about the middle of the 19th century. - The origin is likely to be the children's nursery rhyme: "Good night, sleep tight. Wake up bright. In the morning light ... " which more recently has had the line "Don't let the bedbugs bite" inserted. - The word 'tight' is most probably figurative in the sense of 'soundly' or 'roundly'. Other examples of 'tight' being: tight corner, tight-fisted, tight ship etc.
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