Where are they now - Gareth Farrelly

[truewhite15]

Mr Rennie officiated quite a few of ours in the Premier League, including the 1-0 win over West Ham in 02/03, and I'm fairly certain he presided over a couple of our surprise results vs Arsenal. He definitely was still in the Premier League after we got promoted, and for a good 3 or 4 years as well.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Mr Rennie officiated quite a few of ours in the Premier League, including the 1-0 win over West Ham in 02/03, and I'm fairly certain he presided over a couple of our surprise results vs Arsenal. He definitely was still in the Premier League after we got promoted, and for a good 3 or 4 years as well.

He retired after being injured throughout 2008-9 and is now a magistrate in Sheffield. President of Hallam FC, who play on the oldest football ground in the world. All according to Wiki which also noted he reffed our 2001 playoff game versus PNE, where we won 3-0.

[Bruce Rioja]

The oldest football pitch in the world is the one that Old Boltonians play on in Chapeltown, isn't it? Sheffield FC were the world's first club though (are they now called Hallam FC then?)

Edit: Ah right, I see (I think). I take it Hallam were the first to get a ground organised, rather than just a pitch.

[Montreal Wanderer]

The oldest football pitch in the world is the one that Old Boltonians play on in Chapeltown, isn't it? Sheffield FC were the world's first club though (are they now called Hallam FC then?)

Edit: Ah right, I see (I think). I take it Hallam were the first to get a ground organised.

I was just quoting wiki quoting the Guinness Book of Records. However, I would read it to mean the oldest ground still in use. Footie was surely played on older pitches.

[Bruce Rioja]

The oldest football pitch in the world is the one that Old Boltonians play on in Chapeltown, isn't it? Sheffield FC were the world's first club though (are they now called Hallam FC then?)

Edit: Ah right, I see (I think). I take it Hallam were the first to get a ground organised.

I was just quoting wiki quoting the Guinness Book of Records. However, I would read it to mean the oldest ground still in use. Footie was surely played on older pitches.

Well I'm not sure what to believe then.

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[Montreal Wanderer]

The oldest football pitch in the world is the one that Old Boltonians play on in Chapeltown, isn't it? Sheffield FC were the world's first club though (are they now called Hallam FC then?)

Edit: Ah right, I see (I think). I take it Hallam were the first to get a ground organised.

I was just quoting wiki quoting the Guinness Book of Records. However, I would read it to mean the oldest ground still in use. Footie was surely played on older pitches.

Well I'm not sure what to believe then.

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/13 ... e_country/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hmmm, the McWhirter brothers or a doctoral student at Bolton University? Tough call. Mind you, the game described at Turton bears little resemblance to today's game. I expect there are village greens still used for events where teams get together and kick a ball around all day. However, from the dates given Chapelton predates Sheffield, though they are based on recollections written up in the 1870s.

[Montreal Wanderer]

It appears that football was first codified in English public schools in the Sixteenth Century and, since the schools still exist, perhaps the football grounds do.

The earliest evidence that games resembling football were being played at English public schools — mainly attended by boys from the upper, upper-middle and professional classes — comes from the Vulgaria by William Herman in 1519. Herman had been headmaster at Eton and Winchester colleges and his Latin textbook includes a translation exercise with the phrase "We wyll playe with a ball full of wynde".[39]

Richard Mulcaster, a student at Eton College in the early 16th century and later headmaster at other English schools, has been described as "the greatest sixteenth Century advocate of football".[40] Among his contributions are the earliest evidence of organised team football. Mulcaster's writings refer to teams ("sides" and "parties"), positions ("standings"), a referee ("judge over the parties") and a coach "(trayning maister)". Mulcaster's "footeball" had evolved from the disordered and violent forms of traditional football:

ome smaller number with such overlooking, sorted into sides and standings, not meeting with their bodies so boisterously to trie their strength: nor shouldring or shuffing one an other so barbarously ... may use footeball for as much good to the body, by the chiefe use of the legges.[41]

I was amused by the following reference that shows nothing much changes round Old Trafford.

By 1608, the local authorities in Manchester were complaining that: "With the ffotebale...[there] hath beene greate disorder in our towne of Manchester we are told, and glasse windowes broken yearlye and spoyled by a companie of lewd and disordered persons ..."[36] That same year, the word "football" was used disapprovingly by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's play King Lear contains the line: "Nor tripped neither, you base football player" (Act I, Scene 4).

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

In my sixth-form print of Lear, the word 'foot-ball' was hyphenated, which did vex me.

Northwich Vics' Drill Field was oft (and carefully) quoted as the world's oldest continuously-used ground... till they sold it for housing.

[Montreal Wanderer]

In my sixth-form print of Lear, the word 'foot-ball' was hyphenated, which did vex me.

Northwich Vics' Drill Field was oft (and carefully) quoted as the world's oldest continuously-used ground... till they sold it for housing.

The Northwich Vics themselves were only founded in 1874, some time after Hallam. Of course the field could predate the team.

[coffeymagic]

Surely Gaz-Faz's greatest moment was his Ronaldinho-esque lob of Seaman at Highbury (Campo sent off for nowt).

He was no better/worse than a lot of players we had around the time but I think he suffered more because he was a local lad.

If I have an accident that wasn't my fault I'll defo be giving him a call. I may be entitled to compensation.

[Prufrock]

Farrelly, good in the Championship, shit in the Prem. Inspiration for Andrews and Pratters.

Not sure about local lad though, being born in Dublin!

All the best players have lobbed Seamen though (pahahaha).

[coffeymagic]

I always had him down as a Scouzer.

Just shows you eh?

[Morkal]

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I think there are lot of solicitor in the market but only some of them are experienced.So until you have a good training and experienced in this field you can't get a your goal.That's why most of the people avoid solicitors that don't have more experience and always call and on door for soliciting services.
Get lawyer assitance in gold coast

[mrkint]

Hi Gareth,

Be honest, that goal in the play-off final was deflected, wasn't it?

[ChrisC]

Hi Gareth,

Be honest, that goal in the play-off final was deflected, wasn't it?

Off his ears

[Prufrock]

Just no Kinty.

[mrkint]

It was!

Have you seen any video evidence to denounce my truth? No, so I win.

[Prufrock]

Other than all of the video evidence of the goal, no.

[Harry Genshaw]

It was!

Have you seen any video evidence to denounce my truth? No, so I win.

You're sounding like Ian Duncan Smith now

[Lord Kangana]

Must admit, I thought it was deflected too.