Today I'm happy about......

[bobo the clown]

I remember having a mini Big Ben pointed out to me once around your neck of the woods, Bobo. Most peculiar.

I think he was called Dai .... it's OK. He's been arrested now.

[malcd1]

I remember having a mini Big Ben pointed out to me once around your neck of the woods, Bobo. Most peculiar.

I think he was called Dai .... it's OK. He's been arrested now.

[Gary the Enfield]

Quo tickets bought.

Hammy O here we go.

On the down side I've been charged £4.45 'handling charge' PER TICKET. The robbing bastards.

[bwfcdan94]

I remember having a mini Big Ben pointed out to me once around your neck of the woods, Bobo. Most peculiar.

I think he was called Dai .... it's OK. He's been arrested now.

Thomas?

[Gooner Girl]

4-0 smashing of Notre Dames U10's today. My girls are on fire!

[Dujon]

If they are the U10s shouldn't they have won 9-0 even without the accelerant?

[Gooner Girl]

If they are the U10s shouldn't they have won 9-0 even without the accelerant?

Doesn't do to win games 9-0 in prep schools you know! If you're thrashing the other team you change yours around and take your best players off and put your crappy ones as forwards. Well, if you're nice and sporting you do anyway!

[Bruce Rioja]

If they are the U10s shouldn't they have won 9-0 even without the accelerant?

Doesn't do to win games 9-0 in prep schools you know! If you're thrashing the other team you change yours around and take your best players off and put your crappy ones as forwards. Well, if you're nice and sporting you do anyway!

I remember us letting Chalfont Street have Jimmy Phillips for the 2nd half once because we were 12 nil up at half-time.

[Gooner Girl]

If they are the U10s shouldn't they have won 9-0 even without the accelerant?

Doesn't do to win games 9-0 in prep schools you know! If you're thrashing the other team you change yours around and take your best players off and put your crappy ones as forwards. Well, if you're nice and sporting you do anyway!

I remember us letting Chalfont Street have Jimmy Phillips for the 2nd half once because we were 12 nil up at half-time.

Be nice if those championship teams were so sporting against Bolton eh?!

[clapton is god]

Just used MoneySupermarketdotCom and saved myself a HUMONGOUS £609 on home buildings and contents insurance

Its the easy option to let insurance policies renew themselves year after year, we've all got busy lives, but that is a reediculoose saving and a lesson to me.

Both reputable companies too. Leaving Direct Line (the thieving gets) to go to More Than.

Check it at renewal time, people!

[thebish]

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Just used MoneySupermarketdotCom and saved myself a HUMONGOUS £609 on home buildings and contents insurance

Its the easy option to let insurance policies renew themselves year after year, we've all got busy lives, but that is a reediculoose saving and a lesson to me.

Both reputable companies too. Leaving Direct Line (the thieving gets) to go to More Than.

Check it at renewal time, people!

I will. I've been with Direct Line for decades. I've got More Than as my car insurer.

[Lord Kangana]

Just used MoneySupermarketdotCom and saved myself a HUMONGOUS £609 on home buildings and contents insurance

Its the easy option to let insurance policies renew themselves year after year, we've all got busy lives, but that is a reediculoose saving and a lesson to me.

Both reputable companies too. Leaving Direct Line (the thieving gets) to go to More Than.

Check it at renewal time, people!

Direct Line have form for automatically ramping up your insurance after about 4 years. I'm sure there's some formula they use, but if you are with Direct Line (above all others) I would recommend checking your renewal with a fine-tooth comb.

[Harry Genshaw]

I remember us letting Chalfont Street have Jimmy Phillips for the 2nd half once because we were 12 nil up at half-time.

And that was supposed to help them?!

Genuine question - was Jimmy Pip an outstanding player at school - over and above everyone else? Striker?

[Bruce Rioja]

I remember us letting Chalfont Street have Jimmy Phillips for the 2nd half once because we were 12 nil up at half-time.

And that was supposed to help them?!

Genuine question - was Jimmy Pip an outstanding player at school - over and above everyone else? Striker?

Absolutely beyond belief, Harry. He was using the insides and outsides of both feet when we were seven years old. Inside Left.

[Dujon]

That brings back sad memories, Bruce. Back in the early '50s my school was coerced into playing a team from Edgerton (or Eagley, I can't remember). We were overrun by a lad called Jimmy. I have no idea as to his surname and only know his first because that's what his team-mates called him. I'm not embarrassed by the thrashing as we didn't have a school team, just a bunch of us who used to kick a ball around the field next to the school. The proverbial jumpers-for-goal-posts and ground-frozen-into-ruts-awaiting-the-spring-thaw situation. We didn't have a clue to be honest. This Jimmy bloke did. I would guess that we would have lost by just the same margin should his team mates have retired from the field and left him to his own devices.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

That brings back sad memories, Bruce. Back in the early '50s my school was coerced into playing a team from Edgerton (or Eagley, I can't remember). We were overrun by a lad called Jimmy. I have no idea as to his surname and only know his first because that's what his team-mates called him. I'm not embarrassed by the thrashing as we didn't have a school team, just a bunch of us who used to kick a ball around the field next to the school. The proverbial jumpers-for-goal-posts and ground-frozen-into-ruts-awaiting-the-spring-thaw situation. We didn't have a clue to be honest. This Jimmy bloke did. I would guess that we would have lost by just the same margin should his team mates have retired from the field and left him to his own devices.

I seem to remember as a lad that most games would end up with a scoreline something along the lines of 52-48. That's because one numpty per team was designated goalkeeper, and the rest of us just charged up and down the field as massed strikers: the Attila the Hun horde formation of football playing. Glorious. I remember one game where two of our strikers were having a push-you-pull-you fight over who'd scored the first goal with the rest of our team standing in a circle cheering them on, while the opposition kept on running up to the centre bald spot kicking off and scoring and repeating ad nauseum.

[bwfcdan94]

It shocked me the other day to hear that on 30% of secondary schools in the country have a football team, (that includes schools who don't have any matches just training) and then people wonder why we have an obesity epidemic in this country. My school was one of the best sports schools in the country any my year was exceptionally good on one occasion being crowned the best footballing school (of our age group) in Britain. As a result it really disheartening to hear that while every year in my school had 5 football teams, 3 rugby teams and at least 1 cricket team that most schools don't have any teams at all for any sports.

[Bruce Rioja]

It shocked me the other day to hear that on 30% of secondary schools in the country have a football team, (that includes schools who don't have any matches just training) and then people wonder why we have an obesity epidemic in this country. My school was one of the best sports schools in the country any my year was exceptionally good on one occasion being crowned the best footballing school (of our age group) in Britain. As a result it really disheartening to hear that while every year in my school had 5 football teams, 3 rugby teams and at least 1 cricket team that most schools don't have any teams at all for any sports.

And that makes you 'Happy' why?

[bwfcdan94]

It didn't I was just continuing the conversation on school football which begun about Jimmy Phillips.