Marky B

When was that?
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Marky B

Also it is Everton's music.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Harleybloke

I rest my case!

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

batman

Mid 70s ... it was part of some Div 4 inter club trials competition thingy.

Bats.

Marky B

I think you'll find Hartlepool a lot different now.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Harleybloke

Still dodgy if you're a monkey......................

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

batman

I used to have an aunt who lived in Hartlepool and we visited now and again in the 60s and early 70s. We drove through the town when we were on holiday last August and I didn't recognise much at all.

Bats.

batman

???????? .

Bats.

Harleybloke

Don't tell me you don't know why Hartlepoolites are called Monkey Hangers bats.....?

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

batman

I had heard of the 'monkey hanging' but didn't know it was in Harlepool. I just looked it up on the net.

The Hartlepool Monkey, Who hung the monkey? - This is Hartlepool

Bats.

orpheum

In the early sixties Arsenal used to come out to"The Sounds of The Gun" a very stirring march.It was played by the marvellous Metropolitan Police Band who played at Highbury till the early 80s.I think that they were one of the very last bands at football grounds.They used to march round the pitch at half time and everyone waited for the bandmaster to miss catching his mace but he never did.I missed this tradition .The band had a very good vocalist in Alex Morgan.In his 80s he was brought back to sing at the last game at Highbury.What great memories of a great ground.

Welcome To Highbury The Home Of Football

DB7

I see the poor old Chelsea boys have had a kicking over Terry's 'obscene' £150k salary, but more interesting was the £250m debt!

batman

Chelski used to run to the awful Blue Is The Colour for a while in the 70s.

Norwich City have their own song ... On The Ball, City ... which is a stirring anthem, the oldest still in use I believe. When the Canaries reached the League Cup Final in 1973 the released a song called ... The Canaries. They used to run out to this dirge but the supporters hated it! Eventually normal service was resumed and On The Ball, City was re-established as the song.

Let's all sing along .....

On The Ball, City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bats.

batman

It's all going according to plan ... the debt was £400m last year! Kenyon has a plan, appearently, for the club to be self-sufficient in ten years. Not if they keep having to shell out £150k per week to certain players they won't. I think Sheva and Ballack are on £140k per week each.

Although I agree with an old quote from Marlon Brando ''If they're stupid enough to offer me the money, I'm not too stupid to turn it down'' I don't agree with that sort of money being being paid to foorballers or anyone on similar contracts.

If a boxer, a golfer, a tennis player or a singer become successful they generate enough cash to earn loads of money. However, if they start to lose matches or the records start failing to sell, usually their earning power is affected. A footballer can earn mega-bucks by signing a long term deal, if he loses form or his team are crap and his contribution is negligible he still gets the cash for the duration of the contract, unless his employers, who were stupid enough to give him the deal in the first place, can offload him to Newcastle or Middlesbrough.

I don't blame the players, although some of them are very greedy, it's just simply IMHO a long term recipe for disaster.

Bats.

Harleybloke

Chelski should change their name to 'Peru' or 'Bolivia', get the debt written off that way!

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!