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Posted by: Arcane Astral Aeons - 06-05-2020, 19:59 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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i make this up as i go along
tonight is music(and yes Ska`d there is a floyd question)
1.who played Pink in the film adaptation of The Wall
2.who was part of the folk? band the scaffold that appeared on a regular basis on TISWAS
3. The Bangles(remember them?) who wrote their song Going Down To Liverpool?
4.this one is easy...who replaced peter gabriel as genesis lead singer
5.one for the metal freaks......the first iron maiden single to make it to the top ten
6.staying with the metal theme...who was mentioned in the classic Smoke On The Water
7.another floyd one what is pictured floating over the battersea power station on the 77 album Animals?
8. Celine Dion although canadian appeared and won the eurovision song contest in 1988 what country did she represent?
9. what metal song with the lowest ever sales entered the u.k chart at number one
10.who was guest vocalist on the 1982 scotland world cup song?
have fun
pretty easy
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Posted by: Arcane Astral Aeons - 06-05-2020, 16:08 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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hope you don`t mind me doing this
just trying to keep us all entertained and basically insane
1.what was introduced to football in 1868
2. what was the highest recorded attendance at the Maracana stadium in Brazil?
3.(music) what was the original title for pink floyd`s Dark Side Of The Moon?
4.(film) who played Juliius limbani in the film The Wild Geese(1978)
5.Who Scored The first golden goal in a world cup tournament
6.(film) who played Eddy Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
7.Ermal Cleon Fraze is famous for what?
8.how many squares are there on a chessboard?
9.where was J.K Rowling travelling to when she invented Harry Potter?
10. (music) last number one of the 70`s and the first number one of the 80`s(easy that one)
no cheating
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Posted by: Arcane Astral Aeons - 06-05-2020, 00:52 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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this is day 40056 of our lockdown
Spock is gradually starting to piss me off
"jim when can i resume duties
what can i tell him?
"spock when you have tested negative for the virus "
well you know these vulcans they never catch anything
our transporter system has shut down
due to the fact we cannot beam anyone in or out
Uhura is going spare as she is running out of nake-up
the rest of the crew are going insane as we are slowly running out of pigs in blankets
Scotty suggested beaming down to the nearest ASDA until we showed him the queues
im really not sure what the scots word is for "eff that captain" is but it didnt sound polite
as for MCcoy
well he is still waiting to be transferred to the outpost of Neverbeentherebefore
so all in all life on the Enterprise is as exciting as it ever was
End Of Transmission
Kirk Out
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Posted by: Arcane Astral Aeons - 05-05-2020, 23:20 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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now i`m trusting you lot to not use google
all for fun
1.world cup 1982 , who was the top scorer?
2.who won the Eurovision song contest in 1956 and was unique about it?
3.villa did it in 81,sunderland did it 79,who did it 80?
4.this one is a film question(who appeared in all 3 lord of the rings films but was never credited)
5.this one is easy(where was Phil Lynott born?)
6.who composed the music to the x-files
7.how many penalty shoot outs have England LOST?
8.monty python and the holy grail......what do the knights that say niii want?
9.a music question...who sang vocals on the pink floyd song..The Great Gig In The Sky?
10.and finally The actor that played Mr Smith in the matrix films was also in another series of films..what
pretty easy
please dont google the answers just answer as you see fit
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| Old Town Player Profiles - Clem Stephenson |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 05-05-2020, 00:40 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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Clem Stephenson: not only skippered Huddersfield Town to become thrice champions, but also went on to become our longest serving manager. Signed by legendary manager Herbert Chapman in 1920 as a 30 year old inside forward, he stayed at Leeds Road until 1942. As a player, he was described as the ideal playmaker, skilful, an outstanding passer, unselfish and consistent.
Clement Stephenson was born to parents James, a blacksmith, and Ann in Seaton Delaval, a village in Northumberland on the Blyth and Tyne Railway, in 1890. He already had three brothers and would end up with two more. The younger two, as well as Clem, would go on to play for Aston Villa. Jimmy was next born and then George, ten years younger than Clem. George would also go on to manage Town.
Clem started his junior footballing career with New Delaval Villa, then West Stanley before joining Blyth Spartans. It was from there he moved to Aston Villa at the age of 20 for the sum of £165. He lived in lodgings in Aston Manor with a couple of other geordies. He was brought into the Villa side to play alongside Harry Hampton, who went on to become their all time goal scoring record holder. By 1913, Clem had his first major piece of silverware in the shape of an FA Cup winners medal as Villa beat League champions Sunderland 1-0 at Crystal Palace.
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The first world war started in 1914 and normal league football was suspended in 1915. Clem, who had returned to Blyth to get married to Violet at the Central Methodist Church in July 1914, was now working in a munitions factory and playing as a guest for Leeds City. Now the manager of Leeds City at the time was a certain Mr Chapman, who was also a manager at the Barnbow munitions factory in Leeds. We don't know if they were in the same factory but it was at this time that Chapman was accused of making illegal payments to get players for Leeds City that would eventually lead to them being kicked out of the League and see Chapman himself suspended.
Clem left his job as a shell maker to join the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Bristol Division) in January 1918 and was posted to the RN depot in Crystal Palace. He spent most of his time there as a physical instructor. He was promoted to leading seaman in October, but fortunately the war was now coming to a close and he was eventually demobbed in January 1919.
And so back to Aston Villa and the 1919/20 season, the one which Huddersfield Town almost went bust, but instead won promotion and reached the FA Cup Final. That final was against Villa and Clem was in the side that beat us 1-0 at Stamford Bridge, his second cup winners medal.
That was his Villa swansong though. In August 1920, Chapman had had his suspension lifted and had taken the manager's job at Huddersfield Town, and would make Clem one of his first signings. He was 30 years old by now, but would play for Town for 9 years and scored his first Town goal in a 5-2 win over Manchester United at Leeds Road. Town were now a First Division club and in the next season reached the FA Cup Final again. This one we won, 1-0 against Preston with a goal from Billy Smith and Clem became the first man in the 20th century to win 3 cup winners medals. He scored 15 goals that season, 6 in the cup run including the 3rd Town goal in the semi final 3-1 win against Notts County.
He only scored twice in the following season but Town finished in 3rd place behind Liverpool and Sunderland. Clem took over as captain from Tommy Wilson and in the following season we of course won the first division title for the first time. He weighed in with 11 goals in the campaign including 2 in a 6-1 win at home to Arsenal. He also gained his one and only England cap in March against Wales in the Home Internationals.
Town retained the title in 24/25 and Clem scored in the opening game of the season a 3-1 win up in the area of his birth at Sid James' Park against Newcastle United. He scored against Sunderland as well in a 4-0 win and he also scored against his old side Aston Villa as Town ran out 4-1 winners at Leeds Road.
The club were rocked when Chapman suddenly and unexpectedly left to join Arsenal at the end of the season. He couldn't win the title for them though as Town, under the leadership now of Cecil Potter, became the first team in the history of the Football League to win the title three times in a row. Arsenal came second, five points behind. Clem scored one of the goals on the 12th of April 1926, a date celebrated now as Huddersfield Town Day, as we beat Bolton Wanderers 3-0 to secure the title of thrice champions.
Clem scored the first goal of the following season in a 2-2 draw at Bury, as Town set about claiming the 4th title. We almost did it, beating Newcastle at home 1-0 with a George Brown goal putting us one point behind them, only for Town to fail to score in the final three games and finish second, five points off. And we came second again next season, once more running out of steam at the end to finish 2 points behind Everton. Clem did make it to his fourth FA Cup Final though, this time skippering the side and introduced his team mates to the King, only for the boys in bright blue and white to lose 1-3 against Blackburn Rovers in our first appearance at Wembley.
Town reached the semis in 28/29, getting beaten by Bolton, and finished in a disappointing 16th position. Clem played only 12 times that season, he was now 39 years old, and scored the last of his 52 Town goals in a 1-2 defeat against Manchester United at Old Trafford. That wasn't the end of his Town career though, as Jack Chaplin stepped down from the manager's job, Clem took over with Chaplin becoming his assistant. We finished 10th in the league but once more made it to the FA Cup Final. This time it would be one of the most famous matches ever.
Clem, in his first season as manager, was to lead his Huddersfield Town team against the man who brought him to the club ten years earlier, Herbert Chapman, now boss at Arsenal. As a mark of respect that the two clubs held mutually, for the first time ever the two teams entered the pitch together, like they do all the time now. The Gunners won 2-0 but the game is remembered for the 776 foot long German airship, the Graf Zeppelin, passing over Wembley Stadium and dipping in salute to King George V.
He was in charge of the club for the whole of the 1930s and although we didn't win the league again, some club records were set in this decade that still stand today. On the 13th of December 1930, Clem's Town team beat Blackpool 10-1 at Leeds Road with George McLean scoring 4 and Joe Robson 3, with Bob Kelly, Jimmy Smailes and Harry Davies getting the others. The crowd for this momentous event was only 11,932 which was possibly a reflection of the dark economic times the country was going through. Town finished 5th that season and went one place higher in the next. The following season, we finished 4th as Arsenal took the title. There was the record attendance at Leeds Road this year as we played Arsenal in the Cup with 67,037 turning up to see the Gunners win 1-0.
The Gunners retained the title in 33/34 as Clem led Town to be runners up. There were once again some remarkably low crowds to say we were in 2nd place with a great chance of taking the title. Money was obviously tight as just a year on from that record attendance against Arsenal, the last two home games against Everton and Blackburn Rovers attracted less than 5,000 paying spectators. I don't know the figures for our area, but in some places in the north there was 70% unemployment. Such a shame for Clem and his team, but times were hard.
We had another slip down to 15th for the next season before rallying once more to finish 3rd in 35/36. Crowds were getting smaller with just over 3,000 turning out for the Everton game. Arsenal would complete their hat trick, matching our success of a few years earlier, but without Chapman, who had tragically died of pneumonia in January.
In 1938, Clem led Town to our fifth and, to date, final FA Cup Final. He's the only one involved in all five of our FA Cup Finals, albeit for the opposition in the first one. It hadn't been a good season, only avoiding relegation with wins in the last two games with wins over Stoke and Manchester City. But the Cup Final back then was not played after the season was over, so we went down to Wembley still not knowing whether we would be going down or not. The match was played on the 30th of April after Clem's lads had beaten Hull, Notts County, Liverpool, York City (after a replay) and Sunderland. The match itself, like our recent Play Off victories was scoreless after 90 minutes. Unlike those modern matches though, there would be no penalty shoot out (they hadn't been invented yet) and as the tie was heading for a replay, the referee gave PNE a pen, even though the foul clearly took place outside the area. George Mutch buried it and so Clem Stephenson couldn't add a managerial FA Cup winners medal to the three he earned as a player. It was also revenge for Preston, who we had beaten by the same score in 1922.
The next season was another struggle, finishing 19th, but once again having a terrific Cup run to the semi finals, getting beaten by Portsmouth at Highbury. Don't forget, back in those days the Cup was regarded as almost the same status as the league, unlike the reserves competition it has become today, so the season would've been almost regarded as a good one.
Then t' war broke out after three games of the next season. Clem was still in charge but the Football League season was abandoned and a set of regional leagues were set up. Town won the North East Division by 9 points as Clem was able to persuade Sunderland and England superstar Raich Carter to turn out as a guest in the blue and white. Crowds were understandably low and there were only 332 there for a game against York at Leeds Road.
Clem and Violet had a daughter called Violet and a son called Clement. Son Clement and Violet's parents were living with them at Spa Wood Top in Huddersfield when he resigned from the club in June 1942. They remained living in Huddersfield for the foreseeable. Clem died on the 24th of October 1961 aged 71.
So endeth the life of a true Huddersfield Town great. Not just a great player, but a skipper who led us to three league titles. But also achieved a great deal as manager. Whenever people on social media talk about great Town managers, they mention Mick Buxton, Ian Greaves, Neil Warnock, Peter Jackson, David Wagner and of course Herbert Chapman, but very few mention Clem. Alright, he never won the 4th division play offs after a penalty shoot out but he did take us to two FA Cup Finals, finished runners up in the league and consistently in the top half of the top league. I reckon he's second only to Chapman in the Town legendary managership stakes.
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| Old Town Player Profiles - Dave Mangnall |
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Posted by: Lord Snooty - 03-05-2020, 22:00 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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Dave Mangnall: signed for Town from Leeds Utd in December 1929 as a replacement for George Brown, who had departed for Aston Villa in the summer. It was a case of replacing Huddersfield Town's leading goal scorer with a man who would go on to have the Town's greatest goals to matches ratio, scoring 73 goals in 90 matches. He was another who had come from working darn t' pit. As the saying used to go, Huddersfield Town just went and shouted down the nearest pit shaft when they needed a new striker. Dave had gone darn t' pit in t' first place because he was rejected after a trial at Town and went to play as an amateur for Doncaster Rovers.
He was given another chance by Leeds Utd and scored ten goals for their reserves in one match, a 13-0 win against Stockport County reserves. This led to him being picked for their first XI and his 6 goals in 9 matches for the BellEnders impressed Clem Stephenson enough to persuade the directors of Huddersfield Town to fork out the princely sum of £3,000 for him.
He made his Town debut in a 0-2 defeat down at the Arsenal, but scored his first Town goals, two of them, in a 3-2 win at West Ham on Christmas Day 1929 and scored again on Boxing Day as West Ham came up north and were beaten 3-0 with Bob Kelly and Harry Raw getting the others. He scored 8 goals in 14 matches that season, but didn't get selected for the FA Cup Final when we lost 0-1 to the Arsenal, Harry Davies getting the nod ahead of him.
In the following season he scored 9 goals in 12 games as Town finished 5th in the first division. But the next season, 1931/32, Mangnall set his name in stone in the Huddersfield Town record books. We finished 4th in the league, but that was mainly down to Dave's 42 goals in 39 matches (33 in the league), which is still a club record, only Jordan Rhodes has come anywhere near since. He scored 5 goals in a 6-0 win over Derby County, which young Jordan did manage to match against Wycombe Wanderers. Alf Lythgoe is the only other Town player to have done this. Dave did get another record that nobody has come anywhere near matching though and that is the club record for scoring in consecutive matches. He scored in 11 straight matches (7 league, 4 FA Cup, 19 goals). He did score in 9 straight league matches, but in between those was another famous match in which Town failed to score. That was the FA Cup quarter final match at Leeds Road against the Arsenal, which was attended by 67,037 people, another club record that will definitely never be beaten. Arsenal won 1-0.
Town finished 6th next season, but without the Mangnall boy who only played three times due to a serious injury. He was back in 33/34, playing in 16 games and scoring 10 goals as Town finished as runners up to Arsenal, who were completing their hat trick of titles, but without Herbert Chapman who had died earlier in the year.
His last game for Town was in a 0-3 defeat at Stoke in January 1934 and his last goal for Town was in the previous game, a 1-1 draw against Leeds Utd at Bellend Road. Injury ruled him out for the rest of the season and in the summer he was sold to Birmingham City, where he scored 14 goals in one season, before going down to London to play for West Ham. He scored 28 times in his one season at Upton Park before leaving to become a legend at their neighbours Millwall. During the 36/37 season his goals led the Lions to the FA Cup semi finals, the first 3rd division team to reach that stage. On the way they beat Aldershot, Gateshead, Fulham, Chelsea, Derby and then in the quarter finals they beat Manchester City, who were, as now, the star studded team of the day. Mangnall scored the first goal in the match at the Den, in which Millwall won 2-0 to earn a semi spot, to be played against Sunderland at one of Dave's old stamping grounds, the wonderful Leeds Road stadium in Huddersfield. There must have been a fair few Town supporters cheering him on in another big crowd of 62,813 as he opened the scoring in the semi final, but Sunderland came back to win 2-1 and go on to win the cup against Preston at Wembley.
Dave was famous now and as such went and asked for a pay rise from the Millwall management. This was long before players had any power at all and so he left the club to run a grocers shop in Sutton Coldfield. As the second world war was just kicking off, he returned to London and signed for QPR. Scored 3 times in three games for Rangers, which were crossed off as the fledgling season was abandoned. He stayed in London for the Blitz, playing for the QPR team in the Wartime League and becoming manager in 1944.
He must've been some kind of celebrity because he became friends with the American singer/comedian/film star Sophie Tucker, who became Godmother to his son. He stayed at Loftus Road as boss after the war and remained in the post until 1952. It was his only managers job as he left football to go live in Cornwall as landlord of the Navy Inn in Penzance. It was here that he died in 1962, aged 57.
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Posted by: spireitematt - 02-05-2020, 19:13 - Forum: Chesterfield
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Robert Molloy a Hollywood based film producer and grandson of the former New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, has become the Vice President at Matlock Town following a donation of £3500 to the Gladiators Just Giving fundraiser to keep the club going through the coronavirus epidemic. He wants to get Matlock out of the Northern Premier League and into League 2.
He was in talks with buying Notts County at one point.
https://www.matlocktownfc.co.uk/gladiato...sident.asp
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| Wilfred ! Wilfred!!! |
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Posted by: Blue Baggie - 02-05-2020, 17:36 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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Wilfred it is then.
I don't think that's on the most popular list?
Reminds me of Steptoe & Son
Oliver and Archie are top picks I think atm.
Where Oliver reminds me of Oliver Twist and Archie reminds me of Prince Harry or Steve Archie-BALD
Assume he will just become "Freddy"
Almost forgot Muhammad most be on the list somewhere and that one reminds me of "The Greatest"
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