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Post by slepe12 on Sept 5, 2008 11:25:09 GMT
As well as the Dolphins..................I am a Everton supporter
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Post by southwalessteve1 on Sept 6, 2008 6:14:24 GMT
As well as following Poole Town - thanks to my grandfather - I follow QPR
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Post by Bay Dolphin on Sept 6, 2008 7:55:38 GMT
I've lived in Manchester, Rochdale and Hull. So it's "The Dale" and "the Tigers" for me. Oh, and Lancaster & Morecambe - nearly forgot where I live now!
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Post by Bay Dolphin on Sept 6, 2008 7:57:43 GMT
There are suppposed to be 7 reasons for folowing a football team starting with place of birth; where dad first took you; where you lived as a young person and so on ..... I can't remember them all but there's a book about it.
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Post by peterlep on Sept 6, 2008 10:07:09 GMT
Slepe - does that mean you are a Scouser?
I consider myself a Brummie - but support Peterborough! (place of birth - so Brian's reason list is right!)
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Post by Bay Dolphin on Sept 6, 2008 21:26:50 GMT
I used to follow "The Posh" peterlep from when they were in the Midland League (I think) and my in-laws lived in Peterborough. Nice town.
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Post by slepe12 on Sept 9, 2008 13:32:19 GMT
No, I'm not a scouser.
I was born and brought up just outside Chester in Cheshire. Which is traditionally an Everton stronghold.
In as much as the great Dixie Dean once owned a pub in Chester called the Dublin Packet.....this was a "shrine" for us when we were teenagers. To hear the great man tell stories about his career was awesome. We would go and discuss the current team with him. Sadly, he drank too much and by 0830 it was all over. However, I did manage to touch the actual ball that Dixie scored a hat-trick with to complete the 60 goals in one season. For those who thirst more information please read on:-
William Ralph Dean – the great and incomparable ‘Dixie' Dean – holds a secure place in the history of football on the strength of his extraordinary scoring feats during one dramatic season.
In just 39 games in 1927-28, Dean scored a record-breaking 60 goals for Everton in the First Division – reaching the landmark with a hat-trick on the final day of the season. At the age of 21, he had achieved a degree of recognition and acclaim previously beyond the reach of any footballer. It is inconceivable that his record will ever be broken.
Even members of Royalty were said to know of ‘Dixie', a player renowned for his heading ability. His waxwork likeness was put on display at Madame Tussauds, and the great American baseball player Babe Ruth went out of his way to meet him on a visit to England.
Between 1923 and 1939, Dean scored 473 goals in 502 League, FA Cup, representative and international matches. Twice, in 1927-28 and 1931-32, he was leading scorer in the First Division; on both occasions, Everton were champions.
Fittingly, albeit by chance, he was the first player to wear the number nine shirt at Wembley. When the Football Association trialled numbered shirts at the FA Cup Final in 1933, Everton were allocated numbers one to 11. Dean, typically, scored in the 3-0 win over Manchester City, who wore 12 to 22.
Wing-half Matt Busby, who played against him that day, said of Dean's unrivalled ability in the air: ‘When Dixie went up for the ball, he was almost unstoppable. Defenders were absolutely terrified of him.'
At international level, Dean scored 18 goals in 16 appearances for England. He would be an automatic choice for only two years, but even that represented an achievement given the fickleness and haphazard ways of selectors.
In his penultimate international Dean scored once in a 7-1 thrashing of Spain. He ended that season, 1931-32, as leading goalscorer in the First Division. It made no difference to the ‘hopelessly amateur' selectors, as an official FA history describes them.
In his prime, Dean's value was almost incalculable. Arsenal offered a blank cheque, but Everton still said no. Dixie had no intention of leaving the club he had supported as a boy, a commitment confirmed when he turned down a contract to play in the United States that would have tripled his wages.
As a teenager playing for his first club, Tranmere Rovers, Dean was a transfer target for a host of clubs, including Newcastle United, Arsenal and Huddersfield Town. Dean waited for Everton to make their move – and signed on the spot when Rovers accepted a sum of £3,000 – then a record fee for a 17-year-old. ‘I'd have played for Everton for nothing,' he once said.
Thirteen years later, Dean, his body now ravaged by injury, was sold to Notts County. Retirement soon followed.
Dean died, aged 73, in March 1980, after watching his beloved Everton play Liverpool at Goodison Park. On hearing the news, Joe Mercer, a former team-mate, asked: ‘Where else?' A statue was erected at the ground as a permanent memorial in 2001.
‘Dixie was the greatest centre-forward there will ever be,' Bill Shankly said at a celebratory dinner on the day of his friend's death. ‘He belongs to the company of the supremely great, like Beethoven, Shakespeare and Rembrandt.'
2007 sees the celebration of the centenary of Dixie Dean's birth.
This is why a lot of supporters don't want to move from Goodison to Kirkby.
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Post by stfcinbmth on Sept 9, 2008 17:53:28 GMT
;DLove the escalator in the main stand at Goodison slepe
I'll watch any footy apart from maybe the Russians(the Premier League team) and England
Love Swindon as my grand-dad used to take me to watch them from the age of seven, even saw the great Don Rodgers play
Like MUFC, they play the game the right way
Like Hednesford Town, go and watch if they are at home when I venture up North
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Post by Bay Dolphin on Sept 9, 2008 19:17:00 GMT
I once met Ted Sagar in his pub somewhere in Liverpool slepe. I remember there were pictures of him on the walls and one in particular in which his whole body was twisted as he made a great save! I remember Don Rodgers as well stfcinbmth. Wa he still around when Swindon beat Arsenal in the FACup? I thought Hednesford was in the midlands?
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Post by stfcinbmth on Sept 9, 2008 20:00:47 GMT
;DBrian he scored twice in the 1-3aet 1969 League Cup victory over the Gooners. Herrrrrrrrrooooooooo
I can aslo vaguely remember watching Town play Sampdoria and maybe even Juventus in the Anglo-Italian cup circa 1970ish, tho I was deffo around 7 at the time so the memories are hazy to say the least
Hednesford is in the Midlands, but from Bournemouth it's up North lol. Matty Elliott is now their manager, he of Leicester City fame, a pretty impressive defender in his time.
You might remember them from a great FA Cup run in the 90's
The club reached the fourth round proper of the FA Cup in 1996-97, beating Blackpool and York City before losing 3-2 to Middlesbrough
They are based pretty close to Chasetown who we all remember from last year
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