Tyrone Shoelaces

Peter Lever, the Lancashire and England fast bowler has died. Until recently he lived in Rochdale and drank in my local, Then he moved to the South coast about 6 or 7 years ago. He was a really nice bloke with absolutely no edge to him. Although he found plenty in his bowling day. He was part of that great Lancashire one day team. Peter and Ken Shuttleworth formed the pace attack with David Hughes and Jack Simmons bowling spin. Barry Wood, David Loyd, Harry Pilling, Clive Lloyd, Frank Hayes, Jackie Bond, Farouk Engineer made up the rest of the team.

The Lovin’ Spoonful - Butchie’s Tune

They stopped bothering about “ bad PR “ years ago.

I think it’s inevitable that heading the ball will be outlawed at some point in the future. For football that’s do-able. How rugby will go on with the impact of heavy tackles is another story.

Spurs are bidding £37 million for Sunderland’s 17 year old midfielder Chris Rigg apparently.

Dionne Warwick - Anyone Who Had A Heart

Really boring game. 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back. A total miss match.

Mike Jackman says - “ David Glenn came to Blackburn on a free transfer from Wigan Athletic and was almost immediately thrust into the first team. With Mick Rathbone missing for much of the campaign - due to a broken leg. Glenn was given an extended run in the second division. Although not the most graceful of athletes, Glenn did remarkably well and appeared to be quite at home in higher company. His inclusion in the team meant that Jim Branagan had to cross over to left back and the following season, with Rathbone fit again, Glenn was rather unfortunate to lose his place as Bobby Saxton re-United Rathbone and Branagan. Glenn moved to Chester City in the summer of 1985 “. He was only 5’8”tall so he wasn’t the biggest of players. To be honest I can’t remember much about him. It appears he was signed as cover for the full back position. Signing a first team player on a free from a team a division below us was unusual then.

When they were signing square pegs for round holes.

Right. It doesn’t sound like Pickering is back though. Unless you’ve heard something ? When’s Beck fit again ? I’ve never known a season like this for injuries. You can count on the fingers of one hand the player who haven’t gone missing for long spells at some point.

That one that Sutton missed ! My mum could have put that one away. I still haven’t forgiven him. Regards Tyrone

When is Baath back ? He’ll make a difference.

I’m talking about playing him for England as this is the “ England” thread. People get carried away when the see us dicking fourth rate teams like Transylvania and Treasure Island these days. When we play the really good teams too many of our players just don’t turn up. Foden is just another example.

That was a great result. Some good players in the Portsmouth team.

I’m not a Saka fan. He very rarely shows up in the big games.

You don’t know that. There’s nothing to say that Rodri will be the same player next season.

You’re not comparing like with like. DeBruyne plays in a different position entirely . It’s more difficult to play the defence splitting passes that Wharton plays from just in front of the back four than behind the strikers where DeBruyne plays.

Are City and Utd battling it out for Scott’s signature ? Can Scott pass a ball like Wharton can ? In fact name me a player playing in the Premier League that can pass a ball like Wharton. The lad is a one off.

You mean the Chicken Chokers will be getting £27m to £32m for him. We won’t see a penny of it.

The guy in my paper today has it right about Foden - “ lacks conviction in an England shirt “.

It doesn’t matter where he plays, he’s very rarely above average for England.

I don’t understand the fuss about Foden. He very rarely influences a game. All he ever did last night was trap it and pass it back into midfield. He didn’t even try to beat the full back once. Rashford wasn’t much better.

It was just more of the same. Passing for passings sake.

According to the BBC both Utd and City are preparing to battle it out for Wharton’s signature this Summer. Somebody please tell me again that £ 18 million was a really good deal for us.

In spite of not having much of the ball in our half they cut through us a few times in midfield much too easily.