SimonM

If he's being treated as an in-patient they must be pretty nasty stones....usually you just get them zapped by a Ray Gun as an outpatient

>>How's the Killa playing these days Simon? << He is superb.....despite apparently conceding the penalty in tonight's cup game....and handy with the occasional headed goal too.

I enjoyed "Engleby" too....but for me Faulks' best book is "Birdsong"

Hull reputedly wanted James Beatty but Stoke got in there first. Stoke are rhapsodising about BT's goalscoring class but appear to have forgotten his Premier League scoring record was distinctly unimpressive prior to Bryan Robson getting him to Bramall Lane. And about half the 12 goals he has got this season for Sheffield United have been penalties or directly from free kicks. And yes all of that is sour grapes - I wish he'd stayed!

>>as they slow-mo Vidic congratulating himself for the illegal block.:D

And what an eloquent and powerful response to those who'd have him chuck money away on paint! >:D

That's not Lordship Lane. That's coming up Kirkdale out of Sydenham I think

Let's not overlook the fact that quite a number of butchers on Lordship Lane & NCR went out of business for various reasons in the decade or two prior to WR opening his brand new shop. It's easy now to say his success was predicatble but I think there's more than 20/20 hindsight here. I don't think many people predicted the length of the queues or just how busy the shop would become

>>she got a bit of a name for herself in relation to other womens' husbands<< mmm..like the famously uxorious Stan Collymore and Sven eh? Oh wait...."husbands":)) you say?

...Peckham Rye Park Cafe, Cafe 2050, Blackbird Bakery, Green Cuisine, Mootown...

Oh my! I actually grew up in Conisbrough but don't recall that road!

>Tbh it was a stupid appointment by the board. Johnny Giles wanted the job, the other senior players wanted him to have it, >Revie wanted him to have it and yet they gave the role to a man who had spent years slagging off Leeds as dirty cheaters >to anyone who would listen. Not clever. Clough was hardly unique in holding this opinion of Leeds. That was the general reputation they had at that time, and by and large it was pretty well deserved. Yes Eddie Gray and Peter Lorimer were sublime - but Hunter's reputation was well-earned, as was Jack Charlton's. So, internal appointments like Giles apart, any new, eligible appointment would have arrived with this opinion of Leedstoo, admittedly not broadcasted so loudly as Clough's >The subsequent decline lay more in the once-in-a-generation quality of senior players who were all coming to the ends of >their careers. Although Clough went on to build European Cup winning teams at Notts Forest I'm not sure he would have been >capable of such a task at Leeds. Well we shall never know of course, but you can see how this very reputation would make it tempting to appoint him to rebuild a successful side with so many stars ageing together. Clough & Taylor were easily the best team for this task on the face of it. And if Clough "liked a bung" I doubt he was much different to many other managers of this period: it seems to have been part and parcel of the whole subculture. He certainly was no different to the famously grasping Revie in this respect. Just before Leeds appointed Clough Sheffield United needed a new manager. It was pointed out to some Blades board buffoon by the local press that Clough was available and this idiot gave a knowing superiro laugh and said words to the effect "Oh rest assured we won't be appointing him!". The atttitude sickened me, espcially when Forest went on to win all those trophies whilst the Bramall Lane trophy cupboard remained - remains! - quite bare.

I used WR for ages but think the quality at Sparkes is far superior - not cheap but terrific value for money all the same. Of course not everything is there every week, parly because of lack of space, partly because of the way he sources his meat. The trick is to buy lots of, say, rump steak when he has it and freeze it. The downside of course - space apart - is he's only there 2 or 3 days a week and always has to park the van by the marrowesy pavement on NCR, but one learns to cope with all this! Libretto & Daughters must be the most melliflously-named butchers in the whole UK and is also good if you're at that end of ED. It's shame that little parade of shops is clearly on its last legs. Oh and for geese at Christmas it's Goodman's Geese mail/online order for me every time: much better quality than either WR or Sainsbury's.

>>Despite being a cnut at Leeds I still have a soft spot for Clough.<< Interesting take. It always looked to me that Clough's quitting Leeds - an early example of "player power"? - was Leeds' loss not Clough's.

Post of the Month! >:D

The one I remember on NCR (now residential I think) was a hairdressers called "House of Wally" - which always made me giggle I'm afraid!

There used to be lots of nurses in ED, working at both Dulwich Hospital, King's and further afield. They often shared flats or houses quite locally, anytthing from two to six per property, or lived in the Nurses' homes at Both Dulwich & St Francis Hospitals. I'd be surpised if many can still afford to do the first, and the second is now impossible as the Homes have been demolished. So actually the question is a damned good one....:'(

You should never underestimate the Brian Clough magic in cup ties.....even from the grave!

>>Planning permission should work both ways - we're not entitled to turn our front rooms into shops, and we shouldn't be allowed to turn shops into front rooms. It's f*cked up. << I don't think she did this though? I think she just lives on the top 2 floors and chose not to re-let the ground floor commercial premises? The main thrust of your point still applies of course - although there are former commercial properties all over ED that have been converted to residentials. Sometimes there is just no longer any commercial demand.

Laugh? I nearly started....:(

I agree. It is not a WHS-type place but a proper stationer's/art stationer's, a bit like the one in the Village, and I think the last one in LL/NCR? It is hard to see what could take over the premises that is not already available at several other shops around ED, so in that sense LL is going to lose some of its character.

I imagine she is pissed off because she gets asked the question so much and certain people refuse to take it for an answer?

I do hope "tromboning" is not a euphonium....::o

I seem to recall William Rose were interested in expanding next door. But really if the lady is happily living there it is noone else's business but hers. We have no idea who or what caused that fire.

Good God! I wonder if the Gallery knows about this?!