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It is a shame about the clashes as it was a cracking game which we dominated until they scored their 2nd when we just fell apart at the back chasing it.


I always laugh at David James but he was superb today and kept Pompey in it.


Players on their way out

http://twitpic.com/12zqmy

Declan Wrote:

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> Lady Muck,do you have any interest in football or

> will you never read this comment as it's just over

> the 00 mark?


Hello Declan


I do like football, although I do not understand all the rules. My team is Manchester United and, when in my twenties/thirties I regularly used to attend their matches. At school I had this dreadful crush on George Best (RIP Georgie). In fact I received something like one week's detention because I "engraved" his name on one of the school desks. Does that answer your questions?;-)

Thank you LM. Reminds me of days gone by. I never even saw him play as I was stuck in the middle of Ireland, but when he left MU I was devastated and I don't use that word lightly. The slightly curious thing was that years later he was just a few feet away from my table in a restaurant in Mayfair as he left with a beauty on his arm. I couldn't nor did I wish to say anything to him. I was glad to see him though.

Declan Wrote:

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>I never

> even saw him play as I was stuck in the middle of

> Ireland


well neither did I. I was still at school/living at home and my parents were poor. By the time I was working and could afford to attend matches, he had left Man. U.



>when he left MU I was devastated and I don't use that word lightly.


Me too! Gosh I can totally relate...


>The slightly

> curious thing was that years later he was just a

> few feet away from my table in a restaurant in

> Mayfair as he left with a beauty on his arm. I

> couldn't nor did I wish to say anything to him. I

> was glad to see him though.



A memory to treasure, I'll bet.


*eyes well up*



Before I leave this thread...one final treat...just watch the way his legs accelerate and manoevre past the other players...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytSt7EnHhXc&feature=related

???? Wrote:

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> I saw him


You saw him...oh now I'm really envious...was he really as wonderful "in the flesh"?



>1971 Upton Park

>West Ham 2 Man U 1

> 'Georgie Best, superstar, walks like a woman and

> he wears aa bra'


*rolls eyes*


Hmmmm...I presume you were there in support of West Ham then!

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