matacaster
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On the bright side, If amateur sport cancelled on Saturdays, A&E will have more capacity!
If the season restarts it will run beyond June 30, so there'll be issues of players' contracts and loan deals expiring, with games still outstanding.
That's good to know... if the season does resume I think my team would struggle without our loans: our first and second choice 'keepers are both loans, and Emile Smith-Rowe has been a revelation since arriving from Arsenal.Apparently they are already looking at this with short-term and weekly contracts discussed.
Signed from Bradford for Derby County by a certain Brian Clough, wasn't he?
Seeing as we'll probably all be on lockdown shortly, how about a bit of trivia... are there any other examples of teams with parentheses in their name?
Wow! I didn't know anything of Hector's background. I must have seen him when I was at Derby in 69-71, as I went to a few matches. He was adored by the Derby fans. I even went out with girl a few times who was his family's babysitter.Kevin Hector scored 44 league goals for Bradford in 1965/66, a total which has not been surpassed in any of the top four divisions in the 55 years since (although others like Terry Bly of Peterborough scored more in earlier years).
Tim Ward signed Hector for second division Derby, not Brian Clough. Bradford were top of D4 the day he departed. By the end of the season we were second last and finished bottom for the next three seasons. We were then voted out of the league - Oxford Utd had joined the FL a few years earlier so they thought they ought to have Cambridge Utd as well. The transfer fee was a pitiful £32,000 or thereabouts.
There can be few cases in football history of a club's demise being so obviously linked to the knock down sale of one key player.
All football in England below National League level will end immediately and all results will be "expunged".
Interesting to see if that’ll swing anything up here with the SFA. Brora Rangers have been declared Highland League champions, after a vote with Highland League member clubs. They were about 10 points ahead at the top with around 3-4 games in hand as well so unlikely to have been caught.
And local to me Tynecastle FC in the East of Scotland 1st Division Conference B (though not yet confirmed the season is finishing)Other unhappy clubs
Jersey FC playing on the mainland:
http://combinedcounties.pitchero.com/match-info/tables?table_id=d-51946
played 27
won 27
goals scored / conceded 99-7
Vauxhall Motors in one of North West Counties leagues:
Already won their league with seven games to play
Lets have a bit of fun and debate. Who is the bets player you have seen live? ( not on TV but in the flesh)
For me i think it would be Juninho. It was like a creature from Saturn landed in Middlebsrough, took up football and showed everyone else how to do it.
For Darlington I think it is either Marco Gabbiadini or Robbie Blake.
Robbie Blake, of Burnley and Leeds? He was a very under-rated player at Leeds. Had some phenomenal skill and finishing but never quite got to the right fitness level to become even better.
I did see Eddie Gray play once in a testimonial and even though he was older than a lot of the other players, he was still amazing, I would have loved to have seen him in his prime.
From opposition players, Juninho is a good shout... saw him single-handedly destroy us 5-1 in the league cup at the newly-opened Riverside Stadium in September 1995. Chris Waddle in his later years for Bradford played out of his skin at Huddersfield one game, even scoring direct from a corner. Matt Le Tissier is up there too.Lets have a bit of fun and debate. Who is the bets player you have seen live? ( not on TV but in the flesh)
For me i think it would be Juninho. It was like a creature from Saturn landed in Middlebsrough, took up football and showed everyone else how to do it.
For Darlington I think it is either Marco Gabbiadini or Robbie Blake.
For me it’s got to be Kevin de Bruyne - he was a different class against Scotland last September.Lets have a bit of fun and debate. Who is the bets player you have seen live? ( not on TV but in the flesh)
For me i think it would be Juninho. It was like a creature from Saturn landed in Middlebsrough, took up football and showed everyone else how to do it.
For Darlington I think it is either Marco Gabbiadini or Robbie Blake.
Lets have a bit of fun and debate. Who is the bets player you have seen live? ( not on TV but in the flesh)
For me i think it would be Juninho. It was like a creature from Saturn landed in Middlebsrough, took up football and showed everyone else how to do it.
For Darlington I think it is either Marco Gabbiadini or Robbie Blake.
I used to watch at a similar level while I lived in England, only very occasionally straying into League 1 level (I had friends who were Rochdale fans). Since moving to Scotland, I've generally been watching around Scottish Championship sort of level (I work on a turnstile at Ayr), but also watch some of the local junior sides, although my local one, Johnstone Burgh had run into serious difficulties with pitch drainage partway through this season, and as a result had become somewhat nomadic before the pandemic halted the season.i think i watch football at a different level to others here
Who is the bets player you have seen live? ( not on TV but in the flesh)
I saw Alan Shearer in the flesh on a train once. Does that count or do you mean actually playing?
I usually watch the 6th or 7th tier of Scottish football so that made de Bruyne look even betteri think i watch football at a different level to others here