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Walthamstowfox

Walthamstowfox

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There doesn't seem to be the anticipation of previous years, & to be honest I'm not really that bothered,
However , we're on the 08.07 out of Euston ( Avanti permitting) have a table booked for Breakfast & guinness at 11.15 in a local hostelry , so no doubt we will have a great day ........Blue Army!!!!!!!!
 
Isn’t Leicester the North then? I thought you had a geography degree?
 
I do the north as I live there but for some reason I can never get an away ticket even as a STH.

Have seen us win there twice. 1973 (helping relegate them as revenge for 1969) and 1997 with that wonderful goal from Tony Cottee.

Covid meant no-one saw the last time we won there with Thomas and Soyuncu scoring.

I hope we can get a result as they are in between Euro games and have some significant injuries.
 
Leicester is possibly a border town, Soho, but the other way around. In his book about the Jarrow march, Stuart Maconie said that Leicester was the last place that welcomed the Marchers. Once they reached Market Harborough they encountered hostility and that continued all the way to London. Just saying like.
 
‘Once they reached Market Harborough they encountered hostility and that continued all the way to London.’

Hardborough in the old days, before The White Company and Jigsaw opened up shops there, was like Tombstone in the Wild West, an extremely hostile place to pay a visit to. The Royalists found that out when they quartered there before their crushing defeat at nearby Naseby. The Corby Lads used to come in tribal numbers in the 60s and 70s so that the locals could then reenact Rorke’s Drift. Ken Dodd was barracked in Hardborough when he cut the ribbon on a Brierley offshoot that faced the Commons car carpark. Owls supporters who stopped off for a pint or two on their way back from a 90s Wembley appearance came out of the pub to find their bus lying on its side.
 
My eldest lad does Military re-enactments, I had to give him a lift to a big one in the fields next to Gartree prison last summer. He’s in the Afrika Korps and he was a bit pissed off when I went back to collect him because the SS had turfed him out of a half track and he had to march behind it.
I entered into the swing of things by moonlighting in Royal Navy officers uniform and helping to “evacuate” some of the British!
 
borebage53 said:
My eldest lad does Military re-enactments, I had to give him a lift to a big one in the fields next to Gartree prison last summer. He’s in the Afrika Korps and he was a bit pissed off when I went back to collect him because the SS had turfed him out of a half track and he had to march behind it.
I entered into the swing of things by moonlighting in Royal Navy officers uniform and helping to “evacuate” some of the British!
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Growing up on Hardborough’s Southern Estate, our next door neighbour had been a PoW in one of the camps in the town. He was originally from Frankfurt and he still had some of his Hitler Youth stuff in a drawer, which he showed me once. I remember a military plane going over low over the gardens one afternoon and him turning to me and saying with a smile ‘Is that one of ours?’.
 
borebage53 said:
My eldest lad does Military re-enactments, I had to give him a lift to a big one in the fields next to Gartree prison last summer. He’s in the Afrika Korps and he was a bit pissed off when I went back to collect him because the SS had turfed him out of a half track and he had to march behind it.
I entered into the swing of things by moonlighting in Royal Navy officers uniform and helping to “evacuate” some of the British!
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Were you a friend or enema? I think we should be told.
 
ElmetFox said:
Leicester is possibly a border town, Soho, but the other way around. In his book about the Jarrow march, Stuart Maconie said that Leicester was the last place that welcomed the Marchers. Once they reached Market Harborough they encountered hostility and that continued all the way to London. Just saying like.
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Just like Corby encountered the other week.
 
kpbw said:
Were you a friend or enema? I think we should be told.
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Well the lad does a lot of these events every summer. I was surprised at the scale of the one at Gartree with hundreds of “enthusiasts” and every sort of military WW2 vehicles imaginable.
I get very little thanks from the lad for my “taxi” services. When I gave him a lift to the one at Rothley Station a couple of years ago the cheeky little sod asked “to see my papers” at gunpoint!
 
borebage53 said:
Well the lad does a lot of these events every summer. I was surprised at the scale of the one at Gartree with hundreds of “enthusiasts” and every sort of military WW2 vehicles imaginable.
I get very little thanks from the lad for my “taxi” services. When I gave him a lift to the one at Rothley Station a couple of years ago the cheeky little sod asked “to see my papers” at gunpoint!
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For you Englander the war is over!!!
 
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