nods  in agreement.

I wouldn't be without my Sky football coverage, but can understand others concerns about it, and I certainly won't be paying 4.99 until midnight tonight then going to 9.99 and 11.99 on Saturday to watch live streaming of the game, can you imagine what would happen if the whole country is watching, the live streaming will crash I would imagine, I'll take my chances with 5Live

Roy Keane has also received the dreaded "vote of confidence", that'ull be P45 in the post then!! and Avram Grant has been appointed as Director of Football at Portsmouth.

Another reminder, ITV1 has got the Belarus v England game on at 7.30pm next Wednesday, so we at least will get a little international football next week

Jack Warner's views on Englands bid for the World Cup in 2018

World Cup 2018 

But Sky is so expensive. We were just mentioning the other day how much we watch it compared to 1,2,3,4,5 etc. Football and that's it. I mean does anyone actually view Sky 1,2,and 3 for example?
As I may have said earlier up the license fee a tenner and get the footie on BBC 4 or whatever, we'd save a fortune.

What happeneing with Darlo FC Crossy. sounds like it's going from bad to worse, this time last season they were near the top, & one of the favs to go up. The (once) new stadium is proving to ge a curse. 

sure is, some  mates pay inexcess of £50 per month,  we get sky3 on freeview, if that's anything to go by, I wouldn't  pay a fiver a month, We hold out noses and have sky sports news on when games are being played, but I prefer 5 live, or the net.

Yep! I belonged to the faction who wanted to stay at Feethams. We had a Chairman with more (of other people's) money than sense. No doubt that he built a fine stadium with state of the art stuff, but somewhere like Scunthorpe's ground would have been adequate.
The short and narrow........ Darlington as a town/club isn't big enough to support a stadium like that, and we are now paying for it. I expect that we will balance out in the Conference again.

 Hi Footy Folk

Good afternoon Footyfans  trust you guys are well


Anything interesting been going on ?


Bury have picked up a tad


Bah humbug - international breaks


What was Fabregas like at the weekend ?! superb display!!

As for John Barnes  I really don't know who he thinks he is...he comes across very arrogant to me.
Dr Death Avram Grant at Pompey?! Director of football my ar** ! He'll step into poor Hart's shoes quicker than you can say formaldehyde I betcha!

England international on the Web  a disgrace..or watch it at an Odeon I believe?! not one near me..but I bet watching it in a cinema feels odd...anyone done it? do they serve bovril ?


I think its possible the Argies and Portugal could fail to qualify I think? imagine the World Cup with two of the best players in the world  in it in Messi and Ronaldo - that'd be a shame

Hiya Monkey,L.T.N.S  , in fact I don't think I've seen you over here, how's life on the Island.

Hold on, I'm not one to gossip, but another Man U fan turns up out of no where...

Hi Rzb  Life on the Island is a tad wet today  Not been over here much - its gonna take some getting used to the new format, I must be getting old I hate change lol

I actually do watch quite a lot of stuff on Sky so don't really begrudge the subscription as I watch a lot of films and the channels like Living and Hallmark, as well as a lot of the sport as I like tennis, speedway, greyhound racing etc all of which I can watch on Sky.  I really wish the terrestrial channels could provide the old levels of sports coverage, as I still miss the days of Grandstand, Sportsnight, World of Sport and my favourite Star Soccer on ATV.

That's probably why I enjoy Soccer Saturday so much as it reminds me a little of the vidiprinter at the end of Grandstand, when the footy results were coming through and Jeff Stelling is such a good presenter as well.

I remember them in the Conference once before, they gained promotion at my local Conference side , Welling United.  Half the teams in the Conference are house hold names these days.

 Hi Perones
The International game been screened on the web is a disgrace!

I remember that era, also World Of Sport, where they had the typist sitting in the background .

Honestly!!  I couldn't imagine going to a cinema to watch a footy match.  Where would you get the balti pies!!

lol hilda ogden rzb  our name is Legion..for we are many... hi rzb Monkey

ditto, big time, but I've made an effort last few days, and getting the hang of it, I've decided it about the members, more than the vehicle we travel in...... 


"passes tissues round"....

 Arhh the good old days

Hi PB lol - balti pies...i've heard of them, never seen one though..is it very much a west midlands kinda thing ?

Saturday afternoons when the Baggies were away from home, watch the wrestling on World of Sport and then switch over to the vidiprinter to see how the Baggies were doing... happy days!!

Or standing at the bus stop outside Radio Rentals watching the vidiprinter through the shop window waiting for the bus to go home after a Saturday afternoon shopping, somehow running into William Hill's to check on Soccer Saturday isn't quite the same, if you lose reception on your phone!!

We go and watch Welling sometimes....or Bromley.

I love non-league football!

Very profound Rzb. I will try to do better  Promise.

Hyia Perones, yeah the balti pies are a West Midland thing, think they started at Walsall FC and then we started having them, if you ever come to the Shrine, make sure you have one!!

I know some peeps that went to the pictures to watch  a live concert.

I used to go and watch Halesowen Town when the Baggies were away, don't know why I stopped going, suppose getting married and having to shop on a Saturday put paid to it.

Non league is the best....better, cheaper grub and you can stand where you want and change ends at half time.

 Frank Bough  Dickie Davies..Saint & Greavsie...



The vidiprinter was great...you remember when once in a while there a team would be thrashed by 7 goals...and the vidi-printer would read Rochdale 1....Bury 7 (seven) ...the bracketted (seven) in case people confused it with the number 1 ! I always though it was hilarious...it was as if to say "YES! Seven - you are not misreading this" pmsl...or was that just me

Welling were always knocking on the door of the old division 4 about 10 years plus  back, slipped down a league now, I look for their results most weekends. I last went about 20 years back, the night they knocked Gillingham out of the FA cup.

Perones, I remember in about 1978 we beat Coventry 7 - 1 and the vidiprinter did that, Coventry 1 West Bromwich Albion 7 (seven), we all fell about when we saw it

now folks...all this reminiscing reminds me of something... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE&feature=PlayList&p=A74319A25FC1737D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=10

Yeah, years ago we followed Maidstone all over the place....in fact they were playing Welling in the Kent Cup Final at the Preistfield when news came though that Kettering had lost and that Maidstone had been promoted to the old 4th Division...Welling were always in the conference until a few years ago....

They have Teddy Sheringham's son laying for them now...and they do a thing where when Charlton are away, Charlton season ticket holders can get in for half price.

When the reults were being read out on Grandstand, we were ordered by my Dad not to speak, as he wrote the scores down on the back of the paper, we then went  through the procedure of checking  the pools,   , god help us if anyone spoke,
I don't think he every won a tanner on the pools.

What his son Charlie ?

lol That was my job, God help me if i didn't get all the results. You could almost tell what the score was gonna be by the guys voice.

Was it Maidstone that finally got in to the football league, but ended up playing games at Dartford, It all went terribly wrong.

Oh checking the pools, another Saturday teatime thing, along with the Sports Argus, the pink paper!!  All the afternoons results and match reports, amazing how they did it really when  you think back.

I feel a childhood/teenage memories blog coming on!!

We still try and guess the results on the way home form WHL, you can usually tell if it's a draw,

My mate's sister used to able to mimic his voice perfectly and she used to do the chart rundown the way he did the results!!

lol takes ya back hey