MalcolmW

Feb 1959. Stoke played 5 successive matches (all third round) against Bury. Bury managed to fit a league match in but Stoke's was postponed (Jan 1955, 8th at Stoke, 12th at Bury - abandoned after 112mins, 17th at Everton, 19th at Liverpool, and 24th at ManU).

Toto is his shortened name - his actual name is Aristotle, so maybe a thinker?

3 years in DRC, 7 in Paris, Toxteth from the age of 10.

Lots were students returning to Canada after vacation with family, using split tickets Tehran to Kyiv, Kyiv to Toronto.

Congo scouser.

We once played PNE in 4 successive matches in 10 days. Sat FA Cup (h), Wed Replay (a), Sat League (h), Mon 2nd Replay (at B'burn). Furthermore the only other 2 matches that month were both at Forest on the Saturdays before and after the above.

since he left BWFC Academy.

I had thought of a future (eventual) role for Harry. Queen is also head of the Commonwealth, which has agreed Charles should be their next head. But eventually the Commonwealth will want to be seen as a distinct separate entity. William inherits UK kingship and Harry, by then long resident in Canada, gets the Commonwealth job. These moves seems to make the scenario is within the bounds of possibility. YHITF

Port Vale are already there.

It's more than GBH.

But the seats for the originally planned match were sold before season tickets came back. So some seats may be "double-booked".

It's a culture thing. The NHS prides itself on being free and has not been in the habit of asking reasonable questions. NZ has it about right.

No. A friend at school (son of the publican at the Jolly Tanner) got a Maths first at Liverpool. followed by a PhD in statistics at Reading and a career in NHS Regional management. He also broke the school goals in a season record with 40. It didn't last long. A lad 2 years below me won the school 100 yards and 220 yards when I won the 880 yards and mile. He studied Chemistry at Birmingham to PhD and then had a career on Teesside with ICI. A friend who got a hatful of CSE grade 1s and transferred to the grammar school a year after I left. He studied economics at Trent Poly, Sheffield Uni and Birmingham, where he bcame a lecturer. After a secondment to the OECD he became V-C of Middlesex Uni. He 'retired' after 19 years and is now the V-C of a university in KL, Malaysia.

Warrington pre M6 was something special for traffic. It once took me 40 minutes to cross Kingsway. And incidents in the canal caused issues as the bridges were more up than down as the shipping backlog cleared. There was a collision which led to a sandboat sinking, leading to a 3 week closure. And another time a lorry crashed through the bridge gates in to the canal at 2am., the driver being asleep.

Yes, no, yes and maybe.

I know of at least 3 PhDs from Orford, and that's just from my school group and the athletic club.

I don't know what you base that assertion on, and it's certainly not my view.

I see Nandy as by far the best candidate.

World Cup looking dodgy.

Good to see Starmer going north to launch his campaign (Stevenage being north of Watford).

South of the ship canal was known as "the Cheshire side of town" when I was at school. Of course that border disappeared when the town itself was transferred to Cheshire. Before the ship canal the border was the river between Warrington on the north bank and Latchford on the south. Latchford Within then became that part between the river and canal, and Latchford Without the part south of the canal, subsequently absorbed into Grappenhall. Some of the Orford estate is built on part of the former RAF Padgate

I'd bow to your all-knowing certainty except that the uneducated Northern thickoes I know vent their anger at Labour's metropolitan elite's attitude in a way that surprises me a little.

Because the deal was a political fudge which wasn't actually working. It suited everyone to pretend that it was, but Trump dislikes anything done by Obama and chooses to see the faults. I'm not saying he was right but I'm certainly not saying he was wrong on this. Taking the general out was not smart however. [Imagine what would have happened if the Iranian mortars had killed Blair on his secret visit to Baghdad in 2007. Only about 20 people knew the visit was happening but unfortunately the then PM of Iraq told the Iranian ambassador (for which he subsequently apologised).]

20:20 vision.

Maybe. But it's certainly not mine.