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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

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Must say I enjoyed sitting on the front row for a change on Saturday.

 

Mainly because I headed the ball and secondly because I'm blind as a bat.

 

Just a bit shit when it rains.

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Read the first 3 pages of this yesterday and laughed my cock off. Have to say I've been pretty disappointed with the last 5 pages tonight.

 

I'm going to have to watch the directors commentary of Outlaw now to scratch the itch.

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Full game or just highlights of the header? :)

Haha

 

I want slow motion replays,4-d freeze frames and gonch-cams for all future home games.

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Haha

 

Had a shave today, was on my list on my WFH day, very productive.

 

Think I'll look at a ST over there next season, if others fancy it.

Its the future mate
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Been wondering what attracts people to it, presumably it's pretty much an adrenaline buzz thing, much the same as the players in a game or some daft bugger chucking himself off a cliff with a parachute on. As a kid I'd go home and away and frankly be scared shitless by some of the stuff that went on. Ultimately it has had an effect as I'm now wary of taking the young one to certain games-rightly or wrongly that's just how it is.

A genuine question (and not being judgemental) does anyone who has been involved at some time believe that national service or the return of more heavy industry/manual labour type jobs would give folks a way of getting rid of excess energy whilst providing a sense of belonging/camerardery

 

 

Mainly right and the adrenaline rush is a big part as is camaraderie. One thing folk forget about the so called 'English disease' is that our little island has been invaded by all sorts of obnoxious cunts for centuries and we have had to learn to handle interlopers by whatever means necessary.

 

It's in our genes but they will find a way to engineer it out of us.

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I'm still to touch/head the ball. Closest I ever got was it landing next to me and my mate getting it. Respect to anyone who touches it. I looked at the average and supposedly its a 1/1000 chance you touch the ball. Hopefully my time will come.

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I did it a few weeks back at the Colls. Walked in as they were warming up, ball bobbled over the fence, I kicked it back but didn't really want to as it was muddy so two blokes took the piss out of my half-hearted slice.

 

I looked up and someone had fired a shot over the bar and it was dipping in my direction. I was up like a salmon, head back then powered forward, caught the ball flush on my forehead, perfect contact, it flew back all the ways to the lad who kicked it. The two blokes congratulated me and I walked off, smug.

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Funniest ball-in-crowd moment I saw was v DMBs first time at Reebok.

Ball went out at east stand and the lad next to me caught it. Phil Neville came across to take the throw and looked at the lad holding the ball with an Over here type look.

Lad with ball shouts, "Here y'are Phil," Neville walks up with arms outstretched.

Lad with ball shouts, "Fuck off!" and launched it down the touchline.

We were howling and Phil Neville has that look on his face that just says "prick!"

Edited by MickyD
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My mate has a brilliant story (although it may be an apocryphal tale he swears it's true).

 

According to the legend - his Dad was a Wanderers ballboy when Brasil trained at Bromwich St in '66 and was there while the team were training for the World Cup.

 

The story goes that Jairzinho was crossing balls into the box so the strikers could practice headers. He sailed one over that the strikers all missed and the ball arrived at the other wing close to this lads Dad's feet. He pinged it back in (first touch of course) with his left peg and straight onto Pele's head who buried it before running over and shaking his hand with a big grin on his face.

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My mate has a brilliant story (although it may be an apocryphal tale he swears it's true).

 

According to the legend - his Dad was a Wanderers ballboy when Brasil trained at Bromwich St in '66 and was there while the team were training for the World Cup.

 

The story goes that Jairzinho was crossing balls into the box so the strikers could practice headers. He sailed one over that the strikers all missed and the ball arrived at the other wing close to this lads Dad's feet. He pinged it back in (first touch of course) with his left peg and straight onto Pele's head who buried it before running over and shaking his hand with a big grin on his face.

I really, really want that to be true!
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I was in the away end at Newcastle and headed a Dean Holdsworth shot back onto the pitch.

I was in New Zealand and headed dean holdseorths shot at Wembley back on to the pitch

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I really, really want that to be true!

 

 

Cant believe Jarzhinio ever crossed a ball over the head of his intended target other than that I hope its true.

Edited by Mounts Kipper

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