The Round Ball Game

[BBMmk2]

I just hope its in the minority Anna.

[John Wright]

Yikes! Tamworth have drawn EVERTON away.

Son-in-law and rest of the team are well-pleased, a trip to Everton! Probably get 15-20,000 in the crowd, and it'll be live on TV!

Losing 2-0 was quite respectable for non-league Tamworth so on the whole fans and team were pleased with the day at Goodison Park. Son-in-law spent much of the game marking Phil Neville who played wing-midfield rather than defense, for a brief period looked like (the rest of the team) headless chicken but then got the pace of the game and made some tackles and some good passes. Downside - he got stamped on by Felaini (that VERY tall Moroccan-Belgian with the afro) but ref ignored incident.

Some much-needed cash for the team.

[Lord Mersey]

Anna
The young man concerned was reduced to tears by the apparently racist comment from one individual in the crowd. This individual has been charged by Merseyside Police and I believe is currently on bail awaiting the due process of law. I have had a season ticket at Anfield for over 40 years and do not regard Liverpool as a racist atmosphere.

Unfortunately you cannot legislate for a complete moron in a crowd of nearly 45,000 people.

[BBMmk2]

Ah, Lord Mersey! A belated welcome to the boards! A Liverpool supporter or something else? :)

Back to the league this weekend, thank goodness!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... not sure that Hughes will spark QPR ... a club that always looks out of its depth in the top division ....[naked prejudice really, not liked them since childhood]

[John Skelton]

... not sure that Hughes will spark QPR ... a club that always looks out of its depth in the top division ....[naked prejudice really, not liked them since childhood]

(They had a very good side in the 1970s, though).

http://www.fulhamfc.com/Club/News/NewsArticles/2011/October/FFCStatement.aspx

Hope Hughes takes QPR down. Never liked them.

[Parry1912]

... not sure that Hughes will spark QPR ... a club that always looks out of its depth in the top division ....[naked prejudice really, not liked them since childhood]

Hope Hughes takes QPR down. Never liked them.

A plague on both your houses.

[John Skelton]

A plague on both your houses.

It comes from growing up in Fulham, then Hammersmith and Putney and watching Fulham drop in the 70s as QPR climbed (and let us know about it). And the Fulham Park Rangers business left a bad taste. And Mark Hughes and his ambition and ...

... erm, good luck for the rest of the season .

[Lord Mersey]

Something Else

BBM
Yes a Liverpool supporter who has also been going to the RLPO for nearly 35 years. I actually attend more concerts than matches!
With Vasily Petrenko a very happy concert goer. If only he could play as a centre forward.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

er yes parry1912 ... apologies but never could like QPR .... nor the Arsenal come to that .....

[eighthobstruction]

QPR....Bowles !!!

[teamsaint]

qPR provided the only England captain I have ever spoken to. (Gerry Francis,) so they are OK by me !!

Does make me laugh , though , when clubs who have been in nowhere obscurity for decades get into the PL and start behaving with a great deal of undue self esteem !!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Bowles spent just over seven years at QPR, playing a central role in arguably the club's greatest ever team, that which finished as league runners-up in 1975–76 under Dave Sexton. A 2004 fans poll saw him voted the club's all-time greatest player. In 1979, Bowles fell out with QPR's new manager, Tommy Docherty. Bowles responded to Docherty's plea of "You can trust me, Stan" with "I'd rather trust my chickens with Colonel Sanders". Docherty made Bowles train with the reserves for nearly 6 months, before selling Bowles to Nottingham Forest in December 1979. Despite the fallout between Docherty and Bowles, Docherty continued to play Bowles for QPR right up until he was sold to Forest.

At Nottingham Forest, Bowles failed to settle under the management of Brian Clough and he ruled himself out of the 1980 European Cup Final after Clough refused to allow Bowles to play in John Robertson's testimonial. Bowles was then sold to Leyton Orient for £100,000. He joined Brentford the following year and remained at the club until his retirement in 1984. Post-retirement, he continued to play at non-league level for Epping Town.

His 1996 autobiography revealed the extent of his drinking, womanizing and gambling during his playing days, and also helped to secure a role as a pundit on Sky Sports, where he again replaced Rodney Marsh.

Rodney Marsh was one of a generation of highly talented "maverick" players that emerged in English football during the 1960s and 1970s and never quite fulfilled his potential. He began his career with Fulham, for whom he made his debut in 1963, but his career there was hampered by injuries – a collision with a goal post and an opposing defender cost him the hearing in his left ear – and a dispute with manager Vic Buckingham, which ultimately saw him move across West London to join Queens Park Rangers, then in the Third Division, for £15,000 in March 1966. His first full season with Rangers was his most successful. He scored 44 goals in 53 games as the club became Third Division champions and also won the League Cup, coming back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 in the final, with Marsh scoring the equaliser. The following year, QPR were promoted again to reach the First Division.

In 1972, he was signed for Manchester City by Malcolm Allison for a then club record £200,000. Upon signing Marsh (in March of that year), City were four points clear at the top of the table but by the end of the season had slipped to 4th. Marsh himself has since claimed that it was he who cost the club the league title that year, with his style simply not suiting that of the team. He nevertheless became one of City's star players, scoring 19 goals in 1972-73 and often dazzling the crowd with his skills. Marsh led the club to a League Cup final in 1974, though this time he was on the losing side as City were beaten by Wolverhampton Wanderers. He left the club shortly into the 1975-76 season after disagreements with new manager Tony Book.

legends in their lifetimes eh .....

[Paul Sherratt]

>>With Vasily Petrenko a very happy concert goer. If only he could play as a centre forward.

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/ldp2/feb2011/8/6/principal-conductor-of-the-rlpo-vasily-petrenko-at-birkenhead-school-850930340.jpg

Caption competition ?

[teamsaint]

"I told him, Just try to get some Baton it "