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I’ve always stuck up for DW but the fact he his asking supporters of a town deep in mining history to have a minutes silence for the butcher of the industry is a insult
Makes me so damned mad, I am aabsolutely sick of the media hate for a Club who do everything right.
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So spend beyond your means, buy useless priceless players…cheat, abuse referee’s, spout rubbish. Darlings of MOD, the Mail, Sky sports.However we are probably the best footballing side in the Prem, have a manager and staff who only want the best, an elequent manager, who’s first language is not ours but speaks a 100% better than those who are indigenous to these shores.
Yet they want to belittle and continually want to see us relegated..why?
Because we have no history. We didn’t win the cup when they still used a laced ball. We didn’t have crowds of 60,000 back in 1930, when they all smoked Woodbines or Silver Service. We’ve never had a legendary Jock manager who smoked a pipe and made bold statements. We’ve never had top class footballing legends called Stan or Tommy playing for us. I could go on.
Basically, we are in the process of MAKING history. If you look at other North West clubs, I think I’m right on saying that Bury haven’t done much since they won the cup twice in the first few years of the 1900’s. Nobody is alive to remember.
Preston were last finalists in 1964, I think. They lost to West Ham. They last won the cup in….oh lets see….was it 1934 or 1938? (I know George Mutch scored the winner from the spot)••
Bolton were last in a final in 1958, when they beat a patched up United side (after Munich) two nil.
Last time Blackpool played in a final, Stan Matthews was man of the match! Shows how long ago it was. (1953)
Burnley were beaten finalists in 1961. (by spurs)
Blackburn, including Mr Whelan, were beaten finalists in 1960.All these ‘historic’ clubs have all had their big moments, but its fair to say that there will not be many people around to actually remember them. They were back in the days of Pathe news black and white newsreels.
WE are currently making history;
•• honestly didn’t google any of that. I know some mad football stuff, considering I’m only 36![/quote]
You’re wrong, west ham last won the cup in 66, thought you’d have remembered that one ;)[/quote]
Nope. 1980 actually. They beat Arsenal. Everton won it in 66. Beat sheff wed 3-2.[/quote]
I think he’s on about the old adage that West Haaaaammmm won the world cup inn 66 :P
This is what I hate about football. We should all be able to go in the same pubs.In 2011 for example, I drank with a Saints, Wire, Leeds and Widnes fan before the game
Yes but eggmon we are talking Millwall here not a rugby match against friends excluding the mighty wire they have some naughty boys i believe
I would have Phil Neville at our club anyday, in what capacity is a different topic. The lad knows the game inside out and upside down. Phil is a proper football man.Imagine someone of his calibre and standing working in the academy whilst he gains expierience to become an integral part of the management team.I dont think for one moment he would come to Wigan but whwerever he does go to, that club will be getting an absolute dedicated proffesional who is nailed on to be successful once he hangs his boots up.the only reason I said that was if we qualified for Europe he can play in a few positions on both sides of the field and as you say working with the youngsters with all that he has achieved in football can only be a good thing
Note: My father was a miner, as was his father and grandfather but he would have been glad to see the mines closed for good. Thanks to his guidance I obtained a job with a better life expectancy, as did my own son. Coal mines belonged to a bygone time and Margaret Thatcher was right to close them even if her motives were dubious.
Maybe that is why the likes of Germany are thriving due to keeping there heavy industries to drag them out of the global banking fook up
Bickershaw Colliery at it’s height had 1700 emplyees that came through out the area as far as St Helens and Bowton when it closed in 1992 the number had diminshed a lot down to around 700/800 around that pit was a small community ,You had a few pubs a butchers newsagent post office working mens clubs ,labour clubs you get the picture
Not only Bickershaw but Leigh and Golborne where totally decimated when the pit shut down have a ride through Golborne town center now the place has seen better times full of takeaway places ,betting shops and ASDA
there has been no money thrown into Golborne since that pit shut ,Parsonage is now a retail park if you can call ASDA and Sainsburys a retail park and Bickershaw is just getting investment after 22 years since that pit shut
You used to know your next door neighbours in them times you felt part of the community not now things just arn’t the same
1. She supported the retention of capital punishment
2. She destroyed the country’s manufacturing industry
3. She voted against the relaxation of divorce laws
4. She abolished free milk for schoolchildren
5. She supported more freedom for business (and look how that turned out)
6. She gained support from the National Front in the 1979 election by pandering to the fears of immigration
7. She gerrymandered local authorities by forcing through council house sales, at the same time preventing councils from spending the money they got for selling houses on building new houses (spending on social housing dropped by 67% in her premiership)
8. She was responsible for 3.6 million unemployed – the highest figure and the highest proportion of the workforce in history and three times the previous government. Massaging of the figures means that the figure was closer to 5 million
9. She ignored intelligence about Argentinian preparations for the invasion of the Falkland Islands and scrapped the only Royal Navy presence in the islands
10. The poll tax
11. She presided over the closure of 150 coal mines; we are now crippled by the cost of energy, having to import expensive coal from abroad
12. She compared her “fight” against the miners to the Falklands War
13. She privatised state monopolies and created the corporate greed culture that we’ve been railing against for the last 5 years
14. She introduced the gradual privatisation of the NHS
15. She introduced financial deregulation in a way that turned city institutions into avaricious money pits
16. She pioneered the unfailing adoration and unquestioning support of the USA
17. She allowed the US to place nuclear missiles on UK soil, under US control
18. Section 28
19. She opposed anti-apartheid sanctions against South Africa and described Nelson Mandela as “that grubby little terrorist”
20. She support the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and sent the SAS to train their soldiers
21. She allowed the US to bomb Libya in 1986, against the wishes of more than 2/3 of the population
22. She opposed the reunification of Germany
23. She invented Quangos
24. She increased VAT from 8% to 17.5%
25. She had the lowest approval rating of any post-war Prime Minister
26. Her post-PM job? Consultant to Philip Morris tobacco at $250,000 a year, plus $50,000 per speech
27. The Al Yamamah contract
28. She opposed the indictment of Chile’s General Pinochet
29. Social unrest under her leadership was higher than at any time since the General Strike
30. She presided over interest rates increasing to 15%
31. BSE
32. She presided over 2 million manufacturing job losses in the 79-81 recession
33. She opposed the inclusion of Eire in the Northern Ireland peace process
34. She supported sanctions-busting arms deals with South Africa
35. Cecil Parkinson, Alan Clark, David Mellor, Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitkin
36. Crime rates doubled under Thatcher
37. Black Wednesday – Britain withdraws from the ERM and the pound is devalued. Cost to Britain – £3.5 billion; profit for George Soros – £1 billion
38. Poverty doubled while she opposed a minimum wage
39. She privatised public services, claiming at the time it would increase public ownership. Most are now owned either by foreign governments (EDF) or major investment houses. The profits don’t now accrue to the taxpayer, but to foreign or institutional shareholders.
40. She cut 75% of funding to museums, galleries and other sources of education
41. In the Thatcher years the top 10% of earners received almost 50% of the tax remissions
42. 21.9% inflationApart from that what did Thacher do for Britain ?
I think mr Neville would be an ideal addition to the squad his through ball to macca at goodison was sublime
Seriously how about a punt on him should we get in Europe ?
I assumed that you got a suspension after six bookings. Does anyone know better?
Bookings may be written off in the later rounds of some cup competitions. But I’m sure that they aren’t in the League and the FA Cup. Suspensions can be carried over to the next season.
Yellow cards are wiped clear at the end of March, I think and are not carried over to next season. Not sure of the exact date, but I don’t think you can get a ban now this season based on the totting up process.[/quote]
Unless it’s a sreight red of course
I don’t think suspensions are carried over to the next season might be wrong on that but I am sure that after a certain point of the season yellow cards are wiped off
I thought the referee made a mistake when he booked McCarthy on Sunday. That’s a shame because it takes him up to five, and he could well face a suspension before the end of the season.
Is it ten cards then a ban although I thought that all cards are scrapped after a certain point in the season
Anyway, they won’t be stupid enough to do it.
Oh I don’t know. We are talking about the FA here![/quote]
No doubt they will insist :evil:
three things i guess
travel , cost . millwallagree mate, just wish the club would announce a number so i can stop posting shitty threads haha[/quote]
another clue
