Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

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Spurs use a matchbox cover for this.

[Colchester Kev]

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=32425.0

Sigh.....

Just read that thread again and saw the last post was by Brendan .... Made me smile to think that he will always be a part of this place

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[TightEnd]

what were you doing at Highbury?

[Colchester Kev]

This is a better picture of the inside

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http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=32425.0

Sigh.....

Just read that thread again and saw the last post was by Brendan .... Made me smile to think that he will always be a part of this place

Seconded. The day is getting better, it's lovely to be reminded of Brendan.

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Stop polluting that Cathedral with Spur's shit please Kev.

See that contraption bottom right? That's like a giant sun-ray lamp, makes the grass grow, the grass thinks it's summertime.

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what were you doing at Highbury?

I gotta do my Sky Poker PTP Session in 10 minutes, so that'll have to wait until after I have finished that, at about 1am I guess.

But briefly, it was to meet Charlie George, two Arsenal Execs, & A N Other, to discuss staging a series of poker Tourneys at The Emirates. I sort of got dragged into it somehow, & then, today, it all got complicated. It's a commercial thing really, with a Charity aspect, split betwen a Charity Charlie supports, & that "Children with Special Needs" home I visited in East Grinstead a while back.

Nightmare city. It was like getting blood out of a stone, teasing out the info they were working on. Eventually, it all emerged. The Tournies would be on Thursday nights, seat 400, have a £30k first prize, a £60k Prize Pool, start at 7.30pm & finish at Midnight. (Not my words, that was Plan A....). At which stage, my metaphorical bucket of cold water was tipped over everyone's head. "Forget it, & leave me out of it". Anyway, eventually, Plan Z emerged, & now we move on, & sort the detail. The neat thing was, when I stuck up all the reasons why it would not work, & the revised ideas (which will, but totally change everything), CG clicked immediately, & suddenly, he & I were onside, & he came up with all manner of good ideas, he grasped it all very quickly. But they were heading, err, down the wrong road. Very wrong road.

How do I get involved in these things? I must learn to say no, but then again, I'm totally insecure, & need to work, I just do. There's no pleasing me.

OK, PTP awaits.

[Kev B]

I'm a Stoke City supporter and in the 70/71 and 71/72 season we lost to Arsenal in the semi's of the FA cup. The later was the most painful as we were 2-1 up at Hillsborough, I was making my way out of the ground, tentatively and very happy (my father who got me the ticket without realising it, was at the wrong end and I was amongst the Arsenal fans for the whole match) . Anyway there was a loud cheer and the Arsenal fans were literally lifting me off my feet in the euphoria, because with 20 seconds left on the clock they were awarded a penalty. If if my memory serves me right was scored by Ian Storey. They won the replay but lost to Liverpool in the final.

I was 13 years old at the time and it still hurts to write this now. Not all was lost as in March the same year we lifted the league cup beating the favourties Chelsea 2-1.

Arsenal, Chelsea, Leeds and Liverpool had amazing teams then but no one liked coming to the Victoria ground.

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I bet Karabiner can name every player in that Charlie George pic. Come on Ralph, show us your Arsenal geekiness.

What price Karabiner has a Charlie George Egg-Cup?

sadly as a definite non arsenal fan reckon i recognise Frank McLintock and John Radford ?

[Karabiner]

He still works for the @rse on the hospitality team I believe,  he wasnt as good as Liam Brady though.

I think he'd just scored the winner v liverpoo in the cup final to secure us the double in that pic.

I have to say that Charlie was a totally different kind of player to Liam Brady but of the same calibre imo.

He was easily my favourite player in that team, I went up to an away game v Man City in the 6th round of the cup that season and Charlie scored the only goal, a solo effort after getting the ball just inside the half-way line which meant that he was onside. I remember him glancing across to the linesman just in front of me, who waved his flag in that "you're onside" way, before going on to score.

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He still works for the @rse on the hospitality team I believe,  he wasnt as good as Liam Brady though.

I think he'd just scored the winner v liverpoo in the cup final to secure us the double in that pic.

I have to say that Charlie was a totally different kind of player to Liam Brady but of the same calibre imo.

He was easily my favourite player in that team, I went up to an away game v Man City in the 6th round of the cup that season and Charlie scored the only goal, a solo effort after getting the ball just inside the half-way line which meant that he was onside. I remember him glancing across to the linesman just in front of me, who waved his flag in that "you're onside" way, before going on to score.

Odd you should say that Ralph.

He actually said that the first time he did that "lay-down" celebration was in that very match, at Man City, but everyone remembers it from the famous picture in the Cup Final a few games later.

[Longy]

...and continuing with the football theme, I don't imagine many of you remember Charlie George. Legend, fact.

He was as famous as Beckham, as outrageous as Georgie Best, this was in the 70's, very different times, & he was way ahead of his era, very controversial.

The pic of him laying on the floor in celebration is one of THE most memorable footie pics of the era, it was not done then, this was pre-Gazza by 20 years.

He was A-List+. Even the hair - long hair, disgusting eh?

I think that is Frank McLintock in the background.

[TightEnd]

George Armstrong, Frank McLintock, Sammy Nelson, John Radford I believe and Charlie on the floor

[TightEnd]

"Premier League champions Arsenal announced a sponsorship deal with Emirates airline worth a potential 100 million pounds ($178.2 million) on Tuesday, the biggest in English football history.

The London club's new 60,000-seat stadium, due to open in 2006, will be known as the Emirates Stadium and the Dubai-based airline will also sponsor the team's shirts for eight years starting from 2006."