Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[GreekStein]

at least you're in the loop about some stuff eh Cos?

Trust me I know a lot more than most! Some surprising stuff too.

Ricky Prew was a good addition to msn imo.

[tikay]

What standard snooker player were you?

Still play? Still watch?

You saw the news this week about the governing body getting chucked out and replaced by...Barry Hearn and team?

I predict a brighter future for snooker again from here with Mr Hearn in the drving seat again

No, & no. My eyes are way too bad to play now, & I pretty much don't watch TV these days. I actually enjoy the Poker commentary on TV these these days, though is was a monumental blunder to dump the best commentator of all, Clive Everton, who I knew quite well.

I knew Mike Watterson personally too, he lived in Chesterfield. Who? The guy that moved the World Finals to The Crucible, & engineered the early sponsorship deals, & got it BBC TV Coverage, which made so many people £illions. Snooker tuined against him, & he became reviled, which seemed so unfair. Mind you, he was a crook.

JNK had a snooker table at Wigwell Grange, his "place", & Mike, John & I spent many an evening up there with two other paragons of virtue - Robert Maxwell (he never played, but was DCFC Chairman at the time, & the Kirklands had always owned DCFC), & a guy called Stuart Webb, later of DCFC AND Derbyshire County Cricket Club. Now he was SOME sharp lad.....I think he got done for fraud eventually, google it, it'll be there somewhere.

[TightEnd]

Webb was done in the end yes.

I also spent a lot of time in Lionel Pickering's pub, half way between Ashbourne and Derby in a village off the A52...forget the name of it...with my then father in law.



Robert Maxwell stories please!

[kinboshi]

Positively the most embarrassing pic ever taken, but hey, warts & all is ok. Mid 1980's I think.

Did you drive a Cortina in those days? In this pic you have the air of a man who leaves work and drives his cortina home. Don't know why, you just do. 

I'm going with a Capri or a Chevette.

Yup - a Capri. White. Of course.

I had a Cortina, too - a 2.8 Ghia with all the trimmings. Beautiful bit of kit, but I went through 4 engines. And two driving licences.

A Capri!! I can't tell you how many bloody Capri rallies I went to in the 80's. Fields full of proud Capri owners, hot Saturday and Sunday afternoons looking at Capri's, driving in covoys of Capri's to the fields, driving in convoys of Capri's home again, ah good thing my youth was spent so wisely. 

Those were the carefree days. Where did they go?? 

Capris were THE thing Trace, as you know.

I had three. A standard 1.6 L, white, a 2 litre GL, black, & an absolute beaut, a 2.3 Ghia, white, with that sexy hump on the bonnet.
Some years earlier - this will be lost on most - I had an MGB GT. Now that was some machine, in the day.

PS - Hope you are feeling better.

Oh yes - you were definitely a Capri owner..........

Tracey!

It's not easy to make it transparent enough for Cos to work out, but hard enough that you lot miss the clues.

Sorry - I only remember the humps on the Capri... 

 

[tikay]

What standard snooker player were you?

Still play? Still watch?

You saw the news this week about the governing body getting chucked out and replaced by...Barry Hearn and team?

I predict a brighter future for snooker again from here with Mr Hearn in the drving seat again

Yes, & I'm glad you mentioned that, as I had a Meeting with Barry Hearn a few weeks back, an all-day jobbie, & it was quite THE most interesting day, & ticked a big box for me. Diary entry to follow, though extreme discretion will be needed.

[tikay]

What standard snooker player were you?

Still play? Still watch?

You saw the news this week about the governing body getting chucked out and replaced by...Barry Hearn and team?

I predict a brighter future for snooker again from here with Mr Hearn in the drving seat again

Missed that, sorry.

Bad to average, exactly as I was in Golf, & then poker. And TV I guess. But I got/get by in all of them.

I think I have picked up all of your points now Tighty, yes?.........

[TightEnd]

I think I have picked up all of your points now Tighty, yes?.........

Almost all. we'll let you off the missing one until Cos notices.

[tikay]

Long time lurker first time poster on this thread 

P.s. The Resist me if you can pic has made my day!

Why? Because I was so damn cool?

YUP

Tikay which snooker club is that picture at?

Lenton Abbey Stu - on the A52 Priory roundabout. It's a Petrol Station/Office Block now. Used to be a Cinema before it was a snooker Club.

[gatso]

Lenton Abbey Ralph - on the A52 Priory roundabout. It's a Petrol Station/Office Block now. Used to be a Cinema before it was a snooker Club.

norr, I fail. you did play in bexleyheath back in the day though didn't you? or did I make that up?

[tikay]

I think I have picked up all of your points now Tighty, yes?.........

Almost all. we'll let you off the missing one until Cos notices.

I'm safe then.

[tikay]

Lenton Abbey Ralph - on the A52 Priory roundabout. It's a Petrol Station/Office Block now. Used to be a Cinema before it was a snooker Club.

norr, I fail. you did play in bexleyheath back in the day though didn't you? or did I make that up?

Never played snooker in Bexleyheath, & I've tried very hard never to go anywhere near the dreadful place.

[GreekStein]

I think I have picked up all of your points now Tighty, yes?.........

Almost all. we'll let you off the missing one until Cos notices.

I'm safe then.

Yeah you are safe cos I looked and didn't spot it! I'm officially on proper lifetilt now.

[tikay]

Webb was done in the end yes.

I also spent a lot of time in Lionel Pickering's pub, half way between Ashbourne and Derby in a village off the A52...forget the name of it...with my then father in law.



Robert Maxwell stories please!

Lionel Pickering, good grief, another DCFC ship in the night......Straight as a die, Lionel. Ish.

RM stories - I never knew many, but got a few, but not today, must do some work. What a story RM was!

[StuartHopkin]

Long time lurker first time poster on this thread 

P.s. The Resist me if you can pic has made my day!

Why? Because I was so damn cool?

YUP

Tikay which snooker club is that picture at?

Lenton Abbey Stu - on the A52 Priory roundabout. It's a Petrol Station/Office Block now. Used to be a Cinema before it was a snooker Club.

It looked familiar from my childhood days, my father used to own the snooker hall in Sneinton.

[gatso]

Lenton Abbey Ralph - on the A52 Priory roundabout. It's a Petrol Station/Office Block now. Used to be a Cinema before it was a snooker Club.

norr, I fail. you did play in bexleyheath back in the day though didn't you? or did I make that up?

Never played snooker in Bexleyheath, & I've tried very hard never to go anywhere near the dreadful place.

I've sussed where I got the idea from. you played poker at spiders in bexleyheath, albeit a lot more recently than that photo.