Recent content by Merthyr Imp

Having recently had a letter from Sky advising me of a free upgrade from Sky+HD to Sky Q I've just been researching whether to bother or not, and as far as I can make out you DO need to have a Sky Q box to get Sky Sports+. That may not be definite though.

Would have been no problem for this chap: https://ratetherefremembers.wordpress.com/2015/05/17/dr-dennis-brady-gloucester-1967/

Jefferson Louis must be due for a move - and he's a lot younger than those other two.

Well, it's a World War 1 tank, but to identify whether that actual one was built in Lincoln (only a proportion were) would take a longer Internet search than I have time for.

It never did Colin Murphy's teams any harm.

Nobody complained when Andy Graver was brought back to the club - which happened twice. I could also cite Percy Freeman and Glenn Cockerill. There could be an endless debate about various examples which did and didn't work out but it would probably be off topic.

That's what I mean.

An early example of a phoenix club.

It will actually equal their highest ever level. In the days before National League North was invented they were in the Northern Premier League for many seasons when it was one level below the Conference (which they have never been members of).

Any thanks are really due to Donald & Ian Nannestad.

Also from a selfish, easiest to travel to viewpoint - come on the Alex!

A quick look at the latest edition of the Nannestad's book - page 95 - shows the longest unbeaten away run in the Football League is 12 matches from 11 March to 4 October 1980. Further information gleaned from the same source is that it was made up of 5 wins and 7 draws...

Not many from Coventry either (to be fair they were all in the stand on the right).

And we haven't beaten them since 1911, although we did our best in the 1969 cup tie when - as Ron Gray put it - "our boys certainly scared the pants off them."

From the EFL Handbook: 'The Home Club may water the pitch and/or carry out any remedial or repair work to the pitch at half time provided that it gives reasonable notice to the referee and the other Club that it intends to do so and that any such watering and/or remedial or repair work is...