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Odd random stuff

Could easily have been us - not the hooligan bit, the Phoenix club bit.

Fair play to Robbie Savage for getting involved with rebuilding Macc.

"Before the game, I had been sweeping the pitch, vacuuming rubber particles from the white lines, digging out the holes for the corner flags, and cleaning glasses in the bar.
That may not sound like a director of football’s normal beat, but that is what we do at a non-League club.
There is no room for egos, airs and graces – you get on with the day-to-day tasks that probably get taken for granted higher up the pyramid.
But I never expected to finish the day by wading into a sell-out crowd to separate grown men behaving like idiots."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/i-waded-sell-out-crowd-24907100
 
Today I'm pleased to share my Birthday with Callum Lang he's 23:toot:
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I'm 71 :rolleyes:
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Retro Football:
Playing in the Snow, Orange Balls, Wooden Football Rattles.

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Leeds at White Hart Lane on 14 February 1970.
 
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Happy birthday zakky fitting for you to be mentioned on this thread
Sorry i read the thread name wrong i thought it said old random stuff
 
WE HAVE SOME VERY CLEVER POSTERS ON HERE
THIS SHOULD TEST YOUR ABILITIES.
I'D WANT FREE ST FOR LIFE FOR DOING THIS



2 hours ago Vacancy | Head of Commercial

By @LaticsOfficial

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