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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Berlin. Advice.sought.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 511
Re: Berlin. Advice.sought.
Sachsenhausen, the Nazi concentration camp is a short journey by train in a town called Orianberg (sp). Also the TV tower, go to the top for a panoramic view of the city. Fantastic city is Berlin. Enjoy.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Russia Invades
- Replies: 10735
- Views: 821322
Re: Russia Invades
You could argue that NATO's expansion into Ukraine was the catalyst for that. They knew what they were doing when they poked the bear.CoolClaret wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:17 pmWho initiated the war with an invasion of a sovereign state?
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:12 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Taffy
- Replies: 155
- Views: 6664
Re: Taffy
Really sad news. I only saw him in his 3rd spell with us but he was one of my Dad's idols from the early 70"s and the reason my middle name is Leighton. God bless Taffy.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sky and EFL package
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2563
Re: Sky and EFL package
Without the sky money football dies in this country now unfortunately because 99% of all club's reley on it to survive I'm not so sure about that. Paying mediocre players 50k a week isn't surviving. Football is awash with greed and corruption. If it wasn't for TV money I'd like to think the game wo...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: One, maybe two game ban and fine for Kompany
- Replies: 9
- Views: 741
Re: One, maybe two game ban and fine for Kompany
Not as insulting as the penalty and sending off.....
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Oldest Stands/Grounds
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1117
Re: Oldest Stands/Grounds
The Johnny Haynes Stand at Craven Cottage was built in 1905.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3289
Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
Yes, you've made your point.Paul Waine wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:44 pmSome tables place Baltimore at 13th or 14th largest port in usa.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3289
Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
I stand corrected. I must have read it wrong.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3289
Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
Shut up you idiot. Your idea of intelligence is to just throw a little insult at anyone that provokes thought.Vegas Claret wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:11 pmfar more intelligent than your nonsense, it wasn't hard though.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3289
Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
Thanks for your intelligent input.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3289
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3289
Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
I am absolutely certain it will be human error or an issue with the ship. If it was anything nefarious, you'd think they wouldn't wait until 1:30am when the bridge is at its most quiet to purposely cause a collision. The bridge collapse has cut off the largest port in the USA. The economic conseque...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley divisive XI' would be a fun thing to do... Thread worthy!
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3910
Re: Burnley divisive XI' would be a fun thing to do... Thread worthy!
Sounds like most of our wingers now.claptrappers_union wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:18 amJean Louis Valois.
I couldn't stand the fella. He was a flair player who won over the crowd with cheeky step-overs and jinking runs, but he wouldn't deliver that final ball - However, he scored good goals.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Princess of Wales
- Replies: 82
- Views: 3873
Re: Princess of Wales
Exactly what I thought upon seeing the news - and that's why I have absolutely 0 time or tolerance for them these days. They've caused so much damage to society in recent years. Irrespective of one's thoughts on the Royal Family as an institution, no one wants to see anyone ill - and she seems like...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Leicester
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2629
Re: Leicester
Football at the highest level is a cesspit of corruption and cheating. These clubs need to be sent to the bottom of the pyramid. A 6 point deduction is nothing compared to the points amassed while cheating. In fact, clubs could factor in the possible points deduction and decide that cheating is econ...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:39 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: This is my worst season ever
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3067
Re: This is my worst season ever
Ahh, using the old Orient game as a barometer. Of course this isn't our worst ever season. But, after the highs of last season, I'd agree that this season has certainly been one of the most disappointing I can remember.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:11 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Independent Football Regulator
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1719
Re: Independent Football Regulator
I'm a bit sceptical about this. Sounds like a step towards football being state run.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets vs Bournemouth - Match Thread
- Replies: 472
- Views: 11336
Re: Clarets vs Bournemouth - Match Thread
Easy 3 points for Bournemouth. Sat deep, confident we couldn't hurt them. Safe in the knowledge we'd give them something on a counter attack.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clarets vs Bournemouth - Match Thread
- Replies: 472
- Views: 11336
Re: Clarets vs Bournemouth - Match Thread
Haven't watched it back yet. But O'shea had just nearly vaulted the hoarding into the seats. Who gave the throw taker the ball so quick? When O'shea was still off the field?
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: TRAFFORD (AGAIN)
- Replies: 721
- Views: 29019
Re: TRAFFORD (AGAIN)
I think some of accountability, not all but certainly some, has to come down to the receiving player. In the first half I think it was Berger, needed to step in a yard to receive the ball. They seem to wait for the ball to come to feet, which gives the opposing forward the time and momentum to win t...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Assisted dying
- Replies: 77
- Views: 2882
Re: Assisted dying
How do we all feel about Canada's approach? Where MAiD (Medically Asssisted in Dying) is being widened to include the mentally ill. Depression is a mental illness. You could argue that addiction is also a mental illness. Just let that sink in, what is actually being advocated. Esther Rancid is being...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Richard Lewis RIP
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2033
Re: Richard Lewis RIP
Never heard of him. There's many a time I read a RIP for somebody that is unfamiliar to me. I find it interesting to see who they were, what they did etc. "Never heard of him" is a crass, disrespectful thing to say. As if they're passing means nothing simply because they were never on your radar.
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Today’s thread
- Replies: 302
- Views: 10126
Re: Today’s thread
Good finish but the defender just let him shoot. No attempt to block at all. Farcical.
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Navalny has died
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3398
Re: Navalny has died
It's not too dissimilar to how the yanks treated Jeffrey Epstein though is it? We're all programmed to distrust the Russians while conveniently forgetting people like Julian Assange and Dr.David Kelly.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Stan the Man documentary
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3637
Re: Stan the Man documentary
Is he still watching my posts with his son and solicitor present? I was accused of saying Stan was a Sunday League Manager and the solicitor thought it could be classed as libellous. I then pointed out I had said no such thing, what I actually said was results such as 6-5, 4-7 and the like that we ...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The 1962 FA CUP FINAL.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1931
Re: The 1962 FA CUP FINAL.
Went in a car with my dad and my dad’s mate Ken and his son Alan. I was only ten but I’m sure we had to drive through Manchester City centre and then through other towns and cities. Alan, who was a little bit older than me, took supporting Burnley to a level I could never have reached. He played a ...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The earth
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3329
Re: The earth
If earth was shrunk to the size of a billiard ball, it would actually be smoother than a billiard ball.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: New ground
- Replies: 171
- Views: 9364
Re: New ground
We're going down, and talking about new stadiums/renovations. Some interesting ideas but pie in the sky for me.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Depeche Mode - AO arena
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1640
Re: Depeche Mode - AO arena
Maybe I shouldn’t have let a bad experience when I was dragged along by a mate to a DM gig 40 years ago cloud my judgement all these years! We were intensely tribal about music in those days as well as the football but I suppose those old musical spats seem a bit childish now. The football rivalry ...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Depeche Mode - AO arena
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1640
Re: Depeche Mode - AO arena
Gutted I missed this. Can't believe I've let this one pass me buy. Heard they were superb.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Depeche Mode - AO arena
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1640
Re: Depeche Mode - AO arena
How we could ever have gone from the Clash and Joy Division to the likes of this lot and Duran Duran in the space of a couple of years remains utterly baffling to me but each to their own of course. I think DM have offered far more than Duran Duran over the years. I wouldn't put them together in yo...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Obafemi becomes a Lion
- Replies: 103
- Views: 7906
Re: ARTICLE: Obafemi becomes a Lion
He was a bad signing.
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Pancreatic cancer
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2007
Re: Pancreatic cancer
Sorry to hear this sad news about your sister mate. As another poster stated, Wilson Johnson recovered with no medal intervention. I think the treatment for most cancers is invasive and if in this situation I think I'd use as much natural remedies as possible. Maybe CBD etc. I don't trust big pharma...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:57 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Under 16s season tickets
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1052
Re: Under 16s season tickets
You reach a certain age in your early teens were you wanna sit/stand with your mates. I'd travel to home games with my Dad and Grandad. I'd go on Longside with my pals and meet up with my Dad on the Beehole towards the end of the game when the gates opened. Happy days.
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Under 16s season tickets
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1052
Re: Under 16s season tickets
Ridiculous really. Lots of schoolmates have always gone to matches together. All part of the journey.
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Programme collectors
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2455
Re: Programme collectors
I had no idea there were 'pirate' programmes. Thanks for the info.
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Programme collectors
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2455
Re: Programme collectors
Great info. Thanks for all your replies.
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Programme collectors
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2455
Programme collectors
Hello
There are 1947 Cup Final programmes on ebay for circa £200. Is that a reasonable price and are they likely to be genuine and not repro"s. Thanks in advance.
There are 1947 Cup Final programmes on ebay for circa £200. Is that a reasonable price and are they likely to be genuine and not repro"s. Thanks in advance.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spurs v Burnley match thread
- Replies: 841
- Views: 64283
Spurs v Burnley match thread
Could someone post the line ups please?
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Accy Clarets to Villa - Sat 30th Dec ko 3pm
- Replies: 150
- Views: 7568
Re: Accy Clarets to Villa - Sat 30th Dec ko 3pm
Yes still available we are going down with accy clarets, if you still want it leave your number and will ring you when we get there or arrange a meet up at the turnstiles /ticket office Brilliant thanks mate. My number is 07709081413. Could you give usva text just so I've got your number too? Thank...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 4:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Accy Clarets to Villa - Sat 30th Dec ko 3pm
- Replies: 150
- Views: 7568
Re: Accy Clarets to Villa - Sat 30th Dec ko 3pm
I had 3 seats booked from Belvedere road, unfortunately I need to cancel one of them, the lad is too ill to travel, I don't know if you have a waiting list for cancellations, but if anyone wants a ticket as well we have a £30 adult one for sale Hi mate I'm looking for a ticket but I'm making my own...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: DCMS Committee tell football clubs to take fan drug use at games ‘more seriously’
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1681
Re: DCMS Committee tell football clubs to take fan drug use at games ‘more seriously’
Jakubclaret wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:02 pmSo many variables at play. I certainly don't see the far fetched scenario that drugs would be recklessly hidden & children & animals discovering them.
They wouldn't discover them if they were mine, that's for sure not that I partake in such activities.
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:05 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Accy Clarets to Villa - Sat 30th Dec ko 3pm
- Replies: 150
- Views: 7568
Re: Accy Clarets to Villa - Sat 30th Dec ko 3pm
We have previously picked up at Jnc 27 and 21 but whether we can do so for any particular game depends on other pickups etc. We occasionally have a booking from some lads in Morecambe who come to Accy to get on. Also, Central Lancs Clarets would be your closest pickup but unfortunately they don't r...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 1:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: DCMS Committee tell football clubs to take fan drug use at games ‘more seriously’
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1681
Re: DCMS Committee tell football clubs to take fan drug use at games ‘more seriously’
I would imagine they'd want to pick them up en route to the pub after the game. You don't buy drugs and leave them at home.Jakubclaret wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2023 1:46 pmWhy would you do that when you could just leave the gear at home, I've yet to stumble upon hidden drugs.
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 1:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: DCMS Committee tell football clubs to take fan drug use at games ‘more seriously’
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1681
Re: DCMS Committee tell football clubs to take fan drug use at games ‘more seriously’
They wouldn't even have to do that. There's nothing worse for a recreational drug user or an addict for their stuff to be confiscated. You just simply take whatever you find & later destroy it, as soon as people start losing their drugs you would see a reduction in carrying. Any proficient drug use...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 1:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Accy Clarets to Villa - Sat 30th Dec ko 3pm
- Replies: 150
- Views: 7568
Re: Accy Clarets to Villa - Sat 30th Dec ko 3pm
Hi Leisure. Just a general enquiry. Is it possible for you to pick someone up en route? For example if I came from blackpool is it possible to be picked up somewhere on or just off the M6? Thanks in advance
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 1:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: DCMS Committee tell football clubs to take fan drug use at games ‘more seriously’
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1681
Re: DCMS Committee tell football clubs to take fan drug use at games ‘more seriously’
Maybe the DCMS should take drug use in the Houses of Parliament more seriously. Absolute hypocrites.
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:24 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Blackpool Tower
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3063
Re: Blackpool Tower
A lady I know was up the tower at the time. She's an old flame of mine.
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 9:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The End of Roverrrrrrrsss?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3132
Re: The End of Roverrrrrrrsss?
Most kids now speak like inner city gangstas. I'm proud of my rhotic Lancashire accent. Its authentic if nowt else.
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 6:54 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Blackpool Tower
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3063
Re: Blackpool Tower
It's been a bizarre afternoon in Blackpool. Lots of conflicting information, even from eye witnesses.