Hi chaps
Just wrote my weekly ESPN piece, for the eyes of the waiting world (ha ha), and thought I'd give Town their annual plug. We even got a piccy of the Park in this time (scroll down to end of article).
Hope the big freeze unfreezeth. Flying from Spain, then up from Canterbury on NYDay to see the game.
Best
from Phil Ball
Letters Ed responds: Just read the SNOS, Phil. They are very reliable about these things. Don't buy a ticket in advance, though.
Birtles reviewed
The official site, I think it was, promised us that Garry Birtles's recent autobiography, My magic carpet ride, has "a substantial section" on his time in Cleethorpes.
It depends on the definition of substantial, but unless six and a half pages (plus a throwaway sentence about Scott McGarvey trying to get off with a Nolan sister) meets yours, and if your interests in Birtles are parochial, keep your money in your pocket. Having said that, they are a good six and a half pages, revealing the antagonistic relationship between Mark Lever and Alan Buckley, and the European Cup Winner's esteem for the workrate of Shaun Cunnington and John Cockerill, not to mention the extent of the post-promotion party.
Naturally, any book written by someone who played for Brian Clough is going to be readable, and Birtles writes with deep-seated honesty, so there are other things to recommend it, although it has to be said the standard of (ghost) writing does suggest it was rushed out for the Christmas market.
from Bill Partridge
Splash screen
How come AB(mkIII) didn't make it onto the screen?
from Mike
Letters Ed responds: Because we didn't want to reopen that particular debate, maybe?
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