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Mariner56
February 9, 2022, 5:00pm
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When I was a lad I sat behind Karen Brady in the upper findus when she came as CEO of Birmingham City, she was a great laff and we had a bit of banter throughout the game, tried for 90 mins to get a date but she was having none of it  


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Quoted from mike502


A contemporary press account indicates that Kissinger attending BP is an urban myth:

Sunday Telegraph, 25/4/1976
Crosland, Kissinger Eat in the Mess

Even by the standards of modern jet-age diplomacy it was an extraordinary way of having breakfast.

Due to Mr. Anthony Crosland's "crucial constituency engagements in Grimsby" the new Foreign Secretary had bacon and eggs with more than 100 assorted diplomats, secret servicemen, international journalists and Dr. Henry Kissinger at an R.A.F. Officers Mess in the heart of rural Lincolnshire.

To attend this "working breakfast," Dr. Kissinger had to rise from his bed at Claridge's after about five hours sleep, drive to Heathrow and fly more than 100 miles up to RAF Waddington in his American Government 707.

Dragged along with him were Mrs. Anne Armstrong, the American Ambassador, a bevy of State Department diplomats. the American Press Corps and enough armed bodyguards to stop a small revolution. Within 2 1/2 hours. Dr. Kissinger and his entourage were airborne again, winging their way to Nairobi at the start of a gruelling two-week tour of seven African capitals aimed at averting a full scale war in Rhodesia.

And what were these " crucial " engagements ot Mr. Crosland? On Friday night he attended a committee meeting of Grimsby Constituency Labour party and presented some trophies at a leisure conference held at Cleethorpes by the Humberside County Council.

Then, yesterday, after waving Dr. Kissinger goodbye, he held a routine constituents' surgery and went on to watch Grimsby Town play Gillingham in a battle against relegation to the Fourth Division.


Thanks for posting this. I've never seen it.
Two things spring to mind
1. The timing. No time for a meeting and the match
2. The security. Sure someone would have noticed such a large security presence but equally surely the chances of any security set up sanctioning a visit to an untested large venue where, in the main stand, the chance of Kissinger being assaulted by stray Werthers presented a huge security risk are next to none.


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A young Ray Houghton, later of Liverpool and the Republic of Ireland fame, playing for Fulham and absolutely destroying us.

Who was that midfielder for Portsmouth who was on another level to everyone else. A Czech or Yugoslav or Croation or some such International player.

Was sat with Howard Wilkinson at a reserve game his son was playing in. Seen quite a few famous faces at reserve games, either scouting or watching family members play.

Danny Rose in the Osmond watching his brother play.
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Prosinecki for Pompey


‘I just f*cking threw myself at it’

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Prosinecki for Pompey


I think you'll find it was actually Albert Steptoe.
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Prosinecki for Pompey


what a superb player he was. absolutely ran the show and destroyed us at Fratton Park
Beat individual performance i ever saw along with Peter Barnes running us ragged at WBA in the FA Cup
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Quoted from forza ivano


what a superb player he was. absolutely ran the show and destroyed us at Fratton Park
Beat individual performance i ever saw along with Peter Barnes running us ragged at WBA in the FA Cup


That away game he was unplayable. They had a great team if I remember rightly with a young Peter crouch up front.

The day was roasting on the seats in the open corner. Got sun burnt in the process


Rose is on fire

And your scotch eggs are fu(king vile
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That away game he was unplayable. They had a great team if I remember rightly with a young Peter crouch up front.

The day was roasting on the seats in the open corner. Got sun burnt in the process


Didn't we lose 4-2 and we may have finished with 10? Mike Jeffrey scored too. You're right it was boiling. I think the other bloke up front for them was quite useful too, can't remember who it was though.
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