Nice to see you pop your head up Guy - hope you're on the mend. The sight of
you careering through Amsterdam on your bike with crutches stowed on board
filled me with dread :-(
We had hoped to be over in April but decided on London instead. Am sure it
won't be long before we're back though.
Cheers
John
PS Football is now officially unmentionable until Aug 1!!!!!
From: Guy Thornton <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, 1 May 2017, 13:21
Subject: Re: [LU] Norwich
Hello Thirkers, welcome back and good to hear from you.
Fear not, I at least am still here as are some of the other names you mention.
Admittedly I have been
very quiet posting wise for a while. Last couple of years been something of an
annus horribilis with too
much to much time spent in hospital, ongoing from events from earlier accidents
including an operation
on my wrist back in August 2015 which should have been done and dusted in six
weeks and instead it's
eighteen months and four operations later. Add to that a problem discovered
with my eyes last year.
Looked bad and was having vision problems but, touch wood, things have now been
stabilized.
Hopefully things are improving and on the up and like Leeds be ready next
season for improved
performance and a big push.
guy
On 30 Apr 2017 at 13:24, Graham Thirkill wrote:
Dave Nattan, thanks for your report on the Norwich game. I thoroughly enjoyed
it.
Just before I came back to the list, I asked Betty what the list was like these
days,
Auntie Betty told me you did great reports on the games. Thanks very much Dave,
Betty is quite right, you do. Betty didn´t say it was more quiet than it used
to be
The list is far different from the one I remember, Stotty, Dellow, Guy
Thornton, Wiggy,
Niggy, Rogere, Jim Moran, Martin Dexter, Accrington Stanley Lad, Martin Browne,
Caddy, Janes London, Verner, Dave Diowden, where are they now ?. The list
meets,
pre-game was usually in The Brittania, (now closed) There used to be a regular
20 or
more listers in there, it was a hoot. We also used Peter Lorimer´s boozer, we
used to
meet my pal Harold Williams with John Charles. The away list meets were also
super
in different pubs all over the country. Maybe over the years, these lads of got
fed up
with Bates´y and the club in general. It´s eighteen years ago, since I first
joined the list
so a few of the older guys may have passed away, I know Grandpa Sykes in Canada
did. There were quite a few guys who wrote very comical stuff, it was very
entertaining
at the time and a bloody good laugh. Betty used to write a very funny story or
two and
so did Stotty. I travelled all over Europe with some of these guys, we lived
the dream
with O´leary and Ridsdale, it was fantastic, visiting the stadiums and Cities
I´d never
been to before, with good close pals. From the flight out, to the flight back,
these
trips were superb, these pals will always be remembered as long as I live. The
last
one I remember was with Verner and we stayed in Malaga for a few days as I
remember, I think this was the last game we played in Europe. I will tell you a
story,
one day, about me and Martyn Brown with Betty in Barcelona, Betty somehow had
to walk up a few flights of stairs because someone sabotaged the lift in the
place we
were staying. It only held two passengers, Martyn and myself went up in the
lift first.
For some reason Betty couldn´t get the lift to return back to get him up to
join us........
shame......the lift door had been left open so poor old Betty had to trudge and
struggle up three or four flights of stairs after a night on the town, on his
own.
He was quite animated when he eventually joined Martyn and my self and saw the
lift door had been left open.....on purpose......??????????......of course
not?????
Hope you all have a great Bank Holiday.
Cheers and Beers,
Thirkers\098/
PS There is also a story referring to Jon Abbot and a huge soft toy???? on the
the streets of Barceloa in the early hours after a football match, and another
about
Stotty conning me to have a removable tattoo on my head and then he would also
have
one. I did, he bottled out, it was pouring with raining all so the paint/ink
was running
everywhere. Thanks Stotty who I remember was wetting himself about the con......
Another memorable occasion was my 60th birthday, seventeen years ago......(how
time flies-by)... at my house. There was a load of friends from the list in
attendance
and what a night that was. There were bodies in every room of the house that
slept over.
There was one guy SI.c, remember him.....He was so sick my wife said put
him in the utility room. An our two later, sick was appearing from under the
utility
room door, His name Si.c was immediately change to Sick.
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