No idea when I joined but it was in the 90s - daughter now 20 - no real interest in Leeds but always smart enough to ask how they did each week
1st abiding memory of this list was meeting a fellow member by chance (Martyn Stead) at some conference we both attended in Boston and us ending up in an Applebys watching a Leeds game (has to have been a European cup game under O’Leary ) Fun times Shane On Thu 23 Aug 2018 at 01:26, Neil Hackett <[email protected]> wrote: > Joined around 1999. > > Now have a 12 year old boy. I tried him at football but he prefers rugby, > and is a solid scrum half. No real interest in Leeds. > > And an 11 year old girl. A good centre mid but she much prefers, and does > better at (ice hockey). > My God we are all old. > > Just to aggravate you all... > > I watched the second half of the Swansea game and thought we did well. We > forced them into countless turnovers. That is how you score against an > organized team. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Aug 22, 2018, at 9:40 AM, Øystein Bjøndal Lund <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Is it really that long time ago? > > > > Put in other words; am I really that old? > > > > Unfortunately, yes. It also means we have been out of the top flight for > a man-age or something … > > > > > > > > I joined the list “a few days” (it must have been) after the t-shirt… at > the time of vax.ox something. My company had the email system on a > mainframe the time as well, and how I found the list I have no idea. > > > > Some of the highlights include walking around studying the Yorkshire > house architecture with Betty, on our way to a Leeds ladies game, mind. We > eventually got there, as well, to see some of it. > > > > And there were this ascii map (look it up!) to go from Derby train > station to my first ever list meet at Brunswick (how come I still remember > these things, my oldest son was transported in a buggy - was seated on my > lap - and at Elland Road some days later he was not allowed to the lap, or > at lest had to buy a seat for him, that he could not use, was too little…) > > > > There are a plenty full of more highlights, and even more memories… > > > > This son, Torleif, came on a tour with me to see us vs Luton together > with 27 136 others, March 2007, he was then 11… Meaning we were already on > our way down at the time. Also meaning he is now 22, and couldn’t care less > about football nor Leeds United. He is only member of the LUSC of > Scandinavia because I pay, and did in all these years… > > > > His 3 years younger brother, is also still a LUSCOS member for the same > reason, but he even never wanted to come over with me to attend a game (!)… > > > > Neither of them are interested in any footy side, not in any footy > competition, etc. I wonder where did I go wrong? (At least they don’t > support the foe) > > > > I have been over from time to time, but not as frequent as from 1995 and > the more or less 10 next years… > > > > Back to Lurk mode > > > > Øystein > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leedslist mailing list > > Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > > > Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ > > > > RIP Jimmy WAC-COE > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ > > RIP Jimmy WAC-COE > -- Shane Statistics are like a lamp-post to a drunken man - more for leaning on than illumination _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ RIP Jimmy WAC-COE
