a4e - wife and I were there in April 1982

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CW - yes, I spent a little while there and also in Darwin just before embarking on the Asia overland bit of my trip… So incredibly humid…

Remember being in Brisbane watching torrential rain fall then half an hour later the streets were dry very bizarre tropical weather

nervo - the attenuation tanks must be huge…. I bet that’s not the only game that’ll be delayed because of thunderstorms - anyone who’s ever been to America in the summer (especially Florida and other southern states) will almost certainly have experienced the convectional rainfall, it can be spectacular. I recall being in Bali for a while in 1982, and every day at around 2pm the shops/stalls would all close up just before a torrential 1 hour or so long downpour, after which they’d all open up again whilst the gutters took all of the surface water away within minutes. Amazing days - backpacking across south east Asia for a few months with no mobile phone or satnav or anything - just paper tickets and an occasional pay phone…

How very Spursy: [Link]

Nervo - Adrian Durham on Talksport said the yanks had made drainage great again.

To be fair, that stadium had amazing drainage, Laurence.

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Hash, you should invite my brother round. Last time he looked after my cat when I was away pursuing the high life, there were loads of £1 coins in my sofa, presumably after he adopted a horizontal position. Went toward my next trip

Nervo - think that is excellent where it rarely rains. Ooops and haha. Did you see the pictures of the pitch with lying water?

Chips everywhere

But a signing (however, awful) is more likely

Nervo we need Harry Pell to be launching a few balls in that direction

Lol at the corner tables in the England match last night. [Link]

Just checked behind my sofa. All I saw was dust.

Apparently that ghettoblaster story isn’t true either 6mdm

Lots of things would be nice SB. It would be nice if I found a million pounds behind my sofa for example.

It would be nice to see a piece of inward transfer news today or tomorrow

There are so many Brian Clough stories that people will still be talking about him in 100 years. Mark Crossley, the former Forest keeper, does a very good impersonation of him as part of his after dinner circuit career. Amongst many, one is about WFC and what he did to the ghettoblaster when it got too much for him [Link]

No apologies, I absolutely loved The Damned United. Michael Sheen was fantastic as always. I really don't care that it was fiction. It was a great film.

Funny how Billy Edwards and Dave Donaldson always seem to be next to each other. The recently deceased Richard Teale is also in these WFC pictures (for those who didn't know who he was or what he looked like), who also had a stint at Walton and Hersham before moving to QPR.

I spotted Owen Harris too. All of them appear in the WFC team photos for the 1977-1978 season (my first and one I can recall more detail about than the subsequent 48) [Link] [Link]

Owen Harris died on 12 December 2025.

$6MDM - a very interesting piece on Walton & Hersham. In the dressing room picture where they are toasting the win with Allen Batsford front left, in the back row on the left next to Dave Donaldson is future WFC physio (the pint sized) Owen Harris.