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Post by frankfurt gull on Aug 15, 2009 6:53:50 GMT
Here´s a tester for all Coronation Street fans. In the late 60s/ early 70s Torquay United were mentioned on Coronation Street. One of the characters was a promising footballer and was leaving the Street, he signed for Torquay United and described them as "a club going places".
Anybody else remember this? Details please.
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Post by Enzo on Aug 15, 2009 7:20:11 GMT
Here´s a tester for all Coronation Street fans. In the late 60s/ early 70s Torquay United were mentioned on Coronation Street. One of the characters was a promising footballer and was leaving the Street, he signed for Torquay United and described them as "a club going places". Anybody else remember this? Details please. The Corrie reference is a bit before my time, but we also featured on Brookside in the late 80 s having offered one of the characters YTS terms. Although the character never played a game, he still made more of a contribution than Alan Hay! |
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Post by merse on Aug 15, 2009 7:50:24 GMT
 I spent some time with my nephew ( Sam Turpin) last Sunday who was part of the same Plainmoor Youth intake as Rhodri Giggs making that about seventeen years ago. How differently life turns out for many of those boys with a dream. Sam has seen active service in Sierra Leonne, Iraq and Afghanistan; winessed many traumatic horrors along the way and must have oftened wondered just how differently life might have turned out.................that's REAL life for real heroes.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 19:11:29 GMT
Oh dear, I'll have to admit to watching Coronation Street in the early 1970s. The character in question was called - I think - Eddie Duncan and the saga of his Weatherfield career (complete with romantic interest) had been played out over a number of months. There could not have been any more avid viewers than Chris Carter, a fellow sixth-former, and myself. You can imagine our conversation the morning after Eddie told his paramour "Sorry love, you won't be seeing too much of me because I've been transferred to Torquay..."
Over to Jon for the complete list of players who've appeared for Torquay United and Weatherfield United....
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Post by frankfurt gull on Aug 17, 2009 18:47:16 GMT
thanks for that Barton Downs, once I had the name I checked it on the internet, Eddie Duncan (played by Del Henney) appeared in 8 episodes. In Episode 1137 on the 8th December 1971 Weatherfield County lost a cup tie 2-0, Eddie Duncan wasn´t on form. In Episode 1139 on the 15th December Weatherfield won 3-2 and Eddie scored all 3 goals. I suspect that Torquay were mentioned in Episode 1137.
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Post by Jon on Aug 17, 2009 19:11:44 GMT
Over to Jon for the complete list of players who've appeared for Torquay United and Weatherfield United.... The only one I can think of is Bett Lynch! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2009 20:42:38 GMT
Great stuff, Frankfurt. The only one I can think of is Bett Lynch! Indeed....  |
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Post by chriscarter599 on Sept 6, 2009 18:21:59 GMT
Saw that my name was mentioned in the Programme "View from the Forum" P.37 for the AFC Bournemouth Game on 5th September 2009 and if Barton Downs was referring to me and a conversation at TBGS then I should explain that I was forced to watch "CORRIE" by my addicted mother who at 83 years old now has hardly missed an episode of the "soap" from day 1!!
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Post by Dave on Sept 6, 2009 18:24:31 GMT
Hi chriscarter599 and welcome to the TFF, Barton will be on later for sure and I bet he will want to reply.  Dave |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2009 19:23:50 GMT
I should explain that I was forced to watch "CORRIE" by my addicted mother This, I should emphasise, was my excuse as well. Fair play to Chris for defending his honour after I had besmirched it online and - by consequence - in the programme as well. Chris also had further mitigating circumstances in that the programme kept him in touch with his Lancastrian roots. Indeed, given their shared Blackpool origins, I often wondered if he might be related to a certain Mr Bateson? In due course I guess a certain Mr Bidg**d (full name removed to avoid embarrasment) - with whom I watched yesterday's game on one of his rare visits to South Devon - will read p37 of the programme and scratch his white thatch in bemusement. But - continuing the theme of that particular TBGS crop - no sign of Mr C**btree, another London resident, at yesterday's game. He is, however, very much a regular on the away circuit. How the devil are you, Chris? |
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Post by Dave on Sept 6, 2009 19:29:05 GMT
Did I not read somewhere that the TFF was more like Friends Reunited  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2009 19:46:54 GMT
Did I not read somewhere that the TFF was more like Friends Reunited And Utopia. Apparently. |
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Post by Dave on Sept 6, 2009 19:48:49 GMT
Did I not read somewhere that the TFF was more like Friends Reunited And Utopia. Apparently. Only the TFF and also me will not fall flat on our faces |
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