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Post by yellowstew on May 21, 2009 23:13:02 GMT
John, I blame you for wrecking my life ! Your own son Mark (still one of my best mates) was able to move away from devon and educate himself and proberly earn himself a bloody good living into the bargin and good luck to him....But what about your adopted legacy ? I used to stand on the old pop side behind what was then the away dug out but some how the following happened ........ Dragged (kicking & screaming ) to all sorts of horrible places (slough sticks in the mind !!!) Some where along the line I got mixed up with legend that is Mr Simon Cavanana...the rest is history.............
Anyway what i am saying is Thankyou ....... I have had a thousand great memories following this great club of ours (by the way I gave up a well paid job to work in Boots & Laces and I know have the honour of working for the club !! )(Your proberly to blame for that to !!!!) but one of the best was tonight
To have yourself embrace me in tears of joy ment so much.
Thank you but I blame you for everything !!!!!
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Post by johnlovis on May 22, 2009 20:59:34 GMT
Yellowstew, I am so sorry to have inflicted a life of constant anxiety upon you. Are you sorry that when we first took your goodself and Mark to a football match it was not to Old Trafford or Gnome Park; something that your uncle (who I have the dubious pleasure of working with) would have preferred me to do. Oddly enough it was my late uncle Charlie who took me to my first game at Plainmoor in 1955 and to this day I do not know whether to blame or thank him. He lived long enough to see our first promotion in 1960 and I know he would have been so proud of the players and supporters on Sunday. One of the granite plaques behind the goal at the Ellacombe end is dedicated to his memory.
Last night was for you and all the dedicated TUFC fans who travel the length and breadth of this country year on year in the hope that something special will happen .
Regarding the hug; I have made it my business to hug every person I know and care for who was at Wembley on Sunday. So to those of you I haven't got round to yet, you know what to expect. That includes you Merse.
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Post by merse on May 22, 2009 22:11:13 GMT
Regarding the hug; I have made it my business to hug every person I know and care for who was at Wembley on Sunday. So to those of you I haven't got round to yet, you know what to expect. That includes you Merse.  I can still remember the one we shared at Roots Hall when like those two miserable old buggers Stadtler and Waldorf we concurred that at least THAT promotion would ensure TWO more years of Football League membership rather than the one we more familiar with...........................and we weren't a million miles out with our prognosis were we! By the time pre-season had been well and truly mis-managed by Mr Rosenior I was pretty certain we would go straight back down and the first two home games merely confirmed that we weren't so much being "managed" as very much "mis-managed" and as sure as eggs were eggs down we came!  It's a totally different ball game now of course and I have every confidence that a proper fist will be made of things both by the manager and from the boardroom. That's not to say I am expecting to emulate Exeter City's remarkable and commendable second successive promotion, but I am confident of at least consolidation and further reconstruction of the club's infrastructure ~ interesting times indeed. I wasn't far behind you at Wembley actually John and was coming to "hug" you but then you were gone....................I didn't know such an old codger could still move so fast ~ I certainly can't! ;D |
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Post by Mark L on May 26, 2009 11:48:08 GMT
Stew mate, you're not the only one who's suffered under my father's regime!  Seriously though, I'm so glad he took me to so many games, even before I had any interest/understanding in what was going on on the pitch. By making me a supporter of TUFC I was partaking in the most rewarding(/distressing!) pastime available in the bay. A ride which can take you to the peaks of euphoria and the lows of non-league obscurity all the while being surrounded by people like you, dad, Merse and all the others willing the team on in the hope for an ounce of success. Standing out on the terraces of Doncaster having left your coat on the coach as it duly hammers down with hail for the full 105 minutes... good for the soul innit Stew?! It was bizarre going to that school and having people mock you for supporting your own, home-town team... but they were, and no doubt still are, the ones missing out. Poor sods. Thanks dad. |
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Post by Jon on May 26, 2009 12:18:25 GMT
I wish to register a complaint against John Lovis too!
It was his "fifty years" articles in the programme starting in 1977 that got me interested in TUFC's history.
If it wasn't for him, I might have turned out normal!
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Seriously though, I'm so glad he took me to so many games, even before I had any interest/understanding in what was going on on the pitch. By making me a supporter of TUFC I was partaking in the most rewarding(/distressing!) pastime available in the bay. A ride which can take you to the peaks of euphoria and the lows of non-league obscurity all the while being surrounded by people like you, dad, Merse and all the others willing the team on in the hope for an ounce of success. Standing out on the terraces of Doncaster having left your coat on the coach as it duly hammers down with hail for the full 105 minutes... good for the soul innit Stew?!