Football Programmes Centre

martino · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:18 am Post subject:

clsyorkshire wrote:

Martino, you're just down the road from me, I'm in Congleton.

My dad used to work at Barclays at Gadbrook Park in Northwich.

I was based at Radbroke Hall from 1986 to 1999 but the other half was re-located to Gadbrook for about six months in the late 90's. As it is a small world who is your Dad?

Auchinleckian · Forum Moderator Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 4352

Senior82 wrote:

By day - work in a payroll department. Enjoy the role but hate where i'm currently working. Been looking for a new one for most of this year but there's not a lot out there at the moment! Just grateful to be in a job.

Earlier this year moved in with my girlfriend, been together just over a year now. Things are going well on that front.

I'm a Wednesday fan but I hardly ever go now. I go to most England games (home and away) so that eats up a fair bit of cash. Like to try and see the place we're playing in too, so it eats up most of my holidays too. Had 5 nights away in Bucharest & Chisinau last month, and four nights in Warsaw in a couple of weeks. This is where my girlfriend comes back into things as this will be her first England trip

Also you might have noticed that i'm a big Rugby League fan, my beloved Sheffield Eagles have just won the Championship (equivalent to the football Championship). Follow them home and away so that's most Sundays between February and September sorted.

Saturdays i'm usually at some sort of game, Stocksbridge Park Steels in the winter and Sheffield Hillsborough Hawks (Rugby League) in the summer, and if it's neither of them then me and a mate usually find one at a ground we've never visited before, he's already lined up trips to Lincoln, Alfreton, Hyde and Bridlington in the next few months. I prefer this to the over stewarded, over policed league football.

Like grantham i'm a cider drinker, like a vodka too (neither with ice!!) - what's your tipple of choice? Not a 'real' cider but i'm enjoying Stowford Press at the moment and the Stowford Press export at 6% is good too. Also currently working my way through a bottle of Snow Queen vodka from Kazakhstan.

Weekday evenings I sit down for a rest...usually to watch football/rugby/cricket/NFL...but if my better half has the remote then i'll listen to some music...which reminds me, does anyone else use the Last FM plug in?

For someone who professes to look at life through a Socialist viewpoint, I do have to admit a fondness for Thatcher's cider I(it REALLY does hurt to say Thatcher and like in the same sentence!) Traditionally made, and non gassy they do a number of very decent such drinks. My favourite bottled cider though is Henry Weston's Special Vintage, as 8.2%. Not something to be quaffed, but savoured. It's always my tipple of choice, along with a decent array of red wine for my annual trip to the Wickerman Festival in my neck of the woods.

That apart, I do love to try the traditional ciders whenever I see them on a handpump. Perhaps this could be the subject of another thread?

garyspain · Joined: 24 Mar 2010 Posts: 882

Work for a large American multinational IT company. Follow Limerick FC and Republic of Ireland home and away.

Each Limerick home game is a 250 mile roundtrip and nearest away game is 150 mile roundtrip but hoping that will change after eighteen years in the 2nd tier we need 1 win from our last 2 games for promotion.

Blackjack · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:28 pm Post subject:

What an interesting thread, and there's me thinking we all just sit on our lap tops all day looking for programmes!!!

Well here's my input, after 23 years in the army being a chef I got out and have done various head chef jobs around Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. Currently I'm working in St Davids ( smallest city in Britain). I've had a season ticket for Swansea for about 8 years ( and 8 years before I joined the army) and am passionate about them, and try not to miss a home game and try to get to 3 or 4 aways every season with my 15 year old son. Currently looking for another job as my boss told me last week I can't take any more saturdays off this season even to see the Swans, tosser!! So he is now looking for another head chef, !!!

Love most sports and play a couple of times for a local cricket club during the summer and watch most Wales rugby matches ( on tv these days). Enjoy !!!!! a bit of DIY (cos the wife says i have to) and have started converting my garage into my programme and football book/ comic office. Will send pics in when i finish it !!!

weymouthPIE · Joined: 21 May 2012 Posts: 100

Intresting to read about other members hobbies and day jobs on this thread

I dont have much to tell. From Nottingham, moved to Weymouth with Mum to be with the rest of the family in 2007 after my Dad passed away in 2005. Now follow Weymouth home and away, but try and get to Notts County games when we play in the South, which is rare these days. Although I'm hoping to get to a game sometime over the next month for my 17th birthday, looking at Coventry away

Just started college, doing a business studies BTEC

Collect Notts County home & away programmes and Weymouth programmes from any game i attend with them.

I also write a couple of pieces in the Weymouth programme myself

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Eck · Joined: 25 Aug 2012 Posts: 2548

Born - Havant 1956
Lived - Havant, 56-57,Glasgow,57-85,Blackpool 85-88, back to Glasgow,88 -
Work - No trade, a mixture of - self employed,nasty jobs and Church officer & Hallkeeper,now carer for my wife.
Became a Christian after rock bottom in 1988.
My other loves - Marc Bolan & T.Rex,Laurel & Hardy,Rangers, (season ticket holder) I love toy soldiers,I have hundreds of them.
I started taking lunchbags to homeless in Glasgow about 8 years ago. I don't consider it a good thing about me,it's just visiting friends every Thursday now.
Don't smoke - anymore, don't drink alcohol - anymore, don't do drugs - anymore.

grimsbybarralad · Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Posts: 223

This is an interesting thread.

I work part time for DWP in an extremely busy contact centre Monday to Wednesday which leaves me plenty of time to be the Treasurer of the Mariners Trust (the Trust of Grimsby Town F.C.) who I've supported regularly for the last 42 years. I also take part in competitive General Knowledge quizzes both in the Civil Service and nationally via The British Quiz circuit where I come up against the likes of Kevin Ashman and co from the Eggheads T.V. programme. I have appeared on T.V. quizzes but as my girlfriend states my face is better suited to radio. I also write quizzes mainly for charities to help with their fund raising. Programme collecting isn't very high up on my agenda because I lack the finance to be able to go for the older programmes although I look enviously at some of the collections the folks on here have amassed.

addicks · Joined: 25 Feb 2009 Posts: 102 Location: Leigh-On-Sea Essex

I work in IT. My department is responsible for writing and supporting a London market insurance system. I head up the department.

I was started on the collecting bug at the ripe old age of 4 and have been collecting anything and I do mean anything Charlton Athletic since.

I dont get to as many games as I would like as I still play football. I have just started my 20th season playing for Basildon Town in the Essex Olympian League.

At the age of 41, I am not too sure how many more seasons I have, but reinventing yourself as a keeper does help on that front.

As well as playing for Basildon, I have been treasurer there for over a decade.

When not involving my time in football I enjoy playing poker. Have far too many late nights at the computer screen.

That's me Very Happy

pompeypete · Forum Moderator Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Posts: 1095

Retired 7 years early.......................bloodly great to leave the rat race....
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Auchinleckian · Forum Moderator Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 4352

pompeypete wrote:

Retired 7 years early.......................bloodly great to leave the rat race....

Did it 8 years early, and fully concur....

Senior82 · Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 982 Location: Near Sheffield

Only 38 years until I can collect my state pension at 68.....
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derby1884 · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:18 pm Post subject:

One ot two in this thread have mentioned the NFL - totally agree. I'd far rather watch that, to be honest, than yet another anodyne Champions League match on the telly.
Took me 10 years probably to understand the rules of American Football but well worth the effort.
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hulldon · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 224

derby1884 wrote:

Just reading about the active lives led here make me feel exhausted.

After 25 years of being a boring accountant (though I prefer the word book-keeper), I thought I'd try + branch out a bit and did an honours degree in Business Management in my spare time. Met a musically-minded lady on a footy trip down south, gave up the job, sort of semi-moved down to England, we set up a record/collectibles shop together (I always wanted one) and then, well, let's just say you can never tell with people, however well you think you know them.
So now I find myself back in Aberdeen, just me and my collections, with a degree but without a job. And a lot of spare time. Ho hum.

Ah, the collections.........apart from programmes, been collecting records for just as long. Any Beatle vinyl from anywhere in the world, anything psychedelic 1966-1970. Got 11 feet of shelf space devoted to Beatles alone.
Also got a nice collection of "true crime" books from 1900 to date - classic cases like Jack the Ripper (it was that Polish barber!)& Lizzie Borden all the way down to obscurities long forgotten by the media.

Anything at all to do with Tony Hancock, too. Got all the radio & TV shows still in existence and a load of other memorabilia.
The man was a genius.

Been thinking about trading full-time on EBay but I fear I'd hate to part with the good stuff.........so I reckon it's keep on job-hunting for the time being.

Funny old life, isn't it?

If you're up in Aberdeen do you follow the Dons as well as the Rams??

I am a lifelong Don, and collect all Dons stuff, as well as some other areas. (World Cup and Euro tickets, Olympic stuf I am a German teacher down in Yorkshire, and coach rugby too - no footy at my school! I love travelling - well it is a 800-mile round trip to a home game - and try to get abroad as often as possible. I'm into quizzes, and my collecting, and music too to an extent. I play golf to single figures too, and would love to have more time to practise my juggling and diabolo! I am well behind at work this term as I gave up a lot of my summer to be a Gamesmaker at the Olympics - Awesome! (I did post on another thread about it some time)

Ann Orack · Joined: 18 Aug 2010 Posts: 156

Chartered accountant by trade and therefore have the personality of a pebble.

Absolutist by nature. If I’m doing something it has to be to the best of my ability. I’ll happily get beaten but provided I’ve done my best I’m happy, unless you speak to my mates then I’m a miserable b’stard. But then again I don’t have many mates. I wonder why?

Enjoyed fishing in my youth and long to take it up again but can’t understand why they use silly long poles and something they call boillies. Whats that all about?

Big into music, although that’s a matter of opinion. Did Isle of Wight last year and Leeds this year. At 54 I’ve got to admit my best festival years are behind me. Unless the Foo Fighters, Kasabian and Green Day are there in which case I’ll struggle with the 12 hour drinking sessions for the sake of art!

Currently enjoying little Belgian blondes. And that beer not females.

Have collected everything in my days ( except money), including 40 years worth of Anglers Mail magazines, despite never fishing for 30 years, match books, beer mats, stamps, …. excuse me glass empty……….thats better…..

Me and the Mrs been happily married for 30 years, her for 28 and me for 2. If I’m being honest my happiest times are spent with the Mrs and kids having a good old session on the beer. Heaven knows what they’ll be like when they’re old enough to drink!

Anyway got to go theres a new loco expected in the station in half an hour or so and need to get there early to get a good picture

derby1884 · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: what do you do

Ann Orack wrote:

Chartered accountant by trade and therefore have the personality of a pebble.

Me too........but seeing that list of trade creditors match, to the penny, what the balance sheet says it should is our equivalent of scoring the winning goal at Wembley

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tackler7 · Joined: 26 May 2011 Posts: 256

martino wrote:

Most Saturdays I go to watch a local Rugby Union match - Macclesfield when they are at home and, if not, another local team. The fact I can leave home at 1430, drive straight in the car park, pick up a pie and a pint and sit down just as the teams are running out onto the pitch appeals to me.

Do you ever visit www.rolling-maul.com? That is my site and it takes up a few hours a week sorting out the odd idiot who ruins the board for the majority!

Outside of work, most of the rest of my spare time is spent researching the history of my (now sadly defunct) rugby club and producing a newsletter about them using my collection/memorabilia, which I email out to former players and supporters.

I also enjoy quizzes - Grimsbybarralad have you competed in HASSRA quizzes over the years? and the movies and trying not to be too downhearted when I look at Sheffield Wednesday's results each week.

derby1884 · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:55 pm Post subject: Re: Aberdeen??

hulldon
If you're up in Aberdeen do you follow the Dons as well as the Rams??

I'm afraid not. Just could never take to the club. Went to all the home European games in the 70s/80s (I will admit that the Bayern Munich s/f was quite a match!) but the combination of Fergie and Willie Miller....well, you either took to them or you didn't. 'Fraid I was the latter.

Well done on doing that 800 mile round trip - there's "fans" here who live a bus ride from Pittodrie but who's support extends no further than moaning on the Red Army forum.

My guess is you would have been at Dean Windass's testimonial match, then, being from Hull?
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surfinjim · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:56 pm Post subject: Re: what do you do

Ann Orack wrote:

Me and the Mrs been happily married for 30 years, her for 28 and me for 2. If I’m being honest my happiest times are spent with the Mrs and kids having a good old session on the beer. Heaven knows what they’ll be like when they’re old enough to drink!

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robbo · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 375 Location: NZ at the moment

A youthful 52, just finished kicking people all over the football pitch over here in NZ, for my reward i got a ruptured calf muscle 20 minutes from the end of the very last game of season.... & i nearly made it a season of being injury free, damn it..... & there was i calling all the young`uns soft jessies!!.

other than respite care i indulge in painting & cartoons which bring in a bit of dosh occasionally ... http://www.alanrobertsart.co.nz/

Getting up at 2am , 3am 4am in the morning to listen to The mighty Blades knackers me sundays!!!!...unless we win of course , then i`m the first up & ready for owt!!

hulldon · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 224

derby 1884
Yup! I was there! I even featured ion the back page of the Evening Express in the crowd shot!
I was also at the Bayern Munich QF back in 83 and I made it to Gothenburg - what a night!
As far as WM and SAF are concerned, I know what you mean, but I started supporting the Dons in 1970, so that was before them, and actually WM lived just up the road from me, next door to a mate in Gladstone Place - I lived in Stanley Street. I am of the generation who firmly believe he is the best defender who ever lived, and that whatever his failings as a businessman, manager, director of football or whatever, he is still simply GOD. Sad I know, but there you go.
As far as Hull City are concerned, i don't see them much, although you can hear the roars from my back garden if the wind is right! I usually work Saturdays so can't really go, let alone make the trip to Pittodrie. i usually manage about 2/3 home games, and the same aways per season, but I am on Dons forums every day, and my Dons collection goes back to the 50's and must number in the 2,000 or 3,000 - I've not got roung to counting them.... there's a job for my next holiday!

Only ever saw Derby once - friendly v Hull as part of the Adam Bolder transfer. Felt proud that day, as Adam had played in the football team, a colleague and I ran at his secondary school. He was always good, but he was also dedicated and determined - in fact we thought his kid brother was better, but he was a bit lazy and less focussed, so never made it past Grimsby , for whom he played a few times over a season or two. Adam has done well for himself as he was never the most gifted player.

Anyway, if you happen to have any Dons stuff, or ever come across some early 60's or earlier stuff, let us know!!
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