Was there a Les Holt as well?
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Of Prestwich.
A couple of months back I was listening to Hawksby & Jacobs on Talk Sport and they have a spot called "what's the point" where they read out "stating the bleeding obvious" letters from that days papers.
One of them was from Leslie Holt from Prestwich in the Sun or the Mirror.
Made me laugh
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My memory playing tricks again. I didn't realise that Harry Dowd was with us at that stage. The match l was getting mixed up with with Bert getting sent off was 8 Sep 62 and was in fact at home. They did get beat at Upton Park at the end of the same season by the same score and got relegated. A typical City thing, being beaten 6-1 home and away in one season by the same team but we have no 'istree it seems.
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Les used to write about anything and everything from TV cooking programmes to Holts's pubs in Prestwich area.
Tommy Coe of Burnage was another big blue in the Pink but who was the Pink Thinker.
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The Pink Thinker, Sale was a great bloke called Ken.
I worked with his son and he introduced me to Ken the day after the 5-1 in 1989 and I kept in touch with him for years.
He originally used his full name which was accompanied by his address - but after receiving a bit of abuse he became The Pink Thinker, Sale.
Sadly he passed away Sept 2020 and I started this thread then
The Pink Thinker, Sale - RIP
For those of you that regularily bought The Pink and read Pink Postbag, you may remember a regular contributor, called The Pink Thinker, Sale. I worked in the late 80's at a printing company in Sale and a fellow worker (finding out that I also wrote to the Pink) told me his dad was The Pink...
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If he's still alive, he would surely be in his late 80s at this stage.
When he left the MEN, he went on the weekend match circuit, usually for the Mail I think, just to keep his hand in, so used to still see him in early 2000s.
He was a big Blackpool fan and quite a rude fella, if you could see him at his desk through the cigar smoke.
David Meek was an absolute diamond, as was Paul Hince.
The legend Alan Nixon was best man at my wedding.
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Called a choir.
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Thanks very much for that. It brought back many memories. It's a good job the MEN chose pink paper. The Green Thinker would.never have caught on.The Pink Thinker, Sale was a great bloke called Ken.
I worked with his son and he introduced me to 1Ken the day after the 5-1 in 1989 and I kept in touch with him for years.
He originally used his full name which was accompanied by his address - but after receiving a bit of abuse he became The Pink Thinker, Sale.
Sadly he passed away Sept 2020 and I started this thread then
The Pink Thinker, Sale - RIP
For those of you that regularily bought The Pink and read Pink Postbag, you may remember a regular contributor, called The Pink Thinker, Sale. I worked in the late 80's at a printing company in Sale and a fellow worker (finding out that I also wrote to the Pink) told me his dad was The Pink...
I've got the vaguest memory of another regular contributor a well known goalie in local amateur football. A big blue I last saw him in the Prescott Cables bar when St Helens Town had a memorial match for Bert. Perhaps you or someone else might be able to jog my memory as he was a mate of my dad's.
It came in a flash (sounds a bit rude)
Alan Grafton of Gorton. A great Manchester football man
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