Barcon
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Sorry Oakie. Missed this. Happy birthday mate.
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This FOC (old fart) is now 72 years of age
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remember arthur mann
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Said it years ago on here, definitely bumping you off.Not for the Government
INDEEDY DEEDY
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Happy Birthday (belatedly). I'm the one who met you in San Sebastian en route to our game in Bilboa in 1969. Is Guinness the secret to being a FOC :)Yes where has the time gone ??
1951 and born in St Marys on Oxford Road (not that I remember much about it) but a very proud Mancunian even though I`ve lived in Mid Cheshire for all but 5 days.
Just had the last dance of the night with everybody singing my name.
"Oh the oakiecokie, oh the oakiecokie ..."
HIC. ;)
oakiecokie
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Bloody hell mate how the hell are you and great to hear from you.Happy Birthday (belatedly). I'm the one who met you in San Sebastian en route to our game in Bilboa in 1969. Is Guinness the secret to being a FOC :)
Loved that time in Bilbao with a 3-3 score line and loved our 3 night in San Sebastian. Did you play football with us on the beach in San Sebastian as there were about 10 of us.
Great times mate. ;)
INDEEDY DEEDY
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I'm fine thanks mate. Am also a FOC aged 73 :). Yea we played footie with you, I seem to remember you wearing the red and black shirt? We travelled without tickets for the game hoping to get some from Walter Griffiths (Club Secretary) when we got to the team hotel in Bilboa. We spoke to him but the twat just looked down his nose at us. However, you came to our rescue by getting some from your Alan. Thanks once again for that mate.Bloody hell mate how the hell are you and great to hear from you.
Loved that time in Bilbao with a 3-3 score line and loved our 3 night in San Sebastian. Did you play football with us on the beach in San Sebastian as there were about 10 of us.
Great times mate. ;)
Take care mate and all the best for the New Year.
Big Swifty
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I'm fine thanks mate. Am also a FOC aged 73 :). Yea we played footie with you, I seem to remember you wearing the red and black shirt? We travelled without tickets for the game hoping to get some from Walter Griffiths (Club Secretary) when we got to the team hotel in Bilboa. We spoke to him but the twat just looked down his nose at us. However, you came to our rescue by getting some from your Alan. Thanks once again for that mate.
Take care mate and all the best for the New Year.
Big Swifty
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Don't fret, mate. Age is relative. Trust me, you'll wake up ome day and think "How I wish I was 72 again". I know I do.
The consolation is that if you had been born a couple of centuries ago or more, you would probably be dead, given the life expectancy of the period. In the Manchester slums of the Industrial Revolution, the average person did well to reach 40 - assuming they survived infancy, which most didn't.
400 years ago, John Milton wrote a sonnet beginning:
"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year".
(He felt old at 23)
The consolation is that if you had been born a couple of centuries ago or more, you would probably be dead, given the life expectancy of the period. In the Manchester slums of the Industrial Revolution, the average person did well to reach 40 - assuming they survived infancy, which most didn't.
400 years ago, John Milton wrote a sonnet beginning:
"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year".
(He felt old at 23)