Just finished on BBC2, fair play what a story. The late David Hando, what a man, never gave up, never gave in, outstanding football icon in my opinion.
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Just finished on BBC2, fair play what a story. The late David Hando, what a man, never gave up, never gave in, outstanding football icon in my opinion.
Was talking to one of my neighbors last year about him, when I was back.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
He apparently left his brain and body to science after he died.
Sludge offered the same but there's too much of one and not enough of the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
He was a teacher at my high school…..Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Paget Flashman
BBC article on the issues here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68096720
Best wishes to County today
I hope they get a draw and get to play up at OldcTrafford and make a fortune
Was it the one with Elis James narrating from a few years ago?
Newport is very much like Middlesborough in respect of Newcastle and Sunderland
In the shadow of Cardiff and Bristol but very independent , raw at the heel and don't poke it in the eye or you will get a slap
I don’t know about that sludge they’ve always had a few nutters, more so than Swansea but they ain’t no boro who are by far the handiest fans up that way. Its a weird old place Newport, it’s like it doesn’t really exist, just sitting there completely in our shadow, surely more PL glory fans than any other town in the uk.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
A City of 160,000 just 10 miles away yet apart from visiting on business [rarely], and watching City play them, I've never had any desire to go there. It's like it doesn't exist, just drive past on the M4..Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
The problem County have is the lost generations of fans when they were playing in the farmers fieldsQuote:
Originally Posted by goats
It's like a mini cardiff reallyQuote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
Without the poncey wine bars
It’s not really, not at all…..it’s just grim. It’s the city that doesn’t existQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
It’s no different to most provincial towns across the UK.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
The Centre has undoubtedly taken a nose dive over the last 20 years or so, but again so have most provincial towns.
It's a cracker.Even my Mrs laughed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Paget Flashman
It's very much similar to Cardiff without the investment Cardiff has hadQuote:
Originally Posted by goats
Butetown .....Pill
Ely ....Ringland or Bettws
I had sexual relations with a chick from Ringland.To think that was 50 years ago.The mind boogles.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
She's probably still at itQuote:
Originally Posted by dandywarhol
I’m 50 and my Mam used to go up the Ringland Club :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dandywarhol
That tower block was where Nathan Blake lived I think after growing up in CardiffQuote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
Think he was born in Cardiff but grew up in Newport.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
He was a year or so above me and played for Spencer Boys Club and I believe Milton Jr School in Ringland.
Two similar traits, perhaps the only ones? Newports small, city centre is shocking, no civic centre, castle ground, no uni’s? Any student population? Decent suburbs? Bay Area? Cardiff has plenty of nice areas, lots of parks etc….big events, any in Newport? Ever? There is no comparison and even on a football level we only became rivals briefly in a time we were on our knees in the lower leagues, which sums it up nicely.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Cardiff born , Cardiff familyQuote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
Uncle was Clive sullivan , British Rugby league captain
Mother moved to Newport when blakey was a youngster I think
I always thought he was Newport born and bred
Newport has a proud working class history and very multi racial , like CardiffQuote:
Originally Posted by goats
Port city like Cardiff.....baseball ....Big Irish community
Some great industrial history
I would rather live in Newport than a lot of other cities up and down the country
Swindon , Stoke , barnsley
I’ve got no desire to compare Newport to Cardiff as Cardiff is a lovely City with a lot going for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
You are pretty much wrong on every count you’ve mentioned though.
3 nice parks in Newport.
No Bay or Waterfront sadly, there was talk of an Usk barrage which was sadly scuppered.
There has been a student population in Newport for decades. The art college particularly was pretty well thought of I believe.
Alt-y-Ryn, Christchurch and Caerleon are nice enough areas.
There is a Civic Centre behind the train station.
There is an albeit dilapidated Castle on the outskirts of the City Centre.
An historical Cathedral in the City Centre and if anybody could be arsed to look above the facias of the pound shops, they would see lovely architecture.
20 Years ago, Newport Town Centre was vibrant in the day and night.
Sadly, it’s no longer what it was although people are making efforts despite the woeful council.
Newport has held The Ryder Cup and a NATO Conference…both pretty big deals.
Didn't especially mind Newport County back than (I watched us home away against them early 80s - Somerton Park kettling and all lol) but it turned for me when I saw them against my most local league team at Crawley. I'd never seen anything remotely like an issue down there before until a Newport mob turned up and strolled into the home end and starting hitting everyone. Thing is, no one there had experienced that before. Left a bitter anti-welsh feeling down there, which still annoys me.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I think our lot behaved the same way in places like Torquay , Aldershot etcQuote:
Originally Posted by Swiss Peter
In newports case a lot of the places they visited were sleepy towns very much unlike newport
Nonesense it's a sh!thole.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
No, it isn’t.Quote:
Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
Subjective!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
Happy to be corrected about Newport as despite being so close I know very little about it, as I say, it’s like it’s not there….Quote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
When I say parks, I don’t mean your average park, has it got anything like the castle grounds that runs for miles from the centre to the edge? There’s 40,000 plus students in Cardiff which add a massive amount to the life of the city, how many live in Newport?
I’m sure it has a few nice suburbs most places do…..a run down castle and a civic centre I’ve never seen or heard of also sums the place up well…its a bit like Swansea in some ways, you can throw all sorts of money at the place but its just a dump.
If I could turn back the years I would have gone to university in SwanseaQuote:
Originally Posted by goats
Stay away from the town and all the jacks and just pop into the train station to come home for the weekend or go and watch city
Sketty , uplands are quite chilled , the mumbles is out of the way and the gower is cool
Very few bands play there though
Newport is rougher at the edges than Cardiff but it used to have plenty of good music venues
Is that a euphemism?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
If you have a ribald mind, I guess it could well be :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie