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[hamish]

World Soccer .... the greatest English language football magazine!

I have issues going back to the early 1980s!! Glad to see those two old cranky gits near the front of the magazine - Glanville and Gardner. For a while Glanville was pushed near the back cover.
I recall an article Glanville wrote about the extra football on telly and why he was worried about this development. Written in the mid 80s and still as relevant today.
He's a bit obsessed by that referee scandal in Italy back in the 60s or 70s - wish he'd let it go.
Is France Football printed in English??

[hamish]

Well I have a grá for Horslips and am adding their CD's to my collection to replace the Vinyl LP's I got of theirs in the late 1970's and early 1980's. I am also converting my Czech girlfriend into a Horslips fan quite successfully too


Well if it was over 35's selections of former greats I think it would draw crowds for sure!

I'd hold onto those CDs.CTID - see where the chemicals in the cardboard packing is deteriorating the sound quality on the CDs? NO joke. Honest.
I keep both TBH - I really do think that the sound is not as compressed on a record and bass can be richer too. Trouble is it's impossible to get a decent anti-skate device for records now.

I was thinking of a tournament of say 7 a side teams so that Beeslow's 4 pitches could be used for 8 matches a time.

My big worry about all these tournaments is the insurance issue. Nearby Ahascragh United (yeah THAT Ahascragh) used to have a massive such tournament with teams from all over the country at all ages. Huge crowds and every hotel and guest house for miles booked a year in advance. Had to keep it to club teams after some hassle but appeared to have solved it now.
Insurance, from experience, is always my number one worry.

You want a good Celtic Festival? Cambridge Folk Festival is awesome. Loads of folk music from all over the world, blues etc etc etc. Plenty of Irish, Welsh, Scottish and Cornish bands too.

[lopez]

I have issues going back to the early 1980s!! Glad to see those two old cranky gits near the front of the magazine - Glanville and Gardner. For a while Glanville was pushed near the back cover.
I recall an article Glanville wrote about the extra football on telly and why he was worried about this development. Written in the mid 80s and still as relevant today.
He's a bit obsessed by that referee scandal in Italy back in the 60s or 70s - wish he'd let it go.
Is France Football printed in English??

Me too. Used to be THE top magazine then which I turned to when I found Shoot! and Match Weekly too immature for a fourteen year old. Great articles. I remember a picture in Nigeria of a ref being chased around the pitch by some angry players.

I have a hate-hate relationship with Glanville but still think he's good. He's quarter Irish (by religion he's Jewish) and said before one of the Ireland v England games that he was torn between which side to support. However, he goes off on one too many times, and the scandal you mention is the one thing he keeps bringing up (Juventus v Derby County? I dunno, got bored of it years ago I've tried to block it all out). And I saw him once at the press conference following the 3-1 defeat to Spain. He was a rude, neurotic, b*stard aswell. The FAI got in an Irish woman to interpret Clemente's comments, and he kept shouting out 'That's not what she said!'

[Raheny Red]

Has anyone seen or heard of Gerrit lately - or has he finally made his dream move to the Northern ice cap

[CollegeTillIDie]

You want a good Celtic Festival? Cambridge Folk Festival is awesome. Loads of folk music from all over the world, blues etc etc etc. Plenty of Irish, Welsh, Scottish and Cornish bands too.

A former work colleague brings his guitar and plays at informal sessions off stage over there as well as attending the Festival proper... has been his annual summer holiday for the past 15 or so years.

[hamish]

A former work colleague brings his guitar and plays at informal sessions off stage over there as well as attending the Festival proper... has been his annual summer holiday for the past 15 or so years.

Yeah CTID - went every year from 1996 to 1999. Due to my present situation I can't go sadly but I miss awfully. Never enjoyed myself so much - even more than football Going in 2007 though, all being well.

Creac is mighty - plenty of drink but you never see anyone footless. Cops in Cambridge told me that there's a queue every year to police it - never any hassle.

Loads of smashing food there too and it's a very clean festival - Friends of the Earth are on duty keeping things tidy and TBH most revellers are tidy too.

There's even nice totty for OUR age group too CTID

Needless to say, music is terrific. You have everything from Blues to diddley eye stuff to Russian music to African/Asian and so on. Even the late Joe Strummer played there - not long before he died, in fact.

[hamish]

Me too. Used to be THE top magazine then which I turned to when I found Shoot! and Match Weekly too immature for a fourteen year old. Great articles. I remember a picture in Nigeria of a ref being chased around the pitch by some angry players.

I have a hate-hate relationship with Glanville but still think he's good. He's quarter Irish (by religion he's Jewish) and said before one of the Ireland v England games that he was torn between which side to support. However, he goes off on one too many times, and the scandal you mention is the one thing he keeps bringing up (Juventus v Derby County? I dunno, got bored of it years ago I've tried to block it all out). And I saw him once at the press conference following the 3-1 defeat to Spain. He was a rude, neurotic, b*stard aswell. The FAI got in an Irish woman to interpret Clemente's comments, and he kept shouting out 'That's not what she said!'

Yeah, he's a cantankerous old git alright.

Whenever any footballer dies - Glanville does the reviews in the Guardian.

I thin he's still involved with Old Carthusians FC or some old club like that?????

Even if one doesn't agree with him - he's an interesting read - if only he'd get over that LoBello affair.

Remember Goal? That became Shoot. I think Goal was a better read and I remember getting a massive poster of Bobby Moore in it. Still have it in fact. You got a piece every week and joined them together to make a poster.

Goal even had a totty section - they had a weekly bikini'd lass as their sort of playmate of the week (tame by today's standards) and Alan Ball's missus was a regular feature. LOL

[Block G Raptor]

I love to hear about ALL footie, whether it's the big guns or in places where people struggle to keep the game alive.

Let's face it, it must be a helluva task to run and fund football competitions in places like The Shetlands, Greenland etc and even run international competitions for the smaller nations.

Where do they get the money to do it???

Way to go Gerrit. There's room for all parts of the game to be discussed.

Remember lads, I remember attending Irish matches when 6,000 turned up (Ireland v Czechoslovakia in the 60s)and when the game here was totally invisible and nobody gave a sh!t about our national side.

Those of us old fcukers who worked to promote the game here in the post 1966 World Cup boom, fighting general (and press) apathy and raw bigotry and ignorance know exactly what the good folks in the small countries are going through.

Here's one example, in the early 1970s there were FIVE second level schools in ONE Irish nationwide schools competition. Now, there are hundreds of Primary and second level schools involved with loads of (national and local) competitions with thousands of teams involved.

Well Said Hamish
the eL are not exactly world beaters (though some people on here tend to forget this). Gerrit when you say you'll be watching ths alt wc is it on T.V.?
would have liked to see the homeless WC on T.V. last year !
Football is Football lads and us here in Little old Ireland can hardly afford to slag off small leagues/countries while our domestic football is in such a state

[hamish]

Well Said Hamish
the eL are not exactly world beaters (though some people on here tend to forget this). Gerrit when you say you'll be watching ths alt wc is it on T.V.?
would have liked to see the homeless WC on T.V. last year !
Football is Football lads and us here in Little old Ireland can hardly afford to slag off small leagues/countries while our domestic football is in such a state

Y'know, BGR, that match between Bohs and Galway here a fortnight ago brought up a lot of good vibes in old Hamish. We had two El clubs, a nice local set up and positive vibes all round. I think football has made great progress in Ireland in the past 30 years and the EL is poised to have a "boom" period within the next 5 or 6 years.

It must be an awesome job to run footie in Greenland - they play their entire championship in ONE WEEK there 'cos of the weather and travel distances.