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Martin Bellamy
Martin Bellamy
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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

@selwynoz I went to Linthorpe School before we moved. My brother and sister also went but they were older than me so had moved on to secondary school ...

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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

I can recall meeting up with school friends from Swans Corner Primary School and catching the train from Nunthorpe to , to go fishing. To be honest we...

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RE: Tumbleweed blowing through the deepest regions of our minds and dusting off snippets of memories to be shared.

My own childhood adventures were developed once we moved from our council house in Norwich Road, Linthorpe (the house in which I was born in 1955) to ...

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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@paulinboro I’m inclined to agree that we’re a Championship club at heart, although I’m not downhearted by that. It’s one of the most competitive leag...

6 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@exmil But, but, we’re a Big Club we DESERVE to be in the Premier League. Tbf, I recall lots of us on here expressing similar views before the start o...

6 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

A BBC article about Djed Spence - remember him?

7 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@pedro Fair points there. Do you think the majority of ST holders want MC to be replaced?

7 months ago
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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@pedro I completely understand people not renewing their STs on the basis of cost. Most fans are cash strapped with other potential priorities. I d...

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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@original-fat-bob It was good to hear from you yesterday, although distressing to hear your news. As I said directly, the members of this Forum hol...

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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@pedro If only MFC had an experienced, successful businessman at the helm…

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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

It’s tempting to believe who we want to believe in these situations without ever having the full facts at our disposal. Who knows who’s telling the tr...

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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@exmil I’m with you on this one. I don’t for a minute doubt @ofb’s inside knowledge, but unless we get clarity, I can’t see the point of mentioning it...

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RE: Season Review and Next Season Discussion Points

@clive-hurren Can we add more practice at throw-ins to that list please? No one seems to want to receive the ball once it’s in Dijksteel’s hands.

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RE: Coventry v Boro

So two, out of how many? And two with relatively small readership numbers compared with the other main protagonists. Disappointing isn’t it?

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RE: Coventry v Boro

I really like facts - they’re irrefutable and in short supply these days. I do, however, prefer to have more details, otherwise those very facts remai...

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RE: Coventry v Boro

@forever-dormo “ * Both papers are/were, of course, the purveyors of only the truest of truths.” As, of course, are all of the UK’s fine, unbiased...

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RE: Coventry v Boro

Would the Diasboro cognoscenti swap Carrick for Mowbray as manager? Not to work alongside MC, but as his replacement?

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RE: Coventry v Boro

@forever-dormo Believe it or not, Ripley was developed in the style of a French village - it’s been in the same family ownership for generations - I’v...

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RE: Coventry v Boro

@werdermouth I’m tempted to advocate for a starter ban next season, but the quality of your openers are so good that I think I’d rather sacrifice the ...

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RE: Coventry v Boro

@exmil I’d agree with your comments- we’ve come up short again, but not by too much. On a different day, we’d be celebrating being in the play offs no...

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RE: Coventry v Boro

It’s a game of tight margins. Azaz and Iling Junior so close to giving us the lead, then up they pop with a headed goal. It’s going to be tough gettin...

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RE: Coventry v Boro

Good luck, everyone. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

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RE: Coventry v Boro

I’ve had my own IT panic this afternoon. We came back from a day out and lunch in Mallaig and on the beach near Arisaig, to find that we had no intern...

7 months ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

@werdermouth The trouble is that Amazon works well, in so many ways. I often buy things that I’d have no idea where else to get them locally. Plus, th...

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RE: Coventry v Boro

@powmillnaemore Strangely, I haven’t been able to quite bring myself to delete Linkedin, even though I retired properly in 2018, and there’s no reason...

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RE: Coventry v Boro

@jarkko I’ve left X too, for the same reasons. I’m on Bluesky now which is much more civilised. @mbellamy.b-sky.social

7 months ago
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RE: Coventry v Boro

@forever-dormo Fortunately two bottles came with us, although given what he’s tweeted, maybe I should have whatever AV is having!

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