# across the canal **URL:** \ **Category:** Other Football News\ **Created:** [14 July 2008 11:23 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421 "2008-07-14T11:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Greg\_7](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/400000/32.png) [@Greg\_7](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/Greg_7)\ **Post date:** [16 July 2008 10:54 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/41 "2008-07-16T10:54:33Z")
“The board has told me to hang fire on signing anybody at the moment so we’ll have to wait and see what happens.” A quote taken from an interview with Maamria on the Guardian website. Maybe the money fountain has finally started to run dry??? ---
**Author:** ![Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ff7b7b/32.png) [@Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/Raul)\ **Post date:** [16 July 2008 14:07 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/42 "2008-07-16T14:07:45Z")
GREG - AS I HAVE SAID IN A PREVIOUS POST , I KNOW A PERSON WHO WORKS FOR MR.CONNET.THROUGH TALKING TO MY CONTACT IT LOOKS INEVITABLE THAT THE BROWN STUFF WILL HIT THE FAN REGARDING N.V.F.C SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PLAY AT A LEVEL THAT YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO PLAY AT. ---
**Author:** ![Greenie](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ff7b7b/32.png) [@Greenie](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/Greenie)\ **Post date:** [16 July 2008 14:10 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/43 "2008-07-16T14:10:44Z")
Flav - if you look to the left of your keyboard, there is a key called “Caps Lock”… :laugh: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wincham\_Rabbit](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/400000/32.png) [@The\_Wincham\_Rabbit](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/The_Wincham_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [16 July 2008 14:21 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/44 "2008-07-16T14:21:55Z")
Thomas, you are being unusually witty today!!! :woohoo: ---
**Author:** ![Greenie](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ff7b7b/32.png) [@Greenie](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/Greenie)\ **Post date:** [16 July 2008 14:27 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/45 "2008-07-16T14:27:37Z")
I’m on a roll… ---
**Author:** ![Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ff7b7b/32.png) [@Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/Raul)\ **Post date:** [16 July 2008 19:31 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/46 "2008-07-16T19:31:09Z")
DEAR TOM - I HAVE USED CAPS LOCK DELIBERATELEY AS MY EYE SIGHT IS NOT WHAT IT WAS.I KNOW THAT YOU ARE ONLY A YOUNG MAN AT THE MOMENT BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT THE YEARS FLY PAST. MAKE THE MOST OF LIFE. ---
**Author:** ![john8b](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bf0000/32.png) [@john8b](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/john8b)\ **Post date:** [17 July 2008 13:00 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/47 "2008-07-17T13:00:00Z")
[quote][/quote]I’m talking about a person unknown who many many years ago, climbed into the Drill Field the night before a derby match, armed with a tin of red paint. [quote][/quote] Just to let you know the personS are still around today and stand behind the goal week in , week out:laugh: ---
**Author:** ![Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ff7b7b/32.png) [@Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/Raul)\ **Post date:** [20 July 2008 10:37 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/48 "2008-07-20T10:37:18Z")
my favourite memory of watching our derby matches was in oct.1968 at the drill field when we thrashed the scum 5-0. can any of our older fans name our team that night and goalscorers. i think it was a brian rimmer hatrick and two from trevor ogden. we had just sold chris nicholl to halifax town and in his place came alan coppack who played a blinder but was a vics supporter. in the vics goal was rod whitlow father of mike who played for witton leeds leicester bolton shef utd notts co and happend to be a wittoner. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Albion\_Tea\_Hut](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ff0000/32.png) [@The\_Albion\_Tea\_Hut](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/The_Albion_Tea_Hut)\ **Post date:** [21 July 2008 08:31 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/49 "2008-07-21T08:31:52Z")
I was at school with Mike, just thought i would mention it. Not that its very interesting. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ff7b7b/32.png) [@Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/Raul)\ **Post date:** [21 July 2008 14:33 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/50 "2008-07-21T14:33:53Z")
you look too young to have gone to school with mike whitlow. i went to s.j.d. at the same time as your dad in the sixties . we were afraid of some of the teachers, then. nowadays the teachers are frightened of the pupils- one aspect of living in a too liberal society. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Albion\_Tea\_Hut](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ff0000/32.png) [@The\_Albion\_Tea\_Hut](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/The_Albion_Tea_Hut)\ **Post date:** [22 July 2008 08:30 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/51 "2008-07-22T08:30:10Z")
Blimey Raul I think you are on the wrong Forum. Would be a great debate though. I blame the liberal secular society run by an Oxbridge elite who are determined to push forward a social experiment so that we will believe in nothing and accept abnormal as normal in the interests of a global capitalist elite myself. But maybe it is all the teachers fault. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Greenie](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ff7b7b/32.png) [@Greenie](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/Greenie)\ **Post date:** [22 July 2008 08:48 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/52 "2008-07-22T08:48:51Z")
I think it’s the parents fault… ---
**Author:** ![WHS](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ff5252/32.png) [@WHS](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/WHS)\ **Post date:** [23 July 2008 10:55 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/53 "2008-07-23T10:55:43Z")
Bring back the Cane and the Birch I say, and hanging too. (especially for lying ex managers). WHS. ---
**Author:** ![Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ff7b7b/32.png) [@Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/Raul)\ **Post date:** [23 July 2008 15:04 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/54 "2008-07-23T15:04:43Z")
reading todays guardian jim rushe has admitted in a way that with the small fan base over at the ground of half complete they cannot compete financially. they did very well to stay up last season but i dont think it has done them any favours. i predict that the brown stuff will hit the fan before christmas. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Albion\_Tea\_Hut](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ff0000/32.png) [@The\_Albion\_Tea\_Hut](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/The_Albion_Tea_Hut)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2008 08:29 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/55 "2008-07-24T08:29:25Z")
Lets keep our fingers crossed Raul, they are always good for a laugh. By the way Raul, the goal you scored against Leeds in the Champions League group stage a few years ago was hand-ball, other than that I have always enjoyed watching you play. How Spain left you out of the Euro 08 squad I will never know. ---
**Author:** ![Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ff7b7b/32.png) [@Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/Raul)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2008 09:11 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/56 "2008-07-24T09:11:27Z")
i did not play for real madrid. i did play for barnton and lostock gralam aswell as several sunday teams one of which played in all white. the team in question was white lion and your dad played aswell. your dad played at centre half and i played on the left wing. the good old days - 1974. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Albion\_Tea\_Hut](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ff0000/32.png) [@The\_Albion\_Tea\_Hut](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/The_Albion_Tea_Hut)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2008 10:40 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/57 "2008-07-24T10:40:26Z")
Raul, you must be confused. my dad never played football in 1974, he was well passed it by then. ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Lowe](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ff0000/32.png) [@Chris\_Lowe](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/Chris_Lowe)\ **Post date:** [24 July 2008 21:21 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/58 "2008-07-24T21:21:07Z")
1. As a teacher I can assure you I am not afraid of kids and I don’t know any other teachers who are. You lot need to stop reading the Daily Mail. 2. I hope Dad wasn’t playing in 1974, he should have been at home looking after his one year old baby. Fairly confident he never played centre half though. Did you know he has a recurring dream about scoring on the Central Ground? But then, don’t we all… 3. Good player you may be Raul but when I saw Real play, Zinedine stole the show. ---
**Author:** ![Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ff7b7b/32.png) [@Raul](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/Raul)\ **Post date:** [25 July 2008 00:09 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/59 "2008-07-25T00:09:43Z")
dear chris i talk to a lot of teachers who teach in the runcorn area who paint a very different picture than yourself. i do hope that we can reverse things in our society and start teaching our young people right from wrong. each week i am reading about teenagers knifing to death other teenagers. those sort of thing did not happen when i was 16-18. the people who did like violence tended to use their fists rather than guns or knives. regarding playing football the person i was refering to was graham edgely. ---
**Author:** ![econneely](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ff5252/32.png) [@econneely](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/u/econneely)\ **Post date:** [25 July 2008 16:12 UTC](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421/60 "2008-07-25T16:12:48Z")
Ah yes, the old White Lion - who was that brilliant young full-back you had? [Previous page](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forum.wittonalbion.co.uk/t/across-the-canal/3421.md?page=4)