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Totally agree with you. Anyone who has read the books will have a clear image of what Reacher looks like. And it ain't Tom Cruise who's about a foot too short for starters. My mental picture says Liam Neeson.

Cheers HH, didn't remember them having 3 restaurants.

It was the shop on Hales Street I remember Otis, a large shop with the full company name in individual block letters across the full width of the shop front. Didn't know about their warehouse though.

I remember one Xmas getting something called Operation Moonbase or maybe Moonbase which was produced after the first moon landing in 1969. There was a large piece of plastic resembling the moon surface with a flat area in middle, on which you had to land the spaceship which I think had a balloon...

Think it was called Matterson Huxley and Watson as its full title. I'm told my Dad worked there for a while in the fifties and it was an early version of B&Q.

Good on you, I was always intrigued with the name and thought it was a slice of Switzerland right in the middle of Cov. Never heard the name before or since.

Of all the names being touted around, I hope they give the job to Venus tbh. Couldn't give a rats arse about any part he is playing in the Ryton saga or his lack of direct management experience. He has been close enough to football management for a long time and knows how it works. He is also...

Last one from me tonight.... about 30 years ago we were round the mother in laws one Saturday for tea. She did the Pools week in week out without winning so much as a brass farthing. She starts getting excited as she has 7 draws up and is waiting on a late kick off to finish. The late kick off...

Wasn't the Swiss Alps restaurant at one end of the Arcade back then? Never went in but it looked a couple of notches up from the Wimpy.

Mine is money related too Otis......having joined BL in the late seventies as an improverished teenager, I started buying tickets at 25p I think for the monthly employee prize draw. There were 10 prizes each month ranging from £1,000 to £50. Every quarter they put a BL car up for top prize so...

These bring back memories. Remember being lucky enough to get the original DB5 for Xmas 1965 or 1966. I'm sure it was silver/grey and the bullet shield popped up when you pressed the exhaust pipe. Can't remember other features though. Apparently Dad scoured the Midlands to find one and I too...

Nah, you're wrong...I think it's the Wasps financial controller working out the next rent agreement for us

Boslem is indeed a shit hole. If you head towards Hanley, you will see many signs directing you to the Cultural Quarter. Maybe this is where the open air piss pot is?

"Half time entertainment here at the Ricoh with the John Travolta and Olivia Newton John tribute act singing Hopelessly Devoted to You"

Against all odds, form, logic, etc I've put us down for a 4-2 win on the Predictor. Nurse, the screens!

Not sure you would class him as a goal poacher but David Speedie certainly knew where the net was. For me a better striker than Gibson and I would imagine a horrible player to play against. Still remember his hatrick against a very poor Sheff Weds side, a magical player on his day with never...

Just thinking aloud really, certainly not advocating it. But an umbrella brand of football, rugby and possibly netball/basketball under one roof would be a unique and possibly appealing investment opportunity.

Or to move it to the next level, is there a potential new investor waiting in the wings prepared to take on ownership of Wasps and CCFC combined?

Agree with this. It also seems unfashionable these days that you should adapt your system to whoever you are playing against, their playing style, likely formation, strengths and weaknesses and then plan your own formation to counter it. Surely it also makes it harder for the opposition to...

So Friday night, Mrs Bhurpa comes home from her girly night saying the car headlights aren't working and apparently she nearly knocked someone off their bicycle on one of the back lanes home. Having established she really means the high beam and me grumbling that the car has been recently...