Publicity drawing for Forton services on the M6 near Lancaster, 1963.
Harry Pearson
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Shopping in Waitrose with a B&M carrier bag https://harrypearson.contently.com/
In 1919, league cricket in England became a genuine competitor to county cricket, able to attract the best players. For a time, administrators feared the effects of the Lancashire League and Bradford League. It was largely, but not entirely, a question of money. open.substack.com/pub/oldebor7...
"There is only one question — a financial one"
County Cricket and the Lure of the Leagues
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Stupidly excited to have refound my 2017 Omloop cap. Partner oddly less enthusiastic about me wearing it in public...
Rediscovered my uncle's WW2 Fleet Air Arm scrapbook...started when he was appointed commander of 893 Squadron..
Every so often you find something that reminds you that your Mum had dementia...
Clearing out parent's flat. Find this photo of my Dad in Malaya c.1952. Dingo scout car "Cleveland". 12th Royal Lancers.
He's come a long way since he was miming being rapped in chains next to Howard Jones
Guardian Sport@sport.theguardian.com · last wk.Uefa calls emergency meeting as opposition to Fifa plan hardens
"Irvin Cobb of the New York World coined the phrase "Innocent bystander" and got the phrase "stuffed shirt" from one of the girls in the brothel he visited afterwards to celebrate". Ah, Jimmy Breslin...
"The editorial writing on economics was done by a reporter who had been recruited in Colorado, blew the train ticket money on whiskey and only made it to New York by volunteering to accompany a casket from Denver to Albany"
From the same Jimmy Breslin piece: "The worst sin for a reporter was not producing a sensation. Their most famous news-page headline, eight columns of it, read "DOES IT HURT TO BE BORN?"
Reading some old Jimmy Breslin stuff about his early days as a reporter in New York and come across: "I pulled open the M drawer. In the front was a large card that said everything about Hearst Newspapers' system of thought and filing: MENTAL HEALTH -SEE INSANITY"
Jimmy Greaves' testimonial v Feyenoord, 1972. Not sure what's going on beside the tunnel.
Why the relentless focus on how many people die in wars and not on the vast majority who survive them?
Pallonate in Faccia@pallonateinfaccia.bsky.social · last wk."Sorry that you were so consumed by hate and criticism that you missed the beauty of the World Cup." In the past few hours, FIFA President #Infantino posted a long message on Instagram against those he considers his "haters." 👇
If you want to know the origin of the phrase left in the lurch and pegged out. And even if you don't. open.substack.com/pub/boundles...
Playing Cribbage
Harry Pearson on a swaggering cavalier's card game that was streets ahead of its time
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Working men’s club, Middlesbrough, 1976, photo by Philip Jones Griffiths.
Fans with their classic chants of "If you don't jump your feet have likely been nailed to the floor by the secret police"
You can say what you like about the Americans but they certainly don't know how to put on a show
One of my favourite memories of watching the 1966 World Cup final on TV was close ups of the celebrities in the crowd such as Wilfred Bramble, Monica Rose and Derek Nimmo.
Nice to see Cecil Colby from Dynasty in charge of the game. Hopefully Alexis Carrington in the Var booth.
English FA president, Debbie Hewitt, paid a quarter of a million USD per year for saying "yes, great idea" in Gianni Infantino's Fifa Council, pictured with some friends in NYC last night. It's not just Infantino who is the problem.
The greatest crime novel ever written by an international football manager?
My Dad took me to see Zulu at the Guisborough Empire in 1968, the teenagers in the stalls stamping their feet in time to the warriors' chants. Sad He's not here with me today, too...
