Gareth Thomas

Alty FC, Bowdon RUFC, Lancs CCC, Claire and George and Oliver

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@BulletRobinson @NoContextCounty No complaints about Allan Lamb or finding a space for him but Fairbrother was a magnificent one day player for Lancs and England, an absolute shoo in.

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@jamiepersonaI Well, the question is would a few warm up games have meant he wouldn’t end up getting a pair in his first serious match?

His 37 at Melbourne was his best knock by the way.

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@catfordcrooner @9ted6 @faustocoppi60 Didn’t he and Adam Blythe have a slight mix up on the run in?

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@BenjiNaesen The mind is too full of them to narrow down (right now) but, not so much the stage itself but rather the finish Stage 6 to Montauban when Cav beat Kittel in 2016 was hair raising.

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@80s90sfootball @markxdavies @ianbeesley82

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@rajsinghchohan I’m not sure that Gerrard and Scholes midfield combo ever played together again after this. Nicky Butt came in for the next game v Albania and I don’t think it ever occurred

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@80s90sfootball Shilton had it covered

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@RobGutmann Yes. Wank.

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@DonsJohana @TheTimothySteve Can’t remember any of them (1 for Eng at Anfield?) but Barnes slapped in right footed pearlers v Everton, Villa, Ipswich straight off the top of my head. He was perfectly 2 footed if he needed to be. You’ll be telling me he couldn’t head it next.😂👍

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@DonsJohana @TheTimothySteve Hmm, might have to pull you up on the one footed player thing. Or at least point out that the game in the compilation on this thread involves him scoring two great goals with his right foot? 😂

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@cyclingmole Keep going. One of the best in the business 💪🏻

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@upthesilks1 @AndyMitten Your club chairman embezzled funds to get you promoted in the 90s and you repeated the trick by submitting false invoices to the Football Foundation for your new stand for your last promotion

Only one club in Cheshire fit your description 😂

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@RobGutmann Very Fleetwood Mac lyrics that 😂

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@RobGutmann I think it started with Arsenal bid in Jan (must’ve had encouragement). He’d have gone but prob told 2 stay and win Carabao and/or CL place & revisit in summer. Did that, isn’t getting his move revisited? It’s not solely an LFC thing I think. He’d go City if they didn’t have EH?

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@PhilBlundell @jkpkrn_ Indeed, true. While EH prob understands being strong & claiming moral victory, by now he prob just wants AI gone for £125m so that he can have Ramsey, Wissa and Nicholas Jackson instead thanks.

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@RobGutmann Hopefully they can come to an aguehiment soon Rob 👍

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@TonyIncenzo A lot of players from yesteryear moved on after a year or two but quite simply they were a lot better and a lot more relatable. The team & players that holds the strongest place in my heart is the great Altrincham side of 1990/91 Ken McKenna, Nicky Daws, Paul Showler just heroes

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@laflammerouge16 Agreed. Saw Ryan Mullen (I think) do this in UAE tour the other year. Utterly pointless from Federov because I can tell him that Ballerini is never winning from that far out whatever he does…

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@robhlo67 @eplasticlegends Me and my mate used to shake loads of talcum powder over the ground while we were playing and get the orange, or even better yellow tango, out. Then we scrape along the lines so you can see them and the green beneath it.

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@eplasticlegends Brilliant stuff mate. The sheer majesty of it, so many great little touches 👏🏻