Always wondered this are all there squad coppers? I've just looked at them in the FA.Cup 3rd Qualifying round results and there's a chance we could get them. Hopefully not, Blyth or Dunston UTS for me I went to Dunston for a pre season friendly around 3 year back nice welcoming club.

Used to be , not anymore , little in the way of links with the police.

https://sports.vice.com/en_uk/article/n ... tball-club

The draw is regionalised so we won't be drawing them.

When is the draw??

1pm today.

Yes another clear reason to regionalise all football.
More importantly the schools half time penalty shoot out at Pools should be regionalised into schools east of the town to play in front of the Cyril Knowles stand and schools to the west of the town to play in front of the Neale Cooper stand with a play off in front of the Townend stand during the last few games of the season.

Just imagine the opposition playing these when there was police officers playing for them?? What frame off mind would you be in playing 11 police officers and however many on the bench watching on lol??

Bet there wasn't much crowd trouble either.

Bet the chips where nice as well.

Wonder if they have their own contingent of nutter support. Hearing them sing 'your gonna get your fucking heads kicked in' you'd kind of believe it.

They used to be a proper Police football team - but something happened about the Met not guaranteeing time off for bobbies to play in matches and so others started to play for the club. It is still part funded by the Met though.

Many decades ago I used to play against Met Police RFC for Streatham & Croydon RUFC and Kings College London and they were always hard but fair matches (when compared to the likes of Horden or Westoe) - and the shouts of 'yours Sarge' and similar were always entertaining.

I'm hoping the announcer opens floodlit matches with a firm but reassuring, "Evenin' all".

Saturday afternoon kick offs should start with, "Hello, hello, hello...what's all this then?"

I saw them play at Merthyr a couple of weeks ago. Asked the same question of one of their supporters (who I think was the father of the coach) and he said it was about 50/50 police and non-police nowadays. They took a coachload of players and fans I think. Canny chat with a few of them, decent enough lads.

Round of applause for the Merthyr fanzine sellers who were kitted out in Orgreave hoodies

ACAB

Did you play at Berrylands then?

I'm too old! It was Lavender Avenue in my days..............

You must be old! It's a good two decades plus since I last played there.

The theme to Z Cars and this one are popular at half time.

spell-check broken again?

No

When I was playing cricket, we had a fixture against the Met Police for a couple of years at their sports complex in Bushey, Herts.

The first visit was memorable in that when we arrived, we were met by a solitary "Ol' Bill" who informed us that the other ten had been called away to attend the Southall riots so we had to return home.

The second occasion was very similar but they did, at least, manage to muster five or six players.

On our third visit, we actually managed to get a game in but the only detail I can recall is that our opening teenage 'quickie' (who played rugby, looked rather like and had the temperament of Botham) dug one in short which reared up and caught their batsman on the side of the cheek. Needless to say, we kept a careful eye out for thr leafy side roads on the way home.

I think that was the last time we visited them - probably just as well.

Fuck only knows what happened there as I typed in "cricket".

"Shite rounders" never even entered my head although, on reflection, it might have been just as appropriate.

Or it may just be that technology and me hate each other's fucking guts.

Okay, okay, someone is having a laugh at my expense here unless there is an automatic changing of the word "c-r-i-c-k-e-t" (willow, red spherical object etc.) into …….


I concede and I'm one nil down - unlike Pools.

Am I really reading this? Funny if true but I doubt into is.

Am I really reading this? Funny if true but I doubt into is.

Sorry to learn that you doubt my comments, Smithy, but I can assure you and everyone else that they are all completely kosher (apart from the "shite rounders" bollocks). Why would I spend the time to tell porkies when, at the end of the day, I would only be lying to myself???

What would you say if I told you that during our away fixture against Thomas Cook at Ravensbourne in Kent, a WWII Spitfire (SL 574) leading the Battle of Britain Day London flypast crash-landed on the wicket adjacent to ours. It's wing reduced the height of the stumps to three inches and it made the TV news that evening. I still have two pieces of it's wooden propeller. Or that I once worked in a building in High Holborn that was home to a genuine ghost and was later blown up by an IRA car bomb which was detonated directly below my window? I would imagine that the "factual" content can be located somewhere on the web.

I think that I've probably had more than my fair share of 'unusual' experiences and I've probably bored the pants off a few on here relaying some of them over a pint before a home game.

Of course, if you do not wish to accept any of this then fair do's, that is your prerogative.

Nice to see Dibble back on the board

Who he?

In the absence of a Pools radio commentary yesterday afternoon, I found myself listening to a large part of the Met's home game against the mighty Havant and Waterlooville.

It appeared that they were worthy winners with a first half shot which was described as astounding.

H & V applied some pressure during the second half but overall, were generally described as being pretty shite.

[quote="Rudolph Hucker"]In the absence of a Pools radio commentary yesterday afternoon, I found myself listening to a large part of the Met's home game against the mighty Havant and Waterlooville.

It appeared that they were worthy winners with a first half shot which was described as astounding.

The shot was from the copper in the Armed Response Unit.

Ha, ha. On that basis, I hope that our paths don't cross during our forthcoming cup run.