Was browsing through old posts someone pointed out to me and the stick a certain Mr Challinor was getting in the first half of the promotion season is uncannily similar to what Askey is getting now…only worse.
Some say it was Raj’s fault and he’ll never get us promoted and ironically one stated we were miles behind clubs like ….Torquay
After reading them I suddenly can’t take anything seriously, but then I never could.

I think if I won a packet on the Euromillions I'd be tempted to buy Pools but as soon as the fanbase started demanding that I spent my money as they saw fit I would drop the club like a stone. Come to think of it nah I wouldn't bother cos they'll never be satisfied.

The owner of Derby lost hundreds of millions trying to get them promoted, never happened so the fans turned on him….they say the people who really should be in charge of football clubs are too busy to do it as they ‘re so busy driving taxi’s or cutting hair.

I thought you meant by the heading "All our yesterdays" a time when we had the following;

Goalkeeper - No 1
2 Full Backs - Nos 2 & 3
2 Wing Halves - Nos 4 & 6
1 Centre Half - No 5
2 Inside Forwards - Nos 8 & 10
2 Wingers - Nos 7 & 11
1 Centre Forward - No 9

Please bring those days back.

You’re showing your age, but wouldn’t it be nice to try that old formation out, I was a left back.

What? Left back in the changing room? Only joking Snowy. I am with critical thinking. All this passing across the middle between number 29 and 19 and 87. Move the ball forward and try to take your man on instead of just safe pass across. Ah well. Remember the days of Ernie Pythian and Jimmy Mulvaney and a Brian Clough team of journeymen footballers who had a belief they could beat anybody. No matter. times have changed come on Pools nail them all at home and cut out the mistakes and don't let Chesterfield think they are there already.

Watching the Altrincham match I mused about watching a traditional tricky winger let loose at the defences, I can only dream.

or the tough full back kicking the little bugger into touch. used to love it if we were doing the kicking and the ref just wagged a finger at them. they call todays game progress. i beg to differ.

I always admired Ron ‘chopper’ Harris of Chelsea for his unchanging expression before and after declaring war on any winger who mistakenly thought they could take the piss… I suspect the Terminator was based on him.

I wonder who our barber and taxi driver are???
I would guess at Poolie Imp being the taxi driver and Mr Billy the barber, cos he is a bit more cultured and capable of creating the quiff.

Chopper Harris, Billy Bremner, Graham Souness, Roy Keane and that hod carrying guy with a scowl who grabs gobstoppers off an opponent. Animals every one of them. Shouldn't have got near a football pitch. Oh, did I mention John Gill and Terry Hurlock?

Off the pitch John Gill was a gentleman, lived around the corner from us, you could see him down the Rec every Sunday morning watching the matches with his Yorkshire Terrier complete with Ribbon…we joked it was a snack.

But their fans loved them and every team had an assassin or enforcer, Kenny Burns at Forest comes to mind as every team’s supporters got pleasure from their hit man ‘righting a wrong’ on the pitch the ref had ignored. It was a harder game than today and I dare say if you played for arguments’s sake todays Chelsea against the Chelsea of the early 70’s, it would be carnage.

The way the game has changed, that particular match would have an hour and a half added time due to the flakes rolling around on the ground, referee wouldn’t know whether his/her @r$e was punched or bored.

its not just the players have changed its the attitude of clubs. if pools ever get into the fa cup 3rd round again or play a league cup game we would be pushed to recognise any opponent if we drew a premier league team. none of this squad rubbish, the best players played in the first team and the others in the stiffs. remember burnley being fined for playing a weakened team before a fa cup game. now its the other way around as the cup games get the weakened sides. as for referees in the league most were then in there late 30,s and 40,s. they knew the players and if a team had an aggressive centre forward playing against a john gill type he,d let em both have a good hard dig at each other and then ask em to play football now. none of these child referees dishing out cards at any and every opportunity for offences that might not have got a free kick once. too much adopting south american and continental attitudes on and off the pitch and the rise of unsocial media has never helped.

Back then the big clubs did indeed play the first team when playing lower league teams in the Cup and you could probably name the team as well..now they bang the anonymous, technically ‘gifted’ kids in to ruin you day without the consolation of seeing the big names perform, who at least gave you the consolation of being beaten by the stars of the game. Ah well.