I,m begining to get the impression Raj is a control freak.

I know loads has been spouted about the TownEnd.
But did Raj close it out of Spite.

I don't for one moment believe Raj closed it out of spite. The real question is does he have a " scoobie do " how to run a successful football club

Depends whos looking at it.

To myself its just the colour of the polish.

Fred Perry jumpers and Oxford bags

Jumpers with three big stars on the front

Was it a BCR thing or Northern Soul?

It’s called paranoia.

same for me. never gave it a second thought when i bought a tin of it. same with the use of prussian blue never made me think of WW! german officers. red indians were only something in cowboy films and black guys were the friends or foes of tarzan. some people who say they are not racist must think every minute of the day how to force there ideas down the throats of other non racists. the corner shop is still a paki shop as its owner is a pakistani whose only interest is people using his shop and not what they call it. his words not mine.

How do we know that It was Raj's decision to close the Town End???
I heard it was Rose Stoker's decision but there isn't any proof of that either.
It certainly appears that Raj pays more than just a passing eye to cost reduction so I would imagine he instructs his staff along those lines. Nothing wrong with being a control freak as long as it is advantageous to the operation and not just an obsession. Personally I wouldn't have closed the Town End but I am not in possession of all the pros and cons involved in the decision process.
Why would anybody close it out of spite and to spite who???? Spite is an emotion. Businessmen don't generally do emotions. Is Raj known to be spiteful, His generosity towards Ukraine certainly didn't suggest spite unless he has a personal grudge towards Russia.
If you actually think about it we know very little about Raj, which is probably why so much is made up about him. The only definite influence I can recall about his involvement with Pools is that he got involved when nobody else was interested {apart from Stelling). The rest is at best educated guesswork which of course could be accurate. On the other hand..............

Try using the word n***** or pak* chinki etc in this very woke world.

still do and will not stop doing it as i use there establishments and no offence is given. the owner of the first knows many call it that and does not give a damn as long as people use it. its the ones that refuse to use it because of what he is that he has a problem with. imagine its the same at the takeaway when i get my 69 with chips. i have no interest whatsoever what the woke brigade say or think and never will have.

There are lots of words frowned upon in today's world and most of them used to be used to describe someone or something. If your formative years were full of these now frowned upon descriptions there is reason for tolerance when an eighty year old comes out with something that is locked in his brain. I still refer to ten bob sometimes or forget to say a chinese for tea instead of a chinky. I used the words Taffy, Jock or Paddy but usually in a friendly manner. No malice or intent to abuse or degradation even enter my thoughts.

exactly. i seriously doubt a single welshman, irishman or scot who has half a brain would be offended by anyone calling em that unless the rest of what is being said is said in a bad way about them individually or as a race. as i have said why do you need to think twice before you call your local chinese takeaway a chinky before you go. you are not saying that you are not going or never will enter tthe place because its run by a chinky. funny how the latter will never receive stick because they do not mention the subject but have a bigger agenda than those who have said the same thing for years on end without offence. remember offence is taken rather than being given in many cases. asylum seakers and illegal immegrants are the same person but a lot depends on your politics or thoughts which you class them as.

I ‘m always amused by the term ‘cultural appropriation’ where you adapt a dress code or style of another culture…White men with dreadlocks get accused of this, but if anyone who is not of European extraction was wearing a suit could they be accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ which just shows how stupid it is ..or is it a one way street….?

Opertuity knocks with Hughie ( monster eye ) Green. Must have been the first talent show . Golden shot with " Bernie the bolt " maybe the first game show

Double you Money or Take your pick…the questions were hard, but I was in the Juniors

Shoot.... the live north east football on Sundays. I remember running onto the pitch along with hundreds of other kids after the final whistle just to get on tele. Next day at school our teacher give four of us " 6 of the best " for entering the pitch because he was also a Pools fan and a complete cockkkkk.

Nah, I honestly think the club is f--ked.

Raj said he did know Peter Hartley, If anybody believes that a chairman lets someone else appoint a manager
Then they must be really off their trolly.

You were 42 and the PE Teacher

the questions were much harder than they are now and you can add mastermind and university challenge to that. i,m sure my general knowledge has not improved over the years so why can i answer far more questions in those two programmes than i once did. much better though on anciant greeks than i am with pop music and cinema after the early 60,s.

"Puro" milk in what looked like beer bottles.

Sterilised milk was its proper name, and you can get it in Morrisons - but it tastes shite out of a plastic bottle.

Take your Pick.

Esso Blue Paraffin Dispenser Machines outside local hardware shop.

Our heating in the early 70's in first house bought after marrying in 1970.

Have you stopped collecting the illegal invasion figures Mr C?

Farthing

Odeon, Essoldo(spelling), ABC, Northerns, Lex.

Players not wearing gloves.(fannies)

Regal was the name before the Essoldo

First televised game show:
SPELLING BEE
When
31 MAY 1938
Spelling Bee was first transmitted on BBC television at 10pm on 31 May 1938. Beamed live from Alexandra Palace, the 15-minute show involved the host Freddie Grisewood asking contestants to spell various words, and was based on a successful radio format adapted by the BBC from the US schools' Spelling Bee competitions. The show ran monthly for just five episodes.

Wow stomper I had no idea we even had t.v back then. For some reason or other I thought we only had radio because of the stories about people listening to WW2 on radio. I would have guessed t.v. would have come about after the war.

Forgot that, Nice one.

Tuesday Andy Pandy. Wednesday Bill and Ben. Thursday The Wooden Tops. Sparky and his magic piano. Agent X out of Stingray with that desk that turned upside down. Marina the perfect woman apart from Lady Penelope who I always believed was voiced by Joanna Lumley. The original Avengers with "Mother" played by Patrick Newell on the top of that red double deckier bus. The Sea Devils on Dr Who and the original master played by the late Roger Delgado. Zokko on a Saturday morning. "Song box fourteen." Tony Bircumshaw.

Shazam on a Saturday morning…...”size of an elephant”

Saturday morning at the pictures, all the kids stamping their feet on the floor waiting for the big massive fella to appear on screen and bang the biggest gong anyone has ever seen anywhere

Kids tea time programmes for lads early 60’s..
Robin Hood
William Tell
Ivanhoe
Richard the Lionheart
Francis Drake
The Buccaneers

Lassie, I stopped my daughter watching it as she always ended up crying during it.
Champion the Wonder Horse.
Mr Ed, the talking horse.
Lone Ranger?

top of the form on the wireless. a knock out schools quiz programme with different ages of kids in both teams. actually do they have top of the form in classes nowadays as someone might get upset if they are not as bright as another.

Think he was called "Randy Andy Pandy" always getting" Loopy Lou" (whatever her name was) into the basket with him.
Little Ted never got a look in.

Monday ‘Listen with Mother’,……dad was at work.

Jack Marshalls bike shop opposite the Essoldo.

rock hard ice cream bought in the pictures at the interval that a busty elizebeth taylor could never melt. in fact just going to the pictures without a bigger array of food and drinks on offer that some cafes cannot match.

The slag bank.
Better know as the Cotton Club

Always smelt of rubber bike tyres….funny how some smells stick in your mind, I suppose it was the idea of a big outlay for a kid on a new bike tyre.

Toffee Apples, Cinder Toffee, Rhubarb Rock and Nebo Creams.

Discipline @ School - The Cane across hands, Slipper across ar*e, Writing out "Lines", Detention.

PS: Didn't go home and tell your Dad as you would get another whack!

I dont know if its a generational thing but i like the smell of petrol/oil and rubber.

Bretts sweet shop.

No good if you’re a pyromaniac rubber fetishist
Er, not you personally mr Bluestreak

i was trying to keep it quiet