The club are the town's club as the logo says and it pains me when i read on here people slating the staff who work there, be it about tickets, strips, snow, food, drink, crowds, half time entertainment etc.
Whatever it is someone is always willing to have a go, but the team off the pitch are committed to providing a top-class service to their public and other customers.
Freeloaders, we've all worked in jobs with liggers and hangers-on, those who turn up, do squat, take as much out of it as they can and go home. No-one like that inside the club that I have come across. There may well be fans who take advantage of it, but you get that everywhere, people wanting govvy jobs, expecting discount in shops etc.
Me, I'm not prepared to sit here and discuss what I do for Pools, but needless to say I'll do ask much that is asked of me, whether I have the time or not, and like Phil and John no doubt, it goes beyond what is seen in the programme. I will say that filling two pages in a programme with fresh innovative or up to date ideas is difficult enough, never mind four or five. John's work is admirable and interesting this season, a different slant and I like it. Phil's stuff is always personable and funny and this season it invokes a lot of memories. There's a lot of research goes into stuff like this and if they or I were to do something similar to what I do for Pools' programme for a top-flight club, I could pick up a hefty fee over the course of the season. Do you know some clubs actually employ and pay club historians.
For the record, I started going to Pools in March 1977 and have only written for the programme for the past couple of years and will continue to go when they grow sick of me typing off instead of of and to instead of too.
One of you commented on I thought I knew so much about Pools until meeting phil et al. See my signature.....need i say more
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