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Posted 18 Oct 2025 at 01:37

I'm sat on my own in the virtual pub. Where's all the other pint loving, insomniacs when you need them.

 Phil was a regular here. He loved a virtual pint of Spitfire. We miss him very much. 

As a sign of respect, it's nice, that no-one uses his bar stool and that we've hung a photo of him, astride his 1973 Kawasaki s2A 350 triple 2 stroke, behind the bar.

Here's to you, mate. 🍺

Edited by member 19 Oct 2025 at 06:24  | Reason: Additional text

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Posted 19 Oct 2025 at 22:24

Here! Here! Here’s to you Phil 🍺🍺🍺. Free pints in heaven 😬 and now watching Spurs losing from above πŸ˜‡

Apologies, I’ve been off line, my phone not telling me if any new posts.

Got to tell you this. My old work colleague won a box at City in an auction, we went yesterday vs Barnsley. What a fabulous entertaining experience. 22000 there, superb atmosphere and a Barnsley fella scored a worldly lobbing our 6ft 5 goalie from well within his own half. Free booze and tiffin in the box - how the other half live eh? Suffice to say I’ve spent today with a bad head and croaky voice - brilliant πŸ˜ƒ

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Posted 19 Oct 2025 at 22:51

Hi Spongebob.

I'm glad you that you had a great day at the footie. I've just viewed the highlights. The goal you described was awesome. 

I watched my 11 year old grandson play yesterday. For almost the entire match he kept his team in the game. He made several stunning saves and saved a penalty. Then with only 5 minutes left to play, he let in a really soft goal. They lost 1-0. He was gutted. 

Who'd be a goalie? 😩

Edited by member 20 Oct 2025 at 10:04  | Reason: Typo

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Posted 20 Oct 2025 at 13:48

Hi Adrian,

Oh no, he must be gutted! You've got to be on it 100%, haven't you to be a keeper, no mistakes. Even the great Gordon Banks conceded two against the Germans on the greatest day (of course I'm way too young to remember that, first time round). You must be a really proud grandad, how good must it be to watch your grandson play. Hey, I hope you capture some of these precious moments on video, if not do it - something good to look back on. I'm envious. 

I think I've said before that neither of my kids got into football, neither playing or watching. I often wonder where I went wrong πŸ™„. Instead for a time before they both disappeared into their virtual worlds they both did competitive swimming. The eldest got quite good, he's got a draw full of medals and swam regularly at Yorks Champs and North East Regionals giving me some very proud moments to set against the thousands of hours that I spent sitting around swimming pools and playing at Taxi-man. I remember once driving him all the way up to Sunderland, getting up at the crack of dawn so that he got there in time for the 8am warm up then sitting around there waiting most of the day for his 50m backcrawl event which was then over within 30 seconds and then back home again - Nightmare! Footy wins all day long 😬 

Miserable, wet looking day outside, I got up this morning feeling like I'd been knocked over by a bus but still I feel like I should be doing something, I have got stuff to do on the allotment, including a load of onions and garlic to plant, but really? On a day like this - no way Jose πŸ˜„.

Mr S

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Posted 27 Oct 2025 at 18:01

Ooo it’s very quiet in here, got any virtual beer?

Might have to call in the Administrators to wind us up and deduct 12 points 😬

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Posted 27 Oct 2025 at 18:29
They tried that, apparently they got a "proxy error"!
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Posted 27 Oct 2025 at 18:30
They tried that, apparently they got a "proxy error"!
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Posted 27 Oct 2025 at 18:31
They tried that, apparently they got a "502 error"!
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Posted 27 Oct 2025 at 18:31
They tried that, apparently they got a "502 error"!
 
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