Plenty of lads went to posh school but had partial or total government assistance to do so (speaking from experience
). I spent 7 years sat probably within 10 foot of our illustrious chairman.
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Joseph Charles Gardner
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). I spent 7 years sat probably within 10 foot of our illustrious chairman.
Notcher
Stuart Pearce
I went with predators for a season, I had to keep getting the boot rep to send out replacement blade studs as they disintegrated to dust the second they touched concrete
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
As opposed to the rock-hard leather studs on my first boots Notch, which could crack concrete
Notcher
Stuart Pearce
Bloody hell
. Plastic studs were still a thing when I started and they were leathel. As soon as you walked over concrete they would create sharp plastic tiny knives on the stud. I saw a few of those create some gashes until they got banned in the mid early/mid 90s
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
Redmayne & todd: i bought my first proper cricket bat there... Gunn & moore too!
It is in the garage even now.
Probably needs a few coats of linseed oil, and a new grip.
Statto
Free Kick Specialist
Yes, but by the time Joe got there (and Patrick Bamford a few years before), Blair had happened and canned assisted places. I guess they still do scholarships though.Plenty of lads went to posh school but had partial or total government assistance to do so (speaking from experience
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
I passed my 11 Plus, and went to a State Grammar School, where i got a far better education, and far more extra-curricular activities than my kids got when I paid for them to go private, as the state schools were so shit by the time my kids were ready for secondary education. With AI set to make all labour redundant, the rich and entitled classes will no longer have need of an educated workforce. So all education will go the way the NHS has gone (the rich don't need a healthy workforce already).Plenty of lads went to posh school but had partial or total government assistance to do so (speaking from experience
Education is important but football is importanter
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
A good friend of mine used to say that.
When I was studying for O Levels and A Levels, Degree, professional qualifications he was working for a fabricators, earning a rate per hour.
Now we are both retired and he has only a State Pension he wishes he had not pooh - poohed education.
ARedChester
First Team Squad
Exactly. Look at the products produced in Taiwan, Cambodia etc - a workforce of 9 year old, paid little, little education and we are much better off. Better option than paying for home grown products who need an old and highly educated workforce.
Pooh-poohing of any kind is dangerous
Rubics
Bin VAR!
That’s the problem with customers - they don’t use the product how it’s intended!
Had a hand in designing the compound for the blades, met Craig Johnson and we made the compound for the proto types just outside Leicester. Far east ripped it off after a couple of years.
Notcher
Stuart Pearce
That's interesting, it always bugged me about those blades, the issue was when we had to walk some distance along paths without grass sides to get to pitches. I bet I went through about 6 sets that year. They were brilliant traction wise on the grass though. One of the best I've had for that.That’s the problem with customers - they don’t use the product how it’s intended!
Had a hand in designing the compound for the blades, met Craig Johnson and we made the compound for the proto types just outside Leicester. Far east ripped it off after a couple of years.
This was the version I'm referring to
Rubics
Bin VAR!
We could do all the mechanical / physical tests on the compound (hardness, stiffness, strength, abrasion resistance, friction, density etc) but on this project it was very much make samples, get them made into blades / boots and see what Craig says.
If we’d have made the compound more abrasion resistant for concrete you would have lost a bit of the grip / traction on the pitch.
It was one of the few projects we worked on that had very little cost constraints - the original compound was something like 5x the price of clarks school shoes for kids.
If we’d have made the compound more abrasion resistant for concrete you would have lost a bit of the grip / traction on the pitch.
It was one of the few projects we worked on that had very little cost constraints - the original compound was something like 5x the price of clarks school shoes for kids.
Notcher
Stuart Pearce
Brilliant, love this. Thanks for sharing.
I remember watching Craig on Blue Peter talking about it just before they launched, obviously that was before these blades were introduced and it understandably .centred around the concept of the fins
Cyril
A. Trialist
Just bought my 8 yr old lad a pair of the new Predators. He loves them and wears them on 3G pitches and grass.
As we all know though its really not that simplistic.
Red Dog in a Forest
Viv Anderson
I went to uni, grabbed a few certificates along the way, but I think application in the right way is what makes you financially secure / successful.
It also requires a great deal of luck. Far better people than me have been ravaged by depression and illness and a million other things that have taken away their will.
My problem was that I worked too hard at times. I thought that by doing OT / 70 hour weeks I’d get noticed.
I did get noticed, but was dubbed Mr Fixit in my IT days, which translates as me getting all the hardest / shit projects. Whilst all the BS artists got promoted.
I then briefly became a BS artist (!) when I moved into recruitment.
Now I run my own business, I’ve learnt what to focus on, what to let go off and not to take life too seriously. And crucially, to look up at the bigger picture.
It’s bloody hard working by / for yourself, but the lack of office politics and BS means I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Spot on. The idea that someone didn’t do higher eduction and blames that for their pension is the same as me blaming the loss of my professional football career on a dodgy knee.
valspoodle
Steve Chettle
My first boots were brown, with studs you hammered in on the last. With luck the nails didn't come through the sole, but if they did you just had to grin and bear it.
Morpeth
John Robertson
I’m still hanging on to the latter.
Notcher
Stuart Pearce
Yeah I just got my lad some of those. A bit ouchy on the price but they are a lovely boot. He's had his name and number on them too.
Master Yates
John Robertson
Possibly the Puma King as pictured then C'ptn.
I started out with New Balance solely down to Collymore wearing them. Copa mundials then became my boot of choice, copas were the moulded version and World Cup were studded. Interestingly (or maybe not) the world cups didn't have the same comfort fit as the sole was different so pros would have the copas drilled either by the kit man or sometimes by the YT's if they knew what they were doing to enable screw in studs rather than switching to the world cups
I tried on a pair of New Balance boots in the shop simply because Stan wore them. Black moulded with the big fold down tongue flap.
Ended up buying them because they fit like a pair of old slippers. Beautiful boots and (this might sound odd) I just always felt like I got great contact on the ball when wearing them. Crisp, clean strikes etc
I wanted to get coloured boots but blue was as renegade as my dad would let me (you can’t wear white boots at full back) so I got a pair of Asics screw ins. They looked great (I thought) but weren’t great boots.
I usually plumped for puma or adidas. Could never get on with Nikes as I always felt they were really narrow and pinched too much.
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Notcher
Stuart Pearce
Might have been the same NB ones I had too by the sounds of it. Spot on about Nike being narrow, I'm a wide fitting being 6'4 and I could never get on with Nike when I tried them. Adidas always had a much wider fitting hence the copas and predators.
I agree with the Asics too I had a pair of asics testimonials with the white foldover tongue, they looked beautiful but they were shite
I agree with the Asics too I had a pair of asics testimonials with the white foldover tongue, they looked beautiful but they were shite