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John Robertson
Otis Redding said:
Not a name or face I'm familiar with mate.

There are couple of relatively well known faces - although both sadly no longer with us - Brian Linley (partially obscurred) and my old mate, Johnny Shacklock (less obscured, immediately under the S).

To the left of Johnny is a bloke called Adrian Sheldrick, a bit of a divisive character, who for a peroid of time ran the NFFC club shop on Clinton Street in the city centre. In more recent times he had had T-shirt logo business, and immediately following our League One play-off semi-final 1st-leg win at Yeovil he bought hundreds of T-shirts and printed "Forest at Wembley" on the front hoping for a quick killing following the formality of securing a Wembley final after the 2nd-leg at the CG. As many of us are still left with the awful memory of how it eventually panned-out, Sheldrick was left with all of those T-shirts........until, that is, he decided to hawk boxes of them around the pubs of Derby on the eve of their last Play Off Final. I was told that he claimed to have shifted just about all of them to gleeeful 'shaggers for a fiver a pop, although they didn't have the last laugh of course. Sheldrick didn't endear himslf to a lot of Forest fans who knew him, not that anyone's feelings bothered him.
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I think Derby won on that occasion,Otis-they beat West Brom 1-0 under Billy Davies to set
themselves up for their 11 point season.
 
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Colin Addison

Colin Addison

Youth Team
Otis Redding said:
Not a name or face I'm familiar with mate.

There are couple of relatively well known faces - although both sadly no longer with us - Brian Linley (partially obscurred) and my old mate, Johnny Shacklock (less obscured, immediately under the S).

To the left of Johnny is a bloke called Adrian Sheldrick, a bit of a divisive character, who for a peroid of time ran the NFFC club shop on Clinton Street in the city centre. In more recent times he had had T-shirt logo business, and immediately following our League One play-off semi-final 1st-leg win at Yeovil he bought hundreds of T-shirts and printed "Forest at Wembley" on the front hoping for a quick killing following the formality of securing a Wembley final after the 2nd-leg at the CG. As many of us are still left with the awful memory of how it eventually panned-out, Sheldrick was left with all of those T-shirts........until, that is, he decided to hawk boxes of them around the pubs of Derby on the eve of their last Play Off Final. I was told that he claimed to have shifted just about all of them to gleeeful 'shaggers for a fiver a pop, although they didn't have the last laugh of course. Sheldrick didn't endear himslf to a lot of Forest fans who knew him, not that anyone's feelings bothered him.
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I knew Adrian Sheldrick from playing in the Long Eaton Sunday league and also went to a couple of away games with him. He emigrated to Australia but was back in Long Eaton inside a couple of years.
 
Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
I remember Sheldrick too - he used to chat to us on the park about Forest when we were playing footy as kids (and he used to run a sports shop in LE?). Used to spin a yarn or two, didn't like it when you called him out on it, but was generally harmless iirc.
 
Rockabilly

Rockabilly

GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Gyros Peter said:
I remember Sheldrick too - he used to chat to us on the park about Forest when we were playing footy as kids (and he used to run a sports shop in LE?). Used to spin a yarn or two, didn't like it when you called him out on it, but was generally harmless iirc.
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Was that the sports shop on Tamworth Road opposite the canal?
 
Colin Addison

Colin Addison

Youth Team
Gyros Peter said:
I remember Sheldrick too - he used to chat to us on the park about Forest when we were playing footy as kids (and he used to run a sports shop in LE?). Used to spin a yarn or two, didn't like it when you called him out on it, but was generally harmless iirc.
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He may have had some connection to Victory Sports which I think was run or owned by Dave Watson. I think they had a shop in LE and another in Stabbo
 
Otis Redding

Otis Redding

Try A Little Tenderness
Colin Addison said:
I knew Adrian Sheldrick from playing in the Long Eaton Sunday league and also went to a couple of away games with him. He emigrated to Australia but was back in Long Eaton inside a couple of years.
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I was told that he stopped supporting Forest and moved on to the Panthers, although I don't understand how he saw it as a choice between them as I'm sure there are plenty who do both.
 
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Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
Otis Redding said:
I was told that he stopped supporting Forest and moved on the Panthers, although I don't understand how he saw it as a choice between them as I'm sure there are plenty who do both.
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He was dead bitter about forest at one point - I think he had something to do with retail for us at one point and there was, as there always seemed to be with him, some kind of fall out. (Or all of that might have just been another yarn!)
 
Erik

Erik

oopsy daisy!
LTLF Minion
Colin Addison said:
He may have had some connection to Victory Sports which I think was run or owned by Dave Watson. I think they had a shop in LE and another in Stabbo
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Victory Sports was run, on a day to day basis, as far as I know, by Tony Watson, Dave's brother. I really don't know if Dave had an interest but my father played with both Peter and Tony and they remained lifelong friends.

I spent hours in Victory Sports as a child whilst they caught up with each other! :)

My father remembers Dave as a kid tagging along, but more to the point, later, in his back yard heading a tennis ball against the wall for hours on end!
 
Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
Erik said:
Victory Sports was run, on a day to day basis, as far as I know, by Tony Watson, Dave's brother. I really don't know if Dave had an interest but my father played with both Peter and Tony and they remained lifelong friends.

I spent hours in Victory Sports as a child whilst they caught up with each other! :)

My father remembers Dave as a kid tagging along, but more to the point, later, in his back yard heading a tennis ball against the wall for hours on end!
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Was Tony small(ish) with glasses, or was he at the other sports shop opposite the top house (ish)?
 
Erik

Erik

oopsy daisy!
LTLF Minion
Gyros Peter said:
Was Tony small(ish) with glasses, or was he at the other sports shop opposite the top house (ish)?
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Honestly? I can't remember - We're going back between 40 - 55 years here!

Just remember spending time there with my dad and the names. Somewhere I've got a scrapbook he kept when they were all playing together.
 
Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
Erik said:
Honestly? I can't remember - We're going back between 40 - 55 years here!

Just remember spending time there with my dad and the names. Somewhere I've got a scrapbook he kept when they were all playing together.
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I'm mentally muddling him with the guy who Tracy Maid I think - I spent a lot of my childhood in sports centres/shops. Your old man might have played with/against mine though. Similar circle by the sound of it.
 
Dino

Dino

Duncan McKenzie
Gyros Peter said:
Wheatsheaf was a wannabe DLF hangout at one point - there were a couple in that were proper and the rest were hangers on/pretenders.
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I remember a bunch of us going in there one Saturday night, somewhere around 2002'ish and one of the lads said DLF were in attendance so to keep the Forest chat down - a bit difficult after a few pints!
 
Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
Dino said:
I remember a bunch of us going in there one Saturday night, somewhere around 2002'ish and one of the lads said DLF were in attendance so to keep the Forest chat down - a bit difficult after a few pints!
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That would tie in with the time period I'm thinking of - Kev Colburne had it (Wheatsheaf) around that time.

Long Eaton was a funny place for Derby-Forest rivalries. I knew lots of that era Derby lot through football/school, some of whom I think were DLF, and there was never any issues regarding rivalries. Imagine it might have been different for out of towners though!
 
Rockabilly

Rockabilly

GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Gyros Peter said:
That would tie in with the time period I'm thinking of - Kev Colburne had it (Wheatsheaf) around that time.

Long Eaton was a funny place for Derby-Forest rivalries. I knew lots of that era Derby lot through football/school, some of whom I think were DLF, and there was never any issues regarding rivalries. Imagine it might have been different for out of towners though!
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At this moment in time from what I've seen (I'm only in Long Eaton in the early afternoons), there's friendly banter, mainly from folk that have known each other for a long time.
 
Dino

Dino

Duncan McKenzie
Gyros Peter said:
That would tie in with the time period I'm thinking of - Kev Colburne had it (Wheatsheaf) around that time.

Long Eaton was a funny place for Derby-Forest rivalries. I knew lots of that era Derby lot through football/school, some of whom I think were DLF, and there was never any issues regarding rivalries. Imagine it might have been different for out of towners though!
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Yes, it is a bit of a one-off, half Forest, half-Derby.

I lived in Long Eaton for a while, never really had any bother beyond snidey comments from some Sheep down the pub (I used to go in the Eaton Farm quite regularly) when they were in the ascendant - Didn't have any trouble that night in the Wheatsheaf, just some black looks, nothing more than that.
 
Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
Dino said:
Yes, it is a bit of a one-off, half Forest, half-Derby.

I lived in Long Eaton for a while, never really had any bother beyond snidey comments from some Sheep down the pub (I used to go in the Eaton Farm quite regularly) when they were in the ascendant - Didn't have any trouble that night in the Wheatsheaf, just some black looks, nothing more than that.
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Ive had/seen a few run ins in my time there but it was nothing that wasn't earned/deserved. One of the last times I went out there I had a freshly made pizza thrown at me from about five feet - twat missed too, though he was unimpressed at my banter enough to call for a load of his mates so they could carry on throwing things at me outside!
 
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