tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post5812386661853061960..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: Goodbye Fergie 6: RelegationGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-41462742645404461872013-05-28T11:03:33.904+01:002013-05-28T11:03:33.904+01:00Leeds were the team of my Golden Age. I managed to...Leeds were the team of my Golden Age. I managed to shake myself free (with lots of help from Leeds). Family traditional allegiances to Arsenal filled the void when I became interested in football again.<br /><br />Re parallel courses, I've long liked David Hart's "Then in the twentieth century" which won 2nd Prize in the 2002 NPC. I've only the first and the final stanza to hand - I think the other stanzas had more personalised info.<br /><br />Then in the twentieth century they invented transparent adhesive tape,<br />the first record played on Radio 1 was Flowers In The Rain by the Move,<br />and whereas ink had previously been in pots, now it was in cartridges.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Men quarrelled about scrolls found in pots near the Dead Sea, the library<br />at Norwich burned down, milk was pasteurised by law, I have four children,<br />all adult now, small islands became uninhabited, Harpo never spoke on film.<br /><br />Tim Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00578925224900533603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-2148349668113309722013-05-27T23:26:12.155+01:002013-05-27T23:26:12.155+01:00Mullery's goal quite laughably better than the...Mullery's goal quite laughably better than the rest of those miserable offerings: as for the rest, it really is refreshing not to be reading about the seventies from <a href="http://thedabbler.co.uk/2011/01/row-z-the-1970s-golden-age-delusion/" rel="nofollow">the point of view of a well-off middle class type who made it to university, thinks everyone else did, and liked the music.</a><br /><br />But it does all sound terribly hard, and I'm glad I was only five. It's natural to extrapolate the present into the future, and what happened in your own life, let alone what happened to United, must have seemed very far off indeed. <br /><br />jameshttp://www.garreteer.co.uknoreply@blogger.com