Fivetide
5:00 Wed Apr 24
Re: 1989
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Had a nice picture of Harriet Wheeler in a stripey top on my wall.
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Gavros
4:49 Wed Apr 24
Re: 1989
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I started secondary school.
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Leonard Hatred
4:47 Wed Apr 24
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I had a Morris Marina.
It was MUSTARD YELLOW.
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Darby_
4:45 Wed Apr 24
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The Stone Roses and Jive Bunny. Superb year really.
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Block
4:42 Wed Apr 24
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YES Hatred.
Ride on Time - Absolute banger
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Leonard Hatred
4:40 Wed Apr 24
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I liked 1989.
1989 was GOOD.
Black Box - Ride On Time
Jive Bunny
Jethro Tull - Rock Island.
I was 18 and went to Israel to work on a Kibbutz.
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ironsofcanada
3:43 Tue Apr 23
Re: 1989
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Just discovered pop music and weirdly for where I was - rap
He's the DJ I'm the Rapper
License to Ill
(Pretty sure both came out a year or two earlier in the rest of the world)
But Lōc-ed After Dark, Paul's Boutique and "Doowutchyalike" from Digital Underground were that year.
Other stuff
Love & Rockets - "So Alive"
Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw and the Cook (not sure if I got that one late as well)
Batman Soundtrack - loved that movie
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - "American Dream"
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cholo
12:50 Tue Apr 23
Re: 1989
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Up until then we'd been blessed in the 80s with some very handy strikers, Cross, Cottee, Mcavennie, Goddard, Whitton... OK maybe not Whitton, but you get the picture. To then be left with only a crocked Leroy and out off depth Kelly (Slater was a kid and not ready either) was a bit demoralising for the squad and manager as well as the fans I expect.
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Troy McClure
12:45 Tue Apr 23
Re: 1989
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NS - Both my brother and I have been diagnosed with Perthes. Him when he was 14 (funnily enough in 1989) he spent 6 weeks in hospital in traction. Plenty of pull the other ones jokes as you can imagine. Always remember going up to see him with news of Lyall's sacking - we'd never experienced WH sacking anyone before
I was diagnosed a couple of years back (aged 42) after my hip starting giving me plenty of grief. Turns out my right leg is a centre metre shorter than the left. I am England's answer to Garrincha!
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ChillTheKeel
12:35 Tue Apr 23
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He also looked like a butterfly's fart would spark him out. Awful signing.
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Northern Sold
12:35 Tue Apr 23
Re: 1989
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Kelly was diagnosed with Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease at the age of five, and at one stage his left leg was four inches shorter than the right leg, and he was on crutches until the age of ten.
Explains a lot...
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Northern Sold
12:00 Tue Apr 23
Re: 1989
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The daft thing with Dave kelly is was apparently a shoot out between us and Bayern Munich who got him... we won... or lost... depending on the way you look at it... he was fucking shite for us... deffo alien as he could not cope with our atmosphere and just kept unbalancing... mate reckoned he had one leg longer .... but to be fair to him once he left us he scored goals galore.... 250 in 740 apps.... think he had 7 in 45 for us... now that is the West Ham way...
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claypole
8:55 Mon Apr 22
Re: 1989
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Peter DAVENPORT
Kevin DRINKELL
Kerry DIXON
All players we were allegedly in for according to the back pages of the papers i was delivering at the time
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Mad Dog
8:00 Mon Apr 22
Re: 1989
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I was only 13 at the time
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fossil
4:10 Mon Apr 22
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I got a good memory, I read Lyall's comments in the programme notes for the first home game 88/89. Very blunt, said that there wasn't enough firepower up front. Kelly, Rosenior and Dolan. We even had Hilton up front at times.
Crowd forever singing "Only one McAvennie", only out of frustration, not really a serious idea, so was surprised when they actually got him later on. Not a good idea, it's called "reheating old cabbage", like trying to sleep with your ex from 10 years ago.
Loved the midweek cup games though, there were many of those.
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cholo
3:56 Mon Apr 22
Re: 1989
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Another thing about Kelly was that even for Walsall he was never an out and out striker and I don't think he was played in that position ever again, even during his relatively successful spells at Leicester and Newcastle.
So not only did we buy cheap from the lower divisions, he didn't even play in the position we bought him for in the first place. What also makes me laugh is that at the time the club reported that we'd snatched him out of the hands of Tottenham and Bayern Munich, things never change so they...?
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Sven Roeder
1:31 Mon Apr 22
Re: 1989
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There were windows of opportunity in 1966 and 1986 for a bit of ambition.
To build on a team with 3 World Cup winners and a team that pushed Liverpool all the way.
Both were spurned by the cheapskate cunts.
1989 relegation was an inevitable ‘our turn’ under that mindset
At least after that disappointment we could watch the Ashes
England 0 Australia 4
41 wickets for Terry Alderman & 800+ runs for Mark Taylor
Australia used 12 players in 6 Tests , England 29
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southbankbornnbred
12:49 Mon Apr 22
Re: 1989
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Hahaha!
Just explaining WHY we threw ourselves into the rave scene even harder than most: we had a lot to forget!
Socially, 1989 was fucking great!
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fraser
12:38 Mon Apr 22
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Fuk me SBBB, was enjoying reminiscing over the rave culture of '89 you depressing cunt!
swtoc..
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southbankbornnbred
12:24 Mon Apr 22
Re: 1989
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Kelly and McKnight were poor signings which Lyall did not want to make.
With both transfers, he asked for a little more cash top secure significantly better players. He got lumped with both men.
Kelly was a third division player from Walsall. McKnight had played fewer than 20 games as Celtic's back-up. Lyall initially wanted Ian Wright from Palace - was quickly priced out of that deal, and turned attention to the likes of Quinn and Wayne Clarke (Everton): proven scorers at the top level. The board settled on Kelly.
Lyall inquired about Chris Woods from Rangers to replace the ageing Phil Parkes - but was quickly told (by Souness and Woods) that was a no-go. He looked at Dave Beasant, who instead went to Newcastle for the best part of a million quid. We ended up with Allen McKnight - a Celtic reserve - for £300,000.
Each time Lyall inquired about, or went after, a key target, he was forced to settle for a lesser player after selling a top talent. When that happens with almost every transfer, you end up with a lesser team.
Bosh, bang, wallop.
Relegation.
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