chrisp65 Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 About two seasons, give or take, before I got interested. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 (edited) I'm guessing that is from 1973? Edited November 16, 2015 by maqroll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post maqroll Posted November 16, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 16, 2015 The testing of American football helmets, 1912. Cutting edge system, there. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 It was 1970 / 71 apparently. I think '73 they were promoted to the 2nd division at which point I jumped aboard (glory hunter). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Great kit though, looks beautiful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 5 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Great kit though, looks beautiful. Back when football was a simpler and more pleasurable game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 16, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted November 16, 2015 About two seasons, give or take, before I got interested. Oh man, I loved that team. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROTTERDAM1982 Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 How many can you name? Here goes, back row, not sure, Fred Turnbull,not sure, Charlie Aitken,The Andy Lockhead, Bruce Rioch,Geoff Vowden? Front row, Chico, Curtis, Brown?,not sure, not sure, Willie,not sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 John Robson in there? My Dad had a trial with Wille Anderson at Villa. Both got invited back for a second trial but only Willie got picked. my Dad did say he was much better than anyone else 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Quote Plague fleas, infected clothing, and infected supplies encased in bombs were dropped on various targets. The resulting cholera, anthrax, and plague were estimated to have killed around and possibly more than 400,000 Chinese civilians.[24] Tularemia was tested on Chinese civilians.[25] Unit 731 and its affiliated units (Unit 1644 and Unit 100 among others) were involved in research, development, and experimental deployment of epidemic-creating biowarfare weapons in assaults against the Chinese populace (both civilian and military) throughout World War II. Plague-infested fleas, bred in the laboratories of Unit 731 and Unit 1644, were spread by low-flying airplanes upon Chinese cities, coastal Ningbo in 1940, and Changde, Hunan Province, in 1941. This military aerial spraying killed thousands of people with bubonic plague epidemics.[26] Unit 731 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ikantcpell Posted April 6, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2016 Ive just read a book called voices from normandy, a really good read about D-Day. One fo the voices is from a guy from birmingham who said when he was taking cover in a foxhole from german artillery bombardment he could hear wild discussions between the bombardments from the foxhole behind him about who was the best club, Birmingham City or Aston Villa and it cheered him up and gave him a sense of being close to home. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted April 6, 2016 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted April 6, 2016 It must have been hell in Normandy '44. Just imagine - stuck in a trench with a bluenose. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Chilcot Inquiry report to be published 6th July. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 5 hours ago, chrisp65 said: Chilcot Inquiry report to be published 6th July. Blair is probably googling counties that we don't have extradition treaties with about now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 probability it's a white-wash? Either; (i) Completely exonerates all and sundry. (ii) Things were so complex, many, many variables, systematic failure, oh so very, very complex. Let's form a committee and compile another report and make some recommendations so this never happens again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V01 Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 53 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: Blair is probably googling counties that we don't have extradition treaties with about now Pretty sure he'll come up blank on that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted May 10, 2016 Author Share Posted May 10, 2016 (edited) On August 27, 2013 at 03:47, The_Rev said: WW2 is fascinating. I'd love to be a bit more up to speed about the North and East African campaigns (which I believe were mostly just us stomping on Italy) though. Anybody got any good links or videos? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Liberation-Trilogy-Boxed-Set/dp/1627790594/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1462860527&sr=8-3&keywords=the+liberation+trilogy Written with a focus on the specifics of the American campaign in North Africa, Italy and D-Day onward. That said, it does not give short shrift to major British players, efforts and motives, and highlights how big a factor vanity and personal ambition factored in to so many monumental decisions. The American Morocco landing was in some ways more unlikely and dramatic than Normandy. The books have fascinating insight into the relationships at high levels amongst all the Allies. Battle analysis is never dull. He writes like a poet at times, he's that good. Total precision. Edited May 10, 2016 by maqroll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 10, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 10, 2016 The standard received British version that I grew up with, runs something like: 1. British whip Italians 2. Rommel rocks up, whips British 3. Montgomery rocks up, whips Rommel at El Alamein 4. Americans stroll ashore unopposed, get whipped by Rommel at Kasserine Pass 5. Americans get their act together, invade Italy 6. Allies slog their way through Italy until Germans run out of steam Always worth digging a bit deeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 Back from Berlin yesterday. Wow. The whole place is a living museum. WW2/Cold war. Probably my favourite city. Ich bin ein Berliner. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 10, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 10, 2016 30 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: Back from Berlin yesterday. Wow. The whole place is a living museum. WW2/Cold war. Probably my favourite city. Ich bin ein Berliner. Never been to Berlin, would like to go, but... I have this mental picture of pre-war (and immediate post-war) Berlin which doesn't chime with what I assume is now a very modern city. I fear I would find that disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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