Gordo: Lee Chapman is still buying a house in Oadby (Leicester) after being spotted in Spencers Estate Agents thousands of times and I’ll tell yer this for nowt, Cruyff signs tomorrow! Someone should compile a graph showing how well you have done in the years when someone was everywhere, in comparison to the years when nobody was everywhere, but everybody was somewhere.

Manager of Yeovil, Got them relegated from the Conference to the Isthmian League. Good player though. Bristol City granted Gow a retrospective testimonial in 2012, when a Legends team played against a Manchester City Legends side. [4] In popular culture [ edit ]Paying tribute to Gow, former Terra Simon Browne told Echosport: “I actually work with Gerry’s wife. I knew he had been ill and we got the phone call from a friend this morning in the office to say it had happened. Sad, but of course inevitable, that we can get almost as passionate about who rules us locally as about who has occupied and tyrannised who in some far-flung corner of humanity’s inhumanity to manity. His first match in charge was when the Terras lost 2-0 at Boston United in a General Motors Vauxhall Conference fixture.

It’s not particularly the Lancashire bit we don’t like although some do, it’s the Oldham bit most of us have a problem with. Mildly snobby on some of them that protest however it’s more of a tradition/sport for us, that were actually brought up there, to complain about the establishment!

The signs were there that Gow’s side were capable of more than they had been showing that season but as Reporter Brian Copp wrote in the Dorset Echo at the time “Football success is all about goals – not territorial advantage and near misses. Nobody can be more aware of this fact than the disappointed Weymouth fans.” However, the game didn’t follow the script from as early as the second-minute, Kevin Smith looked to have given Weymouth an unlikely early lead when he brought the best out of Barnet goalkeeper Gary Phillips, who had to be at full-stretch to tip Smith’s effort over the bar. Sean Docherty Had circumstances been different Gow might have been lining up for Spurs in those games. The Londoners' chief scout Ron Clayton had been a dogged pursuer of the teenage Gow but, in the end, Spurs opted for another young Scottish midfielder from Edinburgh and signed Graeme Souness instead. I thought ‘green light to wallow’ meant ‘signal to indulge in one’s misery’, ‘cos as you say the chances etc. But one can do that in a bath. So perhaps it means both. News of his death was broken by his son, Chris, who posted the following message on Facebook this morning.

Just looking forward to the late starters finally getting going, I for one thought I would be visiting Probe tomorrow before the Bilston gig. Ah well, alls well and all that tosh!

John – google “The Bad Pub Guide” + The Blob Shop for an amusing description of “a bad pub for bad people.”