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Post by nws on Dec 4, 2013 13:58:02 GMT
I reckon that anyone who can reminisce about the reborn Stones without recalling Ash United's one-man Barmy Army wasn't really there. Anyway, what's this in the blurb about a "lost generation of dads and sons attending a Maidstone United match together"? I recall a whole bunch of us inflicting Saturday afternoon at Bourne Park and elsewhere on our lads (and ladettes) - at least until they went off to become long-haired layabouts. Indeed I wasn't at this game so never got to see the great man. However, I will counter that I was once among a crowd of 4 Stones fans at Sutton Fire Brigade on a sunny august afternoon. The others being Steve Hemsley, Keith Wickham and Ray Honeysett. In those days the main challenge seemed to be finding the ground at all.
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Post by grindstone on Feb 5, 2014 12:55:39 GMT
I see they were holding the interviews for a writer and a photographer at the Library yesterday. They were offering £8k each, which the accountants among you will be pleased to know leaves £49k of the Arts Council grant to cover book-production, activities/events, and presumably the organisers’ fees. I can think of one or two writers among us who would happily have saved a slice of public money by doing it for the love of the club – apart from some beer money to stimulate the memory, obviously. However, the brief made sure the task wasn’t going to an amateur by insisting on £5m of liability insurance. (I can’t tell you whether the Coalition still enforces the covert New Labour rule on equality apartheid in arts funding – in short: Straight White Males Need Not Apply).
Nonetheless, we all look forward to sharing with the winning applicant our fond memories of the wilderness years. I shall be telling her about that great day in 1995 when we beat Melchester Rovers in the seventh round of the FA Bowl, our brilliant trainee David Beckenham coming on to score a memorable winning try in the fourth down. (Or is my memory playing tricks?)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2014 15:25:19 GMT
I see they were holding the interviews for a writer and a photographer at the Library yesterday. They were offering £8k each, which the accountants among you will be pleased to know leaves £49k of the Arts Council grant to cover book-production, activities/events, and presumably the organisers’ fees. I can think of one or two writers among us who would happily have saved a slice of public money by doing it for the love of the club – apart from some beer money to stimulate the memory, obviously. However, the brief made sure the task wasn’t going to an amateur by insisting on £5m of liability insurance. (I can’t tell you whether the Coalition still enforces the covert New Labour rule on equality apartheid in arts funding – in short: Straight White Males Need Not Apply). Nonetheless, we all look forward to sharing with the winning applicant our fond memories of the wilderness years. I shall be telling her about that great day in 1995 when we beat Melchester Rovers in the seventh round of the FA Bowl, our brilliant trainee David Beckenham coming on to score a memorable winning try in the fourth down. (Or is my memory playing tricks?) For £8k they can buy the complete history of the club, that I have been researching and working on for the past ten years, from me!
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