Re: Swinton Away - OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:30 pm  

Hillsborough Lad wrote:

HL travel ran a very successful trip to Carcassonne...with no flight delays either!

True and not via Ilkley either

Has to be Martin then or Neil who are the Jinxes

Re: Swinton Away - OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Tue Jul 03, 2012 4:19 pm  

It'll be me then. I've been on more late trains than I've had hot dinners (although technically the fact they're late is more to do with the train companies than me, so I'm not responsible for the delays!!!). I used to have a mate who kept a record of all the delayed trains he'd been on throughout a season. In 1981 the delays totalled 486 minutes. That's 8 hours and 6 minutes. Of course, several Eagles supporters experienced a similar delay in ONE TRIP returning from Carcassonne!!!

Re: Swinton Away - OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Tue Jul 03, 2012 4:26 pm  

martyb wrote:

It'll be me then. I've been on more late trains than I've had hot dinners (although technically the fact they're late is more to do with the train companies than me, so I'm not responsible for the delays!!!). I used to have a mate who kept a record of all the delayed trains he'd been on throughout a season. In 1981 the delays totalled 486 minutes. That's 8 hours and 6 minutes. Of course, several Eagles supporters experienced a similar delay in ONE TRIP returning from Carcassonne!!!

I bet the winter nights flew by in his house.

[Hillsborough Lad]

Re: Swinton Away - OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:06 pm  

Sounds like he spent most of them in a train station!

Re: Swinton Away - OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:01 pm  

He could be quite amusing actually. He was a French teacher ( a teacher of French, that is, not a teacher who IS French) and one of his favourite tricks was to find a young programme seller and pretend to be a non English speaking French supporter wanting a programme. After speaking fluent French at them for 4 or 5 minutes, with them getting more and more flustered, he'd then say something like "Ok, can I have a programme please?" in his BROAD LANCASTRIAN accent, shove the money into their hands and walk off. Another favourite was asking if they had any programmes left, and if they said yes, he'd say "Well you shouldn't have printed so many then". I suppose you had to be there.

[Hillsborough Lad]

Re: Swinton Away - OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:05 am  

martyb wrote:

He could be quite amusing actually. He was a French teacher ( a teacher of French, that is, not a teacher who IS French) and one of his favourite tricks was to find a young programme seller and pretend to be a non English speaking French supporter wanting a programme. After speaking fluent French at them for 4 or 5 minutes, with them getting more and more flustered, he'd then say something like "Ok, can I have a programme please?" in his BROAD LANCASTRIAN accent, shove the money into their hands and walk off. Another favourite was asking if they had any programmes left, and if they said yes, he'd say "Well you shouldn't have printed so many then". I suppose you had to be there.

I've heard that works quite well in Halifax

Re: Swinton Away - OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:07 am  

Re: Swinton Away - OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD : Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:14 am  

martyb wrote:

He could be quite amusing actually. He was a French teacher ( a teacher of French, that is, not a teacher who IS French) and one of his favourite tricks was to find a young programme seller and pretend to be a non English speaking French supporter wanting a programme. After speaking fluent French at them for 4 or 5 minutes, with them getting more and more flustered, he'd then say something like "Ok, can I have a programme please?" in his BROAD LANCASTRIAN accent, shove the money into their hands and walk off. Another favourite was asking if they had any programmes left, and if they said yes, he'd say "Well you shouldn't have printed so many then". I suppose you had to be there.

That's quite funny actually I am sad though.