Mack A. Damia wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:53:58 +0100, John Williamson
> > wrote:
>
>> Mack A. Damia wrote:
>>> Just happened across this; I don't know much about Gordon Ramsay and
>>> the F Word.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3E8mRQ4AV4
>>>
>>> He mentions, 'Accrington's Stanley' . Must be the name of the tripe
>>> shop. I was born in Accy. Great granny owned a tripe shop in
>>> Clayton.
>> You must have left while you were very young, then, not to know that
>> Accrington Stanley were one of the best known football teams in the U.K.
>> for a period in the 80s.
>
> I left Accy in 1954; the Stanley was always at the bottom of the
> league, and we lived very close to the playing field.
>
Things don't change much, then....

> The Stanley was always fairly well-known, though. In my day they were
> the butt of jokes much in the same manner as the Brooklyn Dodgers.
>
Still are, as far as I can tell.

I'd guess the score next week when they play Queens Park Rangers in the
cup may look more like a cricket score than football, unless QPR take
pity on them.

>> Known for being one of the worst in the country, that is, according to a
>> milk advert.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pieK7b4KLL4
>>
>> As Ramsay says "Accrington Stanley", he's actually walking into the
>> Victorian indoor market building.
>
> I visited in 1999-2000 for the Millennium celebrations. I take it the
> market is called Accrington Stanley, eh? I didn't go downtown; my
> relatives live in Church.
>
The Market is called the Market on all the info I've seen. That show is
not well known for its accuracy and depth of research, except in the
matter of food. I'd not be too sure Ramsay's correctly quoting what he
was told to say, either.

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Tciao for Now!

John.