Xela Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 I just about remember Ceausescu. The video of his demise is readily available online. Naturally its poor quality as 80's communist Romania wasn't at the bleeding edge of video technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 21, 2021 Moderator Share Posted December 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, Xela said: I just about remember Ceausescu. The video of his demise is readily available online. Naturally its poor quality as 80's communist Romania wasn't at the bleeding edge of video technology. Hundreds of soldiers volunteered to be among the one's who pulled the trigger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 1985 Bradford City Football Club Fire. 56 dead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 8 hours ago, chrisp65 said: 1985 Bradford City Football Club Fire. 56 dead. The speed at which it spread, still shocks me. Awful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Just now, Xela said: The speed at which it spread, still shocks me. Awful Yes, I nearly posted the photos, then decided it really wasn’t necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 20, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2022 14 hours ago, Xela said: High Time he got the managers job here. Long overdue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 33 years ago 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted November 5, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted November 5, 2022 50 minutes ago, Xela said: 33 years ago Still got that on a VHS tape in the loft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted February 4, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4, 2023 4th February 1912 Having only limited success with dummy drops on his own original design for a sort of parachute wing suit, tailor, inventor and wishful thinker Franz Reichelt decides to test it properly. Franz receives permission to carry out a dummy drop from the first floor of the Eiffel Tower. However, Franz turns up wearing his design and states he’s doing the jump himself. His friends try to talk him out of it, but Franz is having none of it. Franz makes his way to his jumping off point, with the belief that his invention will bring him safely down the 187 foot drop. It doesn’t end well. For those interested, a British Pathe video of the test can be found easily on YouTube, and while it’s not explicit (impact is seen from a sufficient distance away), I won’t link it just in case. However here’s a picture of Franz and his suit just before making the jump. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted February 5, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 5, 2023 On 05/11/2022 at 21:17, sidcow said: Still got that on a VHS tape in the loft. I remember this as it was a Sunday game. Not many those days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 On 05/11/2022 at 20:27, Xela said: 33 years ago So when did the offence of "obstruction" disappear from the game? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sidcow Posted February 12, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 12, 2023 On 05/02/2023 at 20:41, MakemineVanilla said: So when did the offence of "obstruction" disappear from the game? Always so exciting when Tony Daley got the ball on the wing. Proper rampaging winger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Xela Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 22 years to the day since the death of David Rocastle, at the young age of 33 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 34 years ago today was the Hillsborough disaster 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted May 3, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted May 3, 2023 3rd May 1808 Despite being a 19th century Parisienne dancer, Mademoiselle Tirevit somehow found herself in a love tryst with both a Monsieur Granpree and a Monsieur Le Pique. To settle the matter, a duel between the two men was organised. Nothing particularly unusual there, it was the style at the time. However these two, being as reported at the time, of “elevated minds” agreed to battle it out by firing blunderbusses at each other while each flying in a hot air balloon over Paris. Both were accompanied in their balloons by their seconds, reaching a height of around half a mile before each firing a shot at the other’s balloon estimated to be about 80 yards away from each other. Le Pique fired first and missed. Granpree was more accurate, hitting his opponent’s balloon which plummeted to the ground killing both Le Pique and his second (no doubt questioning his life choices as they plummeted), reportedly being crashing on a rooftop. Mademoiselle Tirevit’s thoughts on the outcome aren’t recorded. Nor the thoughts of the poor sod who lived in the house that Le Pique and his friend crashed into. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post chrisp65 Posted August 10, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 10, 2023 23 years ago this evening. I organised a supporters bus trip, for Boavista vs Barry Town. Got to the ground and I was sent in to see if the natives were friendly and that’s the last anyone saw of me for an hour as the locals cruelly and relentlessly forced Super Bock and port chasers on me. Took an hour for anyone to come looking for me, but it was too late, I was absolutely arseholed. 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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