| Love an oatcake (n/t) 16:36 - Jan 4 with 995 views | SitfcB |
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| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:38 - Jan 4 with 968 views | Miaow |
Love a bit of Josiah Wedgwood. |  |
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| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:39 - Jan 4 with 942 views | football |
haha still in the bottom three. Thought this new manager was the Messiah |  | | |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:39 - Jan 4 with 938 views | Illinoisblue |
Start of the budgies’ playoff run wasn’t it? Clement the saviour. Oh, still bottom three. |  |
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| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:42 - Jan 4 with 896 views | football |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:39 - Jan 4 by Illinoisblue |
Start of the budgies’ playoff run wasn’t it? Clement the saviour. Oh, still bottom three. |
Stoke just got a second | | | |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:42 - Jan 4 with 885 views | AbujaBlue |
There go any delusions among the fans that they're a mid-table team. |  | | |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:43 - Jan 4 with 875 views | Illinoisblue |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:42 - Jan 4 by football |
Stoke just got a second |
My my my Delilah. | |
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| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:43 - Jan 4 with 872 views | noggin |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:42 - Jan 4 by football |
Stoke just got a second |
Norwich get battered, even when at home.. |  |
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| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:43 - Jan 4 with 873 views | tazdac |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:39 - Jan 4 by football |
haha still in the bottom three. Thought this new manager was the Messiah |
He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy! :o) | | | |
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| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:44 - Jan 4 with 865 views | SitfcB |
Love a bit of pottery. | |
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| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:46 - Jan 4 with 825 views | FrimleyBlue |
Imagine being a new signing watching your new club lose at home to continue being un the bottom 3. |  |
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| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:53 - Jan 4 with 756 views | Metal_Hacker |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:46 - Jan 4 by FrimleyBlue |
Imagine being a new signing watching your new club lose at home to continue being un the bottom 3. |
Imagine signing for Norwich |  |
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| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:57 - Jan 4 with 723 views | trncbluearmy |
Back to normal,crowd streaming out,loads of empty seats, those left booed em of the park
Wonderful stuff |  | | |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 17:11 - Jan 4 with 621 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
Hanley, Trentham Gardens, Bet 365, Nick Hancock, oatcakes, Pikelets, Slash we salute you |  |
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| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 17:17 - Jan 4 with 587 views | NthQldITFC |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 16:44 - Jan 4 by SitfcB |
Love a bit of pottery. |
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead.
Oh, sorry, pottery. |  |
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| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 17:43 - Jan 4 with 522 views | Churchman |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 17:17 - Jan 4 by NthQldITFC |
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead.
Oh, sorry, pottery. |
That poem is based on a true story.
In August 1798, the Battle of the Nile was fought. Nelson attacked the French fleet in Aboukir Bay, Egypt. The French were at anchor, chained in line. The problem was that they’d left too big a gap at the end of the line, so bar one ship that ran aground, Nelson’s ships went one each side of the French ones and moved up the line. The French fleet was destroyed.
The French flagship was the Orient (not Leyton!), a large 3 deck 118 First Rate ship about the size of HMS Victory. It caught fire. As the ship burned, Captain Casablanca’s son waited for his father to give the order to abandon ship. The order never came. It was thought his father was already dead.
The ship blew up during the night. The battle actually halted for a period while the crews of both fleets went to rescue any survivors.
The boy who stood on the burning deck did not survive. Remains of Orient still lie in Aboukir Bay to this day.
As for Norwich I suspect their eyes glazed over as their clay footed heroes were thrown by Stoke. |  | | |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 17:46 - Jan 4 with 502 views | Kievthegreat |
Potters > Tinpot |  | | |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 17:53 - Jan 4 with 468 views | Perublue |
Dad was a Stoke fan used to watch Stanley Matthews… but when he moved to Ipswich he converted… I know it’s wrong but in this case I allowed it.
When we used to visit my grandparents up in Newcastle … the Staffordshire one … it was the only place we came across Tizer … loved that stuff eventually it did move out of its heartlands. |  |
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| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 18:59 - Jan 4 with 382 views | Coastalblue |
| Love an oatcake (n/t) on 17:43 - Jan 4 by Churchman |
That poem is based on a true story.
In August 1798, the Battle of the Nile was fought. Nelson attacked the French fleet in Aboukir Bay, Egypt. The French were at anchor, chained in line. The problem was that they’d left too big a gap at the end of the line, so bar one ship that ran aground, Nelson’s ships went one each side of the French ones and moved up the line. The French fleet was destroyed.
The French flagship was the Orient (not Leyton!), a large 3 deck 118 First Rate ship about the size of HMS Victory. It caught fire. As the ship burned, Captain Casablanca’s son waited for his father to give the order to abandon ship. The order never came. It was thought his father was already dead.
The ship blew up during the night. The battle actually halted for a period while the crews of both fleets went to rescue any survivors.
The boy who stood on the burning deck did not survive. Remains of Orient still lie in Aboukir Bay to this day.
As for Norwich I suspect their eyes glazed over as their clay footed heroes were thrown by Stoke. |
Thank you, I wasn't aware of that, I knew about the battle of the Nile but not the story behind the poem. |  |
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