Newsletter #24

Plenty of news but nothing earth-shattering. I’m starting to get news items several times over from different subscribers (no complaints from me!) so I’ve taken the liberty of pasting-in the first I receive and then acknowledging subsequent people. I hope the people concerned won’t be offended but I want to avoid things getting too repetitive. Please don’t let this deter you from sending stuff in.

Could be a big day today here in Zürich as the cable company switches on BBC World Service TV! There probably won’t be any football or cricket though, just EastEnders! Nothing wrong with Londoners I hear you say 😎

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Next game: Wimbledon at home on Saturday 26th November.

MATCH VIEW ‘LIVE’

LEICESTER CITY vs MANCHESTER CITY

20th November ’94

I should really have stayed in bed with my cold but money spent on tickets is money spent. And how would I have felt missing an away win gained on Sky (did they drop the BSkyB bit?)? Rather than cover the same ground by concentrating on the action, I thought I would look at this game from several tangents as there were plenty of underlying issues.

Not a sell-out but a large and noisy contingent had negotiated treacherous pre-match weather and made their way to Filbert Street, myself for the first time. My