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Post by leftbehind on Sept 23, 2009 23:00:54 GMT
Think we should follow:
Birmingham V Bolton - Sat 26th Sep - Tickets for ALL ARMED FORCES only £5In support of the fantastic work the British Armed Forces do all over the world, Birmingham City FC is dedicating saturday's barclays premier league fixture to those servicemen and women.
All members of the Armed Forces including the Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and the Territorial Army can purchase match tickets for £5.
To purchase tickets, a valid service id number is required.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2009 8:16:21 GMT
anyone watch wonded last night ? I know you join the army to fight etc , but them 2 were lucky to be alive and so positive after such serious debiltating injuries
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Post by reddyfreddy on Sept 24, 2009 8:33:27 GMT
Perhaps this was not a well known fact but there was an informal gesture for every home game through the Gliksten era and carried on by Hulyer that Military Personnel in Woolwich (I think from the Barracks at the top of Frances St/Wellington St) were allocated upto 200 free tickets. Also the hospital which is now the QE2 on Woolwich Common was exclusively a military hospital was actually where CAFC players were often treated for operations by the military surgeons as recent as the 70's and early 80's. I know that Terry Naylor had a broken leg fixed there.
So a relationship between CAFC and the local Military goes back a long way (and so it should) but pretty sure when the club moved out of the Valley this was lost and of course when the Ministry of Defence closed down the hosptital and handed it over to the NHS.
Now recent history of the club is more devoted to townships in Soweto! This of course is far more newsworthy for the PC brigade than any acknowledgement that as a club from Woolwich we are the centre a military town going back hundreds of years. This PC crap is one of my pet hates with Murray as to the direction he has taken the club. If you want tradition at CAFC then touches like the one mentioned here are the ones we should acknowledge and be proud of...let the Man U's of this world handle the other PC rubbish!
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Post by leftbehind on Sept 24, 2009 9:42:17 GMT
Here Here Freddy
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