Should have been named ‘The Mortensen Final’ and yeah, this one has potential.
24 December 2016
CHARLES EXFORD
As I’ve said before, Mrs. Exford would not even exist if it wasn’t for Stans Matthews and Mortensen, and and as it took me 44 years to find someone brilliant who could put up with me, well my gratitude to the man knows no bounds.
24 December 2016
CHARLES EXFORD
Haha, just seen what you’ve done there. If Mortensen had a thread on the Lyrics Project they’d call it the Matthews thread.
24 December 2016
EXXO
Can’t decide if you’ve done it deliberately or not now, ‘I do notice that if you google images of Mortensen (parting on his left, straight hairline) you get at least 5% Matthews (wizard with the widow’s peak) . And even one George Farm signed photo.
24 December 2016
Chris The Siteowner
Too subtle?
24 December 2016
this leaden paul
Possibly too subtle for Xmas week. I approve.
24 December 2016
EXXO
Errm, yeah … so is the one underneath the other Stan in a sepia snowstorm or something? Does this mean I have to go back and re-examine the background of 4 years or images?
24 December 2016
EXXO
Maybe the one underneath is his funeral.
24 December 2016
Chris The Siteowner
After finding photos to illustrate 1,500 entries the mind does start to wander a bit. The picture underneath is the same as the one on top though, just got bored in Photoshop.
Stanley Matthews (it is his thread after all) was always one to see the commercial opportunities. Again, if it wasn’t for this, my beloved would not exist. Because he got used to being paid big bonuses for appearances in exhibition matches, etc, he then bent the rules when manager of Port Vale (where Mrs. Exford’s grandad Len was his assistant), Matthews had to leave English football pretty sharpish, but before scooting off to South Africa or Malta or wherever, Matthews made a call to Stan Mortensen at Blackpool and got Len a job as first team coach there (becoming a mate of Jimmy Armfield, etc). Hence Maud’s dad, always being moved around the country according to which club his dad was at, moved to Blackpool and met her mum …
These twists of fate are strange indeed. As I said to my club-mate Gipton Teenager the other day, if I hadn’t needed a hot toddy after catching a nasty cold in the Atlas mountains, I wouldn’t have talked to the fella at the bar in Leeds who told me about the football club that I needed to join (of which it turns out Gipton Teenager was a founding father) , where 5 years later I met Mrs. Exford….
24 December 2016
BRUCE
His funeral was known as ‘The Matthews funeral’; or so I heard.
24 December 2016
Peter mcornotholgist
His goal scoring record is amazing . 4 goals on his international debut .Infinitely more handsome than tight wad Matthews.
24 December 2016
dickhead in quicksand
Mrs. Exford would not even exist if it wasn’t for Stans Matthews and Mortensen
And the fact that the rozzers didn’t raid that particular party.
25 December 2016
Liquid len
OK, yes, too subtle by half.
Spill the beans, Siteowner chap.
26 December 2016
dr desperate
It’s the picture, @Len: the wrong Stangerine.
26 December 2016
GIpton teenager
Sorry @CE, no founding father, more foundling infant.
27 December 2016
hendrix-tattoo
Just walked past the tower in my DPAK and a flying bird as Shat all over me….
3 August 2019
brumbiscuit
Very similar thing happened to me in my DPAK trackie top, Tony. Cycling along the Grand Union, a very large bird, whom I really must’ve upset in a former reincarnation, timed its defecation exactly to coincide with my passing. I say ‘large bird’, it could equally have been a smaller one simply holding back for the occasion. Copious describes its issue…
Bobby svarc
Should have been named ‘The Mortensen Final’ and yeah, this one has potential.
24 December 2016
CHARLES EXFORD
As I’ve said before, Mrs. Exford would not even exist if it wasn’t for Stans Matthews and Mortensen, and and as it took me 44 years to find someone brilliant who could put up with me, well my gratitude to the man knows no bounds.
24 December 2016
CHARLES EXFORD
Haha, just seen what you’ve done there. If Mortensen had a thread on the Lyrics Project they’d call it the Matthews thread.
24 December 2016
EXXO
Can’t decide if you’ve done it deliberately or not now, ‘I do notice that if you google images of Mortensen (parting on his left, straight hairline) you get at least 5% Matthews (wizard with the widow’s peak) . And even one George Farm signed photo.
24 December 2016
Chris The Siteowner
Too subtle?
24 December 2016
this leaden paul
Possibly too subtle for Xmas week. I approve.
24 December 2016
EXXO
Errm, yeah … so is the one underneath the other Stan in a sepia snowstorm or something? Does this mean I have to go back and re-examine the background of 4 years or images?
24 December 2016
EXXO
Maybe the one underneath is his funeral.
24 December 2016
Chris The Siteowner
After finding photos to illustrate 1,500 entries the mind does start to wander a bit. The picture underneath is the same as the one on top though, just got bored in Photoshop.
24 December 2016
hendrix-tattoo
How about this pic….
http://footballershappen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Mortensen-Stan.jpg
24 December 2016
dr desperate
Or this one
http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article197017.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/stanley-matthews-and-mortensen-pic-getty-196795062.jpg
from a Daily Mirror article about them being caught selling black market coffee and soap in Brussels towards the end of WWII.
(Like Ant & Dec, they always stood in alphabetical order.)
24 December 2016
CHARLES EXFORD
Stanley Matthews (it is his thread after all) was always one to see the commercial opportunities. Again, if it wasn’t for this, my beloved would not exist. Because he got used to being paid big bonuses for appearances in exhibition matches, etc, he then bent the rules when manager of Port Vale (where Mrs. Exford’s grandad Len was his assistant), Matthews had to leave English football pretty sharpish, but before scooting off to South Africa or Malta or wherever, Matthews made a call to Stan Mortensen at Blackpool and got Len a job as first team coach there (becoming a mate of Jimmy Armfield, etc). Hence Maud’s dad, always being moved around the country according to which club his dad was at, moved to Blackpool and met her mum …
These twists of fate are strange indeed. As I said to my club-mate Gipton Teenager the other day, if I hadn’t needed a hot toddy after catching a nasty cold in the Atlas mountains, I wouldn’t have talked to the fella at the bar in Leeds who told me about the football club that I needed to join (of which it turns out Gipton Teenager was a founding father) , where 5 years later I met Mrs. Exford….
24 December 2016
BRUCE
His funeral was known as ‘The Matthews funeral’; or so I heard.
24 December 2016
Peter mcornotholgist
His goal scoring record is amazing . 4 goals on his international debut .Infinitely more handsome than tight wad Matthews.
24 December 2016
dickhead in quicksand
And the fact that the rozzers didn’t raid that particular party.
25 December 2016
Liquid len
OK, yes, too subtle by half.
Spill the beans, Siteowner chap.
26 December 2016
dr desperate
It’s the picture, @Len: the wrong Stangerine.
26 December 2016
GIpton teenager
Sorry @CE, no founding father, more foundling infant.
27 December 2016
hendrix-tattoo
Just walked past the tower in my DPAK and a flying bird as Shat all over me….
3 August 2019
brumbiscuit
Very similar thing happened to me in my DPAK trackie top, Tony. Cycling along the Grand Union, a very large bird, whom I really must’ve upset in a former reincarnation, timed its defecation exactly to coincide with my passing. I say ‘large bird’, it could equally have been a smaller one simply holding back for the occasion. Copious describes its issue…
3 August 2019