The Cambridge Crucifixion

[chaincey.ncfc]

Whilst trawling through the tv programmes next week to record I noticed one that is the story of the extremely rare discovery of a Roman crucifixion which was unearthed in a routine archaeological dig in the Cambridgeshire fens

Have you heard of this Frank,I?ve set my box to record it

[Psaw]

Yes there have been many crucifixions in Cambridgeshire. I expect your programme is about those in the Peterborough area, or is it?, i would appreciate the channel and when, fairly recently there was a big Roman settlement discovered in the Fens around Peterborough.

Most crucifictions have happened in the Cambridge area, around the Abbey ward and Petersfield where im from. Those ancient crucifixions are not that old, and amazingly some still live, but are near death.

I am one.

That the perfect image of a football club, small but growing, rampaging, rampant, sweeping all before them in my early yers and into adulthoood, could be so totally be turned into an utter sewr by succesive boards.

Those early years were wondrous, all for one and one for all, pulling in one direction, today it still exists, they are where they are because of that, despite the illnesses in the boardroom.

It went beyond the ordinary, i know, ive supported other clubs.

And those are my nails. Nails that weep my blood, my blood of betrayal, criminality, the destruction of something out of this world.

For money.

My breath is short and getting shorter, my pain is numb, to have and then not is like a fresh injury....in my side. Those of my generation have those wounds, that to love, and then to be a witness to the face that turns away.

The five thousand that witnessed the southern league, and then the football league, to travel that path was a life event.

To come to THIS........

My breathing is laboured, and my time is short, but those memories sustain me, my blood runs dry.

Crucifixion is about being nailed to a cross.......and being a Cambridge fan circa 1957.......

[chaincey.ncfc]

It?s on BBC4 next Wednesday at 9pm,do you want me to remind you on the day?

I do not think that Monk or Barry will be featured much on it though

[Psaw]

Its ok ill record it thanks for that.

[chaincey.ncfc]

I found the programme to be interesting especially how they worked out that he was a local Hunstanton man and what he ate and how he worked,also interesting was that the body was only the second known crucifixion in the world which is staggering considering that there would have been hundreds of thousands and it was also sad to know that he probably was a family man and it was those who gave him a buried afterwards

[Psaw]

Yes, ive recorded it, watch it tonight, madam is worse, hard work.

[chaincey.ncfc]

I hope that things get better for your mrs and even more so for you Frank,it can be harder for the carer than it is for the patient as I found out personally in past

[Psaw]

Thankyou for that comment, i appreciate that. I watched the programme last night, i didnt know that was in Fenstanton. It showed how cheap life was back then and how brutal. The man had ongoing diseases and rotten teeth, just being alive must have been painful.

Crucifiction wasnt fatal in itself, the person was left to die slowly, the nailing of an ankle spelt slow death, over days.

If i was a farmer and i had a pigsty and in it pigs were engaged in crucifiction, beheading, purposely starving, gassing, etc, im watching a re run of the high chapparal, the indians hoisted people feet up, head down, then lit a fire under them, etc, i would ship the pigs out to the abbatoir and knock the pig sty down.

In the mind of the almighty there must be a reason. Maybe the finished article, a good human being.....is worth it.