Merry Christmas everyone.

[Acido]

Yeah Sinko, we had hopes for the lad Benson, but I don't totally blame him because this has been a right royal train wreck of a season so far both on the pitch and off it.

[Supersub6]

Yeah Sinko, we had hopes for the lad Benson, but I don't totally blame him because this has been a right royal train wreck of a season so far both on the pitch and off it.

He has also had his fair share of injuries over the last few years, particularly a knee injury when he was still at Arsenal. We never realy know whether or not they have got over these or whether they carry them into each game. I still think that Josh will prove to be okay at Barnsley, however, it all depends on the manager's whim!

sinkov, they have not all fallen through because Jimmy Dunne is performaing quite well at QPR and he left because he wanted 'game time' which he was not going to get with Tarkowski, Mee and Collins all in front of him in the pecking order

[alfinyalcabo]

All the best Acido ,have a good one mate.

[Acido]

Cheers uncle Alf lol. 😜

I wish this could have been in better circumstances, and Im sure you know what I mean there. But all the best anyway to those on here who chat with me, I always appreciate that. 🎄 🎁 🍺

And hey, our next game is away at the Bastids, so I hope we can count on your support that day, I think we might need it.

[Supersub6]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our friends (and enemies ) Have a great time whatever you are doing, stay safe and let those on duty in A&E and the emergency services have a quiet Christmas.

[Acido]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our friends (and enemies ) Have a great time whatever you are doing, stay safe and let those on duty in A&E and the emergency services have a quiet Christmas.

Aww come on uncle Sub lol, surely you Burnsley lads don't have any enemies, just a few dodgy friends.

We're all getting ready for our visit to the Bastids later on this week, we've had our anti-Blacky B jabs as well.

[Supersub6]

Aww come on uncle Sub lol, surely you Burnsley lads don't have any enemies, just a few dodgy friends.

We're all getting ready for our visit to the Bastids later on this week, we've had our anti-Blacky B jabs as well.

Acido --you forget that I live in Geordieland and never tire of winding them up ---which is quite easy to do but ----can make enemies ------even friendly ones!
Good luck at Deadwood!

[Acido]

Acido --you forget that I live in Geordieland and never tire of winding them up ---which is quite easy to do but ----can make enemies ------even friendly ones!
Good luck at Deadwood!

I never knew that matey lol, I can't remember you ever saying you live up in Geord eee land.
I once confused somebody from Durham as being a Geord eee lol, and he really didn't like me after that.

[sinkov]

I'm off to spend Christmas in deepest Yorkshire now, Merry Christmas to everyone who posts on here.

[Balanbam00]

No Christmas here. It is just the Christian Arabs that celebrate Christmas. But seeing there are many Arabs in Haifa. They do decorate the area called the German Colony.

The German Colony (HaMoshava HaGermanit) (Hebrew: המושבה הגרמנית‎, Arabic: المستعمرة الألمانية‎) was established in Ottoman Haifa in 1868 as a German Templer Colony in Palestine.
The Templers, a religious Protestant sect formed in southern Germany in the 19th century, settled in Palestine at the urging of their leader, Christoph Hoffmann, in the belief that living in the Holy Land would hasten the second coming of Christ.

The Templers built a colony in keeping with strict urban planning principles and introduced local industries that brought modernity to Palestine, which had long been neglected by the Ottomans. The population fluctuated between 300-400 settlers between 1870 and 1914.
When in World War I General Allenby conquered Palestine from the Ottomans, the German colonists were regarded as enemy aliens. Many of the colonists were recruited for the units of the German Imperial Army, which fought together with the army of the Ottoman ally against the British conquest. The Britons entered Haifa and the colony only after the end of the fighting. Thus the colonists in Haifa were not deported to Egypt, as were the colonists of other, more southern colonies

In 1937, 34% of the Templers were card-carrying members of the Nazi party. On King George VI's Coronation Day in 1937, all the Templer colonies flew the swastika flag. At the start of World War II colonists with German citizenship were rounded up by the British and sent, together with Italian and Hungarian enemy aliens, to internment camps in Waldheim and Bethlehem of Galilee. 661 Templers were deported to Australia via Egypt on July 31, 1941, leaving 345 in Palestine.

Christmas in the German Colony in Haifa



The photo is not a special shot, poor quality, just so you have the idea