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57vintage
*David Robertson, former left back who bailed out to the Deadpricks in 1991, has been awarded the British Empire Medal in Brenda’s birthday honours list, for “helping to inspire a generation of football talent in a war-torn part of India”. An improvement on what previous generations of the sub-continent had to endure when that “empire” colonised it several generations ago, I suppose.
*I think the ‘Beano’ tag originated in The Northern Light, when the Ferryhill Oracle described him as being like “a Beano addict” for some on-pitch tomfoolery when he was a stripling, in pre-squad numbers days, in the 3 shirt/top/jersey.