DRESS CODE

[cyprus-shrimp]

Have the new owners decided that a MFC tie is the correct dress code for interviews etc.? Not sure I have ever seen Jim wearing a tie before (OWS interview post Cambridge). Just one thing - can somebody please show him how to do the knot in his tie properly!!!

Seriously though, have a super Christmas JB and all directors/staff at the club. Let's also wish everyone associated with the club a great 2019.

[redrobo]

Somehow it just doesn't look right Jimbo wearing a suit and tie although I understand ( not sure how true ) that it's what the new owners have requested.

[cyprus-shrimp]

Maybe the ties should be made available through the Club Shop then...??

[halftimeresults]

One of the first things Jim Harvey did was make the players wear suits. He said that we had to set the standards in everything we do.

[Shrimp Girl]

I love the players' pic in suits on the Cambridge programme cover. Referencing Reservoir Dogs? That's the attitude!
https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/ ... 563&crop=1

[cyprus-shrimp]

OK, so it does seem that possibly the new owners are "encouraging" suits and ties. For me that is good - and the Reservoir Dogs photo from Shrimp Girl would certainly put the fear of God into the opposition!

Does anybody have a picture of the front of the Cambridge programme?

[Westgate Wanderer]

Be fun to see our team get off the team coach all dressed like that at Tranmere!

[Keith]

Many years ago, Margate v Morecambe on a Sunday afternoon. 'The Professionals' minibus went down Saturday. We were all dressed as 'Reservoir Dogs' or ('Men in Black' to make the numbers up) and had to refer to each other by our character name all weekend.

The warped mind that is a fellow moderator on here did a 'draw' of a fixture for a non-league match, then made up a bizarre route past loads of grounds, thus raising the spirits of the person who'd drawn that fixture, only to have them dashed as we sailed right past!

We ended up at Hampton & Richmond.

Minibus pulls in to the ground nice and early so we could park up and find a boozer. The guy on the gate looked in at us all in suits and opened the ground's gates, he thought we were the opposition! Okay, these were my pre-disability days, but even so, I didn't look look much more like a footballer then than I do now in a wheelchair!

We had a great time, one of my favourite football matches ever!

Margate v Morecambe on the other hand was a dreadful match!

[Keith]

We had a great time, one of my favourite football matches ever!

High points:

Their far side was like 'The Berlin Wall' terrace, only no-one standing there. Baking hot day, Mattie (in a suit remember) running along the terrace behind the linesman, mimicking him, stopping and pointing his arm in the direction of the flag etc).

Posh leafy Richmond upon Thames. We had a drum that Paul had been enthusiastically making a racket with. The gentile people of the area were not impressed. A steward came over and said "my grandmother has just been on the phone, you need to stop using the drum". We were a bit shocked and subdued by this. The head steward came over and asked why we'd gone quiet? When we explained that another steward had told us to and why, he replied "this ground has been here for almost one-hundred years, so unless so was born in that house, we were here first, you lads crack on"

With that we started chanting:
THIS ONE'S FOR GRANDMA BANG-BANG-BANG
THIS ONE'S FOR GRANDMA BANG-BANG-BANG
THIS ONE'S FOR GRANDMA BANG-BANG-BANG

The opposition (we'd agreed we'd be supporting the home side) was a bit porky. As he entered the H&R penalty area we chanted...

No surrender, no surrender, no surrender to the low fat spread!

He burst out laughing and got tackled! He looked at us, still laughing and shook his head.

For our younger viewers, Ray Galton & Alan Simpson were comedy writing duo, famous mainly for 'Hancocks Half Hour' a radio programme and then 'Steptoe & son' one of (if not the) first TV 'sit com'.

Ray Galton was the H&R chairman.
Towards the end of the game, in genuine respect, we began chanting:
One Ray Galton, there's only one Ray Galton. One Ray Gaaalton... well you know the rest.

Only he wasn't. Our researcher had got things mixed up. Alan Simpson was the Chairman.
Apparently, he thought we were taking the piss and found it funny! He bought us all a drink in the bar after the match.

Sorry... bog all to do with a dress code, other than remembering when fans had to wear a suit to a game!

[cyprus-shrimp]

Well Keith.

If anybody else had posted that I am sure you would have slapped them down. As you admit - what has that to do with "DRESS CODE". But does it actually matter.

It has to do with life, our memories and all good stuff. Let's all agree that life and memories are actually more important than just sticking to the title of the thread.

Happy Christmas to all and let's all combine in our love of MFC and park our differences ............ well maybe somewhere near the Giant Axe!!!

[Keith]

Well Keith.

If anybody else had posted that I am sure you would have slapped them down. As you admit - what has that to do with "DRESS CODE". But does it actually matter.

It has to do with life, our memories and all good stuff. Let's all agree that life and memories are actually more important than just sticking to the title of the thread.

Happy Christmas to all and let's all combine in our love of MFC and park our differences ............ well maybe somewhere near the Giant Axe!!!

Nah, it would be fine because it is still to do with Morecambe!

[Shrimp Girl]

OK, so it does seem that possibly the new owners are "encouraging" suits and ties. For me that is good - and the Reservoir Dogs photo from Shrimp Girl would certainly put the fear of God into the opposition!

Does anybody have a picture of the front of the Cambridge programme?

Reservoir Shrimps as requested
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pr2nlhbqbkrxw ... s.jpg?dl=0

[cyprus-shrimp]

Thanks Shrimps Girl. Doesn't seem to have frightened Tranmere much today though!!