Billy Whitehurst was nails wasn’t he? Kinda apt cos he looks like Jimmy Nail in that photo.
Bloody hell yeah now you mention he does look like Jimmy Nail! So many of them took no prisoners, Jim Holton (RIP) who used to play for us (Cov) amongst others was hard has but every team had a couple.
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Billy Whitehurst, hard as nails but not the brightest.
Heard a story once that he got nicked for drink driving after driving over a mile with a traffic cone stuck under his car. He legged it when he got pulled but the coppers recognised him.
The car he was driving was sponsored, and had “Billy Whitehurst Drives A…” written on the side.
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Hahaha
I spent a very good amount of time bunking off school just to play that in Liverpool Las Vegas arcade.
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got one of these for chrimbo, i think it was 81, i immediately took it outside to play and one of the kids on our street decided to stand on it to ride it like a skateboard.
needless to say, it couldn’t take his weight and the little sh!t broke it 
i was absolutely devastated, i got the gift of my dreams and it got broken on the very same day.
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I had that. Literally played it to death. Loved that thing.
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neeskens gone and iniesta retired, the sands of time…
beautoful writing from sid lowe on iniesta here…
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yep, Sid Lowe is such a good writer. Everybody loves Iniesta, which in a country as bitterly divided as Spain, is really saying something
I’ve been making a big Frank Sidebottom head these last few weeks. It’ll get blown up on bonfire night. Due to my research i’ve had a lot of Chris Sievey clips come my way.
Seems he was an early adopter of Basic gaming code and included a program he’d written for the ZX81 as a b-side to his single. Similar to the cassette games you played it into your computer and hoped for the best. There a interview with him on The Tube.
Incidentally my first encounter with one was a ZX80 that my godfather had built from a kit. We later got the ZX Spectrum. Better than the Vic20 or even the Commodore 64 I reckon.
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Wicked.
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That’s brilliant! Love the eyes
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That’s excellent. Oh yes it is, it really is.
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