Archive for Jan 86
Friday 10th January 1986
By now, the snow had all gone. It had rained overnight, and was now quite windy. My aunt and cousin came to visit, and my mum went to visit my grandmother in hospital. School was uninteresting.
Saturday 11th January 1986
This was a date to which I had really been looking forward. In the morning, we played football at school. In the way of these things, the sides were uneven. 5 vs 7. Also in the way of things, it didn't occur to us to make them even, and play 6 vs 6. Whichever way we had a great time, you always do as a kid. It's one of the rules of looking back! 20/20 vision and rose tinted spectacles. The 1980's were our good ole days!
But what of the evening's entertainment? Oh yes, a fine day cavorting around a football pitch was capped off with a trip to the pictures (single screen!). And what did we see? Nothing but the best... Back To The Future. As I noted, it was "magic. [A] brill film." It's one of those films that 20 odd years later I can watch over and over again. You simply never tire of Marty and Doc Brown's antics. You're never quite sure that the DeLorean is going to get up to the correct speed at the exact moment that the lightning strike hits the clock tower... But of course it always does!
I noted that [Shrewsbury] Town beat Barnsley 3-0 and that I went to bed at 9.30, Dog-Tired.
£12.99
Sunday 12th January 1986
BBC1 3.00pm Watford v Liverpool. Liverpool won 3-2 with 2 goals from Paul Walsh and one from Ian Rush. For those of you with long memories, this was in the period of the domination of the game in England by Liverpool FC. In 1986 they were to go and and win the League and FA Cup double. This game (vs Watford) a demonstration of what all good football teams need - some steel and a never say die attitude. Poor in the first half, Kenny Jacket had given Watford a deserved 1-0 lead on 18 mins, before Walsh popped up with the equaliser just before half time. In the second half, Walsh again, and then Ian Rush made it 3-1 before Worrell Sterling pulled one back to make the final score 3-2.
The weather was windy, but without rain - an ok state of affairs for a paperboy out there all morning! And this paperboy did no homework except French, which was / is boring and hard.
Monday 13th January 1986
Felicity Kendal "does" Wogan. Now you can read this in two or more ways. Of course, I was 16 when I wrote it, so obviously, I mean that Felicity Kendal was "standing in" for the Irish charmer on his BBC1 chatshow. It aired on BBC1 at 7.00pm and was a staple of 1980's television.
But back to Felicity Kendal. According to Mr Pye, the father of Neil Pye in the Young Ones, "Felicty Kendal is sweetly pretty, and just what a real girlie should be." Now whether or not you agree with that statement, or the its sentiment, for a 16 year old young shaver, she was exactly what a "real girlie should be." That lucky beggar Richard Briers, I thought.
Apart from this televisual highlight, I complained about a school mate - "***** is a cretin!" I came home from school and listened to records, and the day was windy. Such was the way of things on 13th January 1986.
Tuesday 14th January 1986
Another windy day, and a cold one too. School was "dead boring", apparently I played football in games. I do remember this a certain annoyance. Not that I played football, I was a 16 year old boy - what's not to like about playing football? No, my gripe was that we, as the boys, were forced to go outside and play football, whilst the girls, were allowed to have the gym set up for them, to play badminton and other such crap sports, in the warm, whilst we had to go out in the cold. Shame eh? What's that line about the playing fields of Eton...?
Anyway, enough whinging, whilst we were enduring our "dead boring", cold and windy day at school, Micheal Heseltine (who he? - my diary comment) was busy at it down in Westminster.
Wednesday 15th January 1986
A day of rain, today. I report on a defection to me mate's team of one of my players for our grand match on the coming Saturday. Come to think of it now, the guy who defected wasn't that good at football, and in any case, I don't think that he actually turned up anyway! I didn't do much homework in the evening, just a spot of Physics.
On the sporting front, Liverpool beat Spurs in the Screensport Super Cup by 3 goals to nil. Ian Rush grabbed two and Mark Lawrenson scored the other.
Thursday 16th January 1986
O o oh! Forget the politics in Westminster... this blessed football match on Saturday is causing ructions! One of our team, a vice captain if you like, has only gone and asked one of the better players in school to play in our team! Is this cheating? Or it is merely selecting the best players from the pool available... I guess I was quite naive. It's only what happens in real football.
We had a power cut at school. It was a really cold winter remember, so this must have caused some issues wrt the heating. And, I guess we were cold. However, the power cut didn't stop us watching a video in English. We were studying Arthur Miller's The Crucible. The one about the witches in Salem, Massachusetts. So we were all of us going round quoting phrases (well one phrase) from the play - 'Be you John Proctor...?' Kids, eh? No appreciation of a modern classic. Peasants!
Friday 17th January 1986
Ooh... fall out from the news regarding our new recruit? No, it's a bit of a damp squib really. The opposing captain takes the news quite well really. As I note, he was probably glad at the prospect at a bit of a better game. As I noted though, "they'll still beat us probably."
Game on for tomorrow...
Saturday 18th January 1986
Match v *****'s team. Our best player, the one who caused all the kerfuffle, didn't show up. Obviously had better things to do on his Saturday. At least we managed to score, but ended up losing 3-1. I made no comment on how the game went, but I remember that we played them on a number of occasions and we lost everytime. We even played them at cricket, but lost that too!
3-1 was a popular score today, as Shrewsbury Town beat Sheffield United, with goals from Robinson (2) and Hackett. West Ham too, suffered the same reversal v Liverpool.
I made a purchase too from town, John Menzies, I guess - I bought a Casio fx570. A top piece of kit and no mistaking.
Sunday 19th January 1986
It was a rainy and windy day today. TV was boring, it must've been as I did some homework! I collected £104 on my paper round. Erm... that's it. Sunday 19th January 1986 passed with only the merest comment on my part.
