Back in our Premier League season, there was a Fantasy Football League being run at the Stocksbridge Steel Works. Someone called their team Just Like Watching Big Lil, so I unashamedly pinched the name!
John Peachey was one of the strikers at the club when I started watching in 74/75 season. I always liked the word "peachy" & it seemed an idea to mis spell his name, as my user name.
There were 5-6 Pauls in London Tykes at its height, Wadd, Hicksy, Gally etc.. It got confusing whose round it was..
alright m'sieur, I went off backpacking in the seventies. I didn't have a plan. I stayed a bit too long in Sydney. Got a girl, a fooitball team, a job. I just drifted into a new life, though being a Barnsley man defines me, even still. I was Mick In Oz at first.... It could have been Michael In Aus (gedit?)
Barnsley Chop was taken. So Choppin it was in ref to 'Start Choppin' by Dinosaur Jr. Profile pic is Fats Waller....must have been listening to him when I picked it.
i got his autograph. must have been at a grove street school supporters meeting, i was surprised by how small he was. very scottish accent.
Well, I’m not a chef I lived in sheffield when I joined but Shefftyke was taken so this was as imaginative as I could be
Used to live near the Menai bridge in Wales. Don’t anymore but don’t think Junction Tyke would make any sense to most people now.
I believe it was actually barnsleyfc.co.uk ? I've just gone on the way back machine and earliest link was 12th December 1998. That is the official site, and a link to a BBS much like this (threaded). Posts on it date from 2000. I have memories of an email system, not sure if I used that. Then the BBS about the time of the premier league or shortly after. At this time, posts included ** Guernsey Red** - Alton Red 08:21:04 23/5/00 (0) Well done TM for sorting out t'BBS N/T - Alton Red 08:19:16 23/5/00 (0) Thousands of tickets are returned as pandamonium breaks out in Suffolk - Warrington Red 07:59:31 23/5/00 (3) As my colleague below points out, all of our . . . - Battersea Blue 08:42:52 23/5/00 (0) Suffolk Tickets! - BLUETILLIDIE! 08:38:48 23/5/00 (1) Ooooo aarrrrrgh, oooo aaaarghhhh, - Warrington Red 10:23:07 23/5/00 (0) ** London 'meet-up' ** - Westie 05:27:52 23/5/00 (0) That BT bomber (alleged) - flabby old fishmonger (IT_FC) 01:27:15 23/5/00 (1) Re: That BT bomber (alleged) - flappy old fishwife (IT_FC) 01:51:41 23/5/00 (0) Believed you lot have just been bombed!!! - Norvaner 00:56:35 23/5/00 (0) ITFC Pratt - BSE Blue 00:55:52 23/5/00 (0) Post his IP on the ipshit BB. let them deal with him. - Guernsey RED 00:30:10 23/5/00 (26) His IP address is.... - Site Admin 00:39:10 23/5/00 (18) Re: Update - Site Admin 00:55:02 23/5/00 (0) now posted on their site.. see what they can do.. - Guernsey RED 00:45:02 23/5/00 (16) Re: now posted on their site.. see what they can do.. - FATHER REDEYE 00:46:45 23/5/00 (15) look **** off and leave me alone ok.. - Guernsey RED 00:48:34 23/5/00 (14) Re: look **** off and leave me alone ok.. - Father Redeye 00:52:48 23/5/00 (13) Re: look **** off and leave me alone ok.. - Barnsley Minx 00:57:31 23/5/00 (12) Re: look **** off and leave me alone ok.. - Father redeye 00:58:58 23/5/00 (11) Re: look **** off and leave me alone ok.. - Barnsley Minx 01:00:41 23/5/00 (10) Re: Post his IP on the ipshit BB. let them deal with him. - Father Redeye 00:33:07 23/5/00 (4) ? where did i swear...??? - Guernsey RED 00:39:30 23/5/00 (3) Re: ? where did i swear...??? - Father redeye 00:41:41 23/5/00 (2) so are you going to pull everyone who say's ipshit are you.?? - Guernsey RED 00:45:54 23/5/00 (1) Re: so are you going to pull everyone who say's ipshit are you.?? - FATHER REDEYE 00:49:01 23/5/00 (0) Re: Post his IP on the ipshit BB. let them deal with him. - Father Redeye 00:33:00 23/5/00 (0) BBS Abuse - Site Admin 00:09:02 23/5/00 (6) Re: BBS Abuse - SE11 blue 00:53:07 23/5/00 (1) Re: BBS Abuse - YorkRed 08:11:22 23/5/00 (0) Bravo!!! - Yankee Tykw 00:47:49 23/5/00 (1) That's Yankee Tyke - Doh!!! 00:49:53 23/5/00 (0) well done Tuffer's mate. n/t - Guernsey RED 00:16:08 23/5/00 (0) Potential disciplinary action then. - BignDaft 00:12:59 23/5/00 (0) Test - Site Admin 00:04:29 23/5/00 (0)
I was 14, stupid, and wanted Tyke and then animal beginning with T, but didn't want the obvious tiger because of Hull Sooo.......
I was christened Captain hook. When I moved into the sheffield area to work. Everyone was given a name to reflect summat about em. I had long hair and a tash. So was referred to as Hooky fella. Hooky. Captain. Hookster. Oh and Dingle lol.