Elvis died in August 1977

Edit the title.. ‘Approach with caution’ thread

 

That’s an ancient myth..

 

I didn't know Elvis' sister had a house in Filey!!

 

She works in his chip shop.

 

I didn't know he was dead !
You've been listening to too much tittle tattle.

 

I look more like Elvis than the bloke on Home Alone

 

Just like yourself Big Lil I was watching the Reds v Lincoln that night. It went to extra time and penalties (first ever shoot-out in an English Professional competition if you ignore the Texaco Cup) so I was late home and just caught the end of News at Ten where the story broke. The programme immediately afterwards was by Bamber Gascoigne called "The Christians" and I remember Alastair Burnett interrupted it after 5 minutes with a News Flash to say that he wasnt dead. The irony of a man called the "King" being pronounced dead and then miraculously being alive again struck me even then.

 

I'd be surprised if you didn't. Macaulay Culkin was only four foot high and he had sandy coloured hair.

 

No, it was the home game with Chesterfield (the match against Lincoln was 1979). We'd lost the first leg 4-1 at Saltergate and Iley had partnered John Saunders with Peter Burke in the centre of defence. We'd sold Mick Pickering to Southampton that Summer for a paltry £35,000. Macca replaced Burke for the second leg, we won 3-0 and all the goals were scored in the second half at the Ponty End. There was a replay, at home, which we lost 2-0 after extra time.
My Dad put the radio on in the car on the way home for us to listen to the football results. These were interrupted by the, at that time, unconfirmed news that Elvis had died. When we got home, my Mam had the news on the television and it was then confirmed.

 

When Elvis died in 1977, there were 170 impersonators worldwide. By 2010, that figure was 250,000-400,000. (Un)fortunately it has dropped a little since then as at one point the trend for was the entire population of the planet to be an Elvis impersonator by the end of the century...

 

Of course you are right....I knew it was some team from down south. Going back to the penalty shoot out, one of the scorers for Lincoln was Peter Grotier, the only time I believe a goalkeeper has scored at Oakwell other than an og.

 

Peter Grotier, now there's a blast from the past.

 

Whitty and Ferguson, the kings of straight line extrapolation, would have forecast it.

 

Elvis was a hero to most but he never meant **** to me, straight up racist that sucker was simple and plain, so motherfuck him and John Wayne.

Chuck D.

 

Brilliant