OI! MKJames

[mdetaylor]

I have to agree with the Knight.

 

My guess would be more than a simple lease renewal but you may know otherwise AFF

[AFF]

Hi MKJ.

 

It was re-assuring to hear from 'The Invisible Man' that there is no "heavy censorship" on the Enfield Town board.

 

All current threads have been deleted, again.

[Laz]

Perhaps I should go on there, AFF. That's something I've resisted up till now.

[The Invisible Man]

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All current threads have been deleted, again.

Not true. I can see a large number of threads still open.

I'm not sure how many more times it has to be explained to you why certain threads have been removed.

Also not sure why you're so interested, though.

[MK James]

 

I'd have thought it was obvious why people are interested T.I.M. After it's all done and dusted I'll tell you.

[AFF]

So the Chairman of one Non League club takes another club to the High Court in a libel/slander case [allegedly]. It's in it's 4th day.

 

Fairly commonplace, I'd have thought.

 

"Interested" T.I.M.? Just idle curiousity, old chap.

 

I wonder if there will be any reference in the Court transcripts to a red tractor, P.A. system, tea-urn or carved pumpkin.

 

Glad to see that 'some' threads are open. No question of heavy censorship, clearly.

 

 

 

[The Invisible Man]

AFF, as you are no doubt perfectly aware, I was referring to your fascination with our forum and your strange belief that it is censored.

 

The other allegations that you refer to, which I recall were alluded to on your forum and our old Bravenet one, to the best of my knowledge have no connection with ETFCor the matter that I'm not discussing.

 

Carved pumpkin? I'm intrigued, do tell!

[AFF]

T.I.M.

 

No. I'm not fascinated by your Forum. I'm into freedom of speech in a casual, rather than fundamentalist fashion, subject of course to the laws of libel and slander. I have noted the deletion af several threads and the banning of one contributor from your board.

 

I am intrigued by the current High Court case but I am content to await the outcome, shortly, no doubt. Nothing to do with the handbags at Leyton's place? It must be jolly serious, then. But then, of course, it would be. High Court and all that.

 

The carved pumpkin? A bit of fun or a modest sculpture? Not to everyone's taste, no doubt, but perhaps a small work of art depending upon one's definition. Unlikely to be of interest to Charles Saatchi but who can tell?

 

It stood in the clubhouse with a tea candle illuminating the carved outline of the figures of a witch, a ghoul and ghost at Halloween 2000. It disappeared from the clubhouse in the November. At the same approximate time, a red tractor, a tea-urn and part of the P.A. system, allegedly, went missing as I recall. My knowledge comes from a recollection of the message board at the time. No explanation. Caused a little inconvenience, as you can imagine. It may have been co-incidence, but who knows?

 

A strange collection of items but there's no accounting for taste.

 

The club was suspended from the League shortly after although the absence of these items was not the cause.

 

Tell me, T.I.M., unrelated to the incidents described here, of course, how is the grass cut at Brimsdown?

[MK James]

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I believe they use a standard Qualcast 400, and finish off with the groundsman shearing the 'enfield' in each corner flag.

[The Invisible Man]

AFF, the grass at Brimsdown is cut by the landowners who own it, Brimsdown Sports and Social Club Ltd, using their own equipment, as it always has been.

 

I think we have flooged the freedom of speech thing to death now, I have tried to explain the situation and that's that.

 

I have not noticed any carved pumpkins in the clubhouse at Brimsdown, but I presume that all ports and airports have been alerted!

[AFF]

Do you do Tea at their place?

 

As far as the carved pumpkin is concerned, applying logic, it is more likely to go on public display at Halloween. I'm waiting to check the fixture lists of various non-league clubs when they are published.

 

Keep your eyes open for a red tractor in your travels, T.I.M. The chap at our place who used to drive it would, no doubt, re-imburse any expenses incurred etc.

[The Invisible Man]

Yes, a range of fine beverages is available at ETFC home matches, and there are also the usual sandwiches, crisps, chocolates and the like. Above all however is the famous Town bread pudding, the like of which the world has never seen. You have to be quick as it sells out pretty fast. To follow your train of thought, however, I have no idea where the water boily thing came from - but it doesn't have SACFC scratched on it as far as I can see!

 

If - nay when - we get our own tractor, it is hardly likely to be red. We'll have a nice blue and white one.

 

I reckon the pumpkin has gone to Real Madrid.

[AFF]

So you do have a tea-urn!

 

Now if my memory serves me well, your club was only formed in the relatively recent past. The details escape me, being a Saints fan. No offence intended. Two seasons old or thereabouts?

 

The tea-urn at Brimsdown Rovers. Roughly what sort of vintage would it be? Two years old or so, I imagine. You know how the shine goes off stainless steel after a few years of use? Yours should be quite shiny. Ours was more that faded sort of finish. You wouldn't do us a great favour and have a look at the thing next time you're buying a cuppa, would you?

 

It occurs to me that ours may have been abandoned in the vicinity of Brimsdown and some of your lot assumed that it's owner had no further use for it and, quite properly, and in all innocence, put the thing to good use. I might have done the same had the [hypothetical] position been reversed.

 

It might clear up part of the mystery, anyway.

 

Now the pumpkin. You have probably guessed, T.I.M., the carver of the carved pumpkin was me. I have a bit of an affinity with the piece and I think that I would have felt the loss deep inside further had it left these shores. No. I feel that it's still in the South East.

 

Find the red tractor and the pumpkin will be closeby.

[The Invisible Man]

Yes AFF, we have completed 2 seasons of competetive football and have 5 troohies to show for it (just thought I'd slip that in!)

 

I don't know if we have a tea urn as such, I think it's one those water 'otters and tea bags or instant coffee magically transform the lhot water into the desired beverage. But first game next season I will peer intently through the hatch and try to judge the sheen on the casing and thus estimate the age of the appliance. I suppose it's a bit like getting the age of a tree by cutting it in half and counting the rings. The flaw in the methodology is of course that the gadget could hve been legitimately purchased second hand.

 

I will certainly keep an eye out for red tractors keeping company with carved pumpkins. Of course they may have split up to throw the police off the scent, intending to rendezvous at a secret hideaway.

[AFF]

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The flaw in the methodology is of course that the gadget could hve been legitimately purchased second hand.

Aaghhh. Now that's where you are wrong T.I.M.

For something to have been "legitimately puechased" second-hand, the vendor must have had good title to the item in the first place. If it had been stolen, for the sake of example only, of course, the purchaser cannot purchase the thing legitimately.

You will appreciate that ETFC would have been the innocent dupe if these were the circumstances. There is a moral to this story, somewhere.

[The Invisible Man]

What I meant was, it may not be the hot urn that you think it is. As you quite rightly say, if it is the hot urn being fenced around the clubs of North London and Herts, then indeed the object would not belong to ETFC, who would have been duped.

 

However, it may be a competely seperate urn, (shall we call it Urn B for clarity?) legitimately purchased second hand from another totally innocent and unconnected party altogether, perhaps through Loot, or Tea Urn Fancier's Weekly, or something.

 

Don't urns have chassis numbers or something?

[AFF]

Aaagh. Apologies, T.I.M.

 

I'm with you now. You're suggesting that it may be a "previously loved" tea-urn from an entirely separate source totally unrelated to the tea-urn that disappeared mysteriously from the Home of The Mighty Saints.

 

Are you certain that it is shiny?

 

If it's older, for my part, I have no reason whatsoever to doubt the word of the Officials and Supporters of a fellow Non-League club [in a manner of speaking] but the matter can be proved conclusively to those less trusting than I if you would like to take a digital photo and convert the receipt into an avatar, perhaps.

[The Invisible Man]

Well can you provide a full description, with a list of all distinguishing marks, height and maximum diameter and so on? A photo, or at least a photo-fit, would help.