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[BOROMAN]

Originally Posted By: Greg_Dyke

Originally Posted By: BOROMAN

Originally Posted By: urchin_mentalist

I have heard that the rettendon Rhinos and the danbury ducks narrowly missed out on election to the ESL

The way it is going I reckon my old sunday league side Parkstone could have got in had they still been about.

you played for Parkstone !!

If memeory serves me correctly, did they play near Waltham Abbey ?

Yes indeed i did.... I was the playmaker (Repoman will support that I doubt). The Parkstone FC I am referring to existed from the late 70's to the mid eighties. They spent towo seasons in The Romford & District Commercial League before graduating to The Barking & District Sunday League. The club came from the Romford area and had the origins from a group of old Boro supporters. However apart from one season at Suttons Manor home games were played at the affordable Leytonstone section of Wanstead Flats.

[Greg_Dyke]

the Parkstone I remember playing were a Saturday side, in the McMullen + Dist league...

[Kaiser Jnr]

Essex Teams for the ESSEX SENIOR LEAGUE please...

[Jenko]

Originally Posted By: Greg_Dyke

Originally Posted By: Uncle Urchin

Originally Posted By: Greg_Dyke

luckily the Football Union (of) Coloured Kenyans didnt apply this year

and what exactly does the descriptive term of coloured mean...

manor9 wishes to know....

it's an old apartheid term.....

black
white
coloured....

I suppose I should apologise again

You're right Greg. I brought this up with a few South African guys who I coached and they said they were coloured not black. I think they would be called mixed race here.

[Eastside Urchin]

Asians are called coloureds in s.africa

[Uncle Urchin]

Originally Posted By: Greg_Dyke

it's an old apartheid term.....

dykey is spot on of course...when I lived in south africa in late sixties early seventies it ws a real class thing.....almost like the classic two ronnies and john cleese sketch....

at the top of the social pyramid came the twin imposters of white afrikaanerdom and ex colonial whites...next came the cape coloureds or hottentots who were the descendents of the early dutch setlers and their black partners (this class included asian immigrants also) with restricted priviledges...then came the superior black race... the zulus... with even less priviledges and lastly in the pecking order came the bantu tribsmen from the transkye homelands and beyond...with no privilidges....

everyone looked down on the class below them....

apartheid was a terrible evil thing and to live amongst it was a harsh lesson for us young cocky brits to learn...a three year jail sentence for sleeping with anyone of mixed or black race.....

fck me its a wonder we aint still in jail...

[Jenko]

Originally Posted By: urchin_mentalist

Asians are called coloureds in s.africa

UM the guys I know were mixed race not Asian although Asians may be called coloured as well.

[Repoman]

Originally Posted By: BOROMAN

Originally Posted By: Greg_Dyke

Originally Posted By: BOROMAN

Originally Posted By: urchin_mentalist

I have heard that the rettendon Rhinos and the danbury ducks narrowly missed out on election to the ESL

The way it is going I reckon my old sunday league side Parkstone could have got in had they still been about.

you played for Parkstone !!

If memeory serves me correctly, did they play near Waltham Abbey ?

Yes indeed i did.... I was the playmaker (Repoman will support that I doubt). The Parkstone FC I am referring to existed from the late 70's to the mid eighties. They spent towo seasons in The Romford & District Commercial League before graduating to The Barking & District Sunday League. The club came from the Romford area and had the origins from a group of old Boro supporters. However apart from one season at Suttons Manor home games were played at the affordable Leytonstone section of Wanstead Flats.

This is obviously some new use of the term playmaker with which I was not previously familiar, whereas I was on occasions a goalkeeper, full back, midfield lump or forward, secretary, manager, treasurer, chairman, provider of corner flags and kit.