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gozomark

2005-10-19 13:56:29

that link -

http://www.gozofootball.net/gozo-stadium/index.html

one Gozo team plays in the Maltese league, Gozo FC - the others could, but it costs too much - both for transport and allegedly bribes are allegedly even higher in Malta than they are, allegedly, in Gozo, allegedly. Of course, bribery doesn't happen.

Sliema2

2005-10-19 14:00:10

Steady Mark, I seem to remember our good friend Mr Zahra taking you to task over something similar.

Forza Sliema

gozomark

2005-10-19 14:10:25

Hi Sliema2

hopefully the liberal use of "allegedly" will keep Mr Z happy:D

Sliema2

2005-10-19 14:16:26

Bye the way Mark, been meaning to tell you, I got chatting to a bloke the other week in the pub on Stalybridge Station, he lives in Xlendi, little scouse bloke with grey hair looks like a cross between Ian Lavender and Mervyn Day, offered me his last tin of Cisk he did but Mrs Sliema2 advised me against accepting drinks off strangers, do you know him ?.

gozomark

2005-10-19 14:27:12

don't think so, but sounds like someone likely to bump into !! as it happens, just about to take the dog for a walk at Xlendi, down by the tower - I'll look out for someone with that vivid description !

Sliema2

2005-10-19 14:32:34

You may well bump in to him some time, he looked and sounded like the sort of chap who likes a bit of a booze up :glynis

, you might see him in Gleneagles if it's open that is, still not happy about that, will return very soon and drink em dry.

ingliza

2005-10-19 15:00:54

I think I know which football ground Backpacker means - the ducks gave me a clue.
http://www.maltavista.net/en/list/photo/1420.html
Exactly below the word "aerial" there is a dirt football ground, just across the little bridge to Manoel Island on the Sliema to Valletta coast road. The small huts for the ducks are directly beneath the "v" in the word "view."
I think this might be the home of Gzira United F.C.
http://www.gziraunited.com/index1.htm

Sliema2

2005-10-19 15:39:38

Of course

, ingliza has solved it, I never spend much time on Manoel Island, we went to feed the ducks one day and were intimidated by a large hungry looking beige dog, grazzi ingliza :bow

.

Regards
Sliema2

backpacker33

2005-10-19 16:08:03

That's amazing ingliza-

If I remember rightly there was a donation box on the fence - for money to house/feed the ducks
I didn't realise that was such a large island - never went further than the football pitch

backpacker33

2005-10-19 18:48:19

Cheers Mark for the link earlier

In Valletta I remember trying to find a bar that would show the England v Italy game on telly- everyone kept directing me to the Tottenham Hotspurs Supporters Club, but could never find it. Kept on finding 'Ollie's Last Pub' - didn't realise the significance of the place until I ordered a drink and started looking at the pictures on the wall- Couldn't believe that someone was so crass as to name a pub just because that was where Oliver Reed died - didn't stay there long - is that pub still going?
Saw the game in St Julians

gozomark

2005-10-19 19:02:05

still going !

http://www.olliereed.co.uk/pub.shtml

malta b

2005-12-11 20:28:43

football

Hi there Not that i,m old enough to remember it,but from reading books,i found there used to be a footie stadium in Gzira,so you are right.Not sure though how many years it is since it closed down

happychef

2005-12-11 23:14:29

hi there malta b i think you might mean the old empire stadium it's just a pile of rusting corragated irion now it's on the triq d'argens

inselli gharlik

alan

ingliza

2006-02-08 16:42:19

I am not a football fan myself, but my son recently managed to buy an old programme - Man Utd vs. Hibernians F.C (Malta) September 20th 1967

I had a quick look through and noticed a section about the profiles of the Hibernian players of the time. Apparently in 1962 Atletico Madrid offered £10,000 for the Maltese goalie Alfred Mizzi.
:bow

Wonder how much that would be worth today?

If any of you are interested in this type of Maltese football nostalgia, I have scanned the entire programme to a PDF file, PM me your e-mail address and I will send it to you.

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