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SHOUTING  FROM THE STANDS








                                                                                          Last Saturday Doris and I were sat in the main stand at RPV enjoying the sun-
                                                                                          shine and sharing our tupperware box of of ginger nuts and and a packet of Tre-
                                                                                          bor mints while waiting for the match to start and we thought
                                                                                          we'd pass the time by going through the squad
                                                                                          list and seeing what celebrity the lads
                                                                                          reminded us of...well Doris had just
      Do you have any photos or memories to                                               had her eyes done so we got on with
      share of the  Southern Railways,  Raynes                                            it and she immediately recognised
      Park,  Malden  Vale or  Raynes Park  Vale                                           Callum Hope as Timo Werner! Hard              to argue with that one but I had
      teams. Please contact us via the Raynes   Chalfont St Peter v Malden Vale '94       a squint at the squad mugshots and even my wonky specs let me see Billy Bishop as
      Park Vale Twitter page                                                              none other that Real Madrid stopper Thibaut Courtois after a night out.  Doris said
                                                                                          something that I can't repeat in a family programme and offered up Louie Cockle as
       Click on the covers opposite to                                                    Lazio's Ciro Immobile. Don't get me wrong, Doris is a a gem but this time she was
       view the old programmes                                                            way off the mark in my book! I came back with Casmir Umeh as Romelu Lukaku but,
                                                                                          to be fair, one of the extra strong mints had made my eyes water at that point. Doris
                                                                                          tried to make a case for Danny Alderton as David Walliams but by this time the cans
                                                                                          of Vale Ale that she had slipped into her shopping trolley last week had started to
                                                                                          kick in and she would have thought that the chairman was an ex-male model in the
                                                                                          right light.

                                                                                          By this time it was starting to get dark and everything was quiet at RPV. We checked
                                                                                          the fixture list by the light of Doris' Ronson lighter.

                                                                                          "We have to stop turning up here when the team are playing away", she said...
                                                                                          Sid & Doris Bonkers, Row F





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