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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

Met Police v Malden Vale '95