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My son is at peatmoor primary, we got a letter home yesterday saying that Swindon Town will be in school all week doing activities with the kids, mostly to promote anti bullying.
The "stfc superstore" is also going in tomo so the children can buy stuff, although they have out a cap on it at £2 per child and parents can go in after school to purchase more expensive goods.

Yesterday they had a talk on bullying from the community guys. Today Lilian Nalis went in to give french lessons, My son got his autograph and is well proud of it... apart from he told me he was talking to William Gallas!
Tomo they are doing a whole afternoon of pe with them.

I think its really cool, my boy hates football but he has come home full of it this week, also it seems the guys are really trying to rally up town support by telling the children not to support the likes of man u, chelsea etc

I remember ooh Shaun Taylor coming in to my primary school a couple of times, that was ace.

Also remember the town players doing their training on the greendown astro because the training ground was flooded or something like that. Everyone went to gawp and see how crap they were, but I Mark Walters' silky skills soon shut them up.

Oh and  teach your son to say "you're shit and slow" in French for next time   :D

Speaking of which, I take it they're not there for the whole day? That would mean they're not training. Byrne out!

He was so proud that he got his autograph for me that i told him he was my favourite player :o
any good mum would have done the same.

Brilliant!

I bet they dont send in any good players!

Darren Eadie visited Westbury Junior School in 1994. He was a friend of one of the teachers and just popped in... No official appearance. I've mentioned it before, I swapped my 93/94 Darren Eadie sticker for an Adi Whitbread earlier that same day.

Jeremy Guscott visited my secondary school - he appeared to be an arrogant cock.

When i went on the bobby charlton soccer school jeremy guscott turned up. Why the fuck he did i do not know.

i once had a shower next to jeremy guscott and he has a massive penis.

true story.

So did bobby charlton

Must have been some shower cubicle ... Mex, Sir Bobby, Jez and his shooting stick!

I'd love it if they sent some poxford players to my school. That would be fun!!  :D

They have to work during the week.

Yeah, you might see one if you need some plumbing or building work done.

At least two pupils who went on to play for Swindon Town attended the old comprehensive, which school was that? 

In my day, bullying were luxury, we looked forward to it.  We used to gargle with hot gravel in t' schoolyard..............

 

Joking aside, i'm impressed, it's about time something was done to stop the kids wearing manu or chelsea shirts as default, and tied up with a good cause. Fair play to Lilian and the club

Shirts, we didn't have shirts, we went to school in old dish rags we called vests.......

The most we got at Freshbrook was Jonathan Trigg...

It seems to be an initiative the club are taking to a lot of primary schools this year. They came to my sons school (haydonleigh primary), but only did stuff with certain age ranges so he missed out as he was too young. Not moaning BTW, it's understandable given the limited time they and the limited success they'd get with a class of 4-5 year olds!

Well done  STFC.

yeah, they're doing it all over the shop - few weeks back my lad's infants primary school got a visit from Coxy and Paynter. He was well chuffed (my lad, not Paynter)

Peter Eastoe came to Gorse Hill school while I was there, opened up the school fete.

You were lucky! All I had to were weas fire. Hot fire, mind.

Trivia, which school or schools did Charlie Henry and Steve Mildenhall attend?

St Josephs, i went to school with Mildy

was he as hot back then?

You win the grand prize, Gilbert O'Sullivan went there also.

The old lower school had low ceilings, including in the boy's toilets.  A bald teacher walked in and got dripped on soon after someone had won the competition to piss on the ceiling, he wondered why everyone was killing themselves laughing.  Happy days.

Haha i went with gilbert osullivans nephews, did you know he had an album called frobisher drive

Nope, I do now though.

when i was at pinehurst school we had the green cross code man(dave prowse)

Hahahahahah! That came as a shock..I thought you were about 18 or something!! I don't know why. That comment suggests you may be a tad older though ???

Mildy played in the same youth team as my son - Pinehurst!  He came to us as a centre back, all legs and no football brain.  Keeper never turned up one week, Mildy volunteered to go in goal - and the rest, as they say, is history!

Thirty five is the new twenty five isn't it Batch. I'm only a few months behind though  :(

Yeah he fancied himself outfied, very nearly joined villa at a younger age irc. Very badly treated by us when he left i thought

I like all that '50 is the new 40, 40 is the new 30' stuff. I fully endorse that philosophy 8)

Only for grooming purposes


What with the baby waking at 3am and this cold that I have (that would kill normal mortals) 35 is the new 55.

He did go to Villa for trials when he was about 14, but I think it got put on the backburner due to logistical problems.  Terry Wollen advised Town to give him a chance IIRC.

I thought he would have been better known for one of his other roles!

As our future manager? :)

Well, yesterday a player with a white face and red cheeks went in and today the discriptions got a little better but not much...a goal keeper and defender, one was white one was black, one of which went to art school apparently!

I thought it was just a couple of classes, but they have been taking the whole school assemblys. i think its great.

That'll be Brez.

Wow, my son actually picked the right picture then when i made him sit through a line up! He thinks the other was Jerel.

Booo nothing like this ever happened at oliver tomkins... actually Brum came to visit us once or some other car that was just as cool.

Back to the original point though. It is brilliant that the Club are doing this kind of thing and yet more evidence, were it needed, that Fitton & Co know exactly what they are doing.

Top drawer.

yeah i know,but at the time he was in his green cross code man costume.another random about prowse is that my uncle used to compete against him in weightlifting competitions.

Hmm Red cheeks, sounds like Ady Williams has been on the razzle again.

Easton in a kilt ?

ha ha Im having fun trying to work out which player is white with red cheeks!