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Love Story

18 Thursday Mar 2021

Posted by laurencereade in M

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First game, Football, Greenhill Road, groundhopping, Kilmarnock, Love Street, Paisley, Premier, Premier League, Scotland, SPFL, St Mirren, Tesco

Saturday 11th March 2006 ko 15.00

Scottish League Division One 

ST MIRREN 1 (Adam 90) 

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH 0

Att 3,436 at St Mirren Park, Love Street, Paisley

Entry £15 

Programme £2

Saturday 31st January 2009 ko 12.30

Scottish Premier League

ST MIRREN 1 (Wyness 83)

KILMARNOCK 1 (Kyle 29)

Att 7,542 at New St Mirren Park, Greenhill Road, Paisley

Entry £18 Programme £4

I have a feeling I didn’t approach Paisley as some others do. I remembering seeing the place as the place where the slightly psychedelic “Paisley Pattern” comes from, and holiday visits to the likes of the “Sma’ Shot Cottages” and the Coats Observatory were greatly enjoyed. But the second Iain my regular companion to all things Scottish and I went to watch Queen of the South away at Love Street in 2006, I soon spotted a change in that viewpoint.

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Led Zep

21 Wednesday May 2014

Posted by laurencereade in C

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Antiques Roadshow, Cuffley, Hertfordshire County Senior League, Hertfordshire Senior County League, Lieutenant Leefe Robinson, London, Premier League, Standon and Puckeridge, Tesco, Victoria Cross, Zeppelin

Monday 19th May 2014 ko 18.30

Hertfordshire Senior County League, Senior Premier Division

CUFFLEY 0

STANDON & PUCKERIDGE 4 (Endacott 3 Stephen 16 James 47 Miller 51)

Att 41

Entry FREE

Programme NO

Tea 80p

I thought I knew North London and its suburbs, the villages with their war memorials and their church spires. God knows I spent 3 years living there, but every so often I visit somewhere that throws me.

At first Cuffley fitted my expectations, its a place of wealth, a popular place for Premier League footballers to buy property with easy access to the capital, and former Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy lives here. That said there is resistance locally to a Tesco Local opening here, and I do wonder if it did open, would Sir Terry shop there? But there’s more to the village than meets the eye, and it all starts with the football club…. Continue reading →

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