• JimShadypanorama_fish_eye
    10 months ago

    Joining in .... yes. The Campbell and Cooper sales I think. Keep them and we might have been in the PL the last 20 years.

  • Seanpanorama_fish_eye
    10 months ago

    Or conversely, just for a another 2 or 3 years and eventually gone down anyway with Wimbledon and Coventry instead of Bradford(?)./ Charlton that year.

    Or even stayed up and actually become Charlton by 2006 ish having decided a few consecutive top half finishes was old hat and hounding out the.manager before spending the better part of 20 years hence dreaming of the giddy heights of 21st in the Championship.

  • Simonhelp_outline
    10 months ago

    Yeah, while I'd love to believe keeping Cooper and Campbell (the former wanted to go "home" anyway and wasn't really a Bassett centre half, so was less avoidable) would have led to us being permanent premier league members, the unstable nature of the Soar/Scholar/Wray ownership would almost certainly have fucked us up before very long anyway.

  • dj_bobbinspanorama_fish_eye
    10 months ago

    We've done this before, but Guru's list had the correct number 1 position - selling Super Lars Bohinen was the one.

  • Jeff_Albertsonhelp_outline
    10 months ago

    I'm not sure he "wanted" to go home, until it was made clear (by Bassett agreeing to sell him to West Ham) that he wasn't wanted. AIUI, he told the club, he would only leave for Middlesbrough, and sure enough a deal was agreed with them within a few weeks.
    As you say, he wasn't a Bassett centre half at all (we started the promotion season with Chettle and Hjelde as the CB and Cooper didn't play in defence until late September, after Hjelde got injured, having initially been picked in midfield)

  • JRs_Cigarettepanorama_fish_eye
    10 months ago

    Hold on, in Sliding Doors she ends up with the same bloke in both versions doesn't she. How it happens is different, but the end result is the same?

  • Simonhelp_outline
    10 months ago

    And final destination, they all die in the same order that they would have in the crash (I haven’t seen any sequels). The plot of the film is literally fate refusing to be confounded.

  • trickylens
    10 months ago

    You insufferable old romantic.

    Why 30? Buying Ian Wallace for over a million quid, when that was a lot, saw the end of the golden period of our history.

  • Mangetoutpanorama_fish_eye
    10 months ago

    Peter Taylor to Derby.

  • trickylens
    10 months ago

    He retired first.

  • JimShadypanorama_fish_eye
    10 months ago

    The main issue here is that I didn’t recall the plot very well.

  • Gurupanorama_fish_eye
    10 months ago

    Just like we ended up in the Prem. Just by different routes

    So to keep going with analogy, the question is probably what seemingly inocuous thing changed our route. Thus most of our examples were probably fairly seismic at the time…

  • Mangetoutpanorama_fish_eye
    10 months ago

    I'm old, but not old enough, evidently.

    Peter Taylor retiring.

  • stevepanorama_fish_eye
    10 months ago

    Doesn't he die in one version?

  • Jeff_Albertsonhelp_outline
    10 months ago

    September 2008, Burnley arrived at the City Ground with two points, one goal and a GD of -6 from their first four games.
    Forest had four points, but were on the back of a 5-1 defeat at eventual champions Wolves.
    About 20 minutes in, Nathan Tyson ran clear on goal - score and Burnley, already low on confidence, would surely fall apart.
    He blazed over.
    Burnley went on to win 2-1 and embarked on an amazing run which ended in promotion via the play-offs.
    Forest picked up just two points from their next eight games and win just three times before Christmas. Calderwood was sacked after a 4-2 loss to Doncaster on Boxing Day and WMD appointed.
    Let alone Forest, how different would Burnley's future have been if Tyson had scored.

    That, or Cohen and Reid both being injured v derby when Forest were top of the league under Pearce. Psycho would surely have led us to the title unbeaten and probably European Cup glory within a couple of years if they'd stayed fit.

  • Jim7panorama_fish_eye
    10 months ago

    If Cohen had stuck to left back rather than pretending to be a midfielder he’d have been a good player ;)

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