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GJW

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The Hungary Caterpillar. It's about a greedy Caterpillar from Hungary. Not for kids.
 

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The Hungary Caterpillar. It's about a greedy Caterpillar from Hungary. Not for kids.
One that subject (were we?) is one of the many emails to the Exeweb contact us email address is for Hungarian passports, fake and real!
 

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My ever considerate eldest lass got me the The History Of St James' Park for Christmas.

Absolutely fantastic and absorbing read, not merely from an ECFC point of view but our local history generally.

10/10
 

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In RaWZ we trust....Amen.
My ever considerate eldest lass got me the The History Of St James' Park for Christmas.

Absolutely fantastic and absorbing read, not merely from an ECFC point of view but our local history generally.

10/10
Just started to read it myself..Excellent research of the early days....Don’t tell me the ending 😉
 

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I’m reading Gibbo; The Davie Gibson Story. I love reading these fascinating insights into the lives of players who touched the highest level of football from humble beginnings and ended up playing lower league. Usually in the sixties or seventies. End up getting a pretty mainstream job, retire and write about their exploits. Read the Steve Stacey book as well. Both really good reads.
I can’t imagine a book written by the modern millionaire players now would show many of them running a pub, becoming a postman or getting a 9 to 5 office job to pay the bills after they retire.
 

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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
 

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Just finished This is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor) by Adam Kay. It's been out a while so some might have read it. Would very much recommend as it is hilarious, frightening, heartwarming and heartbreaking. Lots of black humour and he does specialise in obstetrics and gynecology so maybe not for the screamish or anyone about to have a child!

It is amazing the NHS survives under the pressure it puts the staff through and worrying that it is not sustainable. You think that those conditions would only be called for during wars and dire emergency although I suppose every day on the NHS is an emergency.
 

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Just started to read it myself..Excellent research of the early days....Don’t tell me the ending 😉
In no way wishing to spoil the ending but it was very intriguing to note a newspaper reference to "The Grecians" of St Sidwell as far back as 1847!!
 

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Never say die. The remarkable rise of Exeter city. Nick Spencer.

Absolutely fascinating. There was I thinking I knew a fair bit about that period, particularly the Lewis Russell fiasco, but I now know I knew very little. Raises so many questions about those past days as it answers. For instance Steve Flack is quoted as saying ' Lee Sharpe was paid in cash after games, 1500 to 2000 a time and that he saw the then club sec carrying a very heavy bag full of £1 coins as she had been paid in cash out of a fruit machine. He also said it had been going on for years with directors putting a minimum amount if money in then going to every away game for years, staying in the hotels and even CLAIMING EXPENCES WHEN THEY MOVED HOUSE!!!
Now I wonder who they were?
 

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Never say die. The remarkable rise of Exeter city. Nick Spencer.

Absolutely fascinating. There was I thinking I knew a fair bit about that period, particularly the Lewis Russell fiasco, but I now know I knew very little. Raises so many questions about those past days as it answers. For instance Steve Flack is quoted as saying ' Lee Sharpe was paid in cash after games, 1500 to 2000 a time and that he saw the then club sec carrying a very heavy bag full of £1 coins as she had been paid in cash out of a fruit machine. He also said it had been going on for years with directors putting a minimum amount if money in then going to every away game for years, staying in the hotels and even CLAIMING EXPENCES WHEN THEY MOVED HOUSE!!!
Now I wonder who they were?
I remember going to the club to remove the gas meter for a unpaid bill around the Lewis & Russell era.
That was paid after the fruit machines were emptied 😁
I suppose they were used like a piggy bank.🤣

I heard a few stories from Steve Williams(who Bally signed) about the shenanigans in the early 1990s..He said all clubs have people on ‘the fiddle’ but Exeter were in the 1st Division of that league.
 
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