!! England beat Germany at PENALTIES !!

Posted on 19 May, 2012 by cadman

Just finished watching Bayern Munich v Chelsea in the Champions League Final & as much as i’m pleased that an English team have beaten a German team in penalties I must say that football may have lost tonight.

Chelsea like in the semi final against Barcelona have spent the whole game defending  against a team that just could not break them down & score.

Bayern were by far the better team but they could not break down a resolute Chelsea team.

But just like 26th May 1999 the Germans were face down in the dirt with despair.

Muller scored late in the 2nd half with a header that Ashley Cole should have dealt with better before a bullet header from Drogba to make it 1-1. The game went to extra time before penalties.

Chelsea win on penalties before John Terry put a full Chelsea kit on to join the rest of the team to go up & collect the top trophy in European Football.

Well done Chelsea but What a joke……how can you win Champions League Final by defending a Semi and final……football the big loser…

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Party Wife & a trip to A & E

Posted on 18 May, 2012 by cadman

I was up & at my laptop for 07:00 sharp this morning as I was working from home.

I was on taxi duty for Mrs C, my daughter & Dix this morning so an early start was needed so I could build the hours up so i could take them to Old Trafford for the Key103 Ladies Lunch.

All dropped off safe & sound at The Manchester Suite, Old Trafford for 11.00 to catch the rest of the ladies up, all 700 of them!

I then set off for work & got within 10 minutes of the office when Mrs C rang to say our youngest had fallen at school & they wanted us to pick him up. I called school to find out what had happened & he’d fallen in PE & landed on his wrist. He was complaining he couldn’t move his wrist & as usual school take no responsibility & pass the book. 3/4 of an hour later I’d got to school, signed him out & was on our way to A & E.

2 x-rays later & a quick check over by the Dr & it was good news NO BREAK but just badly sprained. They fixed him up with a sling for the weekend & released us.

Quick dart back to school & he was dropped off & I was on my way home to get some work done. I spent the afternoon sorting CAD issues that were being caused by DRM block on the title sheets.

Then back off to Old Trafford to pick the 3 ladies back up. Looked like & smelled like they’d had a good time, only 1 not drinking was my daughter but she is 5+ month pregnant.

Listening to them babel on in the car they seemed to have enjoyed themselves albeit that the tables were a little bit detached from each other & were not as close to the stage & runway as last year. How dare they treat VIP guests this way! But they did enjoy themselves & have already started plotting next years Ladies Lunch.

Back home this evening we had a lengthy conversation with my cousin, her daughter, my aunt & my cousin’s partner who live out in the US. The weather over there looks so nice at the moment & of course i got the usual badgering by Mrs C to go over & visit. Maybe soon ;-)

Lazy weekend ahead i hope,

Oh & if you are interested the sling is off & the cheeky little sod is feeling a lot better! TYPICAL!

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My Great Grand Father (Maternal)

Posted on 17 May, 2012 by cadman

I have finally tracked down my maternal Great Grand Father today (Thomas Helliwell) with the help of a couple of very helpful ladies from the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society (MLFHS – http://www.mlfhs.co.uk/) & Bury MBC Registrars Office.

I knew my Grand father very well but he very rarely spoke about his parents, we knew about his mother because her surname was an unusual one (PODESTA) & she came from a family living in Bury, Lancashire. However her husband was very elusive & all we knew was that he possibly came from Todmorden in Lancashire.

So I sent off for the marriage certificate & it arrived today.

On the certificate it named the father of the happy couple which has allowed me to look for information oh Thomas’s side of the family.

Looks like they all grew up in & around Todmorden in the late 1800′s & the majority seemed to be employed in the local cotton mills. My Great Grand Father however seemed to break away from the cotton industry & went into hairdressing eventually owning his own salon in Bury, Lancashire.

I’ve still got many more avenues & batches of information to work through but I think I may have made a break through. Many thanks ladies for the help i really do appreciate the information.

Mrs C, her best friend Dix, my daughter sam & our other friend Mrs M are all off to Chelsea’s Key103 lunch tomorrow at Old Trafford in aid of charity, enjoy the day ladies.

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1 day & 2 deaths in the family :-(

Posted on 16 May, 2012 by cadman

well yesterday was a bad day in the Cleary household, we had 2 deaths in 1 day.

I think both of them may have been caused by our youngest.

All he was asked to do on Monday was make sure you feed them & he presto 1 death in the morning & the other when we came home.

One was about 8 years old & had lost his colour & ended up white, the other was about 4-5 years old & was quite a big boy.

We only have 2 of them left & I’ll be keeping an eye on these 2 for a while in case the youngest attempts to over feed them too.

Have you guessed what has sadly passed away?

2 of our 4 goldfish.

We will not be replacing them.

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Has the football world gone mad

Posted on 15 May, 2012 by cadman

Barely 48 hours after MCFC lifted the Premier League trophy & the football world is having to make apologies & refuse to make apologies for the actions of certain players.

Joey Barton was sent off on sunday against MCFC for violent conduct as seen by the linesman, barely had the referee raised the red card for what in other games could have been ignored as not seen, he went on a one man war with the MCFC players. Aguero was knee’d/kicked from behind as Barton slyly snook past him on his way off the pitch, then the so-called ‘hard man of football attempted to head-butt MCFC’s Kompany as they too seemed to clash. Again as he was being escorted off the pitch by MCFC’s Richards he was seen to square up to Mario Ballateli another bad boy  of our beautiful game.

Following this Barton then went on a tweet rampage aimed at some of England’s previous greats Garry Linaker & Alan Shearer, if he’d had done a quarter of what they achieved in their careers I’d have given him some credit but he hasn’t.

Well done Joey, time to grow up I think.

Then today QPR owner Tony Fernandes has gone on record and said that QPR will have to look at what effect this has on the brand. So what does the future hold for Joey Barton?

Then last night at what seemed to be a very well attended celebration parade for MCFC Tevez decided to hold up a poster saying “RIP Fergie”. How poorly advised is this stupid & pathetic Argentine idiot?

It was clear to see that the remainder of the MCFC players had distanced themselves from what could only be classed as a poor judgement of character.

MCFC have made a public statement unreservedly apologising for what was broadcast around the world. Well done City but what else does this horrible man have to do to drag your club down & on such a special night for you?

Some in the media have suggested that Tevez will not have known what was written on the poster as he can’t read or speak English, but from the stupid grin on his face he clearly knew what he was doing. Others have also played it down by referring it to a response to what Sir Alex said earlier in the season in that “MCFC would never win the Premier League in his lifetime”

Whatever was in Tevez’s mind at the time now could be another boiling point when these 2 great teams meet next season.

What will the summer of football hold for these 2 fools & others like them?

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