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More Questions - Have a go,
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 12:01
by Selby White
1. If we could have a ex striker back in his prime (to cover Chris Wood) who would you prefer ? Yeboah, Viduka, Hasselbaink, Chapman or Cantona.
2. You have to spend a week in a hospital bed, only entertainment is a TV and DVD player. You can have and one actor/actress complete film collection. Who would you choose ?
3. Where, how, when did you meet your partner ?
4. If you could get tickets for any major sporting event in the UK what would it be ?
5. Staying at a top hotel and you can have anything up to six items on your breakfast plate, what 6 do you go for ?
6. Which sport have you played to the highest standard ?
7. Name the last 5 albums you've listened to ?
8. Who is your all time Sporting hero ?
9. What was your favorite decade ?
10. Other than Leeds what other football teams do you like ?
Re: More Questions - Have a go,
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 13:07
by Deleted User 728
1. ex striker ? Yeboah, Viduka, Hasselbaink, Chapman or Cantona.
If it's limited to those five mentioned, Viduka. If not, John Charles.
2. one actor/actress complete film collection ?
Great question : Humphrey Bogart because I'm kinda doing it now anyway.
3. Where, how, when did you meet your partner ?
I'm single. The last woman I dated I met dancing to old soul in a cellar bar ..
4. If you could get tickets for any major sporting event in the UK what would it be ?
This season's Championship Play-Off Final at Wembley.
5. Staying at a top hotel and you can have anything up to six items on your breakfast plate, what 6 do you go for ?
Salmon and poached eggs on a split bagel, an apple and two cups of strong black coffee.
6. Which sport have you played to the highest standard ?
Football, to local Sunday league Div 3 or 4 - can't remember. Pretty ropey anyway.
My grandfather played crown green bowls for England and my dad took a frame off Joe Davis at snooker in the 60s when he was world champion.
(Joe, not my dad)
7. Name the last 5 albums you've listened to ?
ECHASKECH - Origin
COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS - Honest Life
CASE, LANG, VEIRS - Case, Lang, Veirs
LAURA VEIRS - Year Of Meteors
DUKE ELLINGTON - Far East Suite
8. Who is your all time Sporting hero ?
Maradona.
9. What was your favorite decade ?
1950s. I would've loved to have been a teenager just as things started getting interesting in about '54 ..
10. Other than Leeds what other football teams do you like ?
I keep an eye on foreign teams I've seen play, in particular LOSC (Lille), Orlando Pirates (South Africa), Hamburg, AC Milan and Sporting Lisbon. In the UK I always look out for the results of friends' clubs but other than Leeds I have a soft spot for Everton as I've been there the most after Elland Road and Southampton (who I don't like mainly to wind up everyone I know).
Re: More Questions - Have a go,
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 17:29
by Wigan White
1. If we could have a ex striker back in his prime (to cover Chris Wood) who would you prefer ? Yeboah, Viduka, Hasselbaink, Chapman or Cantona.
Viduka
2. You have to spend a week in a hospital bed, only entertainment is a TV and DVD player. You can have and one actor/actress complete film collection. Who would you choose ?
James Stewart
3. Where, how, when did you meet your partner ?
In the pub, but knew her from school
4. If you could get tickets for any major sporting event in the UK what would it be ?
Excluding football, darts world championship.
5. Staying at a top hotel and you can have anything up to six items on your breakfast plate, what 6 do you go for ?
Egg, bacon, sausage, beans, fried bread and toast
6. Which sport have you played to the highest standard ?
Darts. I play for my local superleague team.
7. Name the last 5 albums you've listened to ?
Rush - 2112
Jefferson Airplane - Best of...
David Bowie - Best of...
Lou Reed - Retro
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind Of Tension
8. Who is your all time Sporting hero ?
Either Carl Lewis or Sir Steve Redgrave
9. What was your favorite decade ?
The 60s
10. Other than Leeds what other football teams do you like ?
Wigan Athletic
Re: More Questions - Have a go,
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 18:12
by Barlow Boy
1. If we could have a ex striker back in his prime (to cover Chris Wood) who would you prefer ? Yeboah, Viduka, Hasselbaink, Chapman or Cantona.
Chapman - Arguably the most similar to Wood, so would fit into our 4-2-3-1 system easier
2. You have to spend a week in a hospital bed, only entertainment is a TV and DVD player. You can have and one actor/actress complete film collection. Who would you choose ?
Anything with Roxanne Pallett in it.
3. Where, how, when did you meet your partner ?
Work, apparently I used to talk about her constantly when me and the lads went to the pub every Friday lunchtime. A friend got that frustrated with it he told her, and she gave him her number for me as she felt the same. It's the 14th anniversary of our first date this coming Monday.
4. If you could get tickets for any major sporting event in the UK what would it be ?
Good question, probably a major boxing event.
5. Staying at a top hotel and you can have anything up to six items on your breakfast plate, what 6 do you go for ?
Bacon, Sausage, Egg, Beans, Grilled Tomatoes and Fried Bread (made me very hungry putting that in).
6. Which sport have you played to the highest standard ?
Football.
7. Name the last 5 albums you've listened to ?
Jake Bugg, Coldplay, Stone Roses, Madness and The Jam
8. Who is your all time Sporting hero ?
Daley Thompson
9. What was your favorite decade ?
Late 80's. Had just started going out with the lads on nights out - crazy times thinking back now.
10. Other than Leeds what other football teams do you like ?
Have a bit of a soft spot for Liverpool, but don't really 'like' any others.
Re: More Questions - Have a go,
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 20:19
by LAsouthcoast
1. Viduka, had the best all round game.
2.Al Pacino, Carlito`s Way is my fav film.
3. Local youth club.
4. England v NZ at Twickenham.
5. 2 sausages, egg on toast, tomatoes and mushrooms.
6. Football.
7. Ron Sexsmith (Carousel One), Springsteen (Chapter & Verse), The National ( Trouble Will Find), Catfish & the Bottlemen ( The Ride), ( The Balcony).
8. Billy Bremner. I so wanted to be like him.
9. The Seventies. My youth years and that sense of freedom.
10. Pompey, My Nan took me and my bro for our first live game, plus I spent a lot of time at the club when my lad was at the centre of excellence 20
odd years ago.
Re: More Questions - Have a go,
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 20:45
by Wigan White
Barlow Boy wrote:
Anything with Roxanne Pallett in it..
Couldn't disagree with that one BB.
Re: More Questions - Have a go,
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 21:45
by Mr Russell
1. If we could have a ex striker back in his prime (to cover Chris Wood) who would you prefer? Yeboah, Viduka, Hasselbaink, Chapman or Cantona.
Viduka! But if I could pick another player then Allan Clarke would be my choice.
2. You have to spend a week in a hospital bed, only entertainment is a TV and DVD player. You can have and one actor/actress complete film collection. Who would you choose?
Roger Moore
3. Where, how, when did you meet your partner?
Played soccer with one of her brothers, we had 2 chances to get together earlier but it was not the right time or place, 3rd time lucky it was.
4. If you could get tickets for any major sporting event in the UK what would it be?
Darts World Championship, it used to be the FA Cup Final but Leeds never made it whilst I was old enough to go or understand it. The only real sporting events I want to go to at this moment is the Aussie Rules Grand Final at the MCG or an Ashes Test at the MCG.
5. Staying at a top hotel and you can have anything up to six items on your breakfast plate, what 6 do you go for?
Bacon (well-cooked), Croissants, Melon, Grapefruit, Pineapple & Cheese, all washed down with an Earl Grey Tea.
6. Which sport have you played to the highest standard?
Football All age A-F Grade(s)
Darts A-Grade Newcastle district
Cricket – Craven League under 19’s (I think it was)
Drinking – A Grade!
7. Name the last 5 albums you've listened to?
Simple Minds – Big Music
Kaiser Chiefs – souvenir
David Bowie – Blackstar
New Model Army – Thunder & Consolation
Joy Division - Closer
8. Who is your all time Sporting hero?
A few here to be honest – (can’t just pick one)
Football – Johan Cruyff, Tony Currie, Johan Neeskens, Johnny Rep
Cricket – Ian Botham, David Gower
Darts – Phil Taylor
9. What was your favourite decade?
Don’t have one, all have had good and bad in them.
10. Other than Leeds what other football teams do you like?
Newcastle Jets here in Australia, Halifax Town in England I have a soft spot for. Others I keep a look out for are Kaiserslautern (Germany), Sochaux (France), Sassulo (Italy), Netherlands national team, Australian national team.
Re: More Questions - Have a go,
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 22:16
by mapperleywhite
Selby White wrote:1. If we could have a ex striker back in his prime (to cover Chris Wood) who would you prefer ? Yeboah, Viduka, Hasselbaink, Chapman or Cantona.
Gonna have to join the Viduka club
2. You have to spend a week in a hospital bed, only entertainment is a TV and DVD player. You can have and one actor/actress complete film collection. Who would you choose ?
Would Michael Palin count? Bit more mainstream Donald Sutherland
3. Where, how, when did you meet your partner ?
Going to plead the fifth amendment here 
Check in tomorrow for an update 
4. If you could get tickets for any major sporting event in the UK what would it be ?
Away from football at Elland Road, I'd quite like to be involved with the Calcutta Cup, preferably in Edinburgh
5. Staying at a top hotel and you can have anything up to six items on your breakfast plate, what 6 do you go for ?
The crispiest tastiest bacon possible, top quality eggs done any way, Cumberland sausages, black pudding, portabello mushrooms, griddled tomatoes
6. Which sport have you played to the highest standard ?
Mapperley White was not designed to play sport. Too slow, too tall, not strong enough. I plugged away at football for many years, but the only sport I have a trophy for is Derbyshire amateur league cricket (second division)
7. Name the last 5 albums you've listened to ?
Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
Toto - Toto XIV
Doobie Brothers - Southbound
America - Lost and Found
Earl Klugh - Finger Paintings
8. Who is your all time Sporting hero ?
Fred Trueman - saw him take his 300th test wicket at the Oval with my father who would have been mortified if he'd known Fred was Jewish
9. What was your favorite decade ?
1970's - went to Uni - 'a fountain of knowledge where students learn to drink' - and spent the magnificently sunny summer of 1976 in the Netherlands
10. Other than Leeds what other football teams do you like ?
Hull City (parents), Brentford (grew up there), Notts County (mates locally), Spurs (great to watch), Holland (always entertaining), Germany (how a national football team should work), Club Nacional de Medellin (wife)
Re: More Questions - Have a go,
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 22:35
by BrighouseWhite
Selby White wrote:1. If we could have a ex striker back in his prime (to cover Chris Wood) who would you prefer ? Yeboah, Viduka, Hasselbaink, Chapman or Cantona.
Viduka
2. You have to spend a week in a hospital bed, only entertainment is a TV and DVD player. You can have and one actor/actress complete film collection. Who would you choose ?
Family Guy, or if that's not allowed Michael Caine for the amount of films he's done
3. Where, how, when did you meet your partner ?
Pub in Wyke
4. If you could get tickets for any major sporting event in the UK what would it be ?
British Grand Prix
5. Staying at a top hotel and you can have anything up to six items on your breakfast plate, what 6 do you go for ?
Scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, black pudding, beans and lots of mushrooms
6. Which sport have you played to the highest standard ?
Football, still not that high tho
7. Name the last 5 albums you've listened to ?
Sara Bareilles - The Blessed Unrest
Queen - A Day at the Races
Beatles - Blue Album
Best of the 70's various artists album
Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
8. Who is your all time Sporting hero ?
Eddie Gray
9. What was your favourite decade ?
early 70's when I got interested in football
10. Other than Leeds what other football teams do you like ?
Halifax Town and Barrow
Re: More Questions - Have a go,
Posted: 09 Mar 2017, 09:12
by NottinghamWhite
1. If we could have a ex striker back in his prime (to cover Chris Wood) who would you prefer ? Yeboah, Viduka, Hasselbaink, Chapman or Cantina
Viduka but would prefer Sniffer
2. You have to spend a week in a hospital bed, only entertainment is a TV and DVD player. You can have and one actor/actress complete film collection. Who would you choose ?
Tom Hanks
3. Where, how, when did you meet your partner ?
Fowey in Cornwall whilst I was running a hotel
4. If you could get tickets for any major sporting event in the UK what would it be ?
Deciding day of The Ashes
5. Staying at a top hotel and you can have anything up to six items on your breakfast plate, what 6 do you go for ?
bacon, fried egg, baked beans, orange juice & coffee
6. Which sport have you played to the highest standard ?
dominoes & pool but I find pool difficult now as I wear glasses a la Dennis Taylor
7. Name the last 5 albums you've listened to ?
Sorry haven't a musical bone in my body
8. Who is your all time Sporting hero ?
Tough one this Ali, Sobers, Botham, Daley Thompson but it's got to be Billy I wept the day he passed on
9. What was your favorite decade ?
1970's I was young & earned good money to enjoy it
10. Other than Leeds what other football teams do you like ?
Torquay United as I lived there for 14 years