fitba' (fit-baw) Dialect, chiefly Scot. -n. (m) the beautiful game. 2. (f) stupid game involving twenty-two grown men (and three officials of dubious parentage and eyesight) kicking a lump of leather around a field, often sparking irrational behaviour, bad language, and blind devotion to a team or player, to the detriment of normal marital relations. (see fitba' widow).
Dudesleeper
Loch Fyne
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This user was born on 20 July 1979. |
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This user is from Blackpool - a Sand Grown'un. |
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This user has been on Wikipedia for 6 years and 20 days. |
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I first visited Wikipedia in January 2006. Shortly thereafter, the first article I created got deleted. Excellent start, I thought. Thenceforth, my first edit was to the article (started on 4 November 2005, by an anonymous editor) about Billy Ayre, the former Blackpool Football Club manager who sadly left this earth in 2002 before he could even clock up a half-century. I have nothing but fond memories of the Geordie, not least because he came to my high school's summer fair in 1993 to partake in a teachers v. pupils football game. Oh, and he guided the Seasiders to Wembley for the first time in thirty-eight years... and then did the same thing twelve months later.
Speaking of football, the first game I attended was an English Second Division battle-of-the-seasides encounter between Blackpool and Brighton on 19 September 1992. The match finished 2-2, with Ian Stringfellow and Trevor Sinclair scoring the Tangerines' goals.
On 16 April 1994, I attended a Scottish Premier League match between Rangers and Raith Rovers at Ibrox with Derek Spence, a former Northern Ireland teammate of Raith's then-manager Jimmy Nicholl. The game, which Rangers won 4-0, gained infamy due to Rangers striker Duncan Ferguson's headbutt on the visitors' John McStay, for which the former later served jail time.[1] As my luck would have it, I saw nothing.
My favourite band is R.E.M., and it was during their show at a frigid Jones Beach, Long Island, on October 3, 2003 (specifically, during "Nightswimming") that I proposed to my then-girlfriend. We were married 364 days later. That was my second live experience of R.E.M. The dates and venues of the other three: 13 July 2003 (Old Trafford); 5 October 2003 (Tweeter Center); and 29 October 2004 (FleetCenter).
At present, I write from Yarmouth, Maine. I moved here in June 2008 from nearby Portland, where I'd lived since September 2006. Prior to that, I lived in Newton, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, for four years. My family home is in Thornton, England. I'm English-born, with an American wife, Scottish parents, a Welsh sister-in-law, and an Australian-born niece and nephew.
Continuing the world tour theme...
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Why "Dudesleeper"?
My username is derived from the song "Daysleeper". See what I did there?
These are all in 4-4-2 formations, featuring only those players active in my lifetime.
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