Bamber Bridge v Chorley - FA Cup Third Qualifying Round - 11/10/14 - and big James Dean is still rattling in the goals.

I think I may be the only ICT fan who actually knows where Bamber Bridge and Chorley are

Didn't Bamber Bridge use to present Mastermind?

Edited October 1, 201411 yr by Sneckboy

That is the beauty of the Rail Network !! Only a 10 mile return journey by car BUT if you go by Rail it could take up to an hour as you have to go past Brig and on to Preston and back.

Would that be BRIGadoon IHE?????

Didn't Bamber Bridge use to present Mastermind?

No, no, it's a card game played in the conference.

Didn't Bamber Bridge use to present Mastermind?

 

If you ever went on Mastermind I would suggest that your chosen specialist subject should not be TV quiz shows, because "Bambi" actually presented University Challenge, and I only know that because I can remember the episode of the Young Ones when they went on it!

 

Didn't Bamber Bridge use to present Mastermind?

 

If you ever went on Mastermind I would suggest that your chosen specialist subject should not be TV quiz shows, because "Bambi" actually presented University Challenge, and I only know that because I can remember the episode of the Young Ones when they went on it!

 

Of course! University Challenge it was...not Mastermind! Ah well, serves me right - jokes on me!

Wow

I know it Ender

Lancashire's Finest are found in Bamber Bridge.

I know it EnderLancashire's Finest are found in Bamber Bridge.

Not any more Laurence !! The main attraction is a pub crawl down Station Road - 23 watering places in total in my heyday although probably a lot less nowadays.

I know it EnderLancashire's Finest are found in Bamber Bridge.

Not any more Laurence !! The main attraction is a pub crawl down Station Road - 23 watering places in total in my heyday although probably a lot less nowadays.

I was talking about the beer

Are the Lancashire County repair depot's for Fire Engines still located there. Oft is the times I was sent there to drive the machines back to their own stations after repair

Paddy Kenny the Bury goalkeeper later QPR and Leeds had his start I think at Bamber Bridge

But, in all seriousness, from a football perspective, it's a very good draw for Chorley. Bamber Bridge are 2 levels below them - so I'd expect Chorley will be looking to see-them-off at the first time of asking. Then, they'll be into the final qualifying round.

AND THIS IS THE MAIN MAN WHO COULD DO A JOB AT THE TCS

 and big James Dean is still rattling in the goals.

Is he still an angry young man?

and big James Dean is still rattling in the goals.

Is he still an angry young man?

Just wish that we could get him on his bike to Sneck - he could be a Rebel with a cause.

He scored again today! I'm sure he'd come up here, to Inverness, if offered - you'd certainly think he'd love a crack at full-time football. Much of the spine of our current team have come from the English 'non-leagues'...and Dean's playing at a higher level than Danny Williams was, when he joined us. What age is he, IHE?

Dean is 29 years old. Started his career off as a central defender and was also a kick boxing champion. I just love the old style, marauding, centre forward but he has pace, works hard and has accrued a real eye for goal. I am surprised that he is still at Chorley.

I have been to both Bamber Bridge and Chorley with FC United! Cracking little grounds.

Well never got to the game as the gates were closed at 14.20 - feck me imagine sitting in the Innes and being told that !!! Bamber Bridge 1 Chorley 4 - James Dean scored the first, made the third, MOM and local radio raving about him and stating that he could play at a much higher level.

SERIOUSLY - How can I put forward a " reference" ?

Tom Finney Stadium was a 3200 record sell out with 1000 Chorley. Marred by scrapping outside - PNE / Brig versus Chorley/Bolton and a Caley Animal

FC Halifax. Chorley are at home but there were certainly easier draws!

Chorley at home to Halifax Town on 25/10 - good to be the underdogs - Bring it on !!

Goalless draw - but in the First Round proper draw. Never heard the crowd but must have been close to 3000.

JAMES Dean wants to land the knockout blow for Chorley when they play his former club Halifax Town in the FA Cup today, but the striker almost swapped a career scoring goals for one kicking people in the head when he was younger. A popular player amongst the supporters of both clubs, the 29-year-old has enjoyed the best spells of his career with the Shaymen and the Magpies.But as a teenager he almost gave up his footballing ambitions to pursue a promising career as a professional kickboxer.

 

For two years Dean was playing part-time for Clitheroe, and had four successful fights as a kickboxer, before Conference side Northwich Victoria came calling, and he decided to swap the gloves for the boots. “I went down for a week’s trial and it went from there,” he said. “I had to choose between kickboxing and football and obviously the football paid a little bit better than the kickboxing, and you don’t get hurt as much.” Dean, who was born and still lives in the Accrington area, got into kickboxing when he was working as a lifeguard at Hyndburn Sports Centre, and he had fights in Stranraer, Coventry, Middlesbrough and Birmingham.
“There was no money in it, I just did it for the enjoyment,” he added. “It’s not like it is now when the MMA comes into it and people are all doing that and it’s on the telly, kickboxing was just a hobby to keep you fit and look after yourself basically.”

 

The decision to step down back into non-league has led to the most enjoyable time of his career. After a spell with Harrogate Town he went to FC Halifax, a reborn club after the previous incarnation had entered administration. Dean scored 83 times in 130 games for the Shaymen, and thrived playing in front of big crowds. “From Halifax the last six years of my career have been the best.” he said. “That was the moment I started enjoying my football, the crowds they used to get there were unbelievable. To experience it was amazing.” At Halifax Dean formed one third of a potent attacking trio alongside Jamie Vardy, who is now playing for Leicester City in the Premier League, and Lee Gregory, who is now playing for Millwall in the Championship.

 

Garry Flitcroft gave me a call and said he wanted to sit down and speak with me to see if I was interested,” Dean said of his move to Victory Park. “As soon as I met him I sort of knew it was the right club for me. He said ‘I’ll make you love football again’. That’s all I needed to hear really.” Dean hit the ground running with the Magpies, and sees similarities between them and Halifax, and the crowds the two sides get.

“As a player it sells itself if a manager comes up to you and says ‘listen, I want you to sign for this club, we’re getting five, six, seven hundred every week, a thousand’,” he said. “You’re going to go there rather than playing for another club where they might pay you twice as much but you’re playing in front of 200 fans. “You want to play in front of as many people as you can. It wasn’t about the money, it was about playing in front of a crowd.” Dean is convinced that Chorley, who are currently third in the Conference North, can eventually make the Football League, and he is loving life playing under Flitcroft, with Matt Jansen also a member of the backroom staff at Victory Park. “Their advice, just to sit down and talk to them and listen to some of the stories, and the advice that they give is unique, it’s second-to-none, you’ve just got to make sure you listen because it will help, they’ve been there, they’ve played against some of the best players in the world. “Janny still joins in training now, and he destroys everybody, he’s unbelievable. The gaffer tells him sometimes ‘pass the ball, pass the ball’, but he just takes everybody on and scores, it’s ‘right, come off, you’re not playing properly, let them have a chance’, it’s incredible.”

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