For a change, I am not whingeing  on my blog http://www.miteamshirts.com . I am making you aware of a few sports personalities who represent my home town of Chorley.

TOUR de FRANCE

English: Bradley Wiggins (GBR) at stage 17 of the 2009 Tour de France on the Col de la Colombière. Nederlands: Bradley Wiggins (GBR) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I hope all you Brits are rooting for Chorley man Bradley Wiggins to win ‘Le Tour de France‘.

I think he will be the first ‘Brit’ since Stephen Roche in the 80′s to win the Tour. 1984 I think (don’t quote me tho’). I am following the tour on ITV 4.  I am always amazed at how the cyclists can endure 4 hours plus of physical torture every day just to get over the finishing line.

CHORLEY F.C. 

Gary Flitcroft (ex Pro footballer with Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers) is now Manager of Chorley F.C. ‘Magpies’ in the Evo-Stik Premier League. Another ex Blackburn Rovers player is Matt Jansen 

English: Matt Jansen (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

who in partnership with Gary is player coach at Chorley.

Under their guidance I am confident that with the right all round  support, including the superb fan base, which averages 1000 per home game, they will gain automatic  promotion to the ‘Conference Division‘ this coming season, which they narrowly missed out  on via the playoffs last season.

OLYMPICS

Geography and P.E teacher Stuart Stokes at Holy Cross High School, Chorley is representing us in the 3000 metres steeplechase at the Olympic games. He is the only Olympian in the squad ‘to my knowledge’ to have a full time job as well as having had to train and then gain a qualifying time, which he did in Brussels and then again in Spain within 10 days of each other. How many of us ‘mere mortals’ could be training at 4.30 each morning, 7 days per week and then do a full days work afterwards? Good luck to Stuart.

DARTS

Phil Nicholson is another Chorley sports personality ‘based in Adlington‘ who is very well known on Sky Sports TV and the Professional Darts Circuit. He missed out on playing in the forthcoming Darts Premier League by a very narrow margin, but is a force to be reckoned with.

I am still a reluctant Blackburn Rovers fan, but my match days will now be spent at  Victory Park, Chorley F.C.

That’s it for now, so as usual, take care and stay healthy

‘Old Git’ Jimbo

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The gig at The Swan ‘Cavern’ With 2 Necks.

As an ‘Old Git’ from the 60′s it reminded me of the Liverpool ‘Cavern Club’, but this was the  Chorley Swan ’Cavern Club’.

The ‘Beatles’ started playing at the Liverpool ’Cavern Club’ and the rest ‘as they say is history’.

Who knows what band is gonna emerge famously after playing at the Chorley ‘Swan Cavern Club ‘? The man behind the promotions is Chris “?”.

Watch my blogs and I will try to keep U all informed.

While I was there with my business partner Chrissie Fuller @ www.myteamshirts.com and www.mits-online.co.uk  we  took some group photos with some of our facebook friends wearing some of our new Premiership 2/3 way club teamshirts.

The friends I can remember who you will see in the group photos’ were, Jessica Marsh, Julie Anne, Elle Rossall with boyfriend Alex Hesketh and Jack Bennett a Blackburn Rovers fan, the same as me.

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I won’t tell you the clubs cos you should know the home/away shirts now , but here they are visually.

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The Swan is a favourite place for me and I can highly recommend it, BUT my over 18 friends wanted to drink coke instead of alcohol and they told me they had been refused. So me being me I was able to buy them all a coke with ice. My thanks to Head Barman Jonny for serving me.

In my day of running pubs and doing pub work, soft drinks brought in more ‘profit’ than alcohol, and also the people drinking it are far less likely to cause any trouble cos they’re SOBER,  so it’s a mystery to me why they were refused. These young people have become my friends and I praised them in one of my previous blogs, My good judgement was proved right cos they are the same group of people.

Here they are showing off some of our shirts.

Jessica Marsh, Julie Anne, Elle Rossall, Alex Bennett & Jack Bennett. My thanks to them all.

When I got home from the Swan I was able to catch up with the Darts Premier League on Sky Sports and witnessed Phil ‘the power’ Taylor hitting a 9 dart 501 game against Kevin Painter.

He is still the man to beat, ‘tho Phils’ prodigy Adrian Lewis will eventually take over his mantle, cos he now has the ‘bottle’.

I stopped playing darts 20yrs ago in my amatuer days because I could not find a sponsor, but I played for one season in a league in Blackburn that played 301 instead of 501 and I hit 2 legs of 301 in 6 darts each and was presented by Sky reporter and commentator John Gwynne (he was with Radio Piccadilly at the time)  as “player of the month”.

He wasn’t too pleased that I was the first person to be presented with the trophy outside of Manchester. My claim to fame or my 15 minutes.  What is it with SOME Manchester people? Surely they can’t all be United fans, can they?

Anyway I’m done with my comments and ‘winges’ for this blog and  I’m  gonna get some zzzzzzz’s in, so take care

‘Old Git’ Jimbo