In the week of the passing of one of my favourite wrestlers, Denbighshire's Al "Buster" Martin, a comment I made on here has been playing on my mind: how he apologised to me for signing his name, as it were, wrongly.
I know that we have Members who like to see before believing, so the Ides of March have allowed the stars to align and for the first time for a while, in Buster's honour, I have delved into my memorabilia collection to root out the autograph in question. From memory I only ever got his autograph once, so it was a Naylor in a Haystacks job.
Not only have the stars aligned but so have the settings on my new scanner, and I am thrilled to have been able to find the missing autograph and to be able to share it with Members now!
Not only that, I find one of my Royal Albert Hall programmes with a near nap hand of autographs. What happy memories collecting all these. Only one fiend foiled me...look!
I am delighted to be able to share this with you all. Just 18 months later, these magnificent 16-page glossy Royal Albert Hall programmes would be reduced by the power-that-was to four superficial pages on coarse, cheap paper with grainy print and chaotic fonts. I hope you have as much pleasure seeing these for the first time as I have in rediscovering them and remembering the Chase.
Oh, Crewe is in the South now, is it? You really do align with Donald Trump in redrawing world gegraphy.
No more needs saying in these recent threads about what has been motivating you, Hack, and clouding your hitherto excellent clarity that has informed so much of Wrestling Heritage with sparkling wisdom and good cheer. You have clearly been Trumped.
I think in your case you could well blame "Oh Mr Porter ..........." given your final destination.
I'm glad we have established this and can move on.
And I agree with you wholeheartedy that we want more people to share their insights without fear of being pounced on if they happen to come from South of Crewe. Given that Crewe and Wrexham are close neighbours - maybe Buster and The Count went by tandem to Kensngton - should we now classify Buster Martin as a Southerner, too?
This will leave me in peace to work on my new project, inspired by a Dutch TV creation, and entitled "The Banished." I'll list all those title-hoggers that McMagnanimous cleared out in his mid-sixties purge and MATSGA campaign. It might be interesting once done to see if any geographical factors link The Banished...