Two councillors, Geoff Driver of Lancashire County Council and Ken Hudson of Preston City Council have had a letter published in the Times (8th Oct) \u00a0defending the location of the National Football\u00a0Museum in\u00a0Preston.\u00a0 This was after Matt Dickinson the Times Chief\u00a0Sports Correspondent had written the museum should be\u00a0at Wembley (6thOct).<\/p>\n
Matt said he liked the museum but it’s one drawback was it is in Preston. Well he would say that\u00a0as it’s a typical London reaction to anything\u00a0they have to travel to even though Preston is surrounded by Premier and Football League clubs.\u00a0 Last time I went to London\u00a0we passed Wembley\u00a0at 100 mph and it was\u00a0quite a journey to Euston. On my previous trip\u00a0from central London to Wembley\u00a0I got a\u00a0headache from the long slow claustrophobic journey, we don’t have such horror journey’s in our area.\u00a0 Would anyone make such a such a journey to go to the museum when there is so much else to see in London?\u00a0 At Preston you slip off the motorway and in under 10 minutes you are in the museum having parked free and suffered little traffic.<\/p>\n
Another advantage of Preston is that the club is fairly neutral. I’ve met people in Liverpool who won’t go to Manchester or even say the word.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is a previous post setting these points out more clearly so I leave that topic.<\/p>\n
Changing the subject a bit, I hope Rupert Murdoch won’t be upset that I’ve referenced one of his news\u00a0products without paying an on-line news fee, ref todays Times. Then again I have paid \u00a31.80 for the two copies of the Times and I think that’s excessive even though the main paper is a good read.\u00a0Can I have a cheaper option without the\u00a0unwanted supplements.\u00a0If a charge for internet news comes in one of them will go.\u00a0 Although I would imagine that a fee for viewing a\u00a0package of publications could be arranged as I can’t see anyone paying to read a single news source on line.\u00a0 I think I’d agree that a moderate fee for viewing a range of news sources might be acceptable although I’d have to consider my whole internet \/ newspaper \/ TV package\u00a0\u00a0as I don’t believe in giving a monopoly or tying myself in to any one provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two councillors, Geoff Driver of Lancashire County Council and Ken Hudson of Preston City Council have had a letter published in the Times (8th Oct) \u00a0defending the location of the National Football\u00a0Museum in\u00a0Preston.\u00a0 This was after Matt Dickinson the Times Chief\u00a0Sports Correspondent had written the museum should be\u00a0at Wembley (6thOct). Matt said he liked the … Continue reading “Councillors Driver and Hudson man the barricades”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pne","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPtnz-bo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}