Quote KevW60349="KevW60349"Yes, it most definitely is, and it's just across from the Fox "n" Grapes
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O/T But I'm gonna do some reminiscing about said chippy, RL and dribble on a bit here, it's all gonna do little to push the Sammutt topic, but hey swings and roundabouts but for the most part they're my board ramblings so get ready & don't hold it against me., peace.
That chippy above posts are mentioning, way back in the 80's,90's and 2000's, till it was sold to it's present owners; belonged to Andy & then Kev's of Stanley bought it in the early 90s,but Andy still managed & ran the place. it's gonna link up with Trinity in the next paragraph so hold on.
It had some great things going for it, firstly as a lad/man who'd eaten Fish & Chips all over Wakefield & beyond , imo it was easily the best chippy around (Yes i know, that could ruffle some feathers on here with that statement) & thus was always packed. Just as important, it was the absolute of the universe for rumors about Trinity, at least near the City & to the east of the City, an all range of different blokes; people who were close to the club; players & all the fans that called straight after a game who used to pack it out and talk abort all things RL, especially how we'd been robbed yet again.
Anyway, Andy who like I say originally owned it/managed and also before that one, he owned the one next to Eastmoor high in the early 80's, anyone remember that one? The bloke was RL mad and a bit of a fountain of information regarding Trinity. Said information was usually always sourced from all his punters and the odd player who used to call in, mainly Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It literally was the RFLfans of it's day or other Social media but better because it was face to face and you could make good mates and conversely have some proper face to face arguments , hmmmmm the good old days.
Long story short Andy was a great guy, who loved his RL & could talk about the game for ever while your special was cooking for example. He also sponsored my team up at Eastmoor back in the day - we all felt like Pros at the time in the new shirts with a sponsor logo on the front, i think we actually played better that season because of those shirts. He was involved in the Community side of things long after I left.
The funny thing that always sticks in my mind about this time in my life, was that Andy and my dad were mates for years & because Andy was so fanatical about Trinity, my dad called in every Saturday dinner time after he finished work and they'd talk RL; eventually this chat turned into a weekly bet with Andy during the winter RL season that went on for years - it went along the lines of, Andy always backed Trinity every game, no matter who it was against, my dad bet on whoever Trinity played against; If Trinity won, the old man had to pay double, around 15 quid for the food and 15 again for Andy's back pocket; Problem for Andy back in those years, as we all know Trinity's winning percentage was rank & my dads order was 6 fish & 4 chips, plus scraps of course, so this wasn't no small time bet. There was a time from the mid 80's till '94 when we both piled on a lot of what I called muscle mass, just due to mass consumption of 2 fish and a big bag of chips each week, sometimes twice when the Challenge Cup was on, maybe a Yorkshire Cup bet here and there as well,;we were literally like the Wigan of the chip shop RL betting game, we won it all for years
. Being serious, well kind of, my dad was a Trinity fan as well, but as he told a young Shifty, he looked at it all as a good way to get over all the losses
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They were good old days and good people with plenty of characters around, and most importantly, awesome fish, Chips, scraps.
don’t know how What to think of this one if there’s any truth in it, if it’s not a costly one then good cover I suppose.
