I Dream Of Pies: Parallel Universe

Monday, 24 November 2008

Parallel Universe

A small City which has motorway, train & canal links, museums, a University, is a administrative centre, a thriving tourist trade and a population just over 100,000.

Can such a City build a 17,000 all seater stadium, produce a team to win the Premier league and compete in the European Champions League?

Surely only in a parallel universe I hear you Chester fans scream. It's not possible except in your wildest dreams. However in Holland yesterday AZ Alkmaar beat the mighty Ajax to go top of the Dutch Eredivisie.

Their two year old stadium is on the edge of town and very impressive with it's accompanying training pitches and purpose built youth academy. How long before Chester play at home in the European Champions League, I wonder?

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Quotes We Like

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” - Samuel Johnson
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
"Oh - don't live up to your given roles There's more inside you that you won't show" - P Weller
"Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship." - Dr Samuel Johnson
"With fame I become more and more stupid, which, of course, is a very common phenomenon" - Albert Einstein
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche
" Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt" - Abraham Lincoln
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it" - Confucius
"The Most Wasted of days is one without Laughter" - EE Cummings
" Actually there's quite a lot in my brain....I just can't find it sometimes" - Pie Offspring No 2
" Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can" - John Wesley
" It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually" - Dr M Scott Peck
" Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress" - Mahatma Gandhi

Pie/Pastry Watch

01/11/14 Steak & Ale Pie - 9.2/10 Valley Butchers
12/09/13 Steak & Stilton - 9.1/10 Hollands Pies
04/07/14 Cheshire Cheese, Chives & Spring Onion Pie - 9/10 SJ Bebbington
16/02/10 Huntsman Pie - 9/10 Edwards of Conwy
08/10/09 Steak & Mushroom Pie - 9/10 Hawarden Farm Shop
03/09/09 Steak & Stilton Pie - 9/10 Vaughans, Penyffordd
03/06/08 Pork Pie - 9/10 Phil Salt Butcher, Chester
26/04/07 Steak Pie - 9/10 Vaughans Butchers, Flintshire
08/07/07 Steak,Brandy & Pepper - 9/10 Harvies's Ltd
19/04/07 Sausage Roll sm - 9/10 Vaughans Butchers, Flintshire
07/05/10 Sausage Roll - 8.5/10 Cowards of Frodsham
07/05/10 Pork Pie - 8.5/10 Cowards of Frodsham
06/02/10 Beef & Ale Pie - 8/10 Simply Pie, Whitchurch
08/10/09 Sausage Roll - 8/10 Hawarden Farm Shop
07/05/10 Steak Pie - 8/10 Cowards of Frodsham
22/12/08 - Balti Pie - 8/10 Pukka, Goodison Park
05/04/08 Lamb Oggie - 8/10, Butchers, Buckley
29/04/07 Steak & Onion Pie - 8/10 Blakemere Centre, Sandiway
24/04/07 Steak & Kidney Pie - 8/10 Village Bakery, Coedpoeth
08/12/07 Scouse Pie - 7/10 Goodison
18/12/08 Pork Pie & Stuffing - 7/10 Vaughans, Penyffordd
28/03/07 Sausage Roll - 8/10 P & A Davies, Chester
17/04/08 Steak & Kidney - 7/10 Hollands, Liverpool
26/02/10 Pork Pie - 6/10 Stokes Of Ellesmere
12/04/08 Square Pie - 6/10 Loaf, Birmingham