Razor Ruddock is still as sharp as ever
GOOD to see the Holiday Inn at Clifton really getting in on the sporting scene.
Following up on their celebrity-strewn July golf day at Willow Valley Golf Club is An Evening with Neil `Razor' Ruddock on Friday, September 18.
I saw him in action at Doncaster earlier this year and he is very amusing and besides his football exploits he also tells of his time on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
On the day he will breakfast with three lucky golfers and then play a four-ball with them around Willow Valley Golf Club.
The VIP sponsorship golf package will cost 750, which included a table of ten at the dinner.
Sales manager Patricia Lawton and colleague Alla Langford are beavering away and for 25 a head including a three course meal, comedian and top M, this represents good value when you think the average price these days for a table is 400 (40 a head).
Patricia and Alla are keen to stretch out to the local community of Brighouse and put back plenty into the community of which they want to feel a part of.
They are currently in talks with Brighouse Town Football Club to work closely with them and welcome approaches from all sporting organisations so they can help with fund raising.
Patricia has experience with all the big boys, Leeds Rhinos, Huddersfield Town and Huddersfield Giants, to name but three, and is also a huge supporter of local charities.
I would certainly recommend you look at taking a seat for the Ruddock bash and if you ring Patricia on 07736 746174 she will sort bookings along with Alla on 01484 400068.
Next week we will show you how Razor piled on the pounds when he stopped playing football.
l LAST Sunday afternoon I popped over to the John Charles Sports Stadium in south Leeds to watch the Hunslet Hawks v Swinton Lions rugby league match. It's a developing area off Dewsbury Road in what they probably call inner city development. You are sat in a superb three- tier grandstand with a grand view over Leeds to the left and across the far side of the ground, which has a running track around it, the Middleton Steam Railway keeps enthusiasts happy.
The train chugs up and down all afternoon and one supposes it makes it all the more interesting for the passengers when there is a rugby match or athletic meeting on.
The train driver seemed to slow things down as they went by.
Turn left back into Dewsbury Road and you are soon heading towards the White Rose Shopping Centre, which was still heaving with traffic leaving at 5pm. I turned right to go down towards the M621 to take me back up on to the M62 and en-route I passed a busy pub called the Drysalters.
Now, I just wonder how many of you younger readers know what a drysalter is?
I only know myself because my idol at Halifax RLFC some 50 years' ago was one.
Ken Dean, arguably one of the best stand-offs in the game, supplied from his Blackwall premises in Halifax beef dripping, salt, vinegar and cleaning materials to all the fish shops in Calderdale, or Halifax and district as it was then.
In fact he was still supplying into the 1990s and I often saw him at the Castle Avenue fish and chip shop in Rastrick.
It was he who told me the professional name for his profession was drysalter.
How many still cook their fish and chips in beef dripping or now use oil?
I would also say the profession has died out as the fish and chip proprietors will probably get their goods from a cash and carry.
Now, what did I say last week about Huddersfield Town?
Flying, are they not?
It must have seemed a long way back to Brighton for Russell Slade and his boys on Tuesday night after a 7-1 thrashing and your goalkeeper sent off and his deputy also booked.
Leeds United are also running hot but Bradford City are in the realms of desperation after Peter Jackson's Imps ran all over them on Tuesday night.
I feel without doubt they should have parted company with Stuart McCall at the back end of last season when he was umming and arrring over whether he should stay or not and the fans beckoned him to hang in there.
It needs a fresh approach at Valley Parade and quick.
l This town of Brighouse is unique for having so many sporting people who support so many teams and have their opinions when I meet them in the supermarket or elsewhere.
I was even recognised in the chemists at Chapel Croft, Rastrick, on Monday and this gentleman said he had heard it all now when they were banning giving a four match ban to Bradford Bulls' winger Semi Tadulala for pulling Eorl Crabtree's hair in the derby match on Sunday evening at the Galpharm.
Crabtree, nephew of the late Shirley "Big Daddy" Crabtree, has a huge pony tail all tied up when playing and it was clear to see on television the South Sea Islander grabbing it. He has since been fined 200 and his indiscretion placed on his disciplinary file.
He was lucky Crabtree didn't give him one of his uncle's trademark forearm smashes for his petulant act.
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