"I've just picked up my copy of the 'Chelsea FC Official Calendar 2013', it's got a different manager for every month"

Quote by HnS
Not football fans, but spotted this one
"I've just picked up my copy of the 'Chelsea FC Official Calendar 2013', it's got a different manager for every month"
Yippee! Only four more Chelsea managers 'til Xmas!
Having been members here since the original owners were running things over 20 years ago, reading through the recently bumped "What Has Made You Smile Today" thread brought back many wonderful memories. So many names from the past, some of whom we met socially or for fun and many more we didn't but chatted, laughed and even argued with here. Real people with real jobs, real lives and all that goes with that - happiness, love, sadness, stress, grief, despair...
We attended a number of wonderful socials, were regular contributors to the forums and met some great people socially and for fun at a time when social media wasn't a thing and MMS was like something out of Star Trek lol. We're now just wondering where all that time has gone and where all those we used to be in regular forum contact with here are now. It felt like a real 'community' and was a very special part of our lives. It's probably far too late to expect much of a response to this post as the forums are so sparsely frequented now in comparison to those days when they were buzzing, but if anyone out there would care who recalls those times would care to post here to add to this and even fill in some of the gaps, it'd be great. Even names from the past would be interesting to see because even trawling through ancient forum threads we contributed to doesn't reveal members who closed their accounts.
Time has moved on, the world has transformed on and the fact that this site has changed so much isn't a surprise, it's inevitable. What's probably more surprising though is that it's still here at all and for that we thank the current and past owners who have facilitated that. Thanks for enabling us to meet and share some amazing fun and intimate times with people we'd otherwise never have met.