Gavin Willacy

As a Marine platoon leader in Vietnam, Mueller was shot and later returned to lead his platoon after his recovery. He received a Bronze Star for valor, a Purple Heart, 2 Navy/Marine Commendation medals, Republic of Vietnam Cross of Valor, and numerous other medals.

Remembering what it’s like to smile when PNE are playing. It’s been a while!

Gout Gout was at Ipswich Grammar School to play soccer. He had never trained as a sprinter. He was twelve years old, wearing sand shoes, and somebody told him to line up for a race at the school carnival. The kid next to him was wearing spikes. He had won nationals. Gout left him in the dust. His classmate Tyson Walker was in the race too. "Everyone there stopped and watched," Walker recalled. "We had GPS athletics the next week and he broke every record and just didn't stop. He's just kept going faster." A coach named Di Sheppard saw him run that day. She told him he could be an Olympic medalist. He later said it was the first time anyone had ever told him anything like that. He was twelve. He joined her squad and started training twice a week. Here is where the story gets strange. At 14 he ran 10.57 in the 100m, the fastest ever by an Australian under 16. At 15 he broke the national U18 200m record. At 16 he clocked 10.04 in a heat, then 10.17 legal in the final, then woke up the next morning and ran 20.04 in the 200m, breaking Peter Norman's Australian record from the 1968 Olympics. That record had stood for 56 years. Usain Bolt saw the footage, posted a photo, and wrote "He looks like young me." The Bolt comparison is worth sitting with. Bolt didn't race 100 meters professionally until he was 21. His first professional 100m was 10.03. Gout Gout ran 10.00 flat at 18. And his coach still only puts him in the gym two days a week. She's managing the fact that his body is still growing. The power phase of his development hasn't started. He is running these times on stride length and raw top-end speed alone. His parents are Dinka, from South Sudan. They fled to Egypt, then to Australia, two years before he was born. Third of seven children. The family name was misspelled during transliteration from Arabic. It was supposed to be Guot. His father has been trying to change it back because "gout" is a disease name. The kid kept running. Brisbane 2032. Home Olympics. He'll be 24, the same age Bolt was when he set the 100m world record in Berlin. Adidas already signed him through that year. The fastest man in Australian history started in sand shoes at a school carnival. Nobody told him to stop.

This is absolute cinema .. Worth watching 🔥

😳😳😳 The Brisbane Bolt (well, Ipswich QLD to be precise)

If you’ve ever wondered what justice looks like in five seconds… 👇🏽😂😂😂

A ridiculous match. If all-Italian ties look like that, they can stay. Historic night for these Bologna players, back in a European quarter-final for the first time since 1999, on the pitch where they won their first Coppa for 51 years in May. They like it down here! #UEL

Simple question I’ve always wanted to ask: when a band is miming, how much can you actually hear them playing their instruments in the TV studio? If they play out of time or tune can they or the audience hear it? @Tim_Burgess

My old boss and a friend. Hang in there DK. @dannykellywords ❤️

I think not #pnefc

Nine Years Ago Today… 9️⃣ Aidan McGeady scored a last minute equaliser against Blackburn Rovers 🇮🇪 #pnefc | #EFL

@AdrianWisson61 @WallArt1885 Be fun though!! 🙂 so would one minute “shot clock”

@gavinwillacy @WallArt1885 That would be crazy but, I would allow 1 minute to kick off or opposition get the ball, then us fans would know a minute added on for every goal.

Video commentary introduction part 1. Huddersfield Town 0-4 Millwall. FA Cup 3rd round. 4th January 1992. Leeds Road, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire #Millwall

@AdrianWisson61 @WallArt1885 Just change the rule to let the oppo kick off once they are ready. That would stop the 10 men or all even 11 celebrating and taking two minutes before the restart.

@WallArt1885 What do you notice ?. After every goal straight back to centre circle and kick off again. None of this waving everyone up and wasting time.

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

Good lad Solly. A hugely successful @LFEonline old boy 👍🏼

Absolute imbecile

@JakeSmalley8 Absolutely. We played 352 for three years without proper wing backs and now have loads of them and no fullbacks! Potts was very good in right of midfield three for a while last season.

@gavinwillacy He’s been asked to play out of position for way too long to be fair to him. His lack of mobility in that position has been why we’ve been so poor creatively.

There cannot be another club in the entire EFL who carries players like PNE. Storey, Potts, Hughes, Lindsay and Whiteman. All 200 games plus yet none will be missed when they leave. A sign of the club’s content at mediocrity. #pnefc

@JakeSmalley8 You forgot his goal of the season at Luton and erm… well that’s about it. He was playing well last season before he got injured for a year!

@gavinwillacy Potts scored against Blackpool. That’s his sole valuable contribution in the best part of seven years. If he was any good, much like all others listed above, someone would’ve bought him.

I like it! ☀️ 🏖️ 👒

Back home in Argentina, Bati spent a lot of time studying VHS of Ooh Tony Ellis doing this for @pnefc 1988-94.