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30 Comments: I Managed to get a cheap overnighter at the above this week. As a non-golfer, it was most pleasant. Anyway, I was searching the net for a local curry house and noticed a nearby village "Freshfield" had a curry at Zyko and pleaded with my partner to go to this place. On arrival, we found a pub bythe same name just close to the railway station.... Aha! "The Freshy"!!!
I got a Stella, then got down to the detective work. First off, I asked the barmaid, "Do you know someone called Richard Dodd or Doddy?" Polite blank "No" was the response. We sat down and looked around, noticing the place closes for refurb in 2 weeks. I was really keen to see what this infamous ToffeeWeb character is like...
Next, up I went over to three blokes and excused myself, asking them the same... only to get the same response.
Next I saw the man who confirmed himself as the landlord. He said he had never heard of "Doddy" but he has only been in the job nine weeks.
Last gasp I was pointed to another three blokes who "are in there all the time" and again, they had never heard of our man.
Some have queried on here whether "Doddy" is real. Now I wonder...
Ian Smitham, Posted 08/06/2012 at 17:05:31
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Rarely do I go into the Freshy without news of someone who has been after me. Following an incident with a RS two years ago, Landlord Steve (and his predecessor of the same name) are loathe to divulge information about my movements although barstaff, Cat and Luke both told me `some guy had been looking to name me as a co-respondent!`
I got the same message from one of our Wednesday night crew, Phil M, which all goes to prove us Freshfield guys are a wary bunch!
Happy hunting!
Most of us round here drink in any pub bar the Freshield just to avoid the prat!
I think most toffeewebbers would spend an evening trying to avoid Doddy rather than go looking for him.
Well, that's cheered me up a bit anyway.
Apparently It's a brilliant life-size likeness of Bill's face, tattooed on his own face.
If Bill can't get to a game (maybe he has a meeting with a mad-alkie tramp in a maisonette in Stockport, who wants to buy Everton) Doddy goes in his place.
Even got a round of applause last season!
Anybody wanting to stalk him can just look up the council employees list.
"In the village"
"Who is number 1?"
"You are number 6"
maybe we should arrange a time and date for a "Meet Doddy" session through which we might educate him on the "Real Bill".
Yes, I am real, by the way.
I do believe I don't believe in god
Yet I don't believe I do believe in Richard Dodd
And for the sake of completeness, I have not been to that area much but on staying at the hotel and seeing on the satnav where I was I simply thought I would pop in to a pub and enjoy a beer with a fellow Toffeeweb/Evertonian.
With the way "Doddy" reflects on his whereabouts I t nought it reasonable to ask a few bods in the pub if they knew him, I took a bit of a chance, strangers asking after me in my local may find an issue, but it was a calculated, miscalculated chance that I took.
Anyway, the beer was warm and I trust that when the refurb is done "Doddy" will do the dent thing and buy me a Stella.
BTW, as a non golfer he hotel was superb. As was the Peroni.
Sorry, ian.
There's a point here. If not the golf shoe and checked trousers 'Freshy', where will Bullshit Billy ass-licking Dodd go to drink his slumming mild and talk shit about Everton? We need to warn friends in Formby and Crosby to look out for aforementioned Bullshit Billy rimmer in their vicinity.
Interesting that 'Freshy' Doddy went a tad lukewarm on Buddha Billy six or seven weeks from end if season before reverberating to type after the late season spurt, so much so, that he wanders into the now closed Freshy with a spring in his step for next season. A fair question is inw hat circumstances would acolytes of the greatest Evertonian alive turn their backs on him. King Dodd of the pinewoods was having his first faltering doubts then sunshine again.
Give me Tony Marsh's roots and rhetoric any time. A wild guess this: I think that I'd rather have a bevy with TM than RD
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