Biggleswade

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Um, Biggleswade.

Biggleswade.

Biggleswade.

It's in near Cambridge.

Right.

Um, it was almost like a battle between us.

Um, but we always played for, like, the same teams growing up and that, so it was good to have him there.

Bedford.

Biggleswade, a two miles from Warden Abbey, a good market and two fairs.

Shefford, a three miles from Bedford, and a mile from Chicksend Priory.

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Market towns in Bedfordshire.

Bedford, Biggleswade, a two miles from Warden Abbey, a good market and two fairs.

Shepherd, a three miles from Bedford and a mile from Chicksand Priory.

Luton, a very good market town for barley.

Obviously, he's the owner or co-owner of, um, you know, a historic club, Real Unión, uh, back in the, uh, in the Basque Country.

Um, we all know your associations with Biggleswade.

Um, do you ever get to talk tactics or, or trade stories as, as, you know, influences around the top of a football club? Any links there potentially? And a future friendly maybe?

Well, um, Igor Emery, who's his brother, spent time with Biggleswade United, learning a little bit how he work.

He was doing a, um, a master's in London, and about, uh, sports business, I think.

And he knew of what I was doing at Biggleswade United, so he said, "Can I come in?" And he, he joined board meetings.

We were at, at a primitive, primitive stage, uh, compared to what we are now, but still, uh, he had a great time, taking notes, whatever.

I think he was preparing himself for what was coming.

And Lewes unfortunately lost 2-1 away at Uxbridge.

Um, massive result for Three Bridges winning 3-1 away at Biggleswade on the Friday evening.

Um, yeah.

If you look at that-

Where did that opportunity come from?

So Dave and Alma asked me to do Biggleswade, where they had a single room freestyle called Elements, I think it was at the time.

And that was more scary than the class nights, absolutely.

Why? You've got people paying real money coming along.

Um, the, the book-- Interesting, the book started a long time ago, about 2013, when I was teaching, um, briefly at the University of Buckingham, and I, my MA, which had been so successful at Bristol, um, folded for reasons we can't go into, and I went to Buckingham for a short period.

And, and one of my students, Corinne Price, was going to be the garden manager at a garden called the Swiss Garden in Bedfordshire, um, at Old Warden, near Biggleswade.

And I said, "Well, I've never been there.

I don't know what it is." And she said, "Oh, well, you know, come." And, uh, I went to the Swiss Garden, and I was so taken with it.

Bedford.

Biggleswade, a two miles from Warden Abbey, a good market and two fairs.

Shefford, a three miles from Bedford and a mile from Chicksand Priory.

Luton, a very good market town for barley.