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Yep, robbo summed it up. These uneducated morons, lacking in communication skills or self esteem, IMO, buy these fighting dogs so that they can, by association, project the animal's innate hardness onto the inadequate owner who is seen to be 'taming' the fearsome beast.

So do I! I bet the 'owner' was yanking the dog's heavy-lead/brace back excessively whilst grunting "geddeeeer" in loud caveman? Thus making him look 'hard'.

Was it called 'Tyson' or 'Bruno', like all really original 80's chavs used to call them?

Many esteemed historians(ie. Michael Wood; A.H.Burne) state that their research(too detailed to blab on about here) leaves them to conclude this site as the most likely. Though there are several schools of thought(Scotland; Merseyside, etc) There is little hope of 'hard evidence', as the land has been mined etc for ages.

Is anyone else familiar with the Battle of Brunanburh in 937ad, fought (many historian's site-theories differ) on Brinsworth ridge- which was sited along the northern-most border between Anglo-Saxon England and the 'Danelaw'. Templeborough is reputedly the site of the allied camp on the eve before battle. Kings had often been mentioned in chronicles having submitted to one another at 'Dore' and Bakewell. The redoubtable grandson of King Alfred- King Athelstan- marched a huge(for that era) army of c.18,000 Mercian/Wessex troops north to check the ravaging of a fearsome coalition of c.18,000 - Scots(under King Constantine); British Strathclyde(under King Owain); Irish Norse(under Olaf Gothfrithsson) & Norsemen from York[Jorvik] under Olaf Sihtricsson. They were intending to invade southwards and conquer Mercia, E.Anglia & Wessex. It was apparently a brutal all-day struggle, but the 'English' shieldwall on the ridge held firm late into the day, and a counter-attack slaughtered huge numbers of the allies as they broke. Athelstan's crushing victory was celebrated in poems. Thus the lesson for today is over...

Does anyone know when this underpass was built, with any links? I know it's sometime in the early 70's, but haven't been able to find relevant source material.