He took out a small packet filled with bits of charcoal, a deep pot of thin metal, some sheets of newspaper, a book of matches and a wrinkled and many-times folded piece of tin foil with holes in it.

He put the charcoal in the pot, lit the paper with the matches, and carefully stretched the tin foil across the top of the pot.

Table covers and towels were clean, ashtrays empty and supplied with fresh matches.

The series was not as one-sided as the number of wins suggest, with several tight matches.

PSV is also considered a rival, but in terms of tension and rivalry, these matches are not as loaded as the duels with Feyenoord.

With the lack of international competition, representative matches between state teams were regarded with great importance.

In the 2005 – 06 season, Stanley, after winning against Woking with 3 matches to spare, secured a place back in the Football League and the town celebrated with a small parade and honours placed on senior executives of the team.

For the 2005 tour to New Zealand the Lions management commissioned a song, " The Power of Four ", although it met with little support amongst Lions fans at the matches and was not used on the 2009 Tour.

The opening performance of the side proved disappointing from the tourists ' point of view, with defeats in its opening three matches by Western Province sides in Cape Town.

The tour will start in Hong Kong with a match against the Barbarians before moving on to Australia for the main tour featuring 6 provincial matches and 3 tests.

Johnson also described Teach in times of battle as wearing " a sling over his shoulders, with three brace of pistols, hanging in holsters like bandoliers ; and stuck lighted matches under his hat ", the latter apparently to emphasise the fearsome appearance he wished to present to his enemies.

The WCC begins with a qualifying round in which competitors play 10 matches against randomly assigned opponents.

The player can tell the dealer that they want their odds working, such that if the shooter rolls a number that matches the come point, the odds bet will win along with the come bet, and if a seven is rolled, both lose.

He is said to have risen with the crowd after gladiatorial matches and given unrestrained praise to the fighters.

This often matches conventional current direction, because in many circuits the power supply voltage is positive with respect to ground.

In May 2006, Iain Dowie was named as Curbishley's successor, but was sacked after twelve league matches in November 2006, with only two wins.

The number of nations playing Test cricket increased gradually over the years, with the addition of West Indies in 1928, New Zealand in 1930, India in 1932, and Pakistan in 1952, but international cricket continued to be played as bilateral Test matches over three, four or five days.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

The first of the matches with coloured uniforms was the WSC Australians in wattle gold versus WSC West Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 January 1979.

The matches consisted of 60 six-ball overs per team, played during the daytime in traditional form, with the players wearing cricket whites and using red cricket balls.

The 1996 championship was held in the Indian subcontinent for a second time, with the inclusion of Sri Lanka as host for some of its group stage matches.

Scouts would be sent by the royal family to organize matches between different camps.

There, on the grounds of the royal residence, during the winters, the Cavendishes also hosted tobogganing and skating parties, as well as hockey matches.

On January 15 edition of SmackDown, several qualifying matches were held for the Royal Rumble, including a battle royal between Full Blooded Italians, which Nunzio won.

Other primary matches on the card were a Battle royal for the vacant Intercontinental Championship and a Tag team ladder match for the WWE Tag Team Championship between Eddie Guerrero and Tajiri facing Team Angle ( Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas ).

The cargo matches many of the royal gifts listed in the Amarna letters found at El-Amarna, Egypt.

While some German dynasties included in their laws language requiring or urging the monarch to consent to any " equal " marriage, some heads of dynastic houses rejected royal matches on behalf of their family members.

Each of them is named after former Rajput states and matches the aesthetics and interiors of the royal past: Alwar, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Bundi, Dholpur, Dungargarh, Jaisalmer, Jaipur, Jhalawar, Jodhpur, Kishangarh, Kota, Sirohi and Udaipur.

Before 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was signed, battles royal often appeared on the undercard of boxing matches.

This tournament involved 4 quarter finals matches ( one of which was a battle royal ), 2 semi finals and a final held inside a steel cage.

The main matches on the undercard were a 20-man battle royal won by Bad News Brown, Demolition ( Ax and Smash ) versus Strike Force ( Tito Santana and Rick Martel ) for the WWF Tag Team Championship, Their next feud was with The Twin Towers ( Akeem and Big Bossman ), whom they defeated on February 3, 1989 edition of The Main Event.

Some memorable moments from his WWF tenure included winning the battle royal at WrestleMania IV by eliminating Bret Hart, who was then a heel, after a sneak attack, a brief feud with then-champion Randy Savage in early 1989 which led to matches in the main event, feuding with Roddy Piper ( starting before the 1990 Royal Rumble and culminating at WrestleMania VI ) and with Jake " The Snake " Roberts ( where Bad News had a sewer rat against Jake's snake ) and attacking WWF President Jack Tunney on The Brother Love Show.

From time to time the royal family visits the clubs home matches.

Leipzig has many institutions and opportunities for culture and recreation including a football stadium which has hosted some international matches, an opera house and one of the most modern zoos in Europe.

Publishers may maintain a house style, and staff will copy edit to ensure that the work matches the style and grammatical requirements of each market.

In actuality, a boy accidentally set a house ablaze while playing with matches.

The second pig uses hundreds of matches to make up his house.

And in contrast to most of the other games played in the Premier Soccer League in SA, matches between the two arch rivals attract a full house almost without fail.

The promotion also held matches on Monday nights in Fort Worth at the North Side Coliseum ( an indoor rodeo arena, known today as the Cowtown Coliseum ), until the mid-1970s, then relocated to the Will Rogers Memorial Center, where it remained until WCCW discontinued its regular Fort Worth shows in 1988, although the promotion did promote Fort Worth house cards on occasion until 1989.

Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and gimmicks that are being considered for the main, televised programming.

Although neither one of these house show matches was taped, the title changes are officially recognized by WWE on its website.

Although the team currently play home matches at Adams Park, High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, and the ground at Sudbury has been developed for housing, the club house still stands ( currently being used as a Hindu Community Centre ) and is still considered by many as the club's spiritual home.

“ Of high artistic and historical worth is the tasteful interior décor, which also matches the castle ’ s building style, of individual rooms with wall and ceiling coverings made of wood, in parts velvet covering on the room walls, as well as the genuine-style furnishings, which also fit the house ’ s character, of individual rooms.

She spent eight months training in Ohio Valley Wrestling ( OVW ) and appearing in house shows and dark matches before being called up to the main roster.

The match first originated in the World Wrestling Federation in 1992, and in the next three years Bret Hart wrestled both Ric Flair and Owen Hart in Iron Man matches at untaped house shows ( examples exist as ' fancam ' handheld footage, though none were pro-shot ).

Blackheath Rugby Club initially played its matches on the heath ( meeting and changing at the Princess of Wales public house ) but occasional interruptions from spectators led the club to move, initially to a private field ( Richardson's Field ) in Blackheath before moving to the Rectory Field in 1883.

He has always remembered with nostalgia an early love, Veronica Cray, who suddenly appears in the house on Saturday night asking to borrow a box of matches.

He continued to wrestle very sporadically at house shows and in dark matches over the next year.

After the dissolution of EV 2. 0, Kendrick spent months wrestling mainly house show matches, before returning to PPV on April 17, 2011, at Lockdown, where he wrestled in an eight man X Division number one contender's Xscape match, where he outlasted six other men, before losing to Max Buck.

Occasionally, in FA and League Cup matches, part of the East Stand is used to house away supporters if demand for tickets is high.

The boys are all attracted to a neighbor's house because they have a television set, where they can watch their favorite sumo wrestling matches.

In February each year, there are organised matches between teams from each school boarding house and old boys as part of the Harrow School Founders Day celebrations.

" Although the subsequent feud on the house show circuit saw Andre victorious after most of those matches, Roberts can claim a victory via disqualification over André after André attacked special guest referee Big John Studd at WrestleMania V.

This was in fact fifteen minutes shorter than the house show in Newcastle the night before, which only included six matches and no title matches.

Following the match, Crush was not seen on televised matches for several months, although he continued to appear at house shows.

Surrey made 1964 Barrington's Benefit year and with a variety of cricket and football matches, dances other fundraisers he made £ 10, 702, the sixth highest earning benefit at the time, and enough money to buy a newly-built four bedroom detached house in Feltham.