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Them were the days

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It had to happen, it was inevitable really given it happens every decade. The Pembrokeshire team that won the Association's Cup in 1995. Not all of these make the team of the decade but most do. In the 80’s they reminisced about the 60’s. In the 90’s it was the 70’s and so forth and so forth until now, some trendsetting hack up in whereversville decides to take us all back to the days when tied dyed clothing were all the rage before Britain became cool, or so the Labour party told us. The decade kicked in with a bang as the Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets and Happy Mondays all combined to make Manchester the in-place to be as they sought to banish the New Age Romantics among us and replaced them with baggy clothed wearing, joint smoking, acid taking goons. Then came the Ravers, with their sun hats, shades and whistles and love for all things lazer related and in-between we had Nirvana’s grunge as an alternative to it all. It’s easy to look back at life in past de