3072 - Ringwood, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

Ringwood is a city of 14 000 in southern England. The name was first record as far back as 961. Ringwood Town FC is a club affiliated with the Hampshire Football Association, and are members of the Wessex League, Division One. They formed in 1879.

The card shows Teddy Sheringham. Sheringham is a former football manager and player. As a player he was a forward, mostly as a second striker. His professional career began with Millwall where he made 220 appearances and scored 93 goals. He spent eight seasons in Millwall. Between 1991 and 2008, he played for Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, Portsmouth, West Ham United, and Colchester United. With Tottenham he played in 166 games and scored 75 times. He is currently the 11th highest goalscorer in the Premiership with 146 goals in 755 matches. He has 51 caps with England, scoring 11 times. He has played in the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups, and the 1996 UEFA European Championship.

He managed League Two club Stevenage for a season, and then went to India to manage ATK of the Indian Super League.

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3566 - Bakhmach, Chernihiv, Ukraine

Bakhmach is locarted in northern Ukraine. I'm taking this next paragraph straight out of Wikipedia: During the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 26, 2022, at least 65 units of Russian military equipment moved through Bakhmach, with about a hundred more on the outskirts. Local residents tried to stop the convoy on their own by blocking tank tracks with makeshift objects and convincing Russian soldiers not to move towards Kyiv . One man attempted to climb onto a tank and block the road with his body (he was not hurt). However, the military equipment continued to move, and Russian forces fired several shots into the air. Слава Україні!

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

The sender was in Las Vegas recently and bought this card from The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is located in downtown Las Vegas. It open in 2012. It features artifacts, stories, and the history of organized crime in the United States, but also the actions and initiatives by law enforcement to prevent such crimes. The museum is found at the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, which was built in 1933. The quote on this card was from John Gotti. John Gotti (1940-2002) was the mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. After ordering the killing of Gambino boss Paul Catellano in 1985, he took over the family and led what was the United States' most powerful crime syndicate. He was known as The Teflon Don after three high profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals. Later it was revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and...

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