olderskyblue
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A lad my son used to play football with lived in one of the houses behind the west stand. Could see his garden as you came down the stairs from the top tier.
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A lad my son used to play football with lived in one of the houses behind the west stand. Could see his garden as you came down the stairs from the top tier.
Brighton Sky Blue
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In the last season the walk-out music randomly hopped between 'Satisfaction', 'The Final Countdown' and the Eton Boating Song in the space of 10-20 seconds. Goal music was great though, don't think we have it now?
Adge
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Delivering the Citizen around Stoke Aldermoor and paying £1.80 to get into the Sky Blue Terrace. Then slipping under the dividing fence in the corner (could just about slide under) to get into the West Terrace without some heffer standing on you trying to get under.
A few years later on, getting in 10 mins before Kick off and running to the Ladbrooks booth at the back of the West Terrace to place your bet on an A4 sized betting slip and hoping the que isn’t too big just before the teams come out.
A few years later on, getting in 10 mins before Kick off and running to the Ladbrooks booth at the back of the West Terrace to place your bet on an A4 sized betting slip and hoping the que isn’t too big just before the teams come out.
mds
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The Dales by any chance?
ajsccfc
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I remember offering to look after peoples' cars while they were at the game, but without any scam and we would actually look out for the cars.
Also massive collections of horse shit at the Swan Lane corner. I assume this wasn't there for every game like I remember it being.
Also massive collections of horse shit at the Swan Lane corner. I assume this wasn't there for every game like I remember it being.
Johhny Blue
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Speedies_Chips
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As a kid sitting on a stool outside The Mercers Arms wondering if my 2 brothers would actually come out in time for the game !
clint van damme
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That game would never have kicked off under todays H&S, I'm hanging somewhere off the lower legs of that pylon .
skyblueeyesrevisited
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Remember the first game they segregated the Spion Kop. It must have been in the mid 1970’s. I went through my normal turnstile in Swan Lane only to find I was in with the Middlesbrough fans. I had to stay there all game. We won and I couldn’t celebrate. The crazy bastards we’re going mental for a punch up and at one point were even fighting each other! For me it was the worst win ever.
Leamington Pete
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Proper floodlight pylons. Could see them from all over the city. For me on matchday the first glimpse was coming down the hill on the Humber Road.
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Liquid Gold
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The shop and the chippy were great. Small bag of chips and a Fanta to take into the ground. They must have only made money on match days.
Astute
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Remember the shop very well. The bloke behind the counter looked the double of Bob Carolgees.....the geezer who partnered Spit the dog.
Astute
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Remember when the buses cost 2p for kids. Was when I started doing away games. Would cost 4p to get to Brum and 4p to get back. Then another 2p to get to thw ground once in Brum.
standupforcity
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Ernie Machin smoking on the bench after being subbed!
Sky Blue Harry H
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Donal Murphy getting sent off for kicking Kenny Burns in the nuts against Birmingham - would be banned for half a season nowadays! Also the snowball fight aginst Everton on the kop (more like an Ealing comedy than a footie match)
tommydazzle
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Good attitude but probably not usable at family funerals .....
Otis
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It's great though for aunties and uncles I don't like.
torchomatic
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Not so adventurous. Used to stock up on my wine gums before going into the game.
torchomatic
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Yeah, you could see them from the dual carriageway bit on London Road. Evening matches were the best.
The Great Eastern
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The shop on Swan Lane where there was always a queue to get served before kick off. Lady owner used to sell loose sweets from the big jars. You asked for a quarter of Everton mints (for example) & she always gave 6 ounces as an absolute minimum but usually more. Always wondered how she made a viable profit !
rupert_bear
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The chap who ran that shop used to sit next to me in the then new Sky Blue stand and always left 15 minutes from time to get ready to sell the Cov Telegraph late final which arrived at 5. We always kicked off at 3.15 I believe something to do with giving factory workers time to finish work and get to the match. Most factories worked 4 hours Saturday mornings as part of their working week in those days.
Johhny Blue
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I think the real reason for the 3:15 starts was to piss off Sunderland fans
CJ_covblaze
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That’s always a good reason. Sad to see them lose again today.
thekidfromstrettoncamp
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Used to come in from Wolston on the bus got off Gosford green the floodlight were like a magnet up King Richard street straight into the front row of the main stand 2/6p then (1958) 12half pence then. Going home talking about everything that went on promotion year from the 4th division be nice if we could repeat it 60 years on.
Cov kid 55
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I remember that shop H. I used to go in there after the games, buy a gob stopper. I remember a game against Newcastle in the FA Cup, 1967. We lost 4-3, a great game, big Geordie turn out, superb atmosphere. I went in the shop afterwards, must have looked sad, as a Newcastle fan said to me ‘don’t worry bonnie lad, you’ll be in the first division next season’. I remember it, the first time I’d heard ‘bonnie lad’ and, more importantly, he was right!
Off topic but as there is a Welsh connection, just listened to Aaron Ramsey after the Arsenal game .
Such a strange accent I thought he must have been a Frenchman speaking English.
Obviously rubbed of on him.
Cov kid 55
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After the game, I would walk to Broadgate on my way home to Radford, and would buy the pink ‘un. How did they do that?
Johhny Blue
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The pink could be a thread all by itself. We used to take one of the "special"busses from the game and by the time we got home it was time to line up outside the paper shop for the pink
chiefdave
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Happy days. Saturday morning in town going round the record stores then walk up to HR, stopping off at Fishy Moores on the way.
Get their early and stand on the kop behind the goal and watch the warms up. After the match picked up by someones parents and given a lift home and then queue up for a Pink.
Get their early and stand on the kop behind the goal and watch the warms up. After the match picked up by someones parents and given a lift home and then queue up for a Pink.
Johhny Blue
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Ip
tobably stood right beside you (Fishy Moores as well) or underage at the silver sword
mds
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Ok, Glaisdale ave myself!