Cheers for that
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Amazing picture: Allen, Norman, Blanchflower, White return to the Spurs end after scoring at Villa Park.
Spurs vs Chelsea – a policeman’s helmet goes flying as he wades into the crowd to stop an outbreak of fighting 1975.
Spurs vs Chelsea – a policeman’s helmet goes flying as he wades into the crowd to stop an outbreak of fighting 1975.
The Dell 1978. The mesh spoils the view for the Spurs fans.
I bunked into that game. It was mayhem.
That was such a shit ground. Plough Lane was better.The Dell 1978. The mesh spoils the view for the Spurs fans.
Fucking horrible place to go - arseholes used to throw sharpened coins into the away section, big brave bunch of wankers that they were.
I could never work put why (or how) their home stand looked like an open Grand Piano lid!
This is what it looked like before.
The two "Chocolate box" stands were removed and you were left with the piano/cheese wedge look.
Lack of space behind that stand dictated development.
If I remember correctly the stand at the opposite end was pretty much the same at one point.
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The British Queen was well lairy
One of my mates from Somerset took his then girlfriend , now wife, to spurs for her first ever match.
I still can not believe they were still together when he said ' we had a breakfast near Paddington, then got the train up to WHL and went in the British queen for some pre match drinks.......'
After a long silence he then quipped that ' it was lively in there today'
Loved Archibald
Came across this on Twitter. How the times have changed!
There's at least two players about to go arse overy tit tangled in the middle of those ropes!!
"We'll take more care of you, Arch-i-bald, Arch-i-bald"
Remember the first time I heard/sang that - it was on the platform at Baker Street, on the way to Wembley for the FA Cup Final replay in '81.
Could be Woolwich wanderers?The Lane in 1912. Opposition?
I've no idea. They hadn't moved then. Not that that makes any difference.
Just a guess, as we had not put the white sleeves on their shirts by then?
The Lane in 1912. Opposition?
Will be interested in seeing if anyone can come up with a definitive answer for this.
After digging through the fixtures for 31-32 and 32-33 I'm fairly confident it's a league fixture as we only played 1 FA cup match at WHL in those years (drawing Sheffield Wednesday 2-2 before losing the replay).
If the opposition were in their preferred colours, and the provenance of the picture is definitely 1932, then digging through historicalkits.co.uk I think the possibilities are
United
And Barnsley
But I think Millwall is the larger probability if it's not certain the picture is from 1932 (or if the web history is a little inaccurate). Their 33-35 kit below.
Our kits really didn't change much in that era, so it's impossible to use ours to really establish the year. But we were wearing navy socks and shorts, which seems to match monochromatic very well with the opposition's top where the red I would think might look a shade or two off.
And, obviously, if it were any number of our 2nd division opponents of the day such as Swansea or Port Vale, among others, who would've had to play in their change kit then I haven't a clue. Historical record of change strips is much sportier.
And massive thanks to
Joe Clash
for asking an interesting question and wasting 3 hours of my life.:chadliblow:
EDIT: Oh...it's 1912...well, fuck, not doing that again. Jesus. Not sure why I picked that up as '32. #nightwasted