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That is an iconic picture.
78 i think.
That looks more like the early seventies mate? Big hair and big flares by 78.
I remember one year - I believe it may have been 2015 - my phone's battery was so drained from live vlogging the game that I had to put it into power saving mode on the way home. What days. What heady days.
This thread is a brilliant read. I'm sure I'm not the only #millenial to be more than a little jealous
I think that's late 70's as the fella at the front has a 78 shirt on.
3rd from the left.
Ha! Good point. Might has well cancel my application to MI6 now then.
There were quite a few of us skins in the late 70's, most in that pic were from hertfordshire
How things have changed, mostly for the worst, in football. Was still a game for the working guy or gal.
Some of us changed the words of the second line to 'no thank you daddy, not today'.
The final match at WHL was the last time I felt that spirit of fan power and a return to an 'all for one and one for all' mentality.
The version we used to sing was thus:
My old man said be a woolwich fan i said fuck off bollocks you're a cunt
I follow Tottenham cos they're supreme i follow Tottenham they're the best i've seen
you name it we've won it, the double we have done it
and we've never lost at Wemberleeee
oh i couldn't be a gunner cos everyone's a runner
and we always take the north bank highbury
All together now.....
My old man said be a woolwich fan i said fuck off bollocks you're a cunt
I follow Tottenham cos they're supreme i follow Tottenham they're the best i've seen
you name it we've won it, the double we have done it
and we've never lost at Wemberleeee
oh i couldn't be a gunner cos everyone's a runner
and we always take the north bank highbury
All together now.....
If it's that game I was one of those in the clock end. Didn't Mickey H score twice?
This thread is a great read. I started going to games in 1989-90 when it was a lot safer, although I was a geeky schoolboy with glasses, so not exactly a magnet for anything too colourful. There was still an edge to football, which I loved. I still got to stand in cage terraces like The Dell and trips up north felt like real journeys into another world. Places like Maine Road, Elland Road and Highfield Road were gritty, miserable, but fun. The annual takeover of Selhurst Park for Wimbledon was always an amazing away day. But it was rarely dangerous, unless you went looking for trouble. It’s all why I enjoy the old grounds for away matches now way more than any others, however shit the sight lines.
I'm sure quite a few of them are Stevenage boys. I've seen other pics from that crowd standing outside the Mecca opposite the bus station. Um sure the pics are on here somewhere.
THREAD OF THE YEAR.
Seconded, this is already one of the classics!
If you went to an away game by Wally coach it would drop you back off outside the White Hart pub.
We would go in to get autographs from the players who had got back before us and were having a drink. Apart from the autographs we would leave them in peace.
From memory I got Perryman, Osgood, McNabb, Taylor, Naylor and one or two others.
Shortly after that I started making my own way to games so that put an end to that.
We would go in to get autographs from the players who had got back before us and were having a drink. Apart from the autographs we would leave them in peace.
From memory I got Perryman, Osgood, McNabb, Taylor, Naylor and one or two others.
Shortly after that I started making my own way to games so that put an end to that.
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I have a good story about Mansfield away. Will get around to telling it later.
