EastLondonYid
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I was a liitle too young for the away days but went to EVERY home game that year...9-0 and all that....
Most of you won't remember..........
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I was a liitle too young for the away days but went to EVERY home game that year...9-0 and all that....
stevenqoz
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The Millwall away game was indeed a nightmare. Sometimes you make decisions in your life that you regret forever....went on my own Boxing day morning....met a couple of hundred nervous Tottenham at London Bridge...went to the other New Cross station to stay under the radar...paid a fiver on the gate to get in.....stood with 7,000 Spurs out of 16,000....watched us win....observed as one fence and a few coppers staved off a complete riot. Left the Den having no idea where I was....had women and children throw bottles and bricks at us from local houses...stumbled onto Old Kent Road(?) to face a lively Millwall mob running at us from the flats....chased through the gardens and over fences of houses....met a mate who had the bright idea of grabbing a cab......never again
Great old times
Great old times
CosmicHotspur
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I remember going in the boys' gate when it was pre-decimal by a decade or more.
(It should perhaps have been a "Juniors" turnstile but they didn't seem to mind that I was a girl).
(It should perhaps have been a "Juniors" turnstile but they didn't seem to mind that I was a girl).
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Those were the days, that was a fantastic evening. We always used to take a half day off work and go drinking around Liverpool Street prior to the big European games. Always stood in The Cage.
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I remember standing on the shelf, getting backache from standing up for hours and craning my neck to try and see the match. (Have to say seats are much better for being able to actually watch the match unless you're over 6' tall!)
I also remember that my Dad couldn't afford to go and watch Tottenham himself, but he paid for me to go to weekday games, and drove me to my much older cousin's so I could go with her. Bless him.
In those days too, not many women (or girls!) went, and I remember a goal being scored and the man behind me saying "who scored?". I turned round and told him, and he just stared, and asked someone else! lol. Obviously a female couldn't possibly know!
I also remember that my Dad couldn't afford to go and watch Tottenham himself, but he paid for me to go to weekday games, and drove me to my much older cousin's so I could go with her. Bless him.
In those days too, not many women (or girls!) went, and I remember a goal being scored and the man behind me saying "who scored?". I turned round and told him, and he just stared, and asked someone else! lol. Obviously a female couldn't possibly know!
two things stick in my mind of those halcyon days of the early 80's as a young 13 yo. whipper-snapper
A young lady *ahem* "finishing-off" her fella at the back of the shelf at final whistle. (distracted the resident skinhead next to them to such an extent he almost dropped his bag of glue).
and the size of the fucking police horses in Worcester Ave. Must have fed those beasts on smaller police horses.
A young lady *ahem* "finishing-off" her fella at the back of the shelf at final whistle. (distracted the resident skinhead next to them to such an extent he almost dropped his bag of glue).
and the size of the fucking police horses in Worcester Ave. Must have fed those beasts on smaller police horses.
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I remember queuing for the boys entrance with some mates, there were a group of girls there too. One of the mounted coppers made the girls move on as they were not "boys". We all stood there too afraid to stick up for them, one was my mate's sister. That went down well when we got home.
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I remember a few fans taking a slash on the centre circle whilst chanting 'lets all piss on highbury'*
*I may or may not have taken part is this loutish behavior
EastLondonYid
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Final whistle we dug up the scum pitch.:clap:...i willingly ruined a new pair of school shoes that night,it wasn't unusual being in the North Bank either, it was where we used to stand whenever we played the scum at their place:grin: and we used to outnumber them there :grin:
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Another great memory. Running onto the pitch to mob Bobby Smith at Villa Park after we beat Burnley in the semi- final.
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Spent the weekend looking for the program - 1968 at home to Liverpool, We were Park Lane and there was nothing to stop fans going from Park Lane to Paxton in those days. So, home to Liverpool, in the ground at 12.00, couple hundred in PL and the Liverpool fans arriving all at once in the Paxton at 12.30 ish. Both sets of fans running at each other and meeting underneath the old TV gantry for a full 10 minute kick and swing!!!! I wrote in the program at half time, 1-0 to the Park Lane, John Lennon busted. At full time - Greavsie, 2 goals!!! Brillliant fun.
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That year in the 2nd Division I was 11. Went home and away with my dad to most of those games
Remember Millwall away, spent most of the game watching supporters running round the ground fighting each other
Brighton away, remember ducking as all the Brighton supporters were trying to climb up a wall into the stand as all the Tottenham supporters were throwing bottles at them trying to knock them off!!
Southampton away, last game, needed a point to go up. Sat on the pitch with a photographer who was a friend of my dads
Bolton at home, the last time there was over 50k at WHL
Only home game we missed was the 9-0 Eek
Remember Millwall away, spent most of the game watching supporters running round the ground fighting each other
Brighton away, remember ducking as all the Brighton supporters were trying to climb up a wall into the stand as all the Tottenham supporters were throwing bottles at them trying to knock them off!!
Southampton away, last game, needed a point to go up. Sat on the pitch with a photographer who was a friend of my dads
Bolton at home, the last time there was over 50k at WHL
Only home game we missed was the 9-0 Eek
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I remember the ticker tape wellcome we gave Ossie and Ricky:grin: I remember going to games with my "Donkey"Jacket as my prized possesion:grin: I remember in the 81 CFR against City on a Thurs night sneaking into Wembley by pushing thru the turnstiles and being there when Ricky scored the greatest Wembley goal ever I Remember
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Without reading through the thread to see if its been mentioned, another great night was when we beat Bayern Munich 2-0 at the Lane to go through 2-1 on aggregate. Their captain, Breitner I think his name was, giving it large about already being through after winning the home leg. They were an all star team but we gave it to them that night.
That was the year we won it, we beat Drogheda, Feyenoord, Bayern Munich, Austria Wein and Hadjuk Split to reach the final. That's almost as many games as you have to play these days to get out of the group stage
That was the year we won it, we beat Drogheda, Feyenoord, Bayern Munich, Austria Wein and Hadjuk Split to reach the final. That's almost as many games as you have to play these days to get out of the group stage
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Standing almost everywhere in the ground, being able to turn up to a game on a whim and get in, the old alphabet style Half Time placards that let you know the scores elsewhere, peanuts! peanuts! as the vendors walked around the edge of the pitch, skillfully and accurately lobbing small packets of Percy Daltons at whoever bought some.
The crowd 'bobbing' on the shelf to Knees up Mother Brown and everyone trying to give the poor sod next to them a dead leg, avoiding being squeezed against the barriers when we scored, not having some tosser who was too lazy to go the the bog piss up your leg, the bogs being 3 inches deep in piss, a traditional cup of bovril at away games up north.
Ticker tape welcomes when we signed Ossie and Ricky, singing Burkinshaw's Blue & White army or Born is the King of White Hart Lane. Match of the Day on a saturday night, the Big Match on a Sunday.
Chris Jones being 'oooh unlucky Chris', Ralph Coates and his combover hair, Peter Taylor on the wing, going down, coming up again and the choice of food was basically fish and chips or a hot dog from some dodgy guy pushing a trolley.
I miss the good old days
At night games I always remember a distinctive haze in the air illuminated by the old flood lights and the smell of the burger vans outside the ground, the massive queues, the general excited hub bub and the waft of beer breath. Good times indeed.
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I’m too young but get chills when reading about these things!
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You don't miss the "good old days", you just miss your youth.
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