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Mr.D

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Going in the juveniles entrance. Fucking loves that as at Highbury they had the shitty boys enclosure but we could walk right round the stadium.
I might have relayed this before but me and a few pals went into the said boys enclosure. About 8 of us. Spurs score and we're going potty. Get lifted out by plod and marched round the pitch to the clock end where we're chucked through the gate onto the terrace where we got a heroes welcome. I think the oldest of us was 16!
 

ralphs bald spot

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Funny things - reading this football was so different it didn't have the wall to wall coverage it now has

If you didn't go to the away games you relied on being the commentary game Brian Butler (the greatest commentator ever) or 15 minutes updates on LBC . I remember as a kid being at reserve games when he went round with the board for the first team score including being there when we lost 8-2 at Derby the old boy didn't have an 8 . Blokes huddling around Radio Rentals at 4,45 to see the final score queing up at Bruce Grove waiting for the results paper

Cup draw on Monday lunchtimes 'from the hallowed halls of Lancaster Gate'

Standing in the boys enclosure on the corner of the shelf. The trough serving as a toilet at the back of the shelf, Silk scarfs tied to your wrist police treading on your toes to check if you had steels on - running on the pitch at the end of the game

Bobby Sands can you hear us in your box
 

freeeki

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Seeing you all reminisce about the good old days, the cup runs, the UEFA Cup wins, winning the league... are exactly why I desperately want this current team to press on and win things.

When I’m an old(er) man, I don’t want to reminisce about the good days of old when we were consistently top 4, didn’t win much but hey, at least the books were balanced.

For context: my first game at WHL was Steffen Freund’s debut. It’s been downhill ever since...
 

Tel Boy

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I remember Chas & Dave playing live on the pitch at half time for the recording of their Christmas special TV show. Dad made us stay afterwards whilst they kept doing extra takes. Good times.
 

DaiT

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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 :cry:
I never realised you were an old c... like me.
 

worcestersauce

"I'm no optimist I'm just a prisoner of hope
Jan 23, 2006
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Standing behind the goal waiting for word to filter round who actually scored the goal at the other end.
Waiting on the Evening news or standard on a Saturday evening to find out the other scores.
Silk scarves, we had class back then.
 

fingersinc

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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 :D

Remember it all like it was yesterday including a 40 hour train trip to Hadjuk Split for the semi final. I only missed two games that season. The away game to Drogheda and a home game to Leicester. I went to every other game we played that season. Those were magical times. Especially the away games in Europe. Had to mostly go by Inter rail back then. No Easy Jet or Ryanair back then.
 

Japhet

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My memory is forever scarred by the 'burgers' they used to sell from the trolleys outside the ground. Kept hot in boiling water, the bun would soak it up and immediately fall to bits. Utterly revolting but even so I think I bought one just about every match. I remember the first time I climbed the steps and got my first look at the pitch. It was the greenest green I'd ever seen.
 

archiewasking

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Jul 5, 2004
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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 :D

I was there that night. Remember Archie and Falco scoring. The top German striker Rummenige scooping the ball over our net from inside the 6 yard box. Wonderful.

A&C ( and others) do you remember / were you at the home match around Christmas with Ipswich that we won 5-3? What a match that was. Just before Ossie left for Argentina and then the Falklands....
 

spursfan77

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First time I stood was in 1988 in the north stand. Saw us blow a 2 nil lead against Man Utd for it to go 2 all and then Paul Stewart missed a last minute penalty which would have won us the game. I was only 11 and can remember it being pretty quiet, even for Man Utd. Weird to think it would have been like that today.

Checked the attendance and it was 29k. No idea why so low

https://www.11v11.com/matches/tottenham-hotspur-v-manchester-united-01-october-1988-89036/
 

TheChosenOne

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Dec 13, 2005
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Remember it all like it was yesterday including a 40 hour train trip to Hadjuk Split for the semi final. I only missed two games that season. The away game to Drogheda and a home game to Leicester. I went to every other game we played that season. Those were magical times. Especially the away games in Europe. Had to mostly go by Inter rail back then. No Easy Jet or Ryanair back then.

I used to go to many of the away games but for whatever reason that campaign I only went to the Anderlecht final 1st leg. I'd done the BM trip in 1982...
 

M.I.B.

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First ever "live" Div 1 game, Vs Forest. I got nicked up in the Shelf for having a knees-up. Got thrown down the stairs at the back by the rozzer, then frog-marched round the pitch, in front of the Park lane where a load of my mates were shouting at me.....tried to wave but copper having none of it and yanked my arm harder up my back. In to police room under the West, some mouthy fool was getting a right hiding from them, so I gave name, got chucked out, and went straight round the Park Lane and in again!!!

Apparently Brian Moore commentating, as camera focused on me, said "well there's one young man who has got a bit over-excited"....bloody cheek!!

Trouble was, my old man was sat watching at home. I got a right slap from him later :LOL:
 

M.I.B.

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Also, remember walking up and paying cash to get into the UEFA final 2nd leg in 84. Glad I did. What a night.
 

rez9000

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Can I just say, I love this thread!

My first live game was Wimbledon-Spurs in 1998 on my 20th birthday (6-2 baby!), so I never experienced the highs (and lows) of what I think of classic working man's (and woman's!) football fandom. Maybe I'm viewing it with rose-tinted spectacles, but the ugly side of it notwithstanding, it always comes across as more convivial and communal. Today's football can feel very hollow and soulless at times, regardless of the joy and passion it evokes in me. So I love these reminiscences by those who were there. Thank you, all.
 

HertsYid

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Aug 18, 2005
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this is a great thread, i just missed all the real older games, my first game was in the late 80s, i must have been about 7 or 8 so around '88 and we played Man Utd at home. Sat behind the goal and watched Clive Allen put us 1-0. Allen and Paul walsh played that day with Ossie and Waddle in midfield.
remember brian McClair equalising in the last minute to make it 1-1.

remember again late 80s a 3-0 win at home agains west ham and i was stood in the east stand which was a crush everytime we scored. Waddle Gazza were in that side that day and paul steward and nyiam scored.
 

buckley

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I remember that some games like Greaves first I could not get in (in them days you paid at the gate until the ground was full then they closed all entrances ) myself being 18 years old at the time along with my best mate we waited until about 15 minutes before the end when they opened the double gates to let people leave .Well we ran as fast as we could pass the stewards to get into the ground and they did not try too hard to stop us thankfully .
We were just in time to see the scissor kick that scored jimmy third goal .Magic times .Magic player>magic club.It was a way to get in when sold out and we did it a few times in the sixties.
 
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