You’d wait ages for oracle and teletext to give a snippet of Albion news and try to tempt you to dial a premium rate number for news
When out and about on a Saturday, you’d try to be stood near a tv for the final scores, either in a bookie window or dixons and you’d change the channel if one wasn’t on world of sport or grandstand.
When you’d take a transistor radio into the games, ti keep upto date on other scores or ask someone else for the latest (who is listening to the radio)
The rosettes they used to sell outside the ground
When the club shop was a tiny room in the Halfords with the scarves pinned to the wall behind the counter
When lads used to walk around the edge of the pitch before the game and at HT with a tray of bagged peanuts etc
When the seats in the rainbow and Halfords were wooden
When you’d walk behind the SME to get to the rainbow and see the bbc large tv vans and cables and you’d know the game would partly be shown on match of the day
Far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast? Possibly, don't quote me on that. Marvellous.
(08-28-2023, 07:31 AM)Malcolm Tucker Wrote: [ -> ]Far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast? Possibly, don't quote me on that. Marvellous.
.... and you are winning and the kid from the opposition cries out that he is going home and taking his ball with him.
(08-28-2023, 07:33 AM)rsbaggy2 Wrote: [ -> ] (08-28-2023, 07:31 AM)Malcolm Tucker Wrote: [ -> ]Far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast? Possibly, don't quote me on that. Marvellous.
.... and you are winning and the kid from the opposition cries out that he is going home and taking his ball with him.
I was just about about to post that
When footballs were made of leather with a bladder and laced up. When the plastic coating came off and the leather was sodden, it was like heading a medicine ball.
Two lads taking it in turn to pick who is on their team. It was always the fat kid last to be picked who would be told they were in goal.
(08-28-2023, 07:04 AM)Fulham Fallout Wrote: [ -> ]You’d wait ages for oracle and teletext to give a snippet of Albion news and try to tempt you to dial a premium rate number for news
When out and about on a Saturday, you’d try to be stood near a tv for the final scores, either in a bookie window or dixons and you’d change the channel if one wasn’t on world of sport or grandstand.
When you’d take a transistor radio into the games, ti keep upto date on other scores or ask someone else for the latest (who is listening to the radio)
The rosettes they used to sell outside the ground
When the club ship was a tiny room in the Halfords with the scarves pinned to the wall behind the counter
When lads used to walk around the edge of the pitch before the game and at HT with a tray of bagged peanuts etc
When the seats in the rainbow and Halfords were wooden
When you’d walk behind the SME to get to the rainbow and see the bbc large tv vans and cables and you’d know the game would partly be shown on match of the day
The rosettes they used to sell outside the ground.
And the wooden rattles that could inflict head injuries
(08-28-2023, 07:04 AM)Fulham Fallout Wrote: [ -> ]You’d wait ages for oracle and teletext to give a snippet of Albion news and try to tempt you to dial a premium rate number for news
When out and about on a Saturday, you’d try to be stood near a tv for the final scores, either in a bookie window or dixons and you’d change the channel if one wasn’t on world of sport or grandstand.
When you’d take a transistor radio into the games, ti keep upto date on other scores or ask someone else for the latest (who is listening to the radio)
The rosettes they used to sell outside the ground
When the club ship was a tiny room in the Halfords with the scarves pinned to the wall behind the counter
When lads used to walk around the edge of the pitch before the game and at HT with a tray of bagged peanuts etc
When the seats in the rainbow and Halfords were wooden
When you’d walk behind the SME to get to the rainbow and see the bbc large tv vans and cables and you’d know the game would partly be shown on match of the day
Was it moored on the boating lake in Dartmouth Park?
Funny enough as I was walking down to the Blue Gates after the game
A guy had a old transistor radio listening to sports report and even though I knew
All the results by looking at my phone I couldn’t help walking behind him listening along
Bought back a lot of memories as I hadn’t heard it for years.
Ah yes, when racism was proper racism and you could pinch a girl's arse without threat of being cancelled.
And people would throw bricks at away fans and team coaches. Good job that doesn’t happen any longer
Is this the I’m getting old thread?