The king of the Fulwell End - Sammy Smith RIP

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I hitch-hiked with him to Preston in the mid-seventies for a mid-week league cup game - Combover Charlton was their boss at the time!

1974 - before our game at Millwall, we were dropped off at Euston Station 7:00AM and walked in on a couple of hundred of Man U fans, who were crashed out after coming down on the overnight train, Sammy said (pretty loud) something along the lines of not too worry as they'll think we are Man U too as we've got the same scarfs (the red white & black ones). I think they probably heard him in Kings Cross...

As we came back out they charged us down those stairs at the side - some nasty injuries. We were dispersed and didn't 'regroup' till it kicked off at The Den.

You know mate, I had to think about that one for a few seconds!! :)
That’s mint that like!

I heard a similar story but that he was in Thornley Close club :)
 
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He must owe me loads from the footy cards. I'll let him off though.

Fly high Sammy. The King is(n't) dead.
 
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We played Oldham away on Good Friday 1978 and we were drinking in a pub on the Rochdale Rd.

Sammy was acting himself a bit and eventually the landlord had enough of him.

It must have taken 20 minutes before he finally persuaded him to leave the pub, at which point the barman let out a sigh of relief.

Within seconds Sammy appears behind the bar to the cheers of all of us.

How he got in via the landlords house nobody knew, but it was hilarious to see.

Happy days!!
 
Tell Laura I love her. Dodgy footy cards in the Red Lion, chasing Man City fans into a house down Roker. Piss ups in the Top House Ryhope after cricket, hiding under a van down Charlton with their lads poking him with sticks to get him out and tales I could not even start to divulge. f***ing character and nee mistake. RIP Sammy marra
 
Tell Laura I love her. Dodgy footy cards in the Red Lion, chasing Man City fans into a house down Roker. Piss ups in the Top House Ryhope after cricket, hiding under a van down Charlton with their lads poking him with sticks to get him out and tales I could not even start to divulge. f***ing character and nee mistake. RIP Sammy marra
Still with us, just apparently.
 
Tell Laura I love her. Dodgy footy cards in the Red Lion, chasing Man City fans into a house down Roker. Piss ups in the Top House Ryhope after cricket, hiding under a van down Charlton with their lads poking him with sticks to get him out and tales I could not even start to divulge. f***ing character and nee mistake. RIP Sammy marra
Got time for that.
 
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