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lambton cat
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Toilet rolls
I remember walking to RP cos there was a bus strike (Chesterfield in the cup 75 IIRC) - 10 miles return trip for a little legged 9 year old. It was safe to do it in them days
It was no safer than today but our parents let us do it!
Have we ever had any luck?
Monty May 73?
Confucius
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Everything seemed in slow motion, it was something going through the window that was the signal for everything to start. It may have been the tv
saw someone peddaling a 3 wheeler bike on top of a pool table before a match at the Baseball ground
Parkmaverick
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If its that day it started by accident, we'd been in early and Everton came in late somebody knocked a table of beers over and each side thought the others had chucked them, thats when it went up. Got outside and as I walked out the door the telly flew through the window.
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Summat to do with The Lords Day observance Act, iirc - there had to be at least one free turnstile for a Sunday game iirc, and the club weren't compelled to let anybody know which was the free turnstile
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aeshna
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About 12 of us went down in a van, even a couple of Mags tagged along for the craic. One of them nearly got ran over in Birmingham when he fell out of the van as it was reversing. Shame the van stopped, he was squealling like a pig.
---Nemo---
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Skill marra, his entire career was little more than a prelude to that magical moment.
lambton cat
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Puts me in mind of boro at home, we were drinking in the fort there was a bit of an exchange of views at the door then we four as one looked up, saw window, moved other side of room just before window went in...
Confucius
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About 12 of us went down in a van, even a couple of Mags tagged along for the craic. One of them nearly got ran over in Birmingham when he fell out of the van as it was reversing. Shame the van stopped, he was squealling like a pig.
reet lads, I am off to bed, why the fuck isnt it like this any more??????? or are we just a bunch of Dinosaurs?
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Apple&MangoJTO
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Read the first line of that and it sounds awful.
also im 39 and a half? am i allowed?
lambton cat
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Thatcher/police/newspapers/premier league/sky.
No, sorry, youre not on the list youre not gettin in...
Billy Fish
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Another good "slow motion" episode was Leeds away about 1980ish. They were chucking all sorts over into our pen and our lads at the front were rattling away at the fence in a gesture to get at them. The fence gave way and dropped to the floor and all of a sudden everything just stopped moving and a hush descended, people looked at each other bemused...then total bedlam erupted
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It was in the 1980-81 season - we played Brum away in the league on Dec 27th (a day after we'd drawn 0-0 at home to WBA, which I hitch hiked to Roker from H/Pool)Cant remember the year but one year we were playing at brum 2 saturdays running, first league 2nd cup, as was the way at the time there were about twice as many for the cup game.... anyway 1st saturday we went to this pub and it was mental, sunderland goin beserk dancing on pool tables etc, great time, so the following saturday we directed our whole bus to this pub only to find it boarded up and an escort waiting to take us straight to the ground, we were popular like...
We then played Brum away in the cup, the following weekend on Jan 3rd - I was supposed to be going to both games, but I was ill for one of them, so I went to one and missed one, but I cannot remember which
stubber
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Went to that with our lass, one of the few away jaunts for her.We then played Brum away in the cup, the following weekend on Jan 3rd
Can you remember who scored for Brum? Pretty sure he ended up at RP later.
Confucius
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Another good "slow motion" episode was Leeds away about 1980ish. They were chucking all sorts over into our pen and our lads at the front were rattling away at the fence in a gesture to get at them. The fence gave way and dropped to the floor and all of a sudden everything just stopped moving and a hush descended, people looked at each other bemused...then total bedlam erupted
I seem to recall the buses at Leeds at one time had to travel up this road passed a pub and turn round at the roundabout and back down again. We went past this pub and got all sorts hurled at the windows. We got to the end and thought fuck we've got to through it again. When we got back down the Leeds fans were trying to barricade themselves inside the pub as a couple of buses had stopped and they were all wading into them
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Aye that was class, we went in a couple of cars from H/Pool and were parked across from the ground on the hill - there was some serious bother going on over there after the game.Another good "slow motion" episode was Leeds away about 1980ish. They were chucking all sorts over into our pen and our lads at the front were rattling away at the fence in a gesture to get at them. The fence gave way and dropped to the floor and all of a sudden everything just stopped moving and a hush descended, people looked at each other bemused...then total bedlam erupted
stockton
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Middlesbrough are clueless. We played them midweek circa 1990 or so at home and their lads piled off their train at Seaham thinking it was Seaburn. They had a canny walk.
They may be a lot of things but clueless they aint.
On Wear-Tees 'derby' day they repeatedly turn up in Sunderland town centre in numbers. Have Sunderland ever reciprocated at their place in the last 25-30 years? (Rhetorical question
).Middlesbrough have 'form'. By comparison Sunderland are seen as flaky as hell (particularly given their respective support bases).
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