While away the time until the transfer window opens a "borrowed" idea from ...somewhere. Memories Another meander down memory lane 1. Two things missed about watching the toon 2. Two things thankfully consigned to the black and white dustbin of history. To get things started Missed: 1. The crowd surge especially when a goal was scored. 2. The peanut seller and his "hoy". Not missed: 1. The Gallowgate toilet. 2. Having to queue 30 mins plus to get in the boys gate in the Gallowgate/Popular Side turnstiles when the men took 5 mins.
Missed: 1. Being close enough to the pitch to have banter with wide players during the game 2. The Football Pink Not missed: 1. Hooliganism 2. Streams of piss running down the terraces from people who couldn't be arsed to use the toilets
Missed: 1. Alan Shearer 2. The smell from the brewery when you left the ground. Not Missed: 1. Michael Owen 2. The smell of piss from the concrete urinals on the old Gallowgate End terrace.
You never got acquainted with the guy who used to man the big gates for ambulances into the Leazes End then? In for half price and straight in his pocket