Morning all. Flu jab jabbed. Train winding its way through the Oxfordshire countryside. Sounds like a plan Jsybarry. Mrs HF and I will be spending the weekend in London: we have tix to the now cancelled Lady Gaga show Monday week and we're members of the GMM so we'll take that in. Hotel couldn't be cancelled alas. WBA today, Living Color tomorrow at ULU, Alter Bridge on Monday and Tuesday at the Royal Albert Hall. Busy!
Morning all on this bright and sunny morning. Essential food and coffee taken on board, tickets in pocket, so all ready to go. Rain forecast for about kick off time. Never been to The Hawthorns before, so a first for me. Thinking about the list of grounds I have been to many of them are now in the lower leagues, i.e. Aldershot, Halifax, and even Workington. Some like the Dell at Southampton don't even exist now, still I did go there and see the funny shaped stand that was squeezed in.
I used to go the Hawthorns regularly between 1955 and 1963. Kids got in I think for an old shilling and later 1s 3d. Ronnie Allen, Derek Kevan, Bobby Robson, Don Howe all favourites at the time! It was all standing of course...behind the goal as a nipper with crowds sometimes over 50,000 - all cloth caps, wooden rattles and Woodbines (the adults around us that is!)
I used to love going to Workington - you could get in for nothing by wading up the Derwent and squeezing through the gaps in the rusty corrugated iron fence behind the goal...
Gawd Jeremy Hunt is an absolute pillock isn't he? Here he is trying to turn NHS leaders into clones of Bob the Builder.. http://www.felixmagazine.com/nhs-hospital-chant/ Or maybe trying to soften them up for when everything is sold off to the Americans...
You obviously never tried staying there! The Commercial hotel by the station. However it's where dear old Ken Furohy cut his managerial teeth, I think, so some good came from there!
Never really had to stay there - or anywhere if it comes to that. Back then our preferred mode of transport for away games was hitch-hiking, so it was usually a case of a quick feed of chips then head for the nearest main road.
Expensive!! A few years after that, I was paying 6d to get in at places like Bristol Rovers and Barrow...
I worked there 1969-70. When the. Ike ovens were cleaned they relied on the wind blowing out to sea. If they got it wrong, the whole town was covered in yellow (sulphurous) dust. Nice!
This trip i would have loved for us to get 3 points and would have been ok with 2 (Because my nick name of the Grim Reper ) and only having one home game and 3 way .i was not even sure what tickets i could get .Well i got tickets and made new mates in 1881 (with there contacts getting tickets will not be as hard) "the bunker" is not a out standing place its the guys and girls that go down there with one aim to make Watford what most of us want "Loyal Loud and Proud" plus they dont try and rip people off with the gear cant wait till march
