I think the guy who offered to build a new stadium was called Charlie Knott who came from a traveler family, one of his demands was to be on the board. Think he frightened the living daylights out of the clubs hierarchy?
This rumour was kicking about the other day .......seems to be gathering pace. Then we are back to the dilemma of what happens to Fraz and Alex?
Of which the rumours are.....Alex to Norwich but our valuation is too high and Fraz to Leeds but his wage demand is too high.
Of all the positions to be spending money on I didn’t expect it to be GK again!! McCarthy must not be happy to be no.2 otherwise I’d have thought we’d be happy for him to stay. We don’t need 3 senior keepers though so presumably if we sign another keeper we must be confident in selling both Forster and McCarthy.
It may be that with Uncle Les’s departure, we have finally grown some cahunas in the contract negotiation department? It’s as much of a pain in the ass to have players knocking around that simply aren’t going to feature as it is not having the funds to go get the players we need....
Actually, there was a terrific atmosphere in the days when it was all standing. I didn't think it was particularly special once the seats were in.
I was in the West Stand among the record attendance over 30,000 against Man Utd (my first ever game) and nearly never got out alive! how there was never a Hillsborough at the tiny little ground i'll never now. Unofficially I think that the record attendance was beaten by a few thousand at Mick Channon's testimonial 2 days after the win at Wembley.
I was in the Archers, right down by the front to the right of the goal, for the 31,044 ManU match. Bit of a veteran by then, having got a few seasons under my belt. Think I moved to the Milton the next season - I'd got big and tough enough at 11 years.
Funnily enough that was the first game that my dad took me to as well, It was a little scary as the crowd was so large and there were moments that I was moving forward without touching the ground. But to see Best, Law and Charlton play was amazing.
And I don't think I shown this to anyone who might appreciate it before, but this is my old scarf from 1969 that my Mum knitted me. Took me 3 years to convince her it was worth the trouble. Actually, it's enormous at almost 6ft long.
I was in the Milton for that game, I seem to remember a Charlton header flying off in a random direction inspiring a wag in the crowd to shout "chalk yer cue baldy".
