Hi all So after reading and watching this forum daily for years, this morning I read an old article that has eventually prompted me to sign up as I just had to share it with you all...I actually feel like I know you all anyway after reading your posts day after day ...I guess I could be classed as a voyeur having sat outside the forum just watching and reading for so many years but somehow have always felt a part of it without feeling the need to post....But there you go...Guess we are all wired differently eh..!! Anyway....This article is something I came across while browsing this morning..Written in 1998 it makes for a decent short read....I hope the author Craig Ellyard is still around to see us now! Being 49 years old I was around BP in those dark days..(regular on the terraces from 1972)..and in some strange way I remember them with great affection...I was a south stand regular..usually standing but paying the extra quid to sit down if my old boy accompanied me to a match...Ventured into the well now and again..also Kempton..and even the old North stand had its share of me...I guess in hindsight I was a BP gypsy! I'm waffling now so I will post the link and go and cut the grass (again)..bloody lawn is growing as fast as I can cut it!! (Apologies if it has been posted before but if it has I don't recall it) http://www.ambernectar.org/blog/1998/12/the-needlers-a-sweet-aftertaste/
Needler wasn't perfect but he took to the club to unprecedented heights and built a ground the likes of which the rugby teams could only ever dream of. He made some wrong strategic decisions along the way and his son soured the family legacy. For a good portrait of him, read 'The Football Man' by Arthur Hopcraft. A proper football book.
Favourite what ?.Player...For many reasons...Alan Fettis Brut..well it was in the 70's..was my first aftershave...before even the first bit of bumfluff emerged...I thought Henry Cooper would beat the crap out of me if I didn't use it Corn Beef hash..My old mum made a mean one..Now it has to be out of the tin at room temperature (easier to mush) in white bread..with lashings of English Mustard!
Welcome. What's your favourite iced cream? Do you take a tea flask, foam hand or blanket to games? Do you ever wear a replica shirt, tiger suit or face paint? Would you say you are better suited to the Blampey Brigade or Carmine's Cavaliers? Your initiation ceremony will be complete once you've called someone an imaginative insult that culminates with use of the word '****'.
A good reminder of how far we've come. You could say we should be grateful to Lloyd as that moment in time marked the start of the clubs incredible journey through to today. Likewise Jan Molby's short stint in charge, thinking of who he brought into the club in those few months. Without both, who knows we might not have been seeing what we saw in 2008 and now.
I was just thinking a few days ago that in the 30 years I attended games at that hallowed ground, I actually, at one time or another, frequented every part of the stadium it was possible to pay to get into. I saw football from schoolboy level (and played at this level) to full international. Saw my own heroes and some of the world's best (eg George Best). I'm a BP gyppo too. There I've said it. Out and proud.
Ice cream- Not a big ice cream slurper but at a push..Burgess's of Beverley Tea flask?..Blanket?..Im 49 not 89 FFS My replica shirt wearing days are over..that said I have one hell of a collection..Favourite being the white away shirt from a few years back Through loyalty to the real Stuart Blampey who I know through work connections (though he retired last year)..I have to say Blampey Brigade Oh...and finally...Mr Hat..You are a ****
Are you using a hover or rotary lawn mower? Because hovers are not acceptable on a manly forum. I actually feel like I know you all anyway after reading your posts day after day When i highlighted this i meant who are your favourite posters. Think carefully gox
Its a ride on John Deere X305R..I have 3 acres to sort out here!! Yup..you a right ..I didn't read that carefully enough did I....Gotta say OLM...Very measured poster..
I would remove some of that info gox as you're basically posting his facebook profile on here. Not that most don't already know but still. There's an edit button
Grateful for providing us with a definitive point from which things couldn't get any worse? That's a glass-half-full attitude if ever I saw one. Should be be grateful to Stock, Aitken and Waterman too?
OLm's a ****. Big enough for a 5 a side pitch? You could invite us all down for a tournament? You must wear a vest when riding that beast of a mower. What brand of vest? Think carefully Gox
Bloody hell Chazz..You do like me to think carefully don't you eh!...Vest?..bollox to that...its a fleece job today..not that warm..the string vest can wait! I could mark out a full sixed pitch ..I have actually brought the subject up with Mrs Gox..who surprisingly gave me an earful...apparently im a silly old bastard who is trying to cling on to my lost youth and would probably hava a heart attack it I started running round my own football pitch pretending im Deano.....
The mistake people make when trying to live the dream of being a professional footballer is one of time management. You can't possibly fit in all of the requirements and hold down a full time job, so it's a case of selecting the key components. Build a garage on your land, with a grassed area the size of the 6yd box just outside. Come on as sub in the 90th minute, head the ball into the net and then let the drinking and dogging commence. I know it misses 90 minutes kick about, but sacrifices have to be made.
Welcome Goxhill Tiger, I'm not a prolific poster by any means but I do come on here most days to see what's happening, who's saying what and contribute when I feel I've got something I'd like to share. As you say, we're all wired up differently, I really don't get some of the levels of abuse that certain threads descend into at times, so I just steer clear but in turn some of the banter is great (I often sit on the sofa at night chuckling at some comment and getting funny looks from the wife), i suppose it's like a little microcosm of life. I too am on the South Bank and have been for the last 35 years, originally in Barton and now in Brigg, although I did live on the North Side for about 10 years in my youth. My Dad was from Barton and chose to support City despite Grimsby being the more successful club at the time. He first took me to BP in 1969 (hence username) at the age of 8 and i've been hooked ever since. I can't claim to having been to every home and away game during that time, various things have got in the way over the years but I have seen many more downs than ups and have been a regular for most of that time. Thanks for sharing the article, it does accentuate just how far we have come and that we have to really savour this time because it could all so easily change and we might never experience it again. Like a lot of supporters of our age, I thought a lot about my Dad at the semi-final (he passed away in 2009 but at least did get to see his beloved Tigers reach the top flight even though he wasn't well enough to go anymore) and no doubt will again at the Final. There really has never been a better time to be supporting City! Good luck with the grass cutting, although it sounds like you're well prepared.
