Can you remember..? * Green Buses taking you.. * Tobacco smoke rising from the queue.. * The ol' turnstles and the click of the revolving gate.. * 2 and 6p,5 and 10 bob to get in.. * Red,red Robin squalking out of the P/A.. * Buckled Barriers.. * The famous surge forward.. * The clarion call, 'You'll never take the Eastend'.. * Crackers corner over by the Williams.. * Smelly gents toilets.. * Brass bands.. * Half-time scores given out on the alphabet tiles after half-time.. * Big John Ateyo.. * Bus drivers leaving early.. * The quick exit out of the back... * Buses double parked... * 6d penny worth of chips homeward bound.. * Waiting for the Green 'Un to read about what you had watched.. * Match of the day,hoping to see you're own heroes on the tele.. * Then dreamland..did Big John really score that goal...? ZZzzzzzzzz ZZzzzzz ZZzzzzz
* and the Pink 'Un....both out by 6pm * soaked right through * telling the bus driver to 'keep the ticket'...give him half the fare and keep half ! * Eamon Andrews, Sports Report, Peter Dimmock......... * checking the pools...the weekly collector * mud, no subs, leather ball, boots with toe caps, laces tied under and under again. * Bert Tann's 'No buy no sell' policy * Gentleman Fred Ford * Rovers and City players in the Knowle CC 6aside competition * wooden rattles and knitted scarves You don't know what you missed Shiny...
Waiting outside in all weathers to get the players autographs.In those days i would quite often go to Eastville on alternate saturdays.Get the no 6 from Hartcliffe to Winterstoke rd,6d return,programme 6d,entrance 1/6,that was pocket money gone.Occasionally the groundsmen (from my old school)would ask if i wanted to sit by him ,and help him at half time.So i saved 1/6,Oh what happy days.
Yep, those were the days, City ground one week, Rovers the next, then came the choice, red or blue, Atyeo or Bradford, big John won, did i make the right choice, well i think so, once a red always a red.
Getting a leg up the wall by The Eastend to negotiate that little bit of barbed wire, while casting furtive glances towards The Police hut before dropping into some swaying ciderhead from Crackers Corner in the outside urinals (that would make your eyes burn). Ahhh memories...
[video=youtube;lWbZzRvIXm8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWbZzRvIXm8&feature=related[/video] Just like Duncan'chase me' Norvelle
* wooden rattles and knitted scarves....and bobble hats...red wiyh white bobble, or red and white with either bobble, clarks pies in a paper bag, getting drowned or frozen to near death at the open end but always the first out through the corrugated doors which were opened and left open 15 -20 mins after the second half had started................turn up late see the last 20 mins for free
johnson says bounce around the ground................. Ok. maybe not as old as you old farts on here, but thats the best memory I can think of! Oh yeah and a little thing called winning football matches, oh those were the days..
Nothing wrong with being an old fart! remember being taught maths by student teacher John Atyeo at Lockleaze and the thrill of him taking us for "games" also remember only being able to see a small portion of the pitch between the other supporters in a 36,000 crowd and having to ask who scored the goal, would I swap the packed crowds, standing and a poor view for todays seated stand, good view and less atmosphere? you bet I would, that's probably what makes me an old fart (and proud!)
ITS NOT JUMPERS ANYMORE just hoodies....I had a red fleece hoody back in 1978....MISSUS CHUCKED IT OUT in 2002...went to wear it and it was gone....they knew how to do things in them days........quality!
