When being a groundsman isn't so good! best thing here is they catch the dog, but it slips its lead a second time before the game can restart. [video=youtube;jFSvkIMN89Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFSvkIMN89Y[/video] Well fouled!
Have you got one as good as mine though! WARNING!! - Those offended by Cat A swear words had better skip this. This is more for maggie as I don't use this word in front of women. http://thumbp2-ir2.thumb.mail.yahoo...artid=2&f=873&fid=Inbox&w=637&h=480&httperr=1
Talking of scarves, has anyone noticed the current trend of buying a scarf for a particular match only ?? For example fans from both clubs on Saturday were buying scarves which were half in Spurs colours and the other half in Coventrys'. Noticed the same thing on TV last night at the Bradford game.
I agree totsfan, but believe me it's a growing fashion and all the stalls around WHL on a matchday are selling them.
it's not so bad if your playing regular P/L teams, you could wear it each season,but one off cup games etc,it's a waste of money
its probably more for mementos for the non-season ticket holders. Its a special day out for quite a few and a scarf with both teams on is a better memento than a programme IMO and probably about the same price
These stories make me feel young! The rattles: although I'm too young (hehe) to remember them in person, I've seen them on the TV and they looked great fun. I went to a Swindon Town game last year and Npower provided corrugated plastic sheets for 'rattling'. They were a huge hit with the kids (and the big kids like me). 10,000 people all rattling their pieces of plastic. The noise was immense. I imagine it sounded the same as the old wooden rattles. I don't know why they haven't caught on elsewhere, or why I haven't seen them since. Npower got free advertising. We got some fun out of them and a souvenir.
My friend was desperate to get the Barca/Spurs one at the Wembley Cup. They've been doing this for big games for awhile I thought? I agree that it's a bit strange having the scarf for one game but I prefer them to the plain blue and white striped ones that have been in footie fashion for the last few years. I always prefer the ones with "Tottenham Hotspur FC" written across them with badges eitherside. One style that I don't think ever caught on in the Premier League was the reversible home/away ones that you got in the lower league, I still have my Brentford one but I can't remember ever seeing a Spurs one.
You're absolutely right, these scarves have been around for a while now. Can't say I recall ever seeing the reversible ones you mention.
Yeah, I don't think any club still sells them, mine's probably a bit of a relic. They weren't even made of wool, it was some thin, synthetic material which I don't think would've kept you very warm. My Brentford one looked like a normal scarf on the homeside and had "Bees on Tour" on the blue away side, I still think it was quite a good idea even if it never took on.
Celtic seemed to start this trend for scarves in the colours of their own and an opposing team. Their fans have always seemed to want to affiliate themselves with either United or Liverpool or other big club they claim some affinity to. At Lou Macari's testimonial, one of the Celtic fans ran across the pitch and held a Celtic/Utd scarf aloft in front of the Stretford End........and was roundly booed and generally abused.
It's a long time ago now but I think it cost 6d to get in the ground as a boy. How much does that boy have to pay today I wonder? Remember the old Lilywhite Spurs mag from the 50's and a rush to buy the old Tottenham Herald so we could keep up with the Spurs news.......? Charles Buchan's Football Monthly..... .....and the old News of the World and their sex stories (pre porn mags!!!!!). The old man would spend a couple of hours reading that rag in bed on a Sunday morning....... Riding on the old brown coloured City Couch from Wood Green to Southend for our holidays before the trips to Spain etc. One can go on for ever......but my worst football memory was the night Dave Mackay's leg was broken by Noel Cantwell at Old Trafford in the European Cup Winners Cup.What a disaster!We will never know what we could have won if that hadn't happened!
Started going 1948 first match Ditchburn-Ramsey-Clark-Willis-Burgess-Nicholson-Bennett-Bailey-Medley-Walters and the Duqu close to 60,000 and kids handed down the front above the heads of the crowd Peanut man could accurately throw a packet into the hands of fans several rows back The best memories were much later when the beatles were around and we used to go in the visitors (pool fans) to enjoy the singing and the instant songs made up on the spot The most excitement? European nights with the double side
We could be kindrid spirits BIGSMITHY! Everything you wrote from the great George Robb, The Gilly, Cliff Jones & wee Tommy Harmer all still so much in the memory. I have the Lillywhite from June 1961 which has a lovely picture of our Danny sitting by a window with the two cups. I also have a cartoon of the cleaner entering the Spurs boardroom, glaring at the beaming directors & saying 'it's all very well, but now I've got two to polish!' You also brought back happy memories of the coach from Lordship Lane, Wood Green to Southend. As kids we done that trip many times for days out. Great fun. I loved the Kursal! We also bought the Tottenham Herald every week & in 1973 I entered the competition they ran in the summer. You had to write in a max of 200 words why you were the best Spurs supporter. Each week they published lots of entries, including mine but imagine my amazement when, a few weeks later, a letter arrived informing me I had won first prize, a season ticket, which was enclosed. I was dumbstruck. They then went on to have one of the most dire seasons I could remember, finished mid table I think! Thanks for the memories BS. RELAYER: Yes, thats about when the atmosphere changed & tribalism & hatred for other clubs seemed to start. I loved the late 40's 50's & 60's when you could stand anywhere you liked & no segregation of fans. We had lots of banter but it was all friendly. I cannot recall any trouble with opposing fans home or away. I can even remember home fans applauding a great goal by the opposition! It had to be a great goal, mind! NOWSUFFERING SPAIN: I remember the peanuts although I didn't like them myself. The punters used to throw there tanners down & the seller would hurl the bag up into the stands, haha. Agree that night we won the league is one of the abiding memories ever. Only time I ever ran on the pitch (at the end)! ALFIE CONN: Can't say I remember away programme sellers. I went to most away games so probably wasn't drawn to noticing them. I'm just looking at a picture of Alfie Conn when he won the Presidents Trophy. His hair is like a King Charles 1st wig!
One cartoon I remember from the double time......the Chancellor of the Excheceur (?) at his desk with the box saying something like...."and now for the important news.Spurs won" and all the MPs jumping for joy! I have three postcards of the brown City Coaches on my wall in my basement next to a print of an old Southend blue and white double decker bus moving away from Southend Central station towards the pier bound for Thorpe Bay. My mum always took us to that part of the beach that fronted the gasworks.Haven't a clue why.But I did enjoy watching those sailing barges with their reddish sails that used to tie up there and discharge their coal.
