The great Mel Charles, who passed on a few days ago, was a great favourite of mine 1962-65. Am I the only one (and Barry Tiger) who witnessed THAT goal in a 5-2 drubbing of Swansea Town? I remember Mel picked up the ball in his own penalty area, and kept beating players, whilst continually nodding the ball down to the ground.....an amazing effort...probably the finest goal ever seen at Ninian Park! However, they showed that very goal on BBC news in a short tribute last night, and it appears he picked it up around about the half way mark, nodded it twice only and struck it home sweetly.....hmmm must have been a fault on the screen eh? He was our player then, and I send my thanks for a great experience! RIP Mel Charles pal
Maybe is wasn't BT, Will...you had to be there though.....funny how the memory gets it wrong. I mean BFB still thinks he's 60!
At 70 years of age I forget a lot of things these days but memories of the good old days still linger,i remember paying all of 9 old pence to get in ,half time a packet of oxo crisps and a ice lolly and a train ride home from ninian park station to Pontypridd and we used to walk home so we could have a packet of chips happy days and all for 2 shillings.
Will, somebody with your name is heading the BFPL big time, so nowt wrong with you pal! It's funny although you can give me a good twenty years, that incidents stay with me from the sixties. Peter Hooper, one of the best one season wonders we've ever had, 22 goals, many of them 30 yard cannonballs with a hard ball! Then of course there was Ivor...
Spider Sutton. Yes, could really use someone with his attributes. Trouble is he would get more yellows than Lansbury at Forest, suspended for 5 yellows already. Birmingham away about 1970. 40k plus crowd, Sutton hacks down a young, spritely Trevor Francis for the 5th time - about 38k biased Brummie fans chanting "Animal". An interesting day.
Not me Masky - I would have loved to have seen Mel Charles playing but I didn't make an appearance at Ninian Park until the late 60's - coincidentally my first game was against Derby - at least we got a point off them - unlike tonight!
