Met up with an old mate for a beer last night and got reminiscing about old games. Does anybody remember a midweek game against Manure in the 80s which was sponcored by a peanut co and had Linda Lusardi walking round the pitch and throwing bags of peanuts into the crowed ,and the crowed pelting them back at her ? I think we lost.
Away from all the pre-season speculation, a bikini-clad Linda Lusardi once thorugh me a bag of nuts (Planters Nuts were matchday sponsors) in March '85 before the Man Utd game(we lost 2-1, Falco scored). She through them a long way too for a page 3 girl. googled from 606 comments i remember sitting next to miss world- miss argentima- in the west stand . i think it was ossie and ricky's debut v. villa. i think we lost
Do you also remember the bloke that sold them in the ground he could hit anyone at 25 yards ? I think they where Percy Daltons
The skill he showed catching the coins thrown at him should have put him in contention for an England wicket-keeping berth.
there were lots of sellers. they used to thread their way through the paxton rd end , lobbing them into your hands from 20 yards. white coats on? better than the manky hamburgers they used to sell on the road outside. and who thought bullet-hard bagels in the east stand were a good idea. they were only good for lobbing at the away end.
There used to be a disabled chap who sold peanuts at the Spurs ground and many pubs.Tony,I think his name was. But he used to shell them and sell the nuts in packets.I think those blooming things blocked my system up for days!!!! I didn't mind....if Spurs won!
Whilst we're on a nostalgia trip... I grew up in Tottenham, going to local infants and junior schools. As a kid of about 10 or 11, I got a part-time job as a boy with one of the Co-Op milkmen - there used to be a Co-Op diary yard just off WHL, not far from the ground. I worked on the rounds Saturdays and Sundays, and on home games the cart would usually be making its way back to the depo just as the crowds were piling into the Lane. When we stopped at traffic lights or got caught up in the traffic, I'd jump off the cart and buy a program from one of the vendors. This would have been around 1974 and 1975. I've still got all of the programs.
In those old days of 60,000 spurs fans packed in to White Hot Lane,part of the ground (shelf and behind both goals) were open.But when it was pouring or snowing,you could hardly feel it because we were packed like sardines! I can still see fans passing kids down from the back to the front....don't think they'd allow that today in case they were carrying bombs!!!!!!!!? The pitch could be awful by the seasons end,unlike today. I still remember parking my bike in an old ladies houses for a (?) shilling or so,in Park Lane.......and lining up at 5-0am around the ground to buy a ticket for the big matches. Not forgetting Ernie,the groundstaff man who would chase us kids away when trying to sneak in. One regret was as a travelling Spurs fan,sometimes,I would see Bill Nick on the platform waiting for the train.I could never get up the courage to walk over and say hello.I thought he was unapproachable but I heard he did like to talk football but not be subjected to idiots ( which I hope I wasn't one!).
When I first started going in the sixties there was a guy selling 'goal time' tickets. Same patter every match 'get your goal time tickets here lads, a shilling a time, they're all shuffled up' - not sure why I remember it so well
That's brilliant. If there's one question your Dad didn't think he'd be asked at the football that's got to be it!
