I've got an extensive collection of Subbuteo in the loft and I've just been on the 'Subbuteo World' website. I'm sitting on a effing fortune ! I've got paper catalogues that are worth the best part of 10 quid each! A rare Brazil team that has purple bases cos they ran out of blue, £199 !!! Best get the lot insured, no kidding !!!
My first recollection of watching Norwich was in 1998 away at Portsmouth. So i'm sad to say I never got to experience any of this. Still, I miss mitre footballs, shirts with collars, sticker books, stadiums with character before they all got replaced, the south stand, Iwans teeth, how poor our support was, being able to get a ticket to carrow road on the day of a game, that wierd inflatable arm waving tube man outside Carrow Road, strikers with 'curtain haircuts', watching the Champions league on ITV Wednesday at 7.30 (it just used to be better to watch), The real Ronaldo, the lack of goal music when we scored, thinking adrian forbes was the best player in the world, darren eadie and craig bellamy (what a combination), Pony and replica shirts that only cost £20.
A pint of twos. Nobody uses that expression anymore do they. Down here in Cornwall its "arfenarf". I gave them a hand behind the bar at the Legion on New Years Eve a few years ago and a bloke growled to me after I had politely asked "Who's next please?", "Arfenarf!". "I've got 17 pumps in front of me, what two shall I use?" "Don't you know?" "No, I don't even know you! And anyway, where I come from they have manners and its pronounced A PINT OF TWOS PLEASE!" ****in ignoramous didn't know what I was talking about. "I fought for you during the war" he pipes in. "No you didn't I wasn't ****in born till 1951!"
Something else that has disappeared over the years although I still hear people in my local pub ask for a pint of twos as it is one of the few that still sells a cask mild. How often nowadays do you hear people ask for a brown and mild or a light and bitter or a stout and mild. 40 years ago it was as common as asking for a pint of bitter or a pint of mild. Probably the result of Watneys and other keg abominations. If you had a gassy sweet keg beer you hardly needed to put a gassy sweet bottle beer in with it as well. Then along came lager - don't get me started on that!! As you say each area had their own terms for these various drinks. Two's in this neck of the woods, pint of mixed in the Midlands and the North , 'arfnarf in others. Black and tan for stout and mild in this part of the world but other names elsewhere. Also in those days most Pubs sold White Shield - a bottle conditioned beer that had to be poured slowly and carefully because of the sediment in the bottom. A new barmaid was fair game - the look on her face when she just poured it out and ended up with a glassfull of liquid resembling the Thames at low tide. It had to be done - if you didn't catch her with that then there was always asking for a half of Guinness shandy!! Nostalgia has returned!!
I remember people actually used to drink a pint of snakebite with a pernod and blackcurrant depth-charged into it How disssgusting is that!
When I lived in Catton Grove for a while I used to my Grandad round the Loaf (people used to say it was a rough house but I thought it was full of great characters) for a Sunday drink. He used to have a bottle of Guinness but he had the shakes and by the time he'd poured it the head filled the glass! I was weaned on mild and it was cheap and you weren't going to get slaughtered on it. Guinness and Cider was a favourite of mine for a while, poor man's black velvet I believe. Never been a lager man. I don't mind drinking local beer when I'm abroad as it suits the warm climate. We have some nice beers down here in Cornwall. Betty Stoggs and Doombar are doing well up country as well. Norwich lad runs the brewery that brews Doombar but its just been bought out by Coors so look out.
Redruth, I remember Hicks Special Draught very well, brewed by the St Austell brewery - if they still exist? Strongish but moreish too I used to love a pint when down your neck of the woods.
great thread! being a mere child of 30 the closest i got to the 'olden days' was my first away trip to millwall and the 'old' den. but if we are looking for an answer as to which era of football was best to watch, then perhaps this clip will give you some pointers... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4CXY6TVBMc
I lived in New Cross for a while in the 60's, I remember going to a mid-week match at the old Den between Millwall and Man. Ure! Stepney was still with Millwall then, and went down on one knee to collect a back pass (allowed in those days), Lou Macari was still about 20 yards away, but carried on running, clattered into Stepney and went flying! Amazingly the ref gave a penalty which won the match 1 - 0 for Utd. At the end of the match, you couldn't see the ref because he had a cordon of about a dozen coppers escorting him off! Referees have ALWAYS been bad!
millwall was my first ever away game - if i mention a certain robert fleck scoring the winner in the last minute with a spectacular overhead kick to go top of the league, i'm sure many will remember it! i was only 8 years old and i went with a friend and his dad - i can't quite believe my parents allowed me to go to be honest! it was a dangerous, dangerous place back then but i suppose people and in particular football fans knew no different. i don't remember too much about the match or even the day as a whole but i do remember a group of city fans being attacked outside the ground with baseball bats. thankfully it didn't put me off... i for one am glad times have changed
I remember several years ago finding myself in the Blue Anchor in Helston whilst on holiday in Cornwall. This was a brewery attached to a pub and if my memory is correct - and I have to admit that my memory of the visit is a bit hazy for obvious reason - they did not brew anything which was weak enough to be classed as a session beer. It was wonderful but how the locals coped with that every day I do not know!!!
I remember watching that game on ITV and Ian St John gave the man of the match to Terry Horlock instead of Gunny who pulled off save after save. His reason was that he wouldn't get out of the ground alive if he didn't give it to a Millwall player. There was a bit of history between the two sets of fans after a game in the late 60's when we beat them 5-2 at Carrow Road and their fans tried to cause trouble in the unsegregated Barclay end. A lot of the local hard nuts went to that game and the Millwall lads took a bit of a beating, inside and outside the ground. And they had memories like elephants!
Yes St Awful brewery is still going with Hicks (HSD) and Tribute which are favourite old beers. Hicks made a nice rum as well. The barley wine could blow your hat off as well.
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