Football thing of the past

[Enoch Mort]

BIF BAF
Golden Goal Tickets
Pies by Stan Thomas of Merthyr
The Bluebirds Club
Real Zaragoza ticket booths
Radio Ninian
Ninian Park turnstile attendants on the fiddle by encouraging two of you to squeeze through at the same time
Terry wearing his policeman’s helmet
Football special buses
Teams running out of the tunnel and getting on with the game rather than poncing about shaking hands
Lew Clayton’s magic sponge
Football Combination
More toilet rolls on the pitch than there were in the toilets
Goalkeepers wearing flat caps
Players smelling of linament
The Welsh Cup
Football League Review

[Harry Monk]

BIF BAF
Golden Goal Tickets
Pies by Stan Thomas of Merthyr
The Bluebirds Club
Real Zaragoza ticket booths
Radio Ninian
Ninian Park turnstile attendants on the fiddle by encouraging two of you to squeeze through at the same time
Terry wearing his policeman’s helmet
Football special buses
Teams running out of the tunnel and getting on with the game rather than poncing about shaking hands
Lew Clayton’s magic sponge
Football Combination
More toilet rolls on the pitch than there were in the toilets
Goalkeepers wearing flat caps
Players smelling of linament
The Welsh Cup
Football League Review

You forgot The Football Echo. Always brought into our pub in Maesteg by the delivery guy about half an hour after we'd got back from Cardiff. Everyone bought one, no sharing in those days.

[Enoch Mort]

You forgot The Football Echo. Always brought into our pub in Maesteg by the delivery guy about half an hour after we'd got back from Cardiff. Everyone bought one, no sharing in those days.

I used to wait in the newsagent ( Whitsons's in Whitchurch village) for the delivery of Football Echos which arrived bound in string. There was a sense of anticipation especially if we had won away from home. More often than not this would be the first time you would find out who scored for the City. How times have changed !

[Nobody's Rep]

Love is the drug appeared to be the only record in our collection played over the tinny tannoy

Being able to get in around half time for free if you were skint or working

Combination league games in the week where you could be unofficial ball boys