Lace up leather balls.
I know I'm showing my age but remember trying to hack a sopping wet cannon ball of a size 4 through long grass and mud over Sevenoaks as a school boy - loved it suppose as I carried on into my 40's.
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Lace up leather balls.
I know I'm showing my age but remember trying to hack a sopping wet cannon ball of a size 4 through long grass and mud over Sevenoaks as a school boy - loved it suppose as I carried on into my 40's.
Anyone remember before food outlets on the terraces when the club had people walking around the pitch selling pies pasties and chocolate off of wooden tray type contraptions while the game was going on l kid you not,health and safety what’s that :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian
Good thread. Some great memories there.
Catch that lace on your forehead and it frigging hurt :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by insider
Yeah stood on the grange end and seeing the haze from ten thousand cigarettes being smoked on the bob bank
Are you 130 years old or wha' ?Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Like the fact she took the time and trouble to select the appropriate footwear.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Yes that what the one, God knows what animal it was from 'cos the ones I played with weren't waterproof.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Mind you neither were the cotton kits which sagged off you and made you and made you a stone heavier.
Don't even get me started on the goalposts - how a group of 10 year olds set them up without serious injury in the middle of December I don't know.
The introduction of fan segregation at the Grange end turnstiles
Anyone interested in football history should read the book "Lost in France". It tells the story of Leigh Richmond ROOSE, a Welsh International Goalkeeper who refused to turn professional. ROOSE was the reason that the FA made a major rule change - Goalkeepers had been allowed to handle all the way to the half way line, and ROOSE exploited this rule to the benefit of the teams he played for.
He lived off "expenses", "appearance fees" and "after dinner speaking" as an amateur, making more in a week than a professional would in a year.
On at least one occasion, whilst signed to play for Stoke City (He lived in London), he missed the train from London to Stoke that would get him there in time for KO, so he chartered a train, and sent the bill to Stoke City.
ROOSE was killed in WWI and his name appeared on a memorial, but was misspelt. A campaign to change the spelling and recognise him has led to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission changing their records. The memorial is due to be amended soon.