Exactly where I used to see him.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
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Exactly where I used to see him.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Re. The Asian Dad and son, he used to sit his son on the barrier with the chain link fencing on separating the boys’ enclosure from the rest of the Grangetown End in the 60s, always had a fag on the go. We used to call John, the cyclist, Jim Fryatt after the footballer of that time with the bushy sideboards.
I suppose it helped to be 11 years old in 1968 and showing up at Ninian Park for the first time, but everything seemed so exciting and fresh. Even something as ordinary as people hawking team rosettes, or the match programme, added to an atmosphere of excitement. Those rickety old turnstiles where I handed over my tenpence, those trough-style urinals, turning the corner into the Grange End and seeing the vast green field, Dave Carver's massive thighs instilling confidence during warmups, it was all so . . . tribal. I was so envious of that press box up in the corner. They got in for free! LOL.
Who else had a blue and white rattle? I even used to take mine to reserve games. I remember one season when I think the reserves won their Football Combination division and the whole ground would be open for Saturday afternoon games. Up front after signing from Worcester City was Harry Knowles who was prolific in the reserves but never made it at first team level. He eventually went back to Worcester for £2000 plus Peter King in exchange!
What ??Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Died last year:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyncoed Slumdog
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/spor...-knowles-dies/
Having to kick off home games at 2pm because we couldn't afford the floodlights to be switched on
Oldham fans getting completely drenched with the heaviest rainstorm I have ever seen lashing down on the uncovered Grange end 😳
It was called the Boar’s Head.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
The Cardiff, ‘bang bang’, Cardiff ‘bang bang’, Cardiff ‘bang bang’ chant (the bang bang being the back heeling of the sheeting at the back of the Bob Bank), particularly loud during our early ECWC games, before the Grangetown End became our ‘end.
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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Well known local Spoonerism.
Seeing us come from 4-1 down half time to beat Plymouth 5-4 in league cup 1986. I’m sure it was 5-4 but 11v11 internet site says it was 6-4?
think it was frank burrows first game in charge
Incredible game . I was on telly running around like an idiot at the front of the bob bank .Quote:
Originally Posted by Park Life
Won the away leg with a cross from David Giles that sailed over the goalies head .
Agreed, incredible game I seem to recall Nigel Vaughan having a stormer second half and playing a major role in the turn aroundQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
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Originally Posted by Park Life
Great little player on his dayQuote:
Originally Posted by Park Life
:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
He signed for City from County along with Karl Elsey as part of a mass transfer deal with Linden Jones, Tarki Micallef and John Lewis going the other way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Park Life
Wow what a jolt when I opened that up ! Didn't know what to expect and all of a sudden I'm confronted by a face that transported me back to the 70's in an instant. I didn't know the chap but gathered he probably had issues. Certainly a bit of a character and nice to read the kind memories people had of him.Quote:
Originally Posted by uncle bob
Here's a Ninian Park memory for you. Great footage. I'm there somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VquhlVInsdk
...hello Colin..Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
It was definitely 5-4, it was blowing a gale like the one that kept me awake through much of last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Park Life
The pitch wasn't too bad at that stage of 71/72, but it was dreadful through the winter and was probably one of the reasons why we struggled so much that year.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmyscoular
How's the er.....How's the wife and family ?Quote:
Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead
One memory I have of Nigel Vaughan was one game where he effectively was our physio for the day. He wasn't playing that day but one of our players went down injured. No medical bag, no spray, no gloves. Nigel ran onto the pitch to treat the injured player with a saturated sponge dripping from a carrier bag.Quote:
Originally Posted by Park Life
The appalling quality of pitches during the 1960s is amazing. Some videos show players trying to kick the ball around a mud bath. I don't know how they even kept their feet, let alone kick a ball. Don't see that much any more. Grass maintenance technology must have improved.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
BIF and BAF tickets
Scalding bovril and a hot pasty.
The supporters club behind the Canton
Roofless urinals, open to the sky....
The smell of piss and Peter's pies as you came through the turnstiles
Don't know which was worst :hehe::hehe:
Here's a nice little video of Ninian Park through the years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVnXvsAIY8w
Imagine how much worse the smell would have been if those urinals had been enclosed?Quote:
Originally Posted by tforturton
Probably the only time they ever got cleaned was when there was a downpour!
It was a feature of my research for Real Madrid and all that how many Ninian Park pitches were either mud heaps, frozen or a combination of both through the winter months of the 70/71 season, but, by and large, we did well on the heavier or frozen pitches, whereas in the spring when the mud dried and the pitch hardened a bit we didn't play as well - the very expensive 1-0 defeat against Watford was played on a dustbowl of a pitch.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmyscoular
More expensive than the Watford defeat were (from cloudy memory) 3 away losses on the trot between selling Toshack and signing Warboys.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Had we signed a replacement striker sas soon as we knew Toshack was leaving, we may have gone up.
But the board at the time thought a "successful 2nd div side " was more important than a "struggling 1st div side".
And maybe the 3-1 win over Blackburn helped them with that . ("Toshack is a reject" was the chant of that first game without him.)
We beat Blackburn 4-1Quote:
Originally Posted by bobh
I thought I posted that. Finger trouble.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
I remember the City being so sh!t that the only singing or cheering was when Jeff Hemmerman used to come on to treat a player. In fact I remember 1 game the crowd booing when it looked like Jeff was coming on but the player got up without needing treatment.
If we hadn’t made the move I dread to think what the state of Ninian Park would be like now and more worryingly what division we’d be in, non league maybe?
There are many memories for me. In the early days of going down mid 70s it was both 'Happy Harry' aka trevor with his plastic OB hat and the hefty Steward with purvey raincoat and flat cap that would patrol the front of the Grange end where me and my mate would end up.
Obviously the bovril, pie and tobacco aroma as you came through the turnstiles.
Counting the away coaches
The latter days it was the pungent smell of Green in the John Smith stand.
Spedger
Some time before Peters Pies I remember pies by Stan Thomas of Merthyr being sold at NP. Same family as Peters I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
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Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
There was Stan Thomas the old un who started the pies.
Two sons Peter and Stan who then took over the business
And there was also a younger daughter, name escapes me, who was company secretary