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I remember hearing “Band of Gold “ when my dad first took me down as an 8 year old .at start of 70/71 season ....and Elvis Presley “The Wonder of You”..... I remember Radio Ninian, Golden Goal and I am sure they used to have boards on the walls around the pitch with the alphabet where they put the half time scores ? . You needed a programme so you could work out who was game A,B,C etc.....?
There was a supplement in the programme “ League Review”or something like that ?
Going back before that the record I seem to recall was always played was “If I Had a Hammer” by Trini Lopez. The records were played from Radio Ninian at the corner of the Grange End. I think the name of the person who ran it was Glyn Potter. Also the hospital broadcast commentaries were made there.
I can remember when half-time scores were displayed on boards around the ground. In the match programme the day's fixtures each had a letter assigned to it so you could link the scores to the correct match. A 0-0, B 1-0, C 1-2 etc
Did anybody win Golden Goal? I never did.
As for results, it was as said above outside Radiocraft or reading the Pink in the Kings Castle with a pint of Trophy
Pastie and a scalding hot cup of bovril from the stall at the corner between the bob bank and grange end
Leaning back against the newly painted sky blue crush barriers on the Bob Bank all match to realise they hadn't dried properly when I left...
The 4 pylons lit up at night announcing there was a game on
The noise from the Grange End when everybody was stamping on the wooden floor and banging on the back of the stand
The mounds of rubbish under the Grange End that you saw as you came in and left.
The ladder up to the TV gantry above the Bob Bank
I'm so old I can remember watching the reserves in the Football Combination on a Saturday afternoon and waiting for the tannoy to announce the first team score. It was a proper reserve league then with always a chance of well known players appearing who were coming back from injury or dropped. The whole ground used to be open and there were decent crowds if we were playing one of the 'big' teams such as Arsenal etc.
Do you remember they would be delivered to your local newsagents late in the evening and some came around the pubs ( not sure if they were the dodgy ones ), there were so few though in the latter years you had to be on yer toes , I used to wait outside the top shops in Llanrumney ,so I didn't miss out , and on game days outside the newsagents by Askey's ,as they had the first batch most .
Wasn't the signing off Steve Thompson on the last Echo in 96 ,first printed 1919 .
Im blubbering now
I’m sure they used to put the golden goal time on the front of the announcers hut I’m the comer between the Grandstand and Grange End....
Remember those pinkish (sometimes bluey green as well) tickets you had to tear open along the edges to see the goal time you had...
Why don’t they do that anymore ?
Remember spot the ball ( not the one in the bogs )
Ahhh! Villa fans trying to set fire to the Grange end, few years later throwing fung-fu stars & oranges loaded with razor blades .... those were the days
I remember being in the Bob bank one week. Can’t remember who we were playing and I felt something hit the back of my leg. Look down and some fu*ker had thrown a big brass compass. (The one that you put a pencil in to draw circles)!!
Another time. At the infamous 3-3 game with the Jacks, there was an old scruffy guy ( he made Wurzel Gummidge look like man at C&A) standing near me all game. He kept shouting “ that defence stinks!!”. When Buchanon scored the famous equaliser, the old guy turned round amongst all the celebrations, grabbed me, and as he’s shouting (told you that defence fu*king stinks”) his false teeth shot out, hit me on the shoulder, and they got trampled on in the frenzy!