Football

port perran · February 10, 2021, 06:46:21 PM

The red seats - is that a different ground?
Look at the ads - 01782 code - Stoke?
Is that the old Victoria ground?
I got blocked in there eay back when I parked in a side street and some

Parked right up against my bumper!

martyn · February 10, 2021, 06:51:50 PM

The last game in which I played was a sort of international in Holland.

I was in the Merchant Navy, and the Seamans' Mission in Rotterdam organised a match against an Algerian ship and mine. We played, IIRC, on Feyenoord's practice ground with a Dutch League referee. Sadly, we lost 2-0 I think.

Whilst in the Merch, I also played a 'home' game against an Argentinian ship in Southampton (long before the Falklands war), against a 'Wharfies' team in Auckland, New Zealand, which we lost heavily despite having about 15 players, though not all at once, and plenty of beer; and Officers versus Ratings in Cartagena de Columbia, which was in temperatures of mid 80s; thankfully the sea was only across the road, where we all jumped in to cool down.

But that was many years ago........

Did go to Everton to watch Colchester in the FA cup, just after they had beaten Don Revie's Leeds in the previous round; the same time, same day was Liverpool, versus Spurs. So rather a lot of fans going between Lime St and the two stadiums. My first time o0n the WCML.

Martyn

Trainfish · February 10, 2021, 06:55:09 PM

Quote from: port perran on February 10, 2021, 06:42:55 PM
@Trainfish
That top photo is an odd one but was back in the 80s maybe?
Could be southend?

Possibly as I've been there too but I'm still thinking Jillingham.

Quote from: port perran on February 10, 2021, 06:46:21 PM
The red seats - is that a different ground?
Look at the ads - 01782 code - Stoke?
Is that the old Victoria ground?
I got blocked in there eay back when I parked in a side street and some Parked right up against my bumper!

Good spot. Yes, I would agree with it being at Stoke.

Just a couple more I found. Do you recognise the player in the white shorts? Or any others for that matter?

The open top bus tour a week or so later

And finally 1 for @port perran I have no idea why I have that one but I do. I can't believe the cost of those phone calls at the bottom...............

Bigmac · February 10, 2021, 07:41:30 PM

odd

i thought i had replied to this thread.
no matter.

Dorsetmike · February 10, 2021, 08:24:59 PM

Just saw another descriptive word from a Kiwi,

Thugby

Invicta Alec · February 10, 2021, 08:33:18 PM

Now let's get one thing straight. The game of football is NOT also called soccer.

Egg chasers are liable to make this error, particularly since their excellent referee Nigel Owens is often quoted as saying "Let me introduce myself, I'm the referee. Play like adults and you'll be treated as adults, this is not soccer".

I am amused by some of the harrowing tales of the abject misery of supporting some teams in this thread. I would remind everyone though that the prize for the most mind numbingly abysmal football match ever was played between Gillingham and Barrow on the 28th February 1970.

It was a bitterly cold day with the wind blowing up the trouser legs of me and 1,914 other brave hearts who stood shivering under the corrugated tin roof sheeting of the soon to be condemned "stand".

Neither team had the first idea of what they were supposed to be doing and punters slowly drifted away throughout the afternoon. The match was decided in Barrow's favour by one of the poorest and most pathetic goals ever scored, late in the game. The asthmatic ball just about made it over the line. The agonised low moan of the few remaining souls was heart wrenching. We turned on our heels and made our way out of the ground. I swear to this day that there was no one left in the ground when the ref blew for full time.

We all swore we would never return. And by 'eck we didn't. Well, not until the next home game we didn't

Alec.

Bigmac · February 10, 2021, 08:50:11 PM

i remember now

i hate football
almost as much as i hate rugby.

yet my 44 y o son loves both--and still plays.

Trainfish · February 10, 2021, 09:19:20 PM

Quote from: Invicta Alec on February 10, 2021, 08:33:18 PM
................. between Gillingham and Barrow on the 28th February 1970.

Are you a Jill? I never realised we had 1 on here

Remember Ray McHale?

port perran · February 10, 2021, 09:32:46 PM

I hate VAR!

Invicta Alec · February 10, 2021, 09:42:53 PM

Quote from: Trainfish on February 10, 2021, 09:19:20 PM
Quote from: Invicta Alec on February 10, 2021, 08:33:18 PM
................. between Gillingham and Barrow on the 28th February 1970.

Are you a Jill? I never realised we had 1 on here
Remember Ray McHale?

It'll only be a few of us old bugg*rs who will remember Ray McHale now. A very popular chap around Gillingham in those days.

The Gills/Swindon rivalry got a bit nasty (especially for the refs) but probably wasn't as bad as the Gills/Millwall thuggery that rumbled on for decades.

Alec.

BramptonBranch · February 10, 2021, 10:16:56 PM

Well I remember when our manager (30 odd years ago) said we would perform better at Gillingham this season than last.
Bearing in mind we lost TEN nil he wasnt wrong.Mind we did win 1 0!
oh the irony.
Also have haooy memories of beating Swindon in the JPT at Wembley, we managed the double a trophy and relegated in the same season

BramptonBranch · February 10, 2021, 10:18:26 PM

The same Ray Mac that played for Chesterfield early 70s?

Trainfish · February 10, 2021, 10:46:15 PM

The very same. The Jills loved him

BramptonBranch · February 10, 2021, 10:52:07 PM

Remember him from his Saltergate days scored some cracking goals.Oh and the delights of that open stand at Priestfield in the cold......wonderful

Trainfish · February 10, 2021, 10:53:57 PM

It was never cold in that stand, it was f*&%ing freezing!