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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

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1 hour ago, Mounts Kipper said:

I was there as well. Fuck me I was a mentalist back in the day........ :) 

You are a mentalist just remembered why I ended up going. SR was supposed to sort tickets out for the Rangers match so paid him and then no tickets. (Ended up buying ticket off some scruffy little porridge gobbler who wanted a pair of new trainers outside Hampden) so went on his mini bus to Newport frigging County. All I remember about the match is I think the mighty Steve Elliott scored a cracker but could be wrong. We definitely stopped off in Upton on Severn though were we kicked off because the chippy didn't do 'owt moist' like pie, peas and gravy! Funny as fuck. Did we go to Newport more than once back then? I've only been once but sure my mate at time said he'd already been? Had forgotten all about it until someone mentioned Rothwell. Seem a long time ago.....

 

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15 minutes ago, snowball said:

You are a mentalist just remembered why I ended up going. SR was supposed to sort tickets out for the Rangers match so paid him and then no tickets. (Ended up buying ticket off some scruffy little porridge gobbler who wanted a pair of new trainers outside Hampden) so went on his mini bus to Newport frigging County. All I remember about the match is I think the mighty Steve Elliott scored a cracker but could be wrong. We definitely stopped off in Upton on Severn though were we kicked off because the chippy didn't do 'owt moist' like pie, peas and gravy! Funny as fuck. Did we go to Newport more than once back then? I've only been once but sure my mate at time said he'd already been? Had forgotten all about it until someone mentioned Rothwell. Seem a long time ago.....

 

beat em on another occasion

we scored 3

think whatmore was on one of his loan spells

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I went on a lot of the TR coaches & SR started to irritate some people by every time we pulled up at a pub, he would insist on going in first & asking the landlord if we could come in & showing the landlord a letter from some other pub saying how well behaved we were !!!  In the end, while he went off into one pub with his letter , everybody else just got off & marched into the pub through the other door.

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Was Ste Rothwell a Bromley X lad? I used to be in the same class as his sister. Remember as a first year (1973) watching a load of 4th and 5th year lads bunking off school and into town on the train to watch the Wanderers playing in the weekday afternoon games which were instead of night games to save on having floodlights lit.

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51 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Was Ste Rothwell a Bromley X lad? I used to be in the same class as his sister. Remember as a first year (1973) watching a load of 4th and 5th year lads bunking off school and into town on the train to watch the Wanderers playing in the weekday afternoon games which were instead of night games to save on having floodlights lit.

i think there were 2 of those

always thought it was one until about 20 years ago when i discovered there was another

as a kid i didnt realise i was missing a game

i was taken out of school for the southampton replay but i think we played sunderland, too

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2 minutes ago, Casino said:

i think there were 2 of those

always thought it was one until about 20 years ago when i discovered there was another

as a kid i didnt realise i was missing a game

i was taken out of school for the southampton replay but i think we played sunderland, too

remember beating Sunderland 1-0 in one of them - sure Peter Thompson was playing

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