bolty58

thanks very much for that. will def check them two site out. i will be over there with or without a ticket so i will hold you to that pint! As I said mate. It would be a privilege to buy any BWFC fan a beer in Germany. Even that sweaty Jazza who, despite his apparent anti Englishness lives in England and seems to be anti Rangers, appears to be 'one of ours'.

If I can find it Traf, it's yours for nowt. Have a suspicion the missus may have turfed it with a lot of my football trophies. Rescued about 20 of the latter and am looking at em in my office as I write. Women just don't understand such things. ("Don't think I'm dusting all o' them!").

Aye Satan. Unforgettable. Every little hill track back to Bolton nose to tail with cars full of pissed up BW fans. Every pub chock full and must have made a bleedin' fortune. Can't remember the crowd figure but there must have been 20,000+ Bolton travelled up that night. Fair dos to the few inbreds that ventured out. They must have known what they were in for. After the Town End kicked off, they legged it into the side opposite where the players tunnel is and it all went off again in the bottom corner next to the Darwen End which was packed tight with BWFC. OB didn't have a clue what to do.

You don't get out much eh?

Thanks HSP - the nightmares will start again now. My leaving for Oz do in January 88 was at the Strawbury Duck, Entwistle. 50 of us on the train. That fcukin record was on the jukebox (I sh*t you not) and the lads got the landlord to present it to me as a going away memento. Still have the fcukin thing somewhere. Will burn it.

I wish this was entitled 'Best ten rucks' cos I remember some blinders at Hull, Port Vale, Leicester, Birmingham. Settled on the night Frank Worthy won the old 2nd division championship for us at Ewood Park. BWFC took the place over as expected but it kicked off in their Town End when about 25 of us infiltrated and some old scores were settled (not necessarily football related - there was other stuff going on too). Different now but then that sh*thole was a greaser town and Burnley was still full of Teds!

Aye, World In Motion the best ever England song for mine.

I do Allwhiteone. Boars Head was sound but never got into going downstairs to the Lower Nags and drinking Greenall Shitley. Fcukin atrocious stuff that was.

Thanks for the responses lads. Fcuk me. Star & Garter a mincers pub! That and the Founders were regular meeting places before heading off to the Palais for a night of drinking and hunting flatdick. If you were really lucky at the Palais, Manchester and Salford would come up looking to take on Bolton and Farnworth. Usually a comprehensive home win. Wish I'd a tenner for every time I'd seen a Manc over that balcony! This all led on to the battle of Worsley Civic; mayhem at the Big Apple in Farnworth and the invasion of Leigh which a few of you will remember or took part in. Happy days where Bolton ruled the roost. Not many got any change out of us. Wonder if any of this lot can be sought out in BEN archives?

Not sure on that one ND. Did you get my PM? Know any of the Roadrunners/Spartans mentioned? PM or e-mail me. Love the graphic. Too much of a computer numpty to do owt like that miself like.

You thinking of the Lord Clyde? Nah mate. I know that one. Opposite that fcukin Euroway Car Centre Lada place. Remember when BWFC had that as the sponsor!!?? The embarrassment! As Frankie Worthy once said, "What's the difference between a sheep and a Lada? It's much less embarrassing being seen getting out of the back of a sheep!"

Nice to know the magic of a Halliwell Rd. pub crawl is still available! Is the Peels Arms still a pub for cocoa shunters? Last visit was to see us beat Arsenal Jan. 2005. Seem to recall a lot of new bars in Nelson Square opposite the Pack Horse. Is that where some of the new ones you mentioned are? Ebony Club was opposite the bus sheds at the bottom end of Bridgeman (?) St - not far from t'Painters Arms. Moved there after they demolished bottom end of Folds Road for St. Peters Way. Anybody from Waterloo St/Turton St area tell me what that little pub tucked away near Bolton Gate Compny was called. Doin' me head in trying to remember. A Bolton lad down asked me a couple of nights ago. All I can definitely remember is that it was a Bass Charrington house.

Answering Aloverofbeer - we have had our tickets sorted since May 2005 (took the punt that England would be there). Booked with FIFA approved Euroteam (www.euroteam.com) who were involved with the womens World Cup in the USA and apparently did a bang up job of it. They offer 3, 4 and 5 match packages. We took high category tickets for the 5 match England package and it cost us AUD$4K each (about 1700 quid). Not that pricey when I got the flights for nowt with frequent flyer points saving about AUD$2500. Another source is www.razorgator.com who guarantee tickets for ANY event - sold out or otherwise. Only the price an issue. For the Rugby World Cup final, we got straight on to them and got tickets for AUD$770 each when the cheapest in Sydney was AUD$1500. When Jonny Wilkinson kicked the clincher, it landed 3 rows in front of us so they were shit hot tickets. For those going off this site - look out for an England flag with Perth Royals WA on it (England football, rugby and cricket emblems in three quadrants and Bolty,Cov, Brunge, Higgo, Teffers and DD in the other) It would be a privilege to buy thee a pint.

We've talked about the Trotters before. What else has gone? As an owd bastard, I can remember The Waterloo on Folds Rd., Eagle and Vulcan opposite the original Ebony Club (again Folds Rd.), Grapes on't corner of Moss Bank Way and Blackburn Rd (on the corner in between Asda and the Pineapple) - lived there as a kid. Prince Bill still there? Griffin? Ebony Club? Sally Up Steps? Did the Braddy Arms re-open?

Traf. Almost stepped up yesterday and asked you to PM me about sending to Oz. Don't need to though as I could get you to send them to the old mans just off Chorley Old. How could I get the dosh to you? Interested if the word is changing to 'coming'. Might buy one for the BWFC scout down here for a laugh as well! Next time I am in Bolton I could wear an almost new one to stand out like a dogs katangas so that you will all know who to buy a pint for (assuming that this debate on best boozer reaches a conclusion). Must remember to start a thread about pubs that ain't there no more.............

Interesting you say that as I distinctly remember the same lad doing a bit of boasting about getting off with it and acquiring a few bruises from time to time. I agree with BGOE. Tooled up is for no marks.

Issue the hook to the bull queer on Abu Hamzas wing in the hope that the murdering bastard gets buttfcuked with it.

Tomy - 6 of us going from Perth. Researched this to the nth degree. The place to base yourself is Frankfurt. Easy travel to anywhere including group games in Nuremberg and Cologne plus our round of 16 game v Poland will be in Stuttgart. I am 100% convinced we will reach at least the quarter final and I suspect we will go further. Of course, if you are mainly interested in getting out on the lash, go to Hamburg. The Reeperbahn there is phenomenal. Think of the Leidseplehn in Amsterdam and times it by 5. I get on a plane on June 6 with a Yiddo, a red, a Ger,a Cov sky blue and a Reading fan. Can't fcukin' wait but I wish I was going to Marseilles with you lot. By the way, guaranteed tickets for any game via www.euroteam.com Pricey but guaranteed.

In the light of the current homo alerts regarding Brighton, I reluctantly advise that I went there every year. As an owd bastard, however, I can assure you it was a top mod town then and at the cutting edge of youth culture mid 60's to mid 70's. Uphill gardening is a more recent phenomenon. Heavily influenced by flocks of Lambrettas and Vespas down from London. Used to love that Volks' railway thing along the back of the beach there. I wanted to be a train driver tha knows.

I'm busy that day anyway lads.

Became less common to be able to find after the botulism outbreak but yes, you they do. Think M&S do one. With added Infinitum? Should that be S&M? Think I'll do one after that...

Happy Shop Pig described it to the letter. The OB also had a search operation set up at a pub car park on the way out of Blackpool. Searched every single vehicle looking for a half caste lad. Took fookin ages to get 'ome that night.

Smiffs for PM as far as I am concerned. Tell me about the banks there. Hopefully got up with the times? Down here the stupid cnuts have a skeleton staff at 12-2pm so their tellers can have a bite. Queues a fukn mile long. If the WA secessionist movement reclaims Western Australia and makes it a dominion of Britain as pledged, Smiffs could possibly fix this too.

Yer right Mixu. Kevin Olsson it was. By chance, his best mate is a mate of mine down here and rides with the Paradise Lost Scooter Club. This lad actually held the poor bastard waiting for medical help. Funny old world ain't it. The Bolton lad got off with it. Doubt if he would in this DNA evidence age.

I remember Alan Waldrons foot facing backwards on his leg. Turned my stomach. Different game though I think. I was in the paddock that day and I think we may have lost that one 2-1. Seem to recall a draw the day the kid got stabbed.