montyrays
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Mention of coaches to Carlisle brings back memories of 1975/76 season - our first promotion push under Ian Greaves - we always travelled with either Hargreaves from Moor Lane bus station or if they were fully booked with Ribble who were always cheaper but always made you wished you had booked earlier with Hargreaves because they were not the best or most reliable of coaches and were full of all the not rights.
Anyway to Carlisle - our coach broke down somewhere just past Tebay and it was February , it was cold and it started to snow and it was about 130pm , police arrived and said they would radio for a replacement coach and told us to wait for the replacement. However such was the desire to see the game we all piled off and started walking and running up the hard shoulder towards Carlisle thumbing lifts and waving scarves - we soon spread out over a good half mile and then to our amazement cars and vans started pulling in and we subsequently found on the way home that everyone got a lift to the ground in time for kick off . Just looking in Rothmans yearbook - Carlisle's previous 2 home crowds had been 7k and 6k v Fulham and v Notts County - we turned up and it was just shy of 13k - proper big turnout that day - thankfully for those of us on that coach
If anyone is interested my first away game was Sheffield Wednesday on a Wednesday night in 1971 and apart from the 3 older lads who took me I did not see one other Bolton fan , and was told in no uncertain terms not to cheer if we scored and my main memory of that visit was seeing an Electric scoreboard for the first time
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Don't see it at all but then again, I don't know what you've been consuming today.
More like old time music hall when you heard it sung.
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What did the wives get as a gift on winning the World Cup?!
I clocked that too. Times have certainly changed. Who'd have thunk it ... skizzers!
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These boys are worth it for a one off. Real easy to cancel too. Thank y'all.
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You're reet cocka. Was it in Mealhouse Lane near spennies snooker place? Or was that tracks!!!!!!?
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Down the alley way off the Wimpey corner of the precinct towards Arndale entrance ( budgies) Ames ( orange sign iirc) was on left hand sign kind of opposite St. Andrews court.
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You get the gist!!! Ta
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Cheers pal
Street parking off Federation Road is ok, industrial units, free parking. Also good to dart back to the A500 past the kettle works.
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Be top come Saturday tea time
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Nurse - the defibrillator!!!
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Fuck yeah
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One adult and two kids on a family ticket cost £38. Going for street parking. Any recommendations? Looks dodgy from Mapometer!
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Anyone remember Charlie who used to run up and down driving an imaginary car along the streets of Astley Bridge in the 70s? Apparently he asked a coach driver to move his vehicle because he was blocked in at the Conny club. After he reparked his bus in the tight back streets, Charlie appeared, banged in it first and ran down the road. Brrrm brrm!! Don't really get characters now.
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I was taught never to start a sentence with 'because'.
Because you were taught never to start a sentence with because, you have been held back with your subordinate clauses.
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That was so bad that the continuation of the half time music disorientated me and I couldn't work out what was happening. I was in Blackedge last neet tho.
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If we move your train station to t'other side of the road, it'll kick start economic growth in this town like nothing you've seen before.
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WEst Brom away 75
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You could feel the excitement in the air everytime he got the ball and teased it down the left. Hundrerds of Parka clad lads, heads level with the grass line trying to get a look whilst an owd fella pissed down your leg. Give me a two - John Ritson. Give me a 11 - Peter Thompson. Superb.
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Foot bath like at Horwich Leisure Centre?
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I'll second that Miami. Came into St Paul's CofE in '78 to give a few of us street kids his autograph after we'd been given him the old T.O.T.O.M...stuff in the Embossograph car park. BTW why is there a shed in the front of that Pakistani restaurant in Astley Bridge?
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Ran it twice this week!
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Me and my 2 little uns are in for this. They've only known the shite times so the footings'll be strong for the future. Continue to run over Spitlers with my red white and blue Bob hat. COYWM.
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Me and my 2 little uns are in for this. They've only known the shite times so the footings'll be strong for the future. Continue to run over Spitlers with my red white and blue Bob hat. COYWM.
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Number 4 favvers Hungary's Winner of the Brian Glover lookalike contest.
First Away Game Following The Wanderers
in Terrace Talk
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Remember the Carlisle away about this time. Can remember wearing a satin ‘cup’ rosette on my parka and being frozen. Always travelled to away matches with about 5 big fellas in the back of my dads 1972 mk1 ford transit van. The small ones. First thing to go on was the calor gas and beef teas all round as we hurtled down the m6 probably at max speed 50mph. Health and safety largely absent back then.