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Aye Brisbane Road, 1972. Like it was the first time I went 12 years later. Scene on Saturday could not have been more different. Not sure them 3 monstrosities in the background are still there (but plenty of replacement monstrosities are, with more to come if that gigantic crane is owt to go by). That terrace behind the goals will be the one to our left, with a drummer and a few dozen Winwick's pretending to be Ultras.

Giant Haystacks singing country music

Spare a thought for these poor sods (mentioned on BBC site) - what a place to get stuck for days in! Philip Walker got stranded on the Isle of Man along with 200 fans and players of Kendal Town FC, who’d been visiting the island for a match against FC Isle of Man (a game which finished 1-1). He tells BBC Radio 5 Live that they may not be able to make their return journey until Wednesday or Thursday – but that easyJet has managed to book some families into hotels. “There’s an upbeat feel,” he says, but there’s also “a lot of anger". He continues: “It’s been disappointing but that’s just how it is." Walker explains that planes attempted to land from Aberdeen and Liverpool, but were unsuccessful. While he’s holding out hope for a flight, he’s also booked himself on the ferry “in case”.

Ted Traf strikes again

I'm sure there were! But quite a good number of empty seats in the front rows right from KO.

Seemed like quite a few with tickets gave it a swerve in the end.

reminds me of a City fan at work donkey's years ago (30 + years) when I asked him about his trip to Everton a decade earlier. "They set fire to me scarf" he moaned. I pointed out that nicking scarfs was common back then and who could say what they did with it after they nicked it. "No, I was still fucking wearing it when set they set it on fire!" was his reply.

Th'East Midlands Whites are just back and are drinking just to defrost. I have to say the ground is not what I remember from ages back, that's for sure. I'll not comment on the performance.

Yeh, I can imagine as it obviously meant a lot to those who went. And back then it was clearly a club that could make summat of itself, even if only at a fairly low level. It has the catchment area to do so, even if replying on a lot of goodwill from "2nd team" supporters to boost the numbers. Daft that it has gone completely as it seems.

yeh, pity about that with Nuneaton. Went to their games 3 or 4 times a good few years ago (early 2000s) and the old ground was the epitome of non league oddness. So the main home end had a terrace with a raised back to it - as we did with the old Burnden Paddock; but the bit behind that wasn't seats as normal, but another terrace. They've been in a new ground for a while but clearly didn't work out - odd because even back then there were Leicester and Coventry fans attending who obviously had them as their second team, so to speak. You'd think they could have made a go of it, albeit at low level. Around that time they played Stoke in the FA Cup and got a big crowd and it kicked off old school style by all accounts. Mind you, Nuneaton is the fucking shithole's shithole.

Great quote from Didi Hamann's autobiography: ‘One morning I was on a sun lounger by the pool when I saw Sven walking towards me carrying a silver tray with a bottle of champagne and two glasses on it. It was still only ten o’clock in the morning…Sven came over and put the champagne on the table next to me, then placed one glass in front of me and the other by his lounger. I looked up and said, ‘Boss, what are we celebrating?’…He turned to me and smiled that gentle smile of his and took on the air of a Buddhist philosopher as he said, ‘Life, Kaiser.’ Then after pausing for dramatic effect, ‘We are celebrating…life.’

That's the thing isn't it. Jump in a Tardis, pick Nat in his prime up and bring him back here and put him straight into a match: he'd be fucked. Do the same, but instead give him a year to train and adapt before introducing him - everyone else would be fucked.

Town hall and fountains and various streets in this from the 60s. Fountains etc at 38 minutes on. Oh and Hayley Mills's arse from just after 49 🙂 The Family Way - HD (1966) - video Dailymotion

tickets arrived - why does it say adult below the bar code but concession U18 plastered everywhere else?

You've got to be cunting joking??? Blasphemy

The elephant debacle gets a mention here, though they claim it was from Belle Vue Spotlight on Wingates | The Bolton News

Wingates bone-works. Now that was a smell! Specially the time they tried to render down a dead elephant from Chester zoo 🤢 I'm not sure how it was killed though. There's probably various options...

First series theme tune was best. Here comes Huggy Bear (what a dude) and they messed with Capt Dobie at their peril.

https://youtu.be/4qoS9DZ2X24

Went round the houses for two (other one in my "network"); got there in the end but not both on same row. Then it wouldn't accept card number until I completely refreshed, which I assumed would scupper it all but apparently not. So whole just seems bloody random and entirely unintuitive. Bit like watching Bolton down the years!

Yeh, takes me back many many years when as a kid in Howfen when in summer hols I'd walk the dog through Dobb Brow and by the golf course and then across fields towards Dicconson Lane. Always struck by how there was an old railway line path still visible albeit completely overgrown; and looking now it must have been an old line that served stations at Dicconson Lane and on to Hilton House.

One for the old ITV wrestling watchers - Cry Baby Jim Breaks, he of the "Breaks special".

Went to a Jocky Wilson exhibition match when I lived in London. He was pissed up - but it was notable that when someone got close to him in a match, he'd just blow them away. Three bulls on the trot for example.