trotter58 Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 The 'Bidding War' thread has made me realise just how many of us sad old gits are still hopelessly pining for the 'good old days', so f**k it, let's have an official thread where we can share our memories before the alzheimers sets in! Hugh Curran's sideburns. Discuss.
farnworth white Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 The 'Bidding War' thread has made me realise just how many of us sad old gits are still hopelessly pining for the 'good old days', so f**k it, let's have an official thread where we can share our memories before the alzheimers sets in! Hugh Curran's sideburns. Discuss. Hugh Hugh Curran Hugh Hugh Curran Hugh Hugh Curran
Casino Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 losing home games to carlisle and york, i think in consecutive seasons poss 75 and 76 games when i realised the best team in the league was gonna blow it again
trotter58 Posted November 17, 2007 Author Posted November 17, 2007 losing home games to carlisle and york, i think in consecutive seasons poss 75 and 76 games when i realised the best team in the league was gonna blow it again Nottingham Forest being promoted at our expense in 1976/77 while they were away on holiday! The very next season they won the old First Division title and the season after that, the European Cup. Brian Clough = football genius.
trotter58 Posted November 17, 2007 Author Posted November 17, 2007 Bolton v Newcastle F.A. Cup 5th round 1976. Newcastle supporters singing, 'Super Mac, Superstar, How many goals have you scored so far?' Bolton supporters replying, 'Super Mac, Superstar, Walks like a woman and he wears a bra!'
Casino Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 chelsea swarming on the pitch and charging bolton out of the lever end
Mounts Kipper Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 18 holer ox blood red doc martens, the lever end girls wearing monkey boots, having a banging head because of the noise in the lever end despite there only being 10,000 on, 6 foot 2 eyes of blue big jim Holtons broke his leg na na na na, just a few lever end memorys.
Baba O'Riley Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 That annoying "Bolton, Bol-ton Eve-ning News" ad jingle, early 80's?
Burndens Bogs Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 Lit fag ends being dropped into the hoods of parkas - Lever End,early 70's Wolves fans invading the pitch when they won the title 1976. The so called "win or riot" game v Sheff U in the 80's (Sheff U lost) Gary Jones hat trick against Citeh in the early 70's The "Cauldron of passion" game v Wolves in the play off semi in 1995, the greatest atmosphere i ever witnessed at Burnden.
SatanGreavsie Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 George Wood, and the Everton game called off at half time in the snow after he did Reid's leg. Did I dream it or did they used to have collections at half time for StJohns Ambulance - lobbing coins over the fence?
leigh white Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 Damper des, carrying a pole with string wrapped round a pie, and walking into the Wagon and Horses, to suss out the Wigginers.
Ratwhite Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 Losing to Aldershot in a two legged relegation play-off Old bill shuttin St. Peters way due to battlin in the northern semi-final Leyland daf/sherpa van trophy against Mansfield
trotter58 Posted November 19, 2007 Author Posted November 19, 2007 Admiral kits. The weirdest collection of designs ever seen on a football pitch! Coventry's all-brown kit, West Ham's bizzare v-shaped design, not too mention the worst England kit in living memory!
Guest as Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 Tony Kelly scoring a wonder free kick v Arsenal....... and the ref instead decided to send off Keown & make him re-take it. Oldham fans looking petrified when they beat us in the cup. David Lee scoring that screamer v Norwich in the League Cup.......he only ever played well went't cameras were at Burnden. That pie shop facing BP...... can't argue with 4 for ?1. Rice & Easy
Smiley Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 When sitting at a match was your dad shoving you on the railing at the front for Burnden Paddock. How kids of today are missing out on such a unique experience. And when those railings were cold - damn!!!
trotter58 Posted November 19, 2007 Author Posted November 19, 2007 When sitting at a match was your dad shoving you on the railing at the front for Burnden Paddock.How kids of today are missing out on such a unique experience. And when those railings were cold - damn!!! I scaled those fences on more than one occaision. Once when we beat Wigan in the semi-final of the FRT. One wrong move and you would have been impaled through the 'nads!
Piemon Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 I scaled those fences on more than one occaision. Once when we beat Wigan in the semi-final of the FRT. One wrong move and you would have been impaled through the 'nads! aye i think they got cut down to a normal (ish) size in the early 90's didnt they the pitch invasion after we beat North End in '92 was a superb day still got a matchwinner corner flag from that afternoon
alibob Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 When sitting at a match was your dad shoving you on the railing at the front for Burnden Paddock.How kids of today are missing out on such a unique experience. And when those railings were cold - damn!!! and if a ball came flying over towards you, it wasn't a good idea to let go! them loos at burnden... made the toilets at the macedonia checkpoint look like a throne!
SatanGreavsie Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 ball getting hoofed up onto the Paddock roof and bouncing down to "hissssssssssssssssssssssssssss"
trotter58 Posted November 19, 2007 Author Posted November 19, 2007 Going to the Baseball ground in the late 1970's and beating Derby, who had been League Champions a couple of seasons earlier, 2-1 in the League Cup (when the League Cup was a big competition!) We got to the semi-final that year and lost to Everton over two legs. Drew the first leg 1-1 and lost the return at Burnden 0-1. Didn't we take something like 15,000 to Goodison for the first leg?!
boltonways Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 Going to the Baseball ground in the late 1970's and beating Derby, who had been League Champions a couple of seasons earlier, 2-1 in the League Cup (when the League Cup was a big competition!) We got to the semi-final that year and lost to Everton over two legs. Drew the first leg 1-1 and lost the return at Burnden 0-1. Didn't we take something like 15,000 to Goodison for the first leg?! The clocks that use to be on top of the Burnden paddock and Manchester road ends. The axe that use to fly around the Great Lever end in the early seventies (:::::::.
globaldiver Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 George Wood, and the Everton game called off at half time in the snow after he did Reid's leg.Did I dream it or did they used to have collections at half time for StJohns Ambulance - lobbing coins over the fence? I went to a reserve match a while after and relentlessy booed Wood for what he did to Reidy. He later talked in an interview about a loud mouthed yob who did just that at a reserve match at Bolton. Result! He deserved it, dirty get.
fester58 Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 the trolleys going round the pitch during the game selling bovril, the brass bands on the pitch at christmas with the band leader throwing his stick in the air and keep dropping it,and recieving abuse of the EMBANKMENT and burnden paddock, newcastle fans ripping the henry's resteraunt sign down after he scored against them (keegans 1st away match) and the battling going on in the manny road battling at york city when we were getting relegated to division 4. oh happy days
bradowfen Posted November 19, 2007 Posted November 19, 2007 notts county away 6 nil half time. sheff utd new years eve 5 niller. that big guy black crouch type playing for stockport and scoring. bradford away with the albion coach. chesterfield away last game of season. pie heads away boxing day on the free buses. churchill's 'beer garden' and the waggon and horses super john cuffing that wolves lad and lofty being attacked tony caldwells debut and his alcoholic army
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