http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkfvJp5awJc

Looking forward to this!

Looks good.

This one?
 

 

6 minutes ago, Traf said:

This one?
 

 

I’m 40 minutes in and can’t stop smiling. Growing up with this era as my teenage years was fucking amazing 

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

I’m 40 minutes in and can’t stop smiling. Growing up with this era as my teenage years was fucking amazing 

Just watched it and at the end I had a tear in my eye. Really good that 👍

 

On 06/01/2026 at 19:21, Nottm_Wanderer said:

The Chelsea game was pretty scary in the burden terrace . Lobbing loads of wooden seats into the wanderers fans , not just one or two , lots ot them raining down ( pre planned and timed ) .  I was surprised there were no serious injuries or anyone stopping them 

" One man went to mow" echoing in the burden stand ... Followed by "We are going to wreck your ground if we lose " ... Looked to me like they had already trashed a lot of it during the game . I seem to recall the windows at the back of the stand getting trashed too 

 

 

That's brought back memories.  I remember the Burnden Paddock singing "we thought you were hard, we were wrong, we were wrong" (very 80s) and that's what prompted the height of the lobbing seats, in response.  We didn't sing it again.

One man went to mow reached a crescendo at 10 that was wierdly intimidating for a nursery rhyme 😃

The whole thing was such a shitshow, on and off the pitch, that relegation just felt inevitable. 

On 06/01/2026 at 19:49, paulhanley said:

Aye "one man went to mow". I had an uncle at that game who was a fairly infrequent visitor to Burnden having been loads in the 70s. For months afterwards he was singing "one man went to mow". Meanwhile our fans were singing it for two years afterwards as we "settled" in Div 3.

It coincided with the main singing coming from the Lever End in 83/84, immediately post-Chelsea, which meant they/we were sat down.  So it was a natural progression to do the one man went to mow mainly sat down then doing the big key change and standing up for 10 men 😀

Another song I only heard in the Lever End seats for half a season was "Wander wander wander wander wander wander wander-er-ers, wand-er-ers, wand-er-ers" to the tune of Boy George's Karma Chameleon.  They don't write em like that anymore. 

 

4 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

Another song I only heard in the Lever End seats for half a season was "Wander wander wander wander wander wander wander-er-ers, wand-er-ers, wand-er-ers" to the tune of Boy George's Karma Chameleon.  They don't write em like that anymore. 

Swear I hear someone sing that on their own most weeks in NSL 😂 

5 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

It coincided with the main singing coming from the Lever End in 83/84, immediately post-Chelsea, which meant they/we were sat down.  So it was a natural progression to do the one man went to mow mainly sat down then doing the big key change and standing up for 10 men 😀

Another song I only heard in the Lever End seats for half a season was "Wander wander wander wander wander wander wander-er-ers, wand-er-ers, wand-er-ers" to the tune of Boy George's Karma Chameleon.  They don't write em like that anymore. 

 

And it still doesnt scan 40 years later 🤪

11 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

It coincided with the main singing coming from the Lever End in 83/84, immediately post-Chelsea, which meant they/we were sat down.  So it was a natural progression to do the one man went to mow mainly sat down then doing the big key change and standing up for 10 men 😀

Another song I only heard in the Lever End seats for half a season was "Wander wander wander wander wander wander wander-er-ers, wand-er-ers, wand-er-ers" to the tune of Boy George's Karma Chameleon.  They don't write em like that anymore. 

 

Yes I recall all that. I think by the end of 83/4 they had all drifted back to the Burnden Paddock and MRN, certainly by the time of the Sheff Utd riot. 

One of my main memories of that short-lived era was a very foggy Tuesday night game against Burnley, a 0-0 draw. You could barely see the Lever End from other parts of the ground and they were all in there waving lighters about. Looked ghostly.

13 hours ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Swear I hear someone sing that on their own most weeks in NSL 😂 

Can confirm!

10 hours ago, paulhanley said:

Yes I recall all that. I think by the end of 83/4 they had all drifted back to the Burnden Paddock and MRN, certainly by the time of the Sheff Utd riot. 

One of my main memories of that short-lived era was a very foggy Tuesday night game against Burnley, a 0-0 draw. You could barely see the Lever End from other parts of the ground and they were all in there waving lighters about. Looked ghostly.

I remember that game, it felt big.  We'd both been relegated a few months before but they were the big spenders and had John Bond managing them.  We were the plucky team made up of youth players plus an (older) electrician.  We'd been used to crowds of 4.5k but got 9k on, obviously they brought a couple of thousand or so, but the current fashion for half the crowd not turning up midweek wasn't a thing in them days.  I was in the Lever End and there was a proper edgy atmosphere, I think the novelty of the Lever End having a renaissance helped.

I was one of those that drifted back to the Burnden Paddock, where I'd started the season.  A few months with the youth where the atmosphere was, and as the season deteriorated so did the enthusiasm for the Lever End and there was very little atmosphere towards the end of the season.  Not having a season ticket in them days (not many did) made it easier to go with the flow.

1 hour ago, Johnnyrotten said:

I remember that game, it felt big.  We'd both been relegated a few months before but they were the big spenders and had John Bond managing them.  We were the plucky team made up of youth players plus an (older) electrician.  We'd been used to crowds of 4.5k but got 9k on, obviously they brought a couple of thousand or so, but the current fashion for half the crowd not turning up midweek wasn't a thing in them days.  I was in the Lever End and there was a proper edgy atmosphere, I think the novelty of the Lever End having a renaissance helped.

I was one of those that drifted back to the Burnden Paddock, where I'd started the season.  A few months with the youth where the atmosphere was, and as the season deteriorated so did the enthusiasm for the Lever End and there was very little atmosphere towards the end of the season.  Not having a season ticket in them days (not many did) made it easier to go with the flow.

Burnley ended up on a downward curve worse than ours. But yes all that sounds right. Season before of course our goalie scored against them in a 3-0 win. 

Our decent form lasted in to the new year but began to fizzle in late winter and never came back

 

A Interview with John McGovern on the BWRG YouTube channel. There's a Q&A session an hour into it. A regular on here, and top bloke, gets his shot in early.

 

 

 

so after I watched the AI video that Gonzo posted in the other side of the board

YouTube for some reason gave me this video next

which took me down memory lane

random quiz question

the 3rd goal, McGinlay away at Millwall

it was on a Sunday on TV

something very important was also happening on that Sunday, in terms of being a BWFC fan

what was it?

 

m 

1 hour ago, Zico said:

so after I watched the AI video that Gonzo posted in the other side of the board

YouTube for some reason gave me this video next

which took me down memory lane

random quiz question

the 3rd goal, McGinlay away at Millwall

it was on a Sunday on TV

something very important was also happening on that Sunday, in terms of being a BWFC fan

what was it?

 

m 

we signed Gudni?

2 minutes ago, wakey said:

we signed Gudni?

Nope but not a million miles away

3 hours ago, Zico said:

so after I watched the AI video that Gonzo posted in the other side of the board

YouTube for some reason gave me this video next

which took me down memory lane

random quiz question

the 3rd goal, McGinlay away at Millwall

it was on a Sunday on TV

something very important was also happening on that Sunday, in terms of being a BWFC fan

what was it?

 

m 

Tickets went on sale for coca cola cup final 

Those Sunday games on Granada were very much my first real connection with BWFC 

5 hours ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Those Sunday games on Granada were very much my first real connection with BWFC 

Middlesbrough away in the snow in that yellow kit for me. I remember it looking really fresh and vibrant, gonna go and find the highlights now so I can prove myself wrong 😀

 

 

Edit - yeah we must have had something wrong with the contrast on our telly

 

 

Edited March 27Mar 27 by Marc505

The one shirt missing from my collection

Play off semi at Wolves is one that always springs to mind. Must have been loads of games moved to a Sunday in 96/97 too. Myth that it’s a recent phenomenon. 

13 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

The one shirt missing from my collection

Play off semi at Wolves is one that always springs to mind. Must have been loads of games moved to a Sunday in 96/97 too. Myth that it’s a recent phenomenon. 

Im sure its been discussed on here before that kit, it was a one off wasnt it? Damn I loved our away kits in the 90s.

Cant actually remember many live games from 96/97 bar the Tranmere one. QPR away?