Found these this morning while browsing

 

http://www.boltonrevisited.org.uk/s-goodbye-burnden.html

Aways brings a tear to my eye that one.

Top right - those temporary fences topped with a line of barbed wire. I tore my sac clambering over one of them.

 

I was walking a girl home - both pissed up. As we were passing Burnden, I was overcome with emotion, nostalgia and bravado,

I ran to the fence, clambered over (nicking my sac - tore was an overstatement, tore my levis tho') and somehow gained access.

 

My dreams of running around on the pitch unfettered were dashed, it had all been ploughed up into massive 'molehills' - I ran up one for some reason, got covered in shit and returned to the girl in that state. All I had to show for my endeavours were; a piece of sink porcelain from one of the bogs (the fire had made them brittle), torn jeans, a nick on my scrotum and an unimpressed girlfriend.

 

I'd do it again in a flash if there was a chance

Edited February 5, 201214 yr by Youri McAnespie

 

That's the view Lowry's "Going to the Match" is based on.

It was a shithole, but it was our shithole, i can still smell that piss from under the paddock to this very day

Found these this morning while browsing

 

http://www.boltonrev...ye-burnden.html

 

still miss it

It was a shithole, but it was our shithole, i can still smell that piss from under the paddock to this very day

It was unmistakable that smell on the paddock - piss, fresh tobacco smoke, stale ale, a hint of aftershave, an occasional whiff of 'tobacco flavouring' and (for some reason) creosote/tar.

It was unmistakable that smell on the paddock - piss, fresh tobacco smoke, stale ale, a hint of aftershave, an occasional whiff of 'tobacco flavouring' and (for some reason) creosote/tar.

 

And disinfectant, you could smell it on your clothes when you got home.

And disinfectant, you could smell it on your clothes when you got home.

 

That was Mongy Darren's aftershave

And disinfectant, you could smell it on your clothes when you got home.

I remember that smell vividly. I think it was fertilizer. Get a waft of it sometimes when out in the sticks and reminds me of those days.