freds dad Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Found these this morning while browsing http://www.boltonrevisited.org.uk/s-goodbye-burnden.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james phillips Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Aways brings a tear to my eye that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 (edited) 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, 2012 by Youri McAnespie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites man Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 That's the view Lowry's "Going to the Match" is based on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter superjohnmcginlay Posted February 5, 2012 Site Supporter Share Posted February 5, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny G Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 It was a shithole, but it was our shithole, i can still smell that piss from under the paddock to this very day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Found these this morning while browsing http://www.boltonrev...ye-burnden.html still miss it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indra Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny G Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 And disinfectant, you could smell it on your clothes when you got home. That was Mongy Darren's aftershave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter White on Tyne Posted February 5, 2012 Site Supporter Share Posted February 5, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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