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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

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Retro Ron's here,boys and girls

the lad from the 80's

with the perm and curls

 

Start of the decade,women too scared to go out

There was a Yorkshire serial killer about

The north was in fear of a visit off the Ripper

whilst the kids were scared by Grange Hill and Grippa

 

Fridays in Rockers after the malt n hops

grooving like something off top of the pops

holidays in Benidorm with the match boys

watching Auf Weidersehen and a bar full of noise

 

Watching with pride the Falklands assault

Thatcher stood firm and for once earned her salt

The Argies couldnt hack it when we showed our teeth

they fired off home to make thier corned beef

 

Saturday,match days,times of our lives

no time for women,sweetheats or wives

Maggie's nemesis that was us

we took it everywhere in our battlebus

 

The football on offer was shocking and shite

no wonder everybody just wanted to fight

 

No mobile phones,no PC chat

we'd be unannounced,ready for a spat

 

All lads smart in ellesse,pringle and fila

full of booze and no need for the dealer

Sovereigns and krugerands for the boys in the fold

Ratners made a killing on their tatty gold

 

Not like now,scallies and scrotes

cyber warriors and shagging goats

 

Full of kids in the east stand lower

with just one sneeze,the lot i'd floor

 

Burnden was a fortress then,full of beered up game ready men

not like the Reebok,it's a little boys pen

Many came and many tried

but all ended up on their sorry backside

 

local derbies we had towns in fear

you'd hear the shout ''Bolton are here''

Even Nat said out with the lout

Alf Davies said ' there'd be no-one about '

 

Chelsea and the fearsome firm of headhunters

cockney tarts really full of gruff munters

credit due though,came when there was a ban

but they couldn't cope and up manny rd were ran

 

Millwall and the famous bushwhackers

Harry the Dog,straight down after one in the knackers

not the case at Luton in the infamous riot

out of the blue and kept on the quiet

 

30 years since Keegan and the toon came in force

10,000 strong but got the same treatment of course

 

Leeds were next with their mighty service crew

coach after coach descending on you

 

Meanwhile Thatcher shit on the miners

blokes totally skint on strike ending up with shiners

The Met sent their shithouse police

All the overtime,seen as their Golden Fleece

Proud men lost their homes and jobs

Whilst ?1,000's were made by those cockney knobs

 

Back at the match,Sheffield United came to celebrate promotion

Boy,that bank holiday was a commotion

in fancy dress,vicars,pink panther and one as a Nazi

He got floored though by a Frank Partington pasty

 

Bradford came too for their promotion party

The Ointment ? More like that dick Russell Harty

 

Middlesbrough arrived early with the game Frontline

The Sweet Green ended up like being hit by a landmine

 

Wigan,burnley,preston,blackburn we went

always in their end the 90 minutes was spent

 

Port Vale away,now that was bad

nearly the end for one unlucky lad

 

Bank holiday weekend and down to Southend

the pitch invasion,the beginning of the end

CCTV and Colin Moynihan's list of shame

100's were on it,all sharing the blame

 

The in-fighting of Tonge Moor and Great lever

the end of the Cuckoo's,of that i'm a believer

 

Day of the dawn raids,many a door went through

no time for a cuppa with a sugar or two

Mums saying ' the police are here,show your face '

Sod i that i thought,i'm knocking one over Linda Lovelace

 

The 80's era,many good happy days my friend

but as they ay,all good things must come to an end

 

Nowadays its grim and overpaid shit

Orange warriors saying ' no standing,you've got to sit '

if you don't obey,you're out on your arse

Imagine that at Burnden ? nah,you'd end up behind bars

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