Do any of you remember a lad of Indian descent who used to run with the Wanderers lads in the mid 1970's,initials MF ?

 

M still lives and works in Bolton,and very well known indeed,but stopped going to the match esp after a certain incident and being best friends with the accused

 

 

He's given me a whole stack of pictures and original newspaper cuttings from those days,i may upload some but some might not be in the best taste,and out of respect for others

one pic which may be ok to look at is available on Blackpool's Muckers site,section 'Darker Stories'....on that thread,scroll down to the end and there's a couple of acceptable pics from Bloomfield Road,1974

 

 

 

 

http://z11.invisionfree.com/MUCKERS/ar/t123.htm

Another recollection from my memory bank was a game towards the end of the 73/74 season at home to middlesbrough. i'm pretty sure they played in a bizarre away strip,something like an all purple combination. am i right in thinking that ?

a vivid trivia like memory i have was being on the embankment against forest in the '76 season,pretty sure it was something to do with our centenary and Warburtons had loads of women walking round throwing sandwiches into the crowd,does anyone remember that ?.

plus,has anyone got any idea when the people walking round the running track with the trays selling crisps,pop and sweets etc stopped their rounds ?

The Boro away kit on here 71-76 http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL676/13442453/23994777/404997577.jpg[/img]"]http://

Cheers for that M,it must have been the blue and black inter milan style kit,could have sworn it was purple,but i was only 6 at the time

The Pink went shit after they stopped printing them after the Saturday matches and changed to releasing them on Sunday morning like other papers. Used be a decent!

The Pink went shit after they stopped printing them after the Saturday matches and changed to releasing them on Sunday morning like other papers. Used be a decent!

 

Always remember going to the corner shop near us on saturday evenings and standing around, usually with around 15-20 blokes waiting for the pink van to arrive.

 

Better than waiting til sunday morning for match reports

It was the Buff. The Pink was for the mancs.

when you look at crowds in the 70's,.....46,000 v Newcastle in 76, 51,000 v Everton in 77,...yet just 4 years later only 22 go on the supporters club coach to QPR,less than a 100 in total at Watford.

Where did everybody disappear to ? Did a nuclear bomb hit Bolton ? Let's hope we keep our support,it's been good this season,i pray history doesn't repeat itself

It was the Buff. The Pink was for the mancs.

 

pink was from Manc evening news, Buff from Bolton Evening News.

 

I got a Saturday job at Woolies in '85 that stopped me going to the match.

 

Used to finish work at 6.00pm run to Moor Lane and buy the Buff.

 

Always took it to the top deck front seat (don't know why)

 

Then hid the results with my hand until I came to the Bolton result, which was usually a defeat.

 

Followed by said newspaper being thrown on floor and stamped on.

You knew when Bolton was shite when you went to Fulham away on the train 82/83 on your own, and we got beat 4-0, still i had a good time on the piss with some old servicemen in Parsons Green British Legion.

when you look at crowds in the 70's,.....46,000 v Newcastle in 76, 51,000 v Everton in 77,...yet just 4 years later only 22 go on the supporters club coach to QPR,less than a 100 in total at Watford.

Where did everybody disappear to ? Did a nuclear bomb hit Bolton ? Let's hope we keep our support,it's been good this season,i pray history doesn't repeat itself

 

from my first visit in 84 till the mid 90s crowds were around 4 to 9 thousand (ish) then in the white hot period crowds soared and i started seeing upto 20, 000 at burnden , people do hide in the woodwork but our support has been all over the shop from imo , when were good we are good unfortunatly when we are poor we are poor, but on the flip side ive seen us take some amazing away followings!

 

i remember preston away feb 91 we won 2-1 and at five to three they opened up a paddock for bolton at the otherside of the ground next to there kop,,,,you wouldnt see that today

Edited December 15, 201213 yr by calamarikav

from my first visit in 84 till the mid 90s crowds were around 4 to 9 thousand (ish) then in the white hot period crowds soared and i started seeing upto 20, 000 at burnden , people do hide in the woodwork but our support has been all over the shop from imo , when were good we are good unfortunatly when we are poor we are poor, but on the flip side ive seen us take some amazing away followings!

 

i remember preston away feb 91 we won 2-1 and at five to three they opened up a paddock for bolton at the otherside of the ground next to there kop,,,,you wouldnt see that today

Seem to remember at that game hundreds of us (if not more) getting into there family enclosure after they closed our end - was it tony philliskirk who curled in a cracker that day?

when you look at crowds in the 70's,.....46,000 v Newcastle in 76, 51,000 v Everton in 77,...yet just 4 years later only 22 go on the supporters club coach to QPR,less than a 100 in total at Watford.

Where did everybody disappear to ? Did a nuclear bomb hit Bolton ? Let's hope we keep our support,it's been good this season,i pray history doesn't repeat itself

 

Our second season in the old first division (1979?) our away following plummeted - night game at villa cant have been more than 100 bolton fans there - game at the scum we didnt anywere near fill the away pen (which was pretty small in those days

i've never heard the DHSS story,what was all that about mate ?

i was at the fulham game,but was only 8 so probably didn't take much notice of it as it didn't involve football

this thread is like a learning curve

Not too sure about the DHSS bit, but the fulham game we equalised in the 97th minute (and in those days you only normally got a minute or two of fergie time)

Bobby Moore then led the fulham protests and took his players off the field delaying the start of extra time

Our second season in the old first division (1979?) our away following plummeted - night game at villa cant have been more than 100 bolton fans there - game at the scum we didnt anywere near fill the away pen (which was pretty small in those days

 

Remember going to Southampton for our first away fixture back in the top flight in the seventies - I think our away following was that small we didnt even have a the away section - ground was all southampton

Not too sure about the DHSS bit, but the fulham game we equalised in the 97th minute (and in those days you only normally got a minute or two of fergie time)

Bobby Moore then led the fulham protests and took his players off the field delaying the start of extra time

 

back then, we sat on the halfway line at the back of the burnden stand

 

walshies right foot shot from the edge of our box was heading to the corner flag before peter mellor managed to deflect it in

 

my memory is that moore was sent off, but that can't be true as every time he's mentioned they seem to say he was never, ever, sent off

back then, we sat on the halfway line at the back of the burnden stand

 

walshies right foot shot from the edge of our box was heading to the corner flag before peter mellor managed to deflect it in

 

my memory is that moore was sent off, but that can't be true as every time he's mentioned they seem to say he was never, ever, sent off

Same here - I thought he got sent off, and rest of the team walked off in protest - but checking on t'internet it reckons he was never sent off in his playing career, so I thought I was going bonkers and must have imagined it

Same here - I thought he got sent off, and rest of the team walked off in protest - but checking on t'internet it reckons he was never sent off in his playing career, so I thought I was going bonkers and must have imagined it

sent off playing for west ham v city....1961

Seem to remember at that game hundreds of us (if not more) getting into there family enclosure after they closed our end - was it tony philliskirk who curled in a cracker that day?

 

aye thats right.....he used to bag a few of them free kicks

 

 

Our second season in the old first division (1979?) our away following plummeted - night game at villa cant have been more than 100 bolton fans there - game at the scum we didnt anywere near fill the away pen (which was pretty small in those days

 

Your right our away support that season was embarrassing the fans threw the towel in early doors the 3-0 defeat in 79 at OT Bolton fans were in the central pen in the scoreboard end surrounded on 3 sides by the scum can't have been more than 3-400 Bolton there, the contrast from the 1-2 win the season before was startling what happened in that season to our fans I don't know.

Same here - I thought he got sent off, and rest of the team walked off in protest - but checking on t'internet it reckons he was never sent off in his playing career, so I thought I was going bonkers and must have imagined it

 

http://www.lancashir...Moore_sent_off/

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A48557145

Edited December 15, 201213 yr by Casino

http://www.lancashir...Moore_sent_off/

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A48557145

 

I was at the game, he was sent off and the Fulham players followed him. Twas funny as fuck as they had wiped the floor with us that night and a fluke of a goal and some crap reffing undid em

Any of you go to the replay at St Andrews?. Remember about 50 or of us where in early (ground virtually empty). We saw about the same number of Birmingham fans and marched towards them singing "The Bolton" as we got closer they started chanting "Birmingham & Bolton" Not sure if they men't that they where going to cheer for us, or they where not looking for trouble?. had a bit of banter with some of them, but as time went on and their numbers grew they changed tack and started chanting "Birmingham & Birmingham" (cunts). We where stood right at the back and they started walking up the terracing towards us. It was just about to turn ugly when from behind the goal the chant of "Fulham" went up and all the Birmingham lot just turned around and headed the other way towards the Fulham lot. We followed suit and it ended up with all three sets of fans behind that goal for the entire match. The OB had it sorted and we where in three separate groups. After the match however it all kicked off. a group of us got chased back to our coaches which were parked in a scrap yard of all places. The lads picked up what ever they could find to hand and plenty of ammo was thrown by both sets, recall one Bolton lad getting hit in the face with summat or other, Claret all over his face and clothes. OB chased off the Birmingham lot, and on our way out a brick hit the window right where I was sat, Luckily for me it never shattered. Never really liked Brum lot since. Will tell you the story of the next round away at Derby later.

Edited December 15, 201213 yr by Northern Dancer

Loving the avatar ND!

 

I was at that replay with a mate and my old man (and his mate). Sat in the stand for that one with Peter Reids brother - talk about a fucking doppelganger! His double.

 

Anyway, after the game, we were walking back to the car when the Zulu's came up behind us and dropkicked my old man in the small of his back and he smashed his nose on the pavement. I got the cunt who did it in a headlock and the other two were skirmishing but we had no chance. Hopelessly outnumbered and one of them shouts summat like 'kill the cockney cunts'. I shouted back to him 'We're Bolton not fucking cockneys. Them's the cockneys over there' (luckily there were a bunch of random blokes going into a pub across the road immediately opposite us).

 

The legged it over the road sharpish and we got the fuck out of there. Bunch of arseholes.

Think loads of us got a thump at Birmingham that night, I remember the coach being on some car park with no lighting, we never saw them coming, always had a problem there...I was there when Trevor Francis scored 4 on his debut, I was only about 12 and got kicked by a very "brave" 30 year old....

My 2nd ever away game was at Oldham on boxing day '75. bitterly cold as always up that hole,but i had my new Wanderers scarf and gloves to keep me warm.

it seemed to take an eternity to travel the 15 miles or so to Boundary Park,the motorway was like a total traffic jam from Bolton to Chadderton. The queue for the junction on the A627 was virtually all the way back to the M62,Whites were everywhere.

We ended up in the Chaddy End,along with many Bolton fans. I remember the Wanderers fan planting the flag on the centre spot and it seemed like there was as many Bolton in the ground as Oldham that day.

We lost 2-1,pretty sure we opened the scoring,could have been Neil Whatmore.

My dad cherry picked the away games to take us as youngsters,but they were always superb and always had a huge following of Bolton fans,think the crowd at Boundary Park that particular day was over 25,000.

i'm glad i was young in the 70's era and enjoyed fascinating games,i'd have hated to have been brought up watching us through the dire early to mid 80's,there wasn't much to cheer then

I don't need to remind anyone of the next game v Sunderland...................

My 2nd ever away game was at Oldham on boxing day '75. bitterly cold as always up that hole,but i had my new Wanderers scarf and gloves to keep me warm.

it seemed to take an eternity to travel the 15 miles or so to Boundary Park,the motorway was like a total traffic jam from Bolton to Chadderton. The queue for the junction on the A627 was virtually all the way back to the M62,Whites were everywhere.

We ended up in the Chaddy End,along with many Bolton fans. I remember the Wanderers fan planting the flag on the centre spot and it seemed like there was as many Bolton in the ground as Oldham that day.

We lost 2-1,pretty sure we opened the scoring,could have been Neil Whatmore.

My dad cherry picked the away games to take us as youngsters,but they were always superb and always had a huge following of Bolton fans,think the crowd at Boundary Park that particular day was over 25,000.

i'm glad i was young in the 70's era and enjoyed fascinating games,i'd have hated to have been brought up watching us through the dire early to mid 80's,there wasn't much to cheer then

I don't need to remind anyone of the next game v Sunderland...................

 

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great couple of days