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anyone on here ever been to a soccer match in the 1950s or 60s
anyone on here ever been to a soccer match in the 1950s or 60s
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Heard a similar story irish about Dave Sexton and Osgood at Chelsea. The story goes that Osgood had been trying to be the wido and Sexton stopped training and quite publicly invited Osgood into the gym to sort things out and waited and waited and waited,.......no more cra p from the bold Peter and the others perked up a bit too. Sexton was a dour sod but didn't take any chit.
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I remember watching Sexton as a player at West Ham in the mid 50s and whenever he scored it was always following a goal scramble.
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i was a bit of a hard man myself on the football pitch, never injured etc, anyway i had a knee knock, never played afterwards, and yet there was a player in my team who broke his leg 5 times and still played into his 40s ,
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Before bassett managed wimbledon he was at walton and hersham , two of the players roger connell and kieron sommers ? Something like that, kept quarreling with each other. Harry had enough of it. He took them out onto the pitch , after training one night, got the groundsman to turn the floddlights on and told the pair of them to sort it out in the centre circle. What about them two at charlton ? fighting in a match, both got sent off, flanagan and big derek the centre forward ? Down to nine men and both their forwards gone ! Lol
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Was in ozzies company before he died , all he kept going on about was all the women he had s****ed, i said i thought you was gay for the craic , (no pun intended) told him i saw him kiss ian hutchinson after he scored once and the two of them lost a load of money on a restaurent near windsor. Fair play to him, pissed himself laughing. R I P great man, ended up selling his memoirs in pubs around the south. One of the best he was, fond memories.
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on holiday, my old fella took me to bloomfield road in 1959 or 60 to see blackpool beat chelsea 4 - 0.....think stanley matthews must have been 80 at the time and a little kid peter bonetti was in the goals for chelsea
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That was a trip all the Chelsea lads used to love going on. They had the fixture moved to Easter one year and Docherty caught them early morning on the way back into the hotel. All over the press, he fined them a weeks wages, maximum of a tenner then ....lol. from wicki .... "on 22 April 1965 Docherty sent eight players home for breaking curfew at their Blackpool hotel; with those men absent the Blues lost 2-6 the following weekend, ending any remaining title chance"
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Do any of you remember "Big" John Macnamee? Hibs fans used to sing Big Bad John. So many suspensions in Scotland that he moved to England. I went to see Spurs Play Newcastle ( I think it was a New Years Day ) and wanted to see what he would do to Jimmy Greaves.
Big John went in for a heavy tackle near the halfway line. Next second he was on his face sliding in the mud with Greavsie casually watching.. " Centre-half and an original hardman of football. He played in the Football League between 1966-74. He was part of Newcastle United's 1969 Fairs Cup winning squad. During his time at Newcastle United he supplemented his wage by running a waste paper collection service. He owned his own lorry and turned up for training in it one day! When his playing career finished he became a painter and decorator however when his wife died in 1983 he became a postman in Cockermouth as it made things easier for him to look after his children. He worked as a postman until his retirement. He still lives in Cockermouth but had to move from his house for a year in 2009 due to the floods." |
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Went to the Boleyn half a dozen times in the late 60's . Hardly missed a game home or away during the 70's / early 80's (excluding the occasional banning order)
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That fairs cup winning team still meet up every year and have a night of photos and memories. most of them still knocking around ! Not being funny but is that the last thing Newcastle won ?
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The Boleyn was one of the hardest places to go for me, the crowd was up your backside, they always had a midfielder that could tear you apart and you knew the referee would get intimated by the crowd if he started making mistakes. Lampard senior and Bonds didnt feck about , the pitch could become a quagmire and god help you if you happened to score and celebrate near the touchline. Molineux was similar and the old white hart lane got a bit lairy.
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Nice thread.
I first went in 1968 and very clearly remember the smell of pipe tobacco drifting across the ground. |
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Talking about the Boleyn Ground we have to remember that it was never the same after the old "Chicken Run" stand was demolished in the late 60s. To watch the people in that stand swaying to and fro to the Bubbles song sent a chill down your spine!
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Ah yes , the chicken run, forgot about that until you mentioned it Sparrow , good memories. Can see it now in the memory ! A Leeds stand was called the scratchy shed as I recall, doubt if it was called that for nothing !
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The other stand that impressed me was the gallogate up at Newcastle. They banned alcohol up there for certain games. I saw fans drinking newcastle brown in the queue to get in and massive bins by the turnstiles . They used to drop the empties before they went in. It was wide open no shelter. When it rained I saw so much steam coming off people that you wondered if people at the top of the terraces could see the pitch. Some sight when they sang that races song?
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No place like home: A West Ham team featuring Bobby Moore, right, take on Leeds in 1967 in front of the original Chicken Run stand[ This image is no longer available. ]
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We got petrol-bombed in the Gallowgate
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Sparrow not having a pop
But the way greenwood Treated bobby moore Was fecking disgusting |
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boleyn ground, ive followed football for 50 odd years, and i used to know all the ground names and nicknames, but now i still say that city play at maine rd, soton at the dell etc, but i never heard of boleyn ground
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surely west ham has always been upton park, if its west ham you talking about
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Upton Park was also known as the Boleyn Ground.
Irishone, Contrary to what some people think Greenwood was a poor manager who somehow managed to never finish higher than 8th with all those great players. Moore fell out with him over his attitude to bringing in stronger defenders. |
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The Boleyn Ground, often referred to as Upton Park, was a football stadium located in Upton Park, east London. It was the home of West Ham United from 1904 to 2016. The stadium was also briefly used by Charlton Athletic in the early 1990s during their years of financial difficulty. Wikipedia
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I remember being shocked when Ron Greenwood got the England job
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south terrace at boro was known as the chicken run, i remember boro v n,castle game and a 50/50 probably 60/40 in favour of little tommy craig against grahem souness and there was an almighty crack, tommy craig eventually stood up and through the 2 halves of his shin pad in to the ground,split in half like an easter egg
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You never get the full story in football sparrow but i heard it was over some paltry sum that moore wanted but greenwood said no. The worse thing was later he got a few bob off the sun reporting on gamrs, he was welcomed at every ground in the country but when he went back to the boleyn he werent allowed in the ground. Did you ever hear that one ?
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Souness still about on irish t v
Not nice |
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Irishone. Story about Moore was from Harry Redknapp and that he was ejected from inside the ground by orders from the Club Secretary in the 79/80 season for a Second Division game through not having a ticket.
Moore fell out with Greenwood over his refusal to put in a bid for the defender Maurice Setters. |
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didnt know that sparrow, thx , ok quick quiz, which 2 teams had the same name on their grounds
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isnt it amazing i cannot tell you who was playing last night , yet my memory of 40 years ago football grounds is nearly 100%, lincoln, sinsil bank, aldershot recreation gd, bury giggs lane, , truely the brain is amazing
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Newcastle and Exeter, elisjohn?
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Sports Direct Stadium
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elisjohn • September 30, 2020 10:13 PM BST
didnt know that sparrow, thx , ok quick quiz, which 2 teams had the same name on their grounds Arsenal & Fleetwood  |
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Sparrow .. looks like Jim Standem the west ham goalie in that picture
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correct sparrow.
reynard ( dont know about that sorry) |
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matso, yes the great Jim Standen who also played cricket for Worcestershire and was finally replaced by a record signing for a goalkeeper Bobby Ferguson £65,000 from Kilmarnock.
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I will take Harry's word for it Sparrow .....lol.
Great memories eh ? |
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How about Trev sparrow ? Said to have been powder puff , but he werent, invited the tackle and when you went in you got the elbow in your face, never afraid to toe poke a pass,off the pitch a real gentleman too.
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With regard to Harry and his disgust at the Moore treatment it didn't stop him years later taking over as manager which brings me on to Sir Trevor a proper gentleman as you say irishone and he could tell you a story or two about Harry.
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Some well known names in my autograph book which I have just dug out: Frank O'Farrell, Harry Hooper (WHam), Ken Luty(FA Cup Final referee 1954), Stanley Matthews (Stoke City),Gordon Astall (Birmingham), George Robb, W Nicholson, Ron Burgess, Ken Duquemin (Spurs), Len Hutton (not football). I did have John Charles and all the Leeds team from his first spell, but I can't find them (blame my younger brother). The Stanley Matthews one was when he did a book signing (or something like that) at Leeds Co-op on the morning of a game when Stoke were playing at Elland Road. He didn't play in the game that afternoon - the disappointment was massive (the ground was full in the expectation of seeing him play), but at least I got to meet him.
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