Mick Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 the 5 managers won 4 trophies, the 20 odd = zero. hmmm i wonder where we are going wrong? Mavis with a rambo headband, lol I don't think you can get away from the fact that the best have cared about the club, imagine getting a job which you loved for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks of the year. I think a good manager who cares about the club has a very good chance of doing well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Anyone else remember the games of schoolboy 5-a-side they used to have on the pitch prior to kick off. 84-85 I think it was, first season back in the first division. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Going clubbing on a Friday night with my brother and my next memory was standing on the M62 just outside of Manchester. We'd hitched a lift on our way to Wrexham and got dropped off at the services on the M62. We decided that we should walk along the M62 and try to hitch another lift. We got stopped by a traffic car and were going to get arrested for walking along the motorway. The beer was wearing off so I quickly said that we'd been jumped on by some Man U fans and came away from the service station go get away from them. The police fell for it and drove us into Manchester where we got a train to Crewe and then another into Wrexham. We got to the ground at half time and were let in for nothing and met up with some mates and came home with them after another night on the beer somewhere in Lancashire. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Anyone else remember the games of schoolboy 5-a-side they used to have on the pitch prior to kick off. 84-85 I think it was, first season back in the first division. I was never in the ground with more than 5 minutes to spare, too busy going to see the strippers and getting a skin full. I doubt you would get into the ground now if you got into the state we did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Going to a game in a TR7 with 6 other people, I was in the passenger foot well. We also went to Southampton with 7 in a Mini Metro. 2 in the front, 3 in the back and 2 in the boot. We would take turns each to go in the boot which was more comfortable than having 3 on the tiny back seat. It was the first game of the season and it was boiling in the car, we slept in the car on the Saturday night at Bognor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 I always remember someone making a noise, normally before kick off, really loud, hard to describe it in words, but a sort of cross between a red indian call and tarzan, you could hear it all around the ground or it seemed like that anyway. I never hear it anymore. Anyone remember this and what happened to the fella who used to do it? That noise came from a lad in the East Stand seats, right next to the corner of the Gallowgate. Not sure how old he was but I watched him strike up once and he took his false teeth out first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Going to a game in a TR7 with 6 other people, I was in the passenger foot well. We also went to Southampton with 7 in a Mini Metro. 2 in the front, 3 in the back and 2 in the boot. We would take turns each to go in the boot which was more comfortable than having 3 on the tiny back seat. It was the first game of the season and it was boiling in the car, we slept in the car on the Saturday night at Bognor. Fuck me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
binnsy Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Anyone else remember the games of schoolboy 5-a-side they used to have on the pitch prior to kick off. 84-85 I think it was, first season back in the first division. i played in one of them for my school and scored the winner with a diving header, i still say it was the best goal scored at SJP that season!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Getting turned around from Hillsborough by the police, our Luton van was stopped and the back lifted. As soon as they saw the beer we were told to park up next to dozens of other vans and mini buses. We were told that we would be escorted up the M1 and that we had to pull over when told and we would be escorted all of the way home. We were going up the M1 and saw a gap in the police cars escorting us so we turned off and went to Wakefield where we spent the rest of the day and evening getting pissed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 All these stories Mick - I bet you wish you could go back and re-live them all again. They sound cracking times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Going to Yarmouth after playing Norwich. We booked a B&B before the game and got the train into Norwich with a few other Newcastle fans who had the same idea. I couldn't believe my eyes on the way back to Yarmouth. We got a train and it was packed out with Newcastle fans staying at Yarmouth, we managed to get the first train but many hundreds had to wait and we met a some lads later who had to wait for 3 trains before they could get one. Every train was full of Newcastle fans and it was like being at home that night. Every pub and night club in Yarmouth was full of our lot, I've never seen anything like that before or since. The thing that sticks out was watching the news in the B&B before going out that night, it was the day of the Bradford fire. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 All these stories Mick - I bet you wish you could go back and re-live them all again. They sound cracking times. They were brilliant times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Two train related stories. Coming back from the North West, probably Man City. We came back by train and had to come through this long tunnel. It took less than 5 minutes to get through it on the way down and almost half an hour on the way back. Somebody pulled the emergency cord as soon as we entered the tunnel and that went on and on and on. On the tube, we were going to Milwall and somebody stopped the train and we all got out and walked along the lines, I think they had to turn off the power to the track and we had that section closed for quite a while. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 On the pitch at Grimsby in 1993. 2 months shy of my 7th birthday and not a fucking clue what was going on. Shook Keegan and Lee Clark's hand from my dad's shoulders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Absolutely spanking Royal Antwerp at home in the 2nd leg after Rob Lee had scored a hat trick of headers in the 1st leg. It seemed almost unfair just how better we were. I remember everyone cheered when Antwerp scored. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Shame about the next game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Shame about the next game. Bilbao? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Im lost. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I remember going to Ashton Gate twice in the same season to watch Newcastle play in the league. Bristol Rovers had a fire in a stand so they shared grounds for a while. I also remember Vinny Jones getting away with murder the day he grabbed Gazza by the nuts. We could all see what was happening behind the goal but none of the officials could see it. I also remember going to Everton for some stupid worthless trophy, I can't remember the name of it. We got slaughtered and I remember seeing quite a few of our supporters after the game who had been slashed with Stanley knives by some cowards in Stanley Park. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Bilbao was soul destroying. I remember Beresford absolutely berating Pav for their 2nd goal at the Gallowgate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I dont know why, but I remember nothing of the Bilbao matches at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 1970s - watching Ron Saunders' second Villa side playing some really fantastic football (they were better than the league winning side, in my opinion), seeing Brian Little playing alongside Andy Gray week in week out. What a player Little was. 1981 - being crushed against my dad in the Clock End at Highbury with close on 20,000 of us, being convinced we'd fucked it up, then hearing Bosko jankovic had scored twice against Ipswich, the news rippling across the crowd, that we'd won the league, then the fans pouring onto the pitch at the final whistle. I don't have any kids, and I have no doubnt it is an amazing feeling seeing them born, but I can't really explain what that feeling that day was like, I can't believe anything is better. 1982 - Rotterdam, European Cup. In a way less memorable than 1981, because it at least came on the immediate back of previous success, which gave it a more achievable feeling. 1987 - relegation. I saw pretty much every match we played that season and from the first day of the season when Clive Allen scored a hat trick against us and we lost 3-0 at home to Spurs, I just knew we were going to get relegated. re the 70s and 80s, in my lifetime, although starting 3 years before I began going, we went from the Third division, promoted back to the first, to Champions of England, then Champions of Europe, plus two league cups in that spell, to relegated to the second division in a little over 15 years. Remarkable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I dont know why, but I remember nothing of the Bilbao matches at all. Well you're an asshole then. Get the dvd, quiz next week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Athletic Bilbao is my favourite away match ever. I don't have time to watch much foreign football, and support no foreign clubs, but if i had time to do so, it would be Bilbao. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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