NottinghamWhite wrote:Queueing for tickets in 1970.
Don't no Sutton player but the lad on the ticket office roof is a school friend (Paul abbott)
think it was for fa cup final tickets v Chelsea he slept out over night up on the roof( that's his sleeping )
But Slept In When He Wake Up All The Fans Had pushed Foreword
I'm shore im on that photo ????
When at school we used to go down to elland road on a Saturday morning
And help move the straw from the pitch our reward was fish and chips and a free ticket for the game
Happy days
I'm shore im on that photo ????
When at school we used to go down to elland road on a Saturday morning
And help move the straw from the pitch our reward was fish and chips and a free ticket for the game
Happy days
And the game probably went ahead. Players today don't know how lucky they are. Games called off for anything these days. Game postponed - frozen pitch? Have seen this a lot this season. The only game I can recall being postponed (apart from the 1963 winter, snow a foot deep and frozen) was for thick fog when you couldn't see the half-way line from the half-way line. The worst conditions I ever played in was a Yorkshire League game away at Grimethorpe MW. Their pitch was a notorious mud heap. It had been thoroughly churned up the previous week and when we turned up it was frozen solid. All the ruts were filled with water which had frozen solid. The ball bounced about on the ruts like a rugby ball. Still don't know how no one broke an ankle.
Remember those days well John, fog! played once in such a pea souper that 5 minutes into the second half a fella from the opposing team gave me a nudge and said "your game is on the other pitch mate"
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Davycc wrote:Remember those days well John, fog! played once in such a pea souper that 5 minutes into the second half a fella from the opposing team gave me a nudge and said "your game is on the other pitch mate"
Back in 1958 I played in a trial game for the GB team for the 1960 Rome Olympics. I played for the north of England against Stockport County. A young Bob Wilson was in the north of England team. The fog was so thick that you couldn't see the goals from the half-way line but the game went ahead. The selectors, sitting in the stands, couldn't have seen anything of the game. I never heard anything more, but neither did Bob Wilson! Laurie Brown of Bishop Auckland (went to Spurs) got the centre-half spot.
