Fingers crossed they will fuck off else where and leave proper football people in this country to get things back as they were. I'm all for reintroducing Saturday 3pm kick off's, standing on terracing, shirts numbered 1 to 11, goal average, no more than five stewards in the ground, the occasional pitch invasion....... I could go on all night. This new cunt at Liverpool has just been on Sky News and stated he won't be at tomorrows Merseyside Derby because he thinks it better for fans to share the first experience with them at a home game WTF.

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.......... thanks tommie, that's reminded me of another thing, reintroduce leather balls with a lace in, the game was'nt invented to be played with beach balls.

Bring back a cup of Bovril and a Wagon Wheel at half time dancing

Bye bye Torres and Gerrard. The Red Socks were famous for selling Babe Ruth and then winning fuck all for 90 years

And football specials. I wonder what British Rail do with all their shagged out rolling stock now they cant fill it full of hoolies and claim the insurance when it gets wrecked. I still have a ticket for a special to Leicester in the early 70s where the fare is 17p return.

In light of this weekends Leeds v `boro game we were reminising at work today about past visits to Ayresome Park. Without fail the train always got bricked as it slowed down just outside the station and we had to travel back freezing our tits off in a train with no glass in it.

:cheers: woodie...you are a sporting man of the world:usaflag:...you know more than a bit about sports that've never caught on in other places:thumbsup:

The year Carlisle played in the top division the football special from Leicester was £ 2 return.

Bricking's only ever seem to take place on cold days's. I remember coming back from QPR on a freezing cold Boxing Day with no window's left in the bus.

I spent a bit of time in Boston. In fact most sporting venues in the States. Been to Fenway Park and Foxboro and the old Boston Garden.

I remember doing the stadium tour at the old Garden just before they closed it and moved it to the new Garden next door. In the home locker room shared by the Bruins and the Celtics there were 2 exit doors.

1 was 6`-6" high and 4` wide for the ice hockey players t`other was 7`-6" high and 2` wide for the basketball players. True story.

Got a story about the trip to Leicester. I think it was one of their first seasons back in the old 1st division. The days of Keith Weller. Must have been early 70s. Certainly before the days of the Service Crew when we started using scheduled trains instead of specials.

On the train down nobody seemed to know anything about the reception we would get when we got to Leicester. Were the police organised to handle 700 idiots arriving together on 1 train. Did Leicester have any fans who would fancy a ruck. Where was the ground etc etc

Because of the unknown there was a bit of apprehension as the train arrived. Everybody charged off the train, through the station and into the street. We answered all our questions. There were about 4 police who scattered sharpish. About 10 Leicester fans who scattered even quicker and we could see some ground in the distance.

Pretty cock sure of ourselves we marched through the streets to the ground thinking this was easy. At the ground there was an open gate guarded by 2 old Legion guys. We stormed the gate thinking we had all got in for free and were going to make a pretty impressive appearance mob handed only to find ourtselves on the rugby pitch at Wheldon Road.

We did a quick circuit of the ground and charged back out to look for the right location.

There are a few sets of fans that have done that Woody.

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Know some blokes who pulled a similar "operation" at Hull. Got City and Kingston Rovers mixed up.

Anyway its about time football returned back to its roots instead of the poncy fuck about thing it now is.

I remember back in the 1970's footballers of that era were all classed as ponces and the "real men" were those that played in the 1950's. Now the 1970 generation are regarded as hard compared to todays players!!

The game has changed shit loads. Too many numerous things to mention. Years ago a mate of mine used to say:

"Fuckin Brazil? How come we never play them at the Baseball Ground on a sanded mud heap of a pitch in mid February? Lets see the fuckers play a fast passing game under those conditions."

Dont think the current crop of Premiership players "do" sand unless its in the Carribean.

Your right Winton not Forest, the police who were protecting you, knew which ground was which.

I remember Forest fans in the sixties all seemed to be Grebo's decked out in black leather jackets.

The only Ray O'Brien I knew played for Notts County, I met him after his career finished and he went into the print game. New Parks is not really my area, but everyone says that.

Got a story about Nottingham as well.

There was a bit of rivalry between Leeds and Forest in the early 70s after Leeds fans nearly burned down Forests main stand. There was a bit of a myth going around that if Forest fans caught you they threw you in the Trent.

With that in mind, when Forest came to Leeds instead of getting at them directly outside the railway station in the Dark Arches as per all the other visiting fans. The Leeds fans let the Forest fans get through the Arches and popped them on the bridge over the Aire thereby getting revenge by making them "jump" into the river. Every season was the same.

With this rivalry as a backdrop Leeds one season got drawn away at Notts County in the cup. British Rail wouldn`t put on a train after a previous wrecking spree so we all ended up on a fleet of "Wally Trolleys". Wallace Arnold coaches.

Leeds won 2-0 but it was a lively encounter on the terraces with battles going on all afternoon. Of course everybody in England knew the Wallace Arnold was Leeds so the County fans who had been joined by Forest for the day had a field day bricking the buses in the city centre after the game.

We were old hands at this and were ready for it and had all the blinds down to stop the bricks and glass coming in. We were also ready at the bus door and emergency exit. Sure enough as we stolpped at some lights a window came in and about 10 of us were off the bus and into them in a flash.

Of course the bus pissed off sharpish leaving us going toe to toe in the middle Nottingham. Upshot was, me and a few others got lifted and taken to the main bobby shop. In there it was chaos. As I said it had been a lively old afternoon and all the cells were full. I ended up getting sat in a corridor and handcuffed to a (very hot) radiator pipe.

After about an hour a different cop came and grabbed me by the arm to haul me off for processing. Off course I was still cuffed to the radiator pipe which the cop didn`t realise. He thought I was resisting and him and 3 others proceeded to kick the shit out of me. When it finally dawned on them what was going on they got a bit sheepish and let me out with a caution.

Me and 2 other guys had to "liberate" a council Transit van from a nearby yard to get home.

No water near Elland Road.

Sure your not getting it mixed up with boating lake at Skeggy Butlins and altercations between Teds and Grebo's?

Is this a thread about football or fucking swimming :bigfinger

bcf at its best elland road carpark.Mini van of us 18 in it ,arrived late organised outside after game .We took piss, big fatted yorkshire puddimgs didnt know what to do with such a small firm running at them.

And I bet if someone asked him if he was in this for solely for money he would deny it. I'd sooner give Hooky a passport than let this cunt set foot in the country.

cool:thumbsup:....ESPN2 carrying the ManU/ManCity game live ere.....