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Post by White Lightning on May 1, 2024 12:19:06 GMT
The two cover shots with a tiny glimpse of the soon to be munched Blackfriars End.   |
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Post by White Lightning on May 1, 2024 12:20:38 GMT
Blackfriars End question. It is made up of two roofs. Which one came first (I am guessing the one nearest the main stand)? And how long was the gap before the second half was added?
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Post by White Lightning on May 1, 2024 14:07:26 GMT
Front cover of the Aldershot programme showing the recent Torquay United away game in the FA Cup 18th/25th Nov 72 respectively. Addison apologising for the performance at Torquay in the programme notes. 4851 at Plainmoor including a good away support.  Some good stuff in this little snippet. Anyone have their name on a seat? What was the Lucky Dip?  |
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Post by White Lightning on May 1, 2024 14:11:38 GMT
Actually you would have mostly been young crazy terrace dwellers back then. Also £5 would have been a fair bit of wedge. The programmes were 5p, so I am guessing that seat sponsorship would have been North of £200 in today's money. EDIT: Forget that. I am miles out. More like £60. A programme was the same cost as a pint of milk. I think programmes were comparatively cheaper and I have over estimated inflation. www.ageuk.org.uk/northtyneside/about-us/news/articles/2022/prices-in-1972/ |
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Post by White Lightning on May 1, 2024 14:33:13 GMT
Yes it was called Len Weston from the off. It was formally opened with a friendly v Villa later in the season (2-2 in front of over 6,000) with the Len Weston Cup up for grabs. I think I am right in thinking the trophy was played for the next season too v West Ham and has never seen the light of day since? Correct! Taken from the Bury programme. A game that saw a young Terry McDermott playing at 10 for the opposition.  |
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Post by Gresty on May 1, 2024 15:57:45 GMT
I remember an autobiography from that era, can't remember who, but the main takeaway was that they used to have steak with all the bling before the game to make them play like lions. Imagine dragging that around for 90 minutes? Back in the day, didn't the United team have pre-match steak meals at what was then the Spread Eagle? |
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Post by White Lightning on May 1, 2024 16:08:45 GMT
I remember an autobiography from that era, can't remember who, but the main takeaway was that they used to have steak with all the bling before the game to make them play like lions. Imagine dragging that around for 90 minutes? Back in the day, didn't the United team have pre-match steak meals at what was then the Spread Eagle? I can remember a classic tweet a few years back when Wayne Rooney was still at Manchester United. They must have had a 12:30 Saturday game. He put a tweet up showing him eating pasta at 8am or something. Saying the joys of eating Spaghetti at 8am or whatever he said. Someone commented "for £250k a week I would stick Spaghetti up my arse". |
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Post by eggchaserbull on May 2, 2024 10:18:45 GMT
Getting to the business end of the first league season. Anyone know why two different versions of the Newport Programme? A re-run due to demand? That game must have been bonkers, must have been our largest ever league crowd at the time or maybe ever (did a Wolves game beat it a few years later?). Crewe was the last game of the season. 14849 and 12616 respectively. 2-0 & 1-0 wins, both nil nil at HT. Some young uns on display in the Newport Programme. View AttachmentView AttachmentThe Newport game was an incredible experience; the ME was rammed and probably the only reason the visiting goalkeeper wasn't peppered with 2p coins was that nobody could get their hands into their pockets.* I managed to get my hand into my mate's pocket, an ex Cathedral school member, but I didn't think throwing a Diners Card and Garrick club membership card was worth it. The Blackfriars end was rammed with Newport fans, and about 20 to 30 minutes before kick-off there was an almighty ruckus going on, with Police storming in, truncheons being used and Newport fans being draggesd out. This settled down and a figure emerged from the Blackfriars end wearing, if memory serves, Crombie, button down shirt, half-mast turned up jeans and 14 eye Doc Martins, adjusting his shades for theatrical effect, brushing down his Crombie and dusting off his hands.. He was accompanied by Police around the pitch and then allowed to enter the ME. (I'd never seen this allowed, before or after). This person is well known to those in local football as the Wellington centre half whose motto was, "They may get past, but they won't get away." Again, if memory serves, he told us in the pub after that he'd told the police he'd entered the wrong end because he wasn't local (I'm guessing neither were the Police who allowed him to come into the end he'd been going in for many years). * - I wrote this to illustrate how tightly packed the ME was and for comic effect, I don't remember the ME, in those days, throwing anything but toilet rolls. |
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Post by Incognito on May 2, 2024 11:29:43 GMT
...and a damn good stopper/centre half he was.  |
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Post by ST Andrew on May 2, 2024 13:52:47 GMT
February 17th 1973 Fourth Division. Colchester United to kick off. Great adverts surrounding the line up. An eye catcher on another page was a bookies down Commercial Street called Harry Isaacs. The reason I started here was the front cover sported the below photo. From the recent Merthyr Tydfil Welsh Cup encounter. Why did they bother, almost always playing teams containing obscure players? Something not lost on the Hereford faithful. Only 8462 bothered to turn up to see a 0-0 draw. Hereford played Merthyr twice at ES by the looks a second replay the Wednesday before this league match. View AttachmentThis Colchester game was my first ever game as an 8 year old couldn't see a bloody thing as the fog was so thick. I was hooked on HUFC until 19th December 2014. That Newport game over 14000 for a league game in DIV 4! Had some great fun, met new friends following the lily whites up and down the Country. |
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Post by White Lightning on May 3, 2024 8:17:02 GMT
The front cover of the Mansfield programme (Wednesday 25th October 1972). I am aware of Hereford legend Redrobe. Never really studied a photo of him. I was expecting someone like Crocodile Dundee's mate Donk in the Walkabout Creek Hotel. His wiki page reveals that he was voted their favourite ever player by Southport fans.  |
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Post by White Lightning on May 3, 2024 8:20:20 GMT
Him on the cover of the next game (Doncaster). 10092 had been at the Mansfield game. In the week. Insane. At the time our largest ever league gate. Mansfield were top, Hereford were still waiting to "go", sitting 18th with 17 games gone. Making the crowd even more remarkable.  |
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Post by criticscorner on May 3, 2024 10:47:07 GMT
Crewe was the last game of the season. 14849 and 12616 respectively. 2-0 & 1-0 wins, both nil nil at HT. Crewe was my first game - spent the whole of the previous two seasons trying to get to a game, finally got taken to the last game. Was in that scrappy area that there used to be between the original Merton Meadow stand and Meadow End. |
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Post by greekgod on May 3, 2024 11:05:09 GMT
My memory of the scrapping was always more in the middle of the meadow end and towards the A49 side.
Always quite funny how amongst a calm sea of people a little cluster of people suddenly erupts into a frenzy like a shoal of piranha fish thrashing about in the water.
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Post by White Lightning on May 3, 2024 12:11:43 GMT
Johnny Newmans Black & White Army. March 10th 1973. Exeter at home.  I remember a lady supply teacher taking us for woodwork. Normally a very tough gig at a dump like WX. She got in nice and early that she was the then Hereford managers sister. Which of course secured her safe passage to the end of the lesson. She may have been playing us, in which case even more kudos to her. |
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Post by sortitoutwebbbull on May 3, 2024 13:57:28 GMT
Getting to the business end of the first league season. Anyone know why two different versions of the Newport Programme? A re-run due to demand? That game must have been bonkers, must have been our largest ever league crowd at the time or maybe ever (did a Wolves game beat it a few years later?). Crewe was the last game of the season. 14849 and 12616 respectively. 2-0 & 1-0 wins, both nil nil at HT. Some young uns on display in the Newport Programme. View AttachmentView AttachmentThe Newport game was an incredible experience; the ME was rammed and probably the only reason the visiting goalkeeper wasn't peppered with 2p coins was that nobody could get their hands into their pockets.* I managed to get my hand into my mate's pocket, an ex Cathedral school member, but I didn't think throwing a Diners Card and Garrick club membership card was worth it. The Blackfriars end was rammed with Newport fans, and about 20 to 30 minutes before kick-off there was an almighty ruckus going on, with Police storming in, truncheons being used and Newport fans being draggesd out. This settled down and a figure emerged from the Blackfriars end wearing, if memory serves, Crombie, button down shirt, half-mast turned up jeans and 14 eye Doc Martins, adjusting his shades for theatrical effect, brushing down his Crombie and dusting off his hands.. He was accompanied by Police around the pitch and then allowed to enter the ME. (I'd never seen this allowed, before or after). This person is well known to those in local football as the Wellington centre half whose motto was, "They may get past, but they won't get away." Again, if memory serves, he told us in the pub after that he'd told the police he'd entered the wrong end because he wasn't local (I'm guessing neither were the Police who allowed him to come into the end he'd been going in for many years). * - I wrote this to illustrate how tightly packed the ME was and for comic effect, I don't remember the ME, in those days, throwing anything but toilet rolls. Not complete unless he had a very smart handkerchief hanging out of his top pocket with a lovely diamond stud to keep it in place........ |
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Post by asiabull on May 3, 2024 15:11:55 GMT
Yes it was called Len Weston from the off. It was formally opened with a friendly v Villa later in the season (2-2 in front of over 6,000) with the Len Weston Cup up for grabs. I think I am right in thinking the trophy was played for the next season too v West Ham and has never seen the light of day since? Tommy Hughes played for Villa and saved Mclaughlin's penalty in the shootout....and I think we beat West Ham 4-3.....we had a bit of a hold over them that season....Played 3 won 2 drawn 1.... |
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Post by eggchaserbull on May 3, 2024 15:19:22 GMT
The Newport game was an incredible experience; the ME was rammed and probably the only reason the visiting goalkeeper wasn't peppered with 2p coins was that nobody could get their hands into their pockets.* I managed to get my hand into my mate's pocket, an ex Cathedral school member, but I didn't think throwing a Diners Card and Garrick club membership card was worth it. The Blackfriars end was rammed with Newport fans, and about 20 to 30 minutes before kick-off there was an almighty ruckus going on, with Police storming in, truncheons being used and Newport fans being draggesd out. This settled down and a figure emerged from the Blackfriars end wearing, if memory serves, Crombie, button down shirt, half-mast turned up jeans and 14 eye Doc Martins, adjusting his shades for theatrical effect, brushing down his Crombie and dusting off his hands.. He was accompanied by Police around the pitch and then allowed to enter the ME. (I'd never seen this allowed, before or after). This person is well known to those in local football as the Wellington centre half whose motto was, "They may get past, but they won't get away." Again, if memory serves, he told us in the pub after that he'd told the police he'd entered the wrong end because he wasn't local (I'm guessing neither were the Police who allowed him to come into the end he'd been going in for many years). * - I wrote this to illustrate how tightly packed the ME was and for comic effect, I don't remember the ME, in those days, throwing anything but toilet rolls. Not complete unless he had a very smart handkerchief hanging out of his top pocket with a lovely diamond stud to keep it in place........ ...or, like most of us, a tie pin with a piece of glass in it and what looked like a gold chain.  |
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Post by eggchaserbull on May 3, 2024 15:33:19 GMT
...and a damn good stopper/centre half he was. He was more of a starter in those days, and also a finisher. His lads played for HRFC, one of them being club captain for a few years. They're bigger than their Dad |
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Post by Gulliver on May 3, 2024 18:54:08 GMT
Twenty seven years ago they survived and sent us down.........hard to believe Brighton are now mid table in the Premier League!
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