oldstandrobin

Spot on. Many a year when we were in the old third division or later, League One, we dreamed of this. But a lot of us older fans have come to realise that the dream of competing at the top table was given us once and like Halley's Comet only re-appears after many many years !

Once upon a time in my day it was all about going to a game and gazing in awe as your local chairman, ie for us the late and loved Harry Dolman, swept into the car park in his RR, cigar alight and breezed into the directors entrance, getting your Bovril in the East End and watching Big John's Brylcreem slip another past the opposing keeper. Now you have to have a degree in Accountancy to compete on a fans forum. Happy Days now long gone .

In one

Handed down from father to son !!!!!!

I was there 70-71 and posted to Cyprus from there. Bit of a difference !

I used to play football on the Downs, looks like one of the pitches

MR I remember Plymouth well as I served in the Royal Air Force and was based at RAF Mountbatten (sadly now a housing estate)

Fantastic Downend As good as. The painters work was all in vain The sh1thouse poet strikes again and There I sat broken hearted Paid a Penny and only farted DeadPoets Society

Class downend, wasted as a supporter, poet laureate at least

Last time I looked on Vinted, it had 7 likes. Separate them man and they might just sell !!!!

Better class of Rain here Phantom !!

Cant help but agree CR, after supporting them for so long, sick to death of being overtaken by likes of Bournemouth and many more, we now face yet another period of possibly entering a relegation battle, will NEVER see Prem football in my lifetime at AG I'm afraid.Lansdown Snr and Jnr have betrayed genuine City supporters.

MM. Fantastic Post. Sums it all up and after 65+ years why I dont go to the Gate anymore. CTID but not under these prunes.

yep in those days could never understand why me and my mate didnt go in the enclosure ( Happy Days though)

spawny b*******s if west ham win tonight

was in crackers corner for our famous victory over Pompey and hello the promised land that night

They learn it from the Clubs

Admission only for over 65's wearing a red/white bobble hat and carrying a rattle

Although an Ashton Boy Cuz I have never been in Wedlocks, how sad is that. Perhaps our Chairman might buy the land and build a BCFC pub. Cider £1 pint.

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all fellow Reds wherever they be scattered over the world. Soon it will be 2024 and I look back myself to my 1st Game at AG in 1958 and think ' where's that gone !!' Could 2024 be our year, I doubt it but I still believe.

Very sad to hear of your loss at such a young age. My prayers go to Chris,his family friends and you Phantom especially at this time of year. A man who would risk his life to save others. RIP Chris.

Totally agree, would have upset MR L more than any other we have had. He does not take prisoners but I have had a few conversations personally with him, he would have loved to manage us but we prefer to stay Championship/League 1 !!!!

But a RICH Bell-End !!

and the pizzas taste sh*te

Bernard, often quoted on posts here and is well known ' he supplied the bedroom to start HL, Hargreaves was the Power House, Lansdown did the bean counting '