silverfox Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 There's always been a higher class of fan in the Dolman. Yes, it's still Darjeeling and cucumber sandwiches in Block B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdave60 Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Not sure many can remember the 50s. I started watching in the open end around the promotion season of 1953ish. Their used to be a blind guy who would shout his head off giving intructions to the team. I suppose someone would give him a running commentry. Can anyone else remember him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdave60 Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 I remember when Stanley Matthews played against City it was the highlight of the year to see the great man.now a days if a top team is playing against a smaller club you get a load of second string players put in the team which undermines the game and robs the fans of smaller club to see the stars up close. If i remember our full back (cant remember his name) had a blinder first half. In the second half Matthews tore us to pieces, happy days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chivs Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Not sure many can remember the 50s. I started watching in the open end around the promotion season of 1953ish. Their used to be a blind guy who would shout his head off giving intructions to the team. I suppose someone would give him a running commentry. Can anyone else remember him. Remember him? Doesn't he sit in the Williams just behind Gary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Great to see a toilet roll lobbed onto the pitch after one of the Norwich goals yesterday. Great height and trajectory, made me feel very nostalgic and yearn for those days of yore when a lob and a charge down the terrace celebrated our notching another..... Well played the man from Norfolk prepared to get rid of his Izal Bronco "spread it around" hygiene tissue. I miss the scolding hot bovril to warm your hands. I remember buying a cup of it on a cold winter's Saturday in the 1970's and getting scolded by it when we scored. They'd never sell it that hot these days without a lid due to nanny state health and safety legislation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laner Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Looking through a book on the history of football, I showed my son of a player shoulder charging a goalie. I explained that if you kept your elbows in you were allowed to shoulder charge an opponant (goalie or outfield player) who had the ball. Tony Cook once stated he could never have got away with walking round holding the ball like Ray Cashley did, so presumably the shoulder charge which is still legal, disappeared sometime during Mike Gibson's tenure. Oh yes... miss the good old fashion tackling. OK some we're completely over the top, but it seems now that football is quickly becoming a non-contact sport. Also cheaper ticketing and being able to stand (as many have said). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ashtonyate Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Not sure many can remember the 50s. I started watching in the open end around the promotion season of 1953ish. Their used to be a blind guy who would shout his head off giving intructions to the team. I suppose someone would give him a running commentry. Can anyone else remember him. There used to be a blind man behind the goal at the open end he would follow the game by the crowd noses and people around him telling him what was hoppening.Me and my Dad would stand just on the right side of the goal just along from him. The Full back that gave Sir Stan a hard time was Mike Thresher who knew how to tackle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsham Ed Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 I started to the follow City in the mid 70's and the normal ritual was pre match drinks in the Jolly Cobbler followed by more pre match drinks in the Ship and Castle and then into the East End just before kick off to stand where you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Sinclair Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 I miss Lord Buster Footman, strolling round the touchline after attending to an injured player, wearing a T-shirt in sub-zero temperatures while taking the acclaim from his adoring public.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrizzleRed Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Ah the good old Ship & Castle ..... some good times and a few gallons of Taunton traditional were had in there. Remember a time when they tried to crack down on how many people they had in there, so stationed a couple of people on the doors to stop more going in. No problem though, as all we did was go round the side, bang on the window and someone would always open it so you could climb in. That place used to be rammed on match days and you'd be wearing as much cider as you'd drunk, with all the pints being passed over heads, as there was no chance of squeezing through the mass of bodies in there at times. Talking of bodies, does anyone remember the two girl flashers in there that ended up in the Sun after giving a display of their considerable assets when they got in the ground as well and got banned? Happy days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 If i remember our full back (cant remember his name) had a blinder first half. In the second half Matthews tore us to pieces, happy days. He,s name was Mike Thresher, and Mike was the Norman Hunter of he's day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southport Red Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 (Gonna show my age now) I miss that little sign/blackboard thing with the letters of the alphabet on that they used to post other people's half-time scores on and going through the programme to find that letter 'T' (which ALWAYS showed as a 0-0) was Newport County versus Port Vale. Why I miss it I have absolutely no idea, it may just be 'cause I wasn't grey and fat then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team In Keynsham Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 Miss: pay on the day to stand where you wanted to stand. Don't miss: derby day. If we never play them again it would not bother me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 I miss proper tackling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 Oh yes... miss the good old fashion tackling. OK some we're completely over the top, but it seems now that football is quickly becoming a non-contact sport. I agree. It's difficult to believe that the game we watch today - where players are ofter booked or sent off for next to nothing - was once played by Norman Hunter, "Chopper" Harris, Eddie McCreadie, Billy Bremner, Tommy Smith and Dave Mackay. These guys would never stay on the pitch until half time in today's game! And Robbie Savage thinks he's a hard man - some kind of self-styled enforcer. He would have been quickly put right in the company of these blokes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 I miss proper tackling. I miss the (contested) drop ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 There's always been a higher class of fan in the Dolman. That explains why they leave early - the chauffeur has the car waiting round the back of the stand so they can get away before the hoi pollloi pile out and can then be back in time for cocktails!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlBCFC Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 standing up, taking the tote, nicking light bulbs on the football special ,standing a yard away from the away fans at the park end throwing pies and punches. Gerry Gow, beating man u, police escort thro stapleton rd, the list goes on and on PROPER DAYS! And singing "your going in the river" As you say, Proper days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityhead Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 MISS - In the 60s getting in the ground early to bag a spot at the pitch side railings otherwise couldn't see a bloody thing. DON'T MISS - freezing cold hands and feet (gloves were poncy) thank everybody for global warming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foghornred Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 THE PRICES ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezer Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 I miss singing ' hit im on the head with a baseball bat ' when an opposing player get's fiesty or goes down with a suspect injury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slave to the rhythm Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 I miss singing ' hit im on the head with a baseball bat ' when an opposing player get's fiesty or goes down with a suspect injury And of course the famous "Horse's ass" song. And adverts for weird things such as Metaxa brandy and Schooltime eggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screech Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Definately miss Terraces, and the Laurel and Hardy whistle as two coppers walked in front of the EE, Oh, and of course the Old Mcdonald song that shortly followed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bransonmo Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 I miss a forward as good as John Atyeo, a left back as good as Mike Thresher, apart from that..... well Roberta was something else........mmmmm. The rest were replacable. Roberta.......mmmm, I was only 15. Thats enough now, I'me getting worked up to a single malt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red panda Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 FA Cup replays - the first replay was often only 3 or 4 days after the original tie, with another replay if the match ends in a draw, and so on. Not a penalty shoot out in sight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terpin Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 In at number 1....I've never heard of this bloke but his write up is superb.....Andoni Goikoetxea (Athletic Bilbao)...... Got the ball didn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team In Keynsham Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Mike Thresher doesn't get a mention but Norman Hunter is in at number 18 and right in the thick of football's greatest 50 hard men ..... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/foo...icle2215721.ece In at number 1....I've never heard of this bloke but his write up is superb.....Andoni Goikoetxea (Athletic Bilbao)...... Everyone expected the Spanish Inquisition when they faced this mean hombre. The Butcher of Bilbao was plainly at least one prawn short of a paella, and delighted in reducing star names to rubble. Pride of place in the living room of El Sod was a glass case, containing one football boot. The boot he had used to destroy Diego Maradona’s ankle ligaments. Aye caramba! This is, I believe, and is the sort of passion you don't get these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team In Keynsham Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 FA Cup replays - the first replay was often only 3 or 4 days after the original tie, with another replay if the match ends in a draw, and so on. Not a penalty shoot out in sight. Very good call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Another thing I sort of 'miss' is as a small lad - standing in the East End and constantly struggling to be able to see over everyone's head who was much taller than me. I'd climb the fences at the front from time to time to get a batter vantage point until I was told to get off. My last memory of this was hanging off the fence and singing "Jimmy Lumsden's red and white army." The fences came down at the end of that season. I'm glad that fences have now gone forever. I miss entering the East End from the old entrance, now used by the away fans. I used to get goosebumps as I came up the short slope and caught glimpse of the pitch for the first time. .... and the crap P.A. system in the EE ..... no my mistake, we still have that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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