Frome Valley Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garlicbread Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 The ritual of the chubby ball boy running towards the EE and getting his belly out. (in the late 80's). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 The Legend's Bar in the Dolman ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ashtonyate Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 A Brass band walking and playing around the pitch with the band master throwing his mace 3 mile up in the air.Loads of green buses waiting outside the ground to take the fans home.Floodlight stantions all around the groundThe lovely John Atyeo bagging in the Goals how I wished we had some one half as good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southvillekiddy Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Amazing thread. Someone should put this lot in a bookBig bastards leaning on you when you were littleinflated condoms floating about above the East End"nutters corner"goalies being knocked over into the net holding the ball and the goal being givenfunny red railingskids being let into the open end free for the last 15 minutesbrilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtucks Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 In the East End in the late 80's, there used to be 2 girls who were at every game, there used to be a chant of 'Get your t*ts out for the lads' to which they used to lift up their tops to give the lads a eyeful.Anyone else remember that. Don't happen now, or if i does i miss it. I remember them at Wembley in 1986! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtucks Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I remember watching the first half from the open end, and then if City were shooting towards the East End in the second half, we would walk down there at half time to see the goals (hopefully!) in the second half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I'm sure there used to be a red barred 'hooligan cage' at Ashton Gate at the Open End end of the Grandstand in the late 1970's. That's one thing you don't see at Ashton Gate these days. The coppers would sling you in there for fighting or gobbing off at them etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badger22 Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Red and White goal nets!!! Balls without our club badge on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSN Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 the man with the trumpet who stood at the bottom of A block in the Dolman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashbrisc11 Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 wayne allison playing up front Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Tongate Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Metal stauncions holding back the goal net and groping the nearest female whenever we scored (which thankfully was pretty regular in the mid 70s!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 P.O.D fans queing to get in the East End Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chappers Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Sh@g Connor and the Carrot Crunchers.John Cox doing the half time draw - As WSC put it 'A very fat man with a dodgy microphone drawing ping pong balls from a bread bin'.Away fans getting wet in the Open End.The Rocking Robins - Who even noticed the dubious choreography?Tony Harling was more heard than seen!Only 1 Sub, normally brought on in the 89th minute.Pre-match "entertainment". Mind you, in those days we had little during-match entertainment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS3 Bemmy Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I remember them at Wembley in 1986!Yes ' Redtucks ' you are right they were at Wembley, i wasn't sat very far away from them, but too far to get a decent picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chivs Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 The Clifton Suspension Bridge, lit up at night.A beautiful site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 The Clifton Suspension Bridge, lit up at night.A beautiful site. Blimey those were the days, I'd forgotten about that amazing winter's evening game view from Ye Olde East End. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somerset Red Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 The trainers emptying their buckets of water a couple of minutes before the end of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chivs Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Blimey those were the days, I'd forgotten about that amazing winter's evening game view from Ye Olde East End. I'll never forget going to one of my first evening games and looking up and thinking "Bugger me, that's the suspension bridge. I never knew it was there".I'll put my hand up and admit to a degree of bias but surely, from within a football ground, that was one of the most beautiful sites in World football? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 The Clifton Suspension Bridge, lit up at night.A beautiful site. Out of all the sights we no longer see from inside Ashton Gate the engineering marvel that is The Clifton Suspension Bridge, lit up at night, has to be THE most missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somerset Red Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 BIG Millwall skinheads in the East End without a copper in sight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenun Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 The Wild West Show (ask your dad). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robins72 Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 People standing on roofs behind the East End to watch home matches. Used to be loads of em!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenun Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 People standing on roofs behind the East End to watch home matches. Used to be loads of em!!I think you mean the old Park End, but nice try though young lady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I'll put my hand up and admit to a degree of bias but surely, from within a football ground, that was one of the most beautiful sites in World football? In all its glory, this was the sight we could see on a cold winter's evening from Ye Olde East End terrace prior to the Atyeo Stand being built........... ......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
42nite Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 The Dolman Stand didn't exist, the site was just a pile of rubble. I think it was a night match we were winning, and just about avoiding relegation.The East End in all its glory started singing...... Harry Harry build us a stand, build us a stand, build us a stand, Harry Harry build us a stand we're in division 2.So he did! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robins72 Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I think you mean the old Park End, but nice try though young lady.Yes what is now the Ayteo stand. Doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Peacock Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Streakers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomerRed Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 The phantom whistler:If memory serves, someone used to bring a ref's whistle and have a blast on it now and again, confusing the players. This was probably early 70s era. The announcer (Dennis? can't remember surname) would appeal for the guilty man to stop, saying 'the phantom whistler is back', to loud cheers.Burst football:Things are coming back to me after reading all these posts. Didn't Keith Fear actually burst the ball in a challenge or when he had a shot blocked at a Tuesday night match, again early 70s. Can't remember that happening since. (Of course, I could be completely losing it). Green goalkeeper's jersey:These days keepers wear all sorts of colours but through the 60s and 70s at least it was nearly always plain green. I used to dread it if Gibbo came out of the tunnel wearing blue, which he did now and again, because we always seemed to lose those games. The nastier chanting:Most of it is banter nowadays, but there was an edge to many of the songs 20-odd years ago you don't get now, probably reflecting the times, like 'you're going to get your ...... heads kicked in.' And 'We don't carry razors, we don't carry lead, we only carry hatchets to bury in your heads' Sorry if this spoils the feel-good factor of this thread but perhaps it shows how things have moved on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Ed Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 It's the final home game of the season and players and management do a lap of honour along with a home-made banner stating 'Thank You for your Support' (carried by the ballboys?).Miss the proper orange ball in winter too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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