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OOps sorry will I still be allowed in with my Mobility Scooter I didn't see CD at Nuttys funeral mind you so many faces there couldn't get round to chatting to them all Old Braddy used to make me laugh with his tales of Thailand I liked old Pudsey Al a lot aleays out drinking with him when he used to live at Greenaways the stories he used to say about his gaff!!

be nice to see old CD again is he still in the pub game? wiil be there in the elm for the norwich game lets hope fellow time bandits don't blow it out like this coming weekend

Can't remember if Colin D was there or not as for the London united thing my memory is fading with age but I seem to recall it mostly being us and the Arse I think it died off after the 'Gentle Giant' turnout up Haymarket

Yeah old turncoat Warbey used to go by the name of Steve Bromley at West Ham

Yeah I vaguely remember that debonair chap I wonder what ever happened to him?

Thought I was right I remember Terry from about 40 years ago he used to knock about wth the Chels lads off Bellingham

There were a couple of Webbys one is a contributor to this site

Photos came out OK If I had known you was going to the game Sunday I would have come just for the beer then waited outside with a bottle of lemonade and a bag of crisps

Yes Just looked at it Had problems with the photos they are not cropped if you reduce the size of the viewing to 75% the whole picture should appear wont let me download some they say there too big gotta work out a way of reducing them. Had a word with Glen about meeting up for the Newcastle game if you can find out what pub it is I'll try and spread the word

Photo as promised!

Dunno if you was there will check photos I'm sure you was Yeah can meet up with you and Wayne Spoke to Glen just before Xmas said about meeting up for a beer sounds good Feb 8th I'll text him he keeps in touch with Babs and the rest I'll Text you about it dunno who's lurking on this site

A lot of people mentioned that to me at the funeral but they fell out big time and we all know who was behind that I've got a couple of group piccys more recent (Waynes wedding Tonys 50th) if I can work out how to post or see if my son can do it for me

Just realised it's the northbrook in the left hand picture

I presume that's my right hand chucking a beer down me greg next to innocent looking Ghurka It looks like the swan but a bit later

That wasn't Xmas 78 in the Swan when I was sporting the Sex Case Beard Babs and some of the Fulham lot came over there's a picture in one of the other posts of hime with Nutty Smiffy and Whitehead

I thought I was right as for the hardware shop thought about replying to that but I know he likes to keep that side of things private. There was a firm of fourbees off Downham trying to think of that geezers name was it Bloggsy or Dobbsy?

The remember the 'the London Utd' meets in the mid to late Seventies as said previously it was mainly Chels and Arsenal we used to meet for a drink on Monday nights in a pub in Villiers St then go off to either the Sundowner or Lyceum. The first Saturday one I went to was Man City - Newcastle League Cup final in 1976 loadsa offs with the Geordies The following FA Cup final was even worse the Mancs got well battered remember seeing some getting stabbed on the steps at Trafalger Square. Can't recall seeing many Spurs there everybody hated them anyway I would have thought 75% at least were Chelsea or Arsenal. I remember going up the Kings Road after one game as well to let the Punks and Teds Know who really ruled the Kings Road

Am I correct in assuming that the Lower Tier on the New East Stand was originaly going to be terracing because there used to a little bit of new Terracing jutting out of the North End of the stand which was never opened to spectators?

Sunderland away 1975 definatly in my all time top 5 away trips from the time the first special arrived at Seaburn to when the train broke down at St Neots. The look on the Old Bill and the Sunderland fans faces as we charged off the train was priceless all they kept saing nobody ever comes not even Man U

In Kent it's normally keep clear of the marshes

He was from the Tunbridge Wells area I remember over 30 years ago going on the piss we my mates from work we got a train to Tun Wells one of the blokes from work lived in High Brooms told us about the pub he drank in Camden Road in Tunbridge Wels Everybody was a bit dubious going in there I decided to go in first as usual with these pubs everybody turned around darts stopped in mid air pub fell silent then a voice boomed out "allo mate" it was hicky and the rest of his mob the local from work now sounding a bit relieved said "trust you P-----t to konow this mob"

I'm sure Jenkins used to live in Penge

As with many other posters my memory has been savaged by years of alcohol abuse and I can't remember who was on what side of the fence all I remember we went in on the right hand side of the turnstiles which was the Blackpool side there was scuffles all the way up the steps seem to recall the fence went all the way from the turnstiles up the steps and on to the terrace where there was a bit of a battle before the police took us to the correct side

My neighbour has just come back from a break in Blackpool it got me thinking about past trips to there 2 trips stand out in my mind 1976/77 when it was Scottish weekend as well and loads of Rangers and Celtic fans turned up for the game as well the other time was 1979/80 when we played Preston away and Greenaway billed it as a 'promotion party' in Blackpool he ran 2 coaches up to Blackpool booked us into a hotel as 50 married couples we was all thrown out after the first night and it made headlines in the local paper the next day the coaches took us to the game on the way back to Blackpool the coaches were intercepted by the police and started to escort down the M6 motorway back towards London despite protest about all our stuff still being back at Blackpool. We made the driver pull into the next service station still with a police escort once there the doors opened and we all bolted across the fields the old bill didn't bother to chase us we found a small village with a pub which had just opened barmaid told us there was a bus back to Preston in a couple of minute drank our pints caught the bus then a train to Blackpool arriving back knackered finding the others in a pub lotsa stories where swapped including one where some fans allegedly tried to steal a train don't know how true that was had anybody else heard that story

DH collecting 'fines' on the football specials that brings back memories we was pretty lucky he didn't bother us too much with that. Soon graduated to Inter City Trains with the advent of the Persil ticket used to laugh at the piles of spilt washing powder on the floors of the shops around Kings X/Euston where fans had gone in and cut them of the packets